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Dave

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Dec 28, 2009, 8:28:10 AM12/28/09
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THE SPIDER VS. THE EMPIRE STATE is Great value -- three sequential
novels, important to the series. Modified original interior illos,
copies of the original covers, dynamite cover and layout by Chris
Kalb.

My only gripe is the bio of author Norvell Page. This is the same
tried few paragraphs I've seen over and over again -- nobdy really
knows much about Page. His wealthy southern roots? Every southerner
who goes north tells that one to the Yankees -- it was a cliche long
before BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS. The great=grandfather who was "Governor
of Williamsburg"? Yankess love that stuff; who cares if we're
referring to a nonexistant office.

End up with vague references to war work and the Atomic Eenrgy
Commission, as always.

This bio can't even get dates right -- it has him as 27 in 1933, and
his him dying 38 year later "in 1961 at the age of 57". Somebody
should have caught that.

Dave

Dave

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Dec 28, 2009, 8:40:12 AM12/28/09
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.Although he did rate an honest-to-God NEW YORK TIMES obit
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=norvell+page&more=date_all
203 words, but you have to pay th eTIMES $3.95 to read it. Hey,
knocking down 2 cents a word -- great epitath for any pulp writer!

dave

P. Lozito

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Dec 29, 2009, 1:36:44 PM12/29/09
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A writing manual I have somewhere mentions him as a science writer who
started in the pulps. I 'll try to located it.

Dave

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Dec 30, 2009, 7:01:47 AM12/30/09
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.The man could flat out wrwrite action. The first story of the Black
Police trilogy -- THE CITY THAT PAID TO DIE -- is classic action
adventure. And with it "to be continued" Page had no need to force
the action at the end for a resolution -- he just let the story flow.
Outstanding .

I've wondered why "to be continued" wasn't done but rarely in the hero
pulps. It was a staple of all other pulps.

dave

Opry phantom

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Jan 1, 2010, 1:10:20 PM1/1/10
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My first read of Page was "The Red Eye of Rin Po Che" from one of
the terror pulps (Dime Mystery?) This was an action packed short of a
group of Asian religious fanatics besieging our hero and a lovely
(what else?)doll trapped in a nightime office.
Youse can probably guess what the "Eye" was.

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