ANOTHER new issue of BLOOD 'N' THUNDER (Spring)
Ed
'n' Thunder's crack editorial team worked overtime to prepare the
Spring issue, which will debut on Friday at the Windy City Pulp and
Paperback Convention. Subscribers attending the show are urged to stop
by the BnT table and pick up their copies. The remaining subscriber
copies will be mailed out during the second week of May. Single copies
are available for $6.00 each from me, Ed Hulse, at 2467 Rt. 10 East,
Bldg. 15, Apt. 4B, Morris Plains, NJ 07950.
Like the Windy City show itself, the new BnT commemorates the 75th
anniversary of The Shadow Magazine's first issue, released in April
1931. In "The 20 Most Underrated Shadow Novels," a blue-ribbon
panel of Shadow authorities-including Will Murray, Anthony Tollin,
Howard Hopkins, John Olsen, and Rich Harvey-offer their choices for
the best of the lesser-known, underappreciated stories in this
long-running series. In "Shadows Never Cast," BnT editor Ed Hulse
synopsizes and evaluates the early, jettisoned scripts for what became
the 1994 Shadow movie starring Alec Baldwin. And there's a portfolio
of rare stills-many of them never before published-from The Shadow
Strikes (1937), the first full-length film to feature pulpdom's
pre-eminent hero.
Also in this issue: Will Murray documents behind-the-scenes efforts
that led to the creation of "the Silver Lancer," a state-of-the-art
craft flown by pulp hero Bill Barnes; Rex W. Layton makes a case for L.
Ron Hubbard's authorship of six pseudonymously published sports
stories; Monte Herridge describes the adventures of The Mongoose, a
little-known detective-pulp hero created by Johnston McCulley; and
William Lampkin reports on a Pulp.Net poll in which fans voted on the
five essential pulp-oriented reference books.
Among the other rare illustrations in the issue are Bill Barnes artist
Frank Tinsley's original, unpublished design sketches for the Lancer,
and George Rozen's full-color "rough" for a 1942 Shadow cover.