{"id":22375,"date":"2026-05-06T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=22375"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:05:19","slug":"fighting-heart-of-man-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2026\/05\/06\/fighting-heart-of-man-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fighting Heart of Man,’ Vol. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up The Fighting Heart of Man<\/em>, Vol. 1, published by Veritas Entertainment<\/a>. This small volume, 4- by 7-inches, has 11 stories by Nathanael Hummel<\/a><\/strong> and L.S. Goozdich<\/a><\/strong>. These stories are very short, sometimes being vignettes. Some feature characters for whom the two authors have published other works: Noah Redford<\/a><\/strong> and Nate Colt<\/a><\/strong>. Noah was created by Goozdich, and Nate by Hummel. I have reviewed one Noah Redford book. I have not yet read any of the Nate Colt stories.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>We get a variety of tales, including Westerns, nautical adventures, fight stories, and more. I was most interested in the Noah Redford and Nate Colt stories.<\/p>\n

Noah Redford is a former World War I aviator, now a sort of troubleshooter or adventurer, often heading back to Montana, where he is from. One story, \u201cThe Body,\u201d finds Noah at a river when he finds a body floating downstream and comes under fire from a sniper. Can he get out of the situation, and if he does, what is going on? This is probably part of a larger work.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Safe Deposit\u201d finds Noah in 1938 New York, where he runs afoul of gangsters, after which he plans to head to Montana.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cowboy and the Criminal\u201d is noted as being a Noah Redford and Salvatore Coltellino<\/strong> adventure. We find Noah on a South Pacific island fighting in illegal boxing matches. Sal is a gangster trying to get Noah to throw a fight for one of the criminal gangs, which Noah refuses to do. This leads to the main action of the story. In the end, Noah, along with Sal and a local girl, heads to Montana. It seems like in every story I read with him, he is heading to Montana.\u00a0 Does he ever get there?<\/p>\n

Nate Colt is a detective, though more an adventurer than a private investigator. It is not clear what time period he is set it.\u00a0 It seems modern times in general. There are two books out so far, which I have yet to read: Treasure is My Trade<\/em> and Crime is My Caper<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In \u201cYou\u2019re Welcome, Ralph,\u201d when Nate\u2019s friend Ralph is beaten and dies due to a protection racket, Nate shows the perpetrators the error of their ways \u2014 permanently. In \u201cNate Colt & the Jade Dagger,\u201d we find Nate in China on the trail of a treasure called the Jade Dagger, which has led him to a temple deep in the interior. But he is being tracked by the forces of a Chinese warlord who wants the same thing. Will he get out alive, and with the dagger?<\/p>\n

This is a nice collection of stories. I have no idea when Vol. 2 will appear. I am planning on getting the new Noah Redford book and the two Nate Colt books. If you are looking for straightforward pulp-style action-adventure stories, check out the works being put out by Veritas Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up The Fighting Heart of Man, Vol. 1, published by Veritas Entertainment. This small volume, 4- by 7-inches, has 11 stories by Nathanael Hummel and L.S. Goozdich. These stories are very short, sometimes being vignettes. Some feature characters for whom the two authors have published other works: Noah Redford and Nate Colt. Noah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan looks at 'Fighting Heart of Man,' Vol. 1.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[2406,2539,2549,2509,2508],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-22375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-pulp","category-review","tag-l-s-goozdich","tag-nate-colt","tag-nathanael-hummel","tag-noah-redford","tag-veritas-entertainment"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2026\/06\/fighting-heart-of-man-vol-1-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-5OT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22375"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22522,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions\/22522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22375"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}