I got the most recent issues of Bronze Knuckles, a New Pulp fanzine. The main emphasis of the fanzine is pulp-hero stories, but other pulp-inspired stories are carried.
It’s slogan is “Keep Pulp Alive” and done through a Patreon campaign. You may purchase the digital editions from their store, but if you want the hard copies, you’ll need to join the Patreon.
Like the rest, each issue is about 40 pages long, about 8- by 10.5-inches in size, and saddle stitched. They use an off-white paper inside that I think was chosen in imitation of the color of pulp paper, which I thought was a nice touch. The covers are in full color, with black-and-white interior artwork.
Bronze Knuckles #8 (July 2023). The cover feature is the latest in the “Amazing Acres” series, “Auld Lang Die” by Scott Mollan and Jo Wong. Prior works are in issues #4 and 5. There is also a Dogman story, which seems a sort of monster-hunter/occult-detective-type character. This should be the first of several stories with this character, and I look forward to them.
Bronze Knuckles #9 (October 2023). The cover feature is a new story on The Whirlwind. The Whirlwind is a Zorro-like character created by Johnston McCulley, though I was puzzled that this wasn’t noted. The new story by Anthony Perconti and David Brian Michel was good.
More interesting to me is the latest Adventurers Inc. story by Alexandre LeVasseur, “The Wichita Lights.” Bit shorted then prior outings, but decent. I hope others pick up on the references to a couple of pulp heroes. He also included a brief overview of the characters and a promise of the next one. I do hope at some point they are all collected into a volume, maybe with the original story. And a crime story that I could see having appeared in the 1940s or ’50s.
In both issues, we get the next in the Ichabod Crane, Monster Hunter series and a reprint of the first few pages of the golden age comic story of Flyin’ Jenny, a female pilot who gets into various escapades.
Another nice set of issues, and I look forward to the next ones.
