{"id":19811,"date":"2025-06-25T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=19811"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:08:15","slug":"pontine-dossier-millennium-edition-vol-1-no-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2025\/06\/25\/pontine-dossier-millennium-edition-vol-1-no-5\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pontine Dossier, Millennium Edition’ Vol. 1, No. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the release of The American Adventures of Solar Pons<\/em> edited by David Marcum<\/a><\/strong>, we got the next issue of the scholarly journal of Solar Pons<\/a><\/strong>: The Pontine Dossier, Millennium Edition<\/em>, Vol. 1, No. 5 (Winter 2024-25), edited by Derrick Belanger<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>For those who missed my previous posts on him, Solar Pons is a popular character inspired by Sherlock Holmes<\/a><\/strong> created by August Derleth<\/a><\/strong>, and continued by Basil Copper<\/a><\/strong> and more recently by David Marcum and others. As Pons is more than just a Holmes copy, calling him a pastiche doesn’t do him justice. His stories are set between World War I and World War II.<\/p>\n

As I noted previously, The Pontine Dossier<\/em> was a scholarly journal from the 1970s now brought back. And following the style of the original Pontine Dossier<\/em>, the covers for the Millennium Edition so far are the same, just different colors. Each issue is about the same number of pages.<\/p>\n

This is Vol. 1, No. 5, marked as Winter 2024-25. And as always, there are several good articles, a total of eight.<\/p>\n

From editor Derreck Belanger is a kind of update on the world of the Praed Street Irregulars. He has another on Derleth’s other detective series, Tex Harrigan<\/strong>, which I had never heard of. I knew of Derleth first because of the Cthulhu mythos<\/a> stories, then learned of Pons. I am also aware of his regional work. But his Tex Harrigan series I had never heard of. I very much enjoyed this article. Has anyone reprinted this series?<\/p>\n

Chris Chan<\/a><\/strong> has a short article on the limits of the Pontine canon. What kinds of stories are canon or not? An interesting piece.<\/p>\n

We get two articles on Baron Kroll<\/strong>, Pons’ archnemesis, by Brett Graham Fawcett<\/a><\/strong>. The first looks at his chess mastery in one of the stories he appeared in. The second looks at the meaning and significance of his name. Fawcett has a third article looking into what happened to the announced TV adaptation of Solar Pons.<\/p>\n

An article I was concerned going into was Stephen Herczeg<\/a><\/strong>‘s on “presentism” and “cancel culture,” and its effect on Solar Pons, as I’ve seen too many intellectual properties getting destroyed by these scourges. So I was worried about what his approach would be, but I was pleased by the actual article.<\/p>\n

David Marcum writes about his “Pons Pilgrimages” to London, with several photos. This includes a visit to 7 Praed Street, which is<\/em> an actual location in London, as well as the pub that Pons and Parker first met. I know there are tours of Sherlock Holmes locations in London. Do you mean we don’t have the same for Pons? Who’s slacking off here?<\/p>\n

As always, it’s a nice collection of articles. I always look forward to the new issues, and can’t wait for the next volume.<\/p>\n

I contributed to the Kickstarter campaign to get this published, but you can obtain it from Amazon. With it, I also got the latest issue of the Sherlock Holmes journal, Steel True, Blade Straight<\/em>, also published by Belanger Books<\/a>. I was not aware of this one, so it will be my first time checking this out. See my separate review on it, and I plan on getting the previous issues.<\/p>\n

And, strangely, I see I somehow missed doing a posting on the previous volume. I’ll have to rectify that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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