Excellent fan fiction on http://www.planetarystories.com/

[erwin-k]

Here's the site's home page link:
http://www.planetarystories.com/

New issues of  Planetary Stories & Pulp Spirit were released yesterday http://www.planetarystories.com/PS21ToC.htm. Since I am an assistant editor of those on-line pulp magazines, and write for them, I decided its time for a little shameless self-promotion. (Back issues at www.planetarystories.com )

In fact I feel a little bit like Red Buttons on those old TV roasts.  "John Doe, who did this and that, never got a dinner."

Moonstone has been banging the drums for their "Return of the Originals" with new stories, and in some cases perhaps the first comics strips, about some of the old pulp characters.

But, there were also any number of pulp heroes who only appeared in comic books. They never had a purple prose adventure! Think about it. Take DC's Crimson Avenger... Please! The Crimson, until he joined the long underwear brigade, was a cross between radio's Green Hornet and the Shadow. He never had a prose adventure. So many worthy and unworthy pulp style heroes never had a prose adventure.

In a wild fit of questionable sanity I decided to remedy that for one really undeserving pulp-comic hybrid character. What character you ask? From the incredibly derivative (sweat) shop of Harry A. Chesler, he dresses sort of like the Shadow. He operates like Captain Satan. The one and (thankfully) only...

The Black Dwarf

Okay. Show of hands. Has anybody here ever heard of the Black Dwarf? Hmmmm... Not too many. Check out these covers:
http://www.comics.org/series/377/covers/
http://www.comics.org/series/433/covers/

Read a collection of his stories here at Digital Comics Museum:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=7056

Then head over to:
http://www.planetarystories.com/spirit11cvr.htm
I adapted George Tuska's great 1944 cover for Pulp Spirit

Then read the Black Dwarf's very first prose adventure at:
http://www.planetarystories.com/dwarf.htm

Planetary Stories & Pulp Spirit would like to thank DCM for permission to link directly to relevant content pages for the Black Dwarf and for stories of Secret Agent X and the Moon Man appearing in Ace's Sure-Fire Comics as X, the Phantom Fed & the Raven respectively.

We now return to our regularly scheduled discussion.

Best,

Bob Kennedy a/k/a Erwin K. Roberts
Who is having a snow day off in Kansas City

[Yoc]

Thanks Bob!
And people, if you haven't had the pleasure yet you owe it to yourself to check out some of Bob's EXCELLENT work.
I've been a fan of Bob's for years and he's always been good for a fun read.

Two thumbs up from Yoc!
 

[narfstar]

Love Black Dwarf will surely check it out

[Yoc]

A SECOND collection of BD stories are now up.
These are from his later St. John days when he had a colour change.
Here he's called the 'Blue Monk'

Check it out at the following link:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=14119

[Yoc]

A fixed version of Blue Monk stories with the missing last page from the first story is now up.
Apologies for my sloppy work there.