{"id":516,"date":"2013-08-19T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=516"},"modified":"2022-05-17T16:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:48:44","slug":"review-mystery-men-women-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2013\/08\/19\/review-mystery-men-women-vol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: ‘Mystery Men (& Women)’ Vol. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MysteryHere is the second volume of Airship 27’s<\/a> \u201cMystery Men (& Women)\u201d \u2014 though there are no mystery women in this one.<\/p>\n

We get four New Pulp<\/a> hero stories:<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u201cRed Badge\u201d by Mark Halegua<\/strong> and Andrew Salmon<\/strong>. He’s probably the most traditional of the characters in this collection. There is a slight mystery as to who the Red Badge is. Hope we see more of this masked vigilante.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“Jack Minch, Crime Reporter,” by Greg Bastianelli,<\/strong> features a character in the reporter model. Minch deals with “mole people” living under New York. But there’s a lot more to the story than that, so I won’t give it away.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“Dock Doyle,” by Adam Garcia<\/strong>, tells of a baseball player turned pulp hero. Actually, a pulp magazine in the mold of Doc Savage is created around Doyle, and he is also about to star in a cliffhanger movie serial. But he is soon embroiled in a real adventure, and we learn more about the real person that is Dock Doyle. There is supposed to be a whole collection of stories with this character coming soon. Sounds interesting, especially in how the story ends.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“A Man Called Mongrel,” by Derrick Ferguson<\/strong>, is a black hero \u2014 a rarity among pulp heroes and something that several writers are trying to correct today. This story is set in modern times. I feel he was more in line with modern comic book characters. Derrick has written other black pulp characters as well (examples: Dillon<\/strong>, Fortune McCall<\/strong>). We should be seeing more stories with this character, as in many ways it’s a setup for further adventures. The second chapter of this story appears in the next volume of the series.<\/p>\n

Vol. 2 is another great collection of stories. I look forward to further volumes of this series. The third volume is out, and I hope we see a fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the second volume of Airship 27’s \u201cMystery Men (& Women)\u201d \u2014 though there are no mystery women in this one. We get four New Pulp hero stories: \u2022\u00a0\u201cRed Badge\u201d by Mark Halegua and Andrew Salmon. He’s probably the most traditional of the characters in this collection. There is a slight mystery as to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1111,"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 'Mystery Men (& Women) Vol. 2' #newpulp http:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-8k","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":[7,1,14],"tags":[84,784,3,865],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-pulp","category-pulps","category-review","tag-airship-27","tag-derrick-ferguson","tag-hero-pulps","tag-mystery-men-women"],"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\/2013\/06\/mystery-men-women-vol-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-8k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","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=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13379,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/13379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}