Comments on: A Smorgasbord of Adventure

By: Look out! Here comes The Spider, man! « Under An Outlaw Moon

Look out! Here comes The Spider, man! « Under An Outlaw Moon — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:25:38 +0000

[...] this blog regularly (well, as regularly as I post to it anyway, these days), you may have noticed I love old school pulp adventure. Doc Savage, The Shadow, Conan, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Indiana Jones, The Rocketeer, that sort [...]

By: “The Whisperer: The Dead Who Talked” Book Review « Under An Outlaw Moon

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:47:04 +0000

[...] I’ve long been an avid supporter of Sanctum Books’ reprints of classic pulps, specifically the ongoing series of The Shadow and Doc Savage. Each volume is a magazine-sized paperback containing two novels, using the cover art and interior illustrations from the magazines published originally in the 1930s and ’40s. They’re lovely, and I’ve been greatly enjoying immersing myself in this literature that has been so influential not just in popular culture, but also in my own work. [...]

By: The Sting of The Scorpion: A Book Review « Under An Outlaw Moon

The Sting of The Scorpion: A Book Review « Under An Outlaw Moon — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:09:34 +0000

[...] tradition of The Shadow, but even more in the tradition of The Spider (both of whom I wrote about here). He’s dark and deadly and armed and dangerous, clad in a black-veiled fedora and a black [...]

By: A Few Great Books « Under An Outlaw Moon

A Few Great Books « Under An Outlaw Moon — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:33:43 +0000

[...] Savage stories by Kenneth Robeson. I wrote about them, with a few Amazon links, in an earlier post, A Smorgasbord of Adventure. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Books read in 2008Book Adventure [...]

By: Tim Byrd

Tim Byrd — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:31:48 +0000

The Spider is my latest bulk addition to my library. I’d found a great deal on the eight paperbacks Carroll & Graf published back in the early nineties (each with two adventures) a while back, and grabbed City of Doom from Baen, and figured that’d be enough. Dopey me. I read a couple and snatched up the Girasol back issues and subscribed. The Spider rocks, and I appreciate the fact that Richard Wentworth has an adult life outside of fighting crime.

I haven’t tried the Moonstone books yet, though I’m aware of them, and interested both as a reader and a writer. Unfortunately, even with a reference from Will Murray, the editor over there hasn’t deigned to respond to my email about possibly doing stories for future anthologies. It makes me sad.

By: caericarclight

caericarclight — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:23:59 +0000

Been getting the Doc Savage (even tho I have all the Bantams) and Shadow reprints, too. They’re stacking up far faster than I can read them but that’s okay.

Also have managed to snag some Spider double-novels lately.

My friends at Moonstone Books have been keeping the pulp tradition alive. Aside from comics about Buckaroo Banzai – written by creator Earl Mac Rauch – and the Phantom and the like, they’re also doing prose collections. They’ve done the Spider, the Avenger and Zorro at least so far. Also Kolchak the Night Stalker and…just a ton of cool stuff.

No…I don’t work for them, just am working on paying their kids’ way thru college, I think. :)