June 11–12, 2010
Robert E. Howard Days 2010, Cross Plains, Texas
July 30–Aug. 1, 2010
PulpFest #2, Columbus, Ohio
Aug. 19–22, 2010
Dum–Dum 2010, Hillside, Ill.
Sept. 23-25 , 2010
Fifth Annual Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, Hunt Valley, Md.
Oct. 16-17, 2010
SavageCon 2010, St. Louis, Mo.
Nov. 12-14, 2010
Doc Con 13, Glendale, Ariz.
April 29–May 1, 2011
Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention, Lombard, Ill.
On–going
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club, second Saturday of each month, Hudson Park Library, Manhattan
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Grim returns
Brother Grim, an online pulp-ish comic strip and fiction series, should resume crimefighting this month as Supernatural Crime and Digital Comics and Pulps returns from a two-month hiatus. MORE . . .
A new beginning
The End of the Beginning brings a new start to one of paperback’s longest running pulp-like series, The Destroyer. MORE . . .
Pulp hang ups
Looking for something for that empty wall in your den? Check out a pulp cover print by CAPE Publishing Co. MORE . . .
The Spider strikes again
 Don McGregor and Gene Colon’s graphic novel The Spider: Scavengers of the Slaughtered Sacrifices is due out in August. The Master of Men investigates a series of murders that mimic fictional killings depicted in movies and on television in this present-day adventure. (Let’s hope this updated pulp character turns out better than others.) The 100-page signed, hardcover graphic novel will sell for $34.95. It’s being published by Vanguard Productions, 59A Philhower Road, Lebanon, NJ 08833. Oh, Gene Colon’s Web site includes a few scans of his pencil work for the novel, as well as another project, The Spider: BATman, which is due out in late September.
Also due this month is Bold Venture Press’ latest Spider fascimile (No. 70), The Spider and the Slaves of Hell. It’s $10 plus $2 shipping (or $72 for a six-issue, one-year subscription). For more information on the Bold Venture Press publications, visit the Web site, e-mail Rich Harvey or write Bold Venture Press, P.O. Box 64, Bordentown, N.J. 08505. Editor’s note: This site is no longer available as of October 2008 because AOL discontinued its Web hosting service.)
Pulp pun
Okay. So we can’t pass up bad puns. Here’s one Scotty Phillips sent in: “Who’s nose looks evil to most men? The Shadow’s nose!”
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A few years ago there was a Doc Savage comic book from a small company. This company leased a villain/antihero from the estate of an Australian author. This character appeared in 1905. What was the adversary’s name?
Sounds like you’re referring to Millennium Comics, a Florida company that published about a dozen Doc Savage comic books in the 1990s. Pulp Companion turned to Mark Ellis, who wrote and edited the series for Millennium. You’re “probably talking about the two-part ‘Doom Dynasty,’ which featured Australian author Guy Boothby’s Dr. Nikola as the villain,” Ellis said in an e-mail. “He was actually a late 19th century character. . . . The last book about him appeared in ’05.”
Ellis suggested a couple of Web sites where you can get more information about the villainous doctor. Jess Nevin’s site, * Fantastic, Mysterious and Adventurous Victoriana, includes * an entry about Nikola. And Win Scott Eckert’s Wold Newton Universe includes several references. Eckert’s site also includes Rick Lai’s The Life of Dr. Antonio Nikola, an article in a pdf file.
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