{"id":16807,"date":"2023-08-07T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=16807"},"modified":"2023-08-13T11:40:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:40:30","slug":"pulp-adventures-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2023\/08\/07\/pulp-adventures-43\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pulp Adventures’ #43"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently obtained Pulp Adventures<\/a><\/em> #43 from Bold Venture Press<\/a>, dated Spring-Summer 2023. That\u2019s a little weird, as the last issue was Winter-Spring. We get science fiction, detective, crime, supernatural, and more this time.<\/p>\n

\"Pulp<\/a>As always, we get a selection of new and classic pulp stories, along with some non-fiction works. We have ballooned up to almost 200 pages. though due to many of these working being longer, we don\u2019t get the variety that comes from shorter pieces.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, they can get back to a quarterly basis. This is the ninth year of publication for the new version of Pulp Adventures<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The cover for #42 is an original, and I\u2019m not sure of the source or the artist. It ties to the featured story, the novelette \u201cThe Little Grey Man\u201d by British author Norman Firth<\/a><\/strong> (1920-49). This saw print in book form back in 1949 as Borrowed Love<\/em>. This is a hard-boiled tale of crime and retribution, centering around a man who deserts from the Foreign Legion and returns to England where his twin brother is. He thinks he will have an easy future, but it won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

For classic pulp, we get a pair of stories. Though to be honest, neither of these appeared in a true pulp magazine.<\/p>\n

Judson P. Philips<\/a><\/strong> (1903-89) is fairly well known in the pulps. He wrote the long-running Park Avenue Hunt Club, which I wish someone would publish in an inexpensive paperback edition. He also wrote using several pseudonyms, one of which is Hugh Pentecost<\/strong>. Bold Venture Press<\/a> has reprinted several of his works, including all four of his Lt. Luke Bradley<\/strong> series. Here they reprint a short story from Smart Set<\/em> magazine in 1921 titled \u201cIn Pleasant Places.\u201d It was published under his Philip Owen<\/strong> pseudonym.<\/p>\n

Accompanying it are two articles. One is an overview of him by Audrey Parente<\/a><\/strong>, who wrote a biography on Philips. The other is a personal remembrance of working for him in his summer theater group by Sue Lawless<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSolitude\u201d is by John Glasby<\/a><\/strong>, and appeared in the Supernatural Stories<\/em> book series in 1963. This tale tells of a man who returns to Borneo with something but has to deal with issues with his wife and others and doesn\u2019t go as he expected.<\/p>\n

For New Pulp<\/a>, this time we get:<\/p>\n

From Jack Halliday<\/a><\/strong> is \u201cBedhead Fred\u2019s, Redhead\u2019s Dead,\u201d a short PI tale of murder. You\u2019ll need to read the story to get the title.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve read several of Teel James Glenn<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s tales, but \u201cMusic Box Warrior\u201d is the first war story of his that I\u2019ve read. Set in WWII, it’s about a unit in the Ardennes trying to get in contact with other forces. But it’s never easy in war.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinder\u2019s Fee\u201d by Scott Turick<\/a><\/strong> is a science-fiction tale set on a distant world ravaged by a strange plague. Our hero is asked to find a missing daughter, but there is much more to it than that.<\/p>\n

We also get some non-fiction works. From Joe Lovece<\/a><\/strong> is a brief overview of Spring-Heeled Jack<\/a><\/strong>, who was used a few times as a heroic, almost superheroic, character in a series of unconnected British penny dreadful series. James Reasoner<\/a><\/strong> provides a review of The Ranch Cat<\/em> (1951), a western paperback by William Hopson<\/a><\/strong>. And finally Will Murray<\/a><\/strong> provides a long article on the later Spider<\/a><\/strong> stories and their possible authorship. I had always thought of them by Norvell Page<\/a><\/strong>, but there are some questions about that.<\/p>\n

We are promised the next issue to come out toward the end of summer and will include a new story by Stuart Hopen<\/a><\/strong> about Scaramouche<\/strong>, a character I know from the 1950s swashbuckler starring Stewart Granger<\/strong>, Janet Leigh<\/strong>, and Mel Ferrer<\/strong> and based on the 1921 novel by Rafael Sabatini<\/a><\/strong>. Sounds like fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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