‘All-Star Pulp Comics’

All-Star Pulp Comics, published by Redbud Studios, has new black-and-white comic stories of original and New Pulp characters. Three issues are out so far, available in digital and hardcopy versions. The first two issues can be obtained from IndyPlanet, while the third is on Amazon.

Redbud Studios is associated with Airship 27, so there a lot of crossover of characters. Several pulp character that Airship 27 has put out new stories of appear in these comics. Do not know which, if any of these are adaptations of those stories.

Issue number one has a cover with Green Lama and Domino Lady.

Inside we get stories of:

• • The Green Lama, by Adam Lance Garcia. The Green Lama is a shorter lived pulp character who is a Buddhist lama, and appeared in pulps and comics. As Garcia is now the official author of the character, I assume this story is considered “canon.” Here the Lama goes up against Nazis in an original story.

• Jim Anthony, by Erwin K Roberts. Jim Anthony, Super-Detective was a Doc Savage-inspired. Airship 27 has put out several anthologies of new stories. This story seems set early in his career and is pretty good.
• The Black Bat was a long-running pulp hero. Blinded, but whose eye-sight was restored by a secret operation and who is now able to see in the dark, he is known for his Batman-like outfit. This story was good, but incorrectly had the Bat with a half-face mask, when he wears a full-face mask.
• The Blue Lady is a new character, who seems more comic bookish than pulp. Not aware of other appearances of this character.
• Barry Reese‘s New Pulp character, The Rook, is next. This story has The Rook pitted against Dr. York. This is an original story.
• Secret Agent “X” is another long-running pulp hero. Notable as a secret agent who seemed to go after crooks then foreign threats, his real identity is never revealed to the reader, instead using a series of disguises.
• The Domino Lady is the only female original pulp hero, who appeared in the spicy pulps. There have been a few new stories with the character. This is a good story with the character.

Issue number two kicks off with a cover with Helene (wife of Ki-Gor) and Dillon.

This issue gives us stories with:

• A Domino Lady story.
• Ki-Gor, who is usually seen as one of the more popular Tarzan clone. He and his mate Helene come up against a sinister group of spider-men.
• The New Pulp character, Gideon Cain, who is in the mold of Robert E. Howard‘s Solomon Kane, is a Puritan on the track of the demon Azazel. Airship 27 has put out one anthology of stories.
• Dillon is a New Pulp character created by Derrick Ferguson. This story is an adaptation of the first part of the first Dillon novel, telling of the ending of one of Dillon’s missions before he embarks on the main one in the novel.
• Ron Fortier‘s Brother Bones is next. The “undead avenger” has appeared in several novels and short stories, and this is a good intro to the character.
• I.A. Watson gives us a Robin Hood story. Airship 27 has put out several collections of his Robin Hood stories. No idea if this is an original story, or an adaption of an existing one.
• Lance Starr is next. A New Pulp aviation character in the style of characters like Bill Barnes, he goes up against various crooks. Airship 27 has put out two collections of stories.
• A Black Bat story wraps things up. I thought the artist on this, Lee Oaks, did a good job of correctly showing the Bat’s mask, and it’s a good story.

Issue number three has a cover with The Moon Man. No idea who the girl with him is.

This issue we have:

• A Sinbad story. Yup, the classic Arab sailor and adventurer. Airship 27 has been doing collections of new Sinbad stories.
• Another Black Bat story. This one was also pretty good.
• A Purple Scar story. The Purple Scar is a short lived pulp character that Airship 27 has put out a collection of new stories. He is notable for wearing a rubber mask that looks like his slain brother’s acid-scarred face. Sadly, I thought that in this story it looked more like someone wearing a nylon hose on their face, rather then what we saw in the new collection. This is an original story.
• Another Lance Star, Sky Ranger story.
• A Mars McCoy, Space Ranger story. Mars McCoy is a space adventurer, somewhat in the mold of Captain Future and similar. Airship 27 has done a couple of collections of new stories.
• A Crimson Mask story. The Crimson Mask is another short-lived pulp hero that Airship 27 has also done a collection of new stories. A pharmacist who wears a red mask to fight crime.
• A Moon Man story. The Moon Man is an interesting pulp hero. More a Robin Hood character who robs the crooked rich and gives to the poor, he’s seen a villain by the police, one of whom he is. His disguise is to wear a mirrored globe on his head. Here is goes up against a new vigilante, the female Black Flamingo.  Airship 27 has done new stories of him over the years.

All three issues are great. Please check them out. I look forward to future issues as well.