{"id":6029,"date":"2016-12-14T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2016-12-11T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T15:46:05","slug":"fanzine-focus-awesome-tales-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2016\/12\/14\/fanzine-focus-awesome-tales-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanzine focus: &#8216;Awesome Tales&#8217; #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6040\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2016\/11\/awesome-tales-4.jpg\" alt=\"'Awesome Tales' No. 4\" width=\"200\" height=\"286\" \/>After too long, we get a fourth issue of <em>Awesome Tales<\/em>, a fanzine produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcatmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Cat Media<\/a> (<strong>R. Allen Leider<\/strong>) and packaged\/published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boldventurepress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bold Venture Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cover story of this issue is Leider&#8217;s <b>Devil Doctor<\/b>\u00a0story, &#8220;The Manchurian Menace,&#8221; which has the doctor and his daughter after a Chinese scientist in WWII China. \u00a0He has the secret of the atomic bomb, and is pursued by Nazis, Japanese, OSS, and MI-6.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories in this volume include a new <strong>Pink Reaper<\/strong> story, a <strong>Domino Lady<\/strong>-like new pulp heroine by <strong>Patrick Thomas<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve only seen one other story with this character, so not certain where else she has appeared. \u00a0Patrick has several other series, such as the Mystic Investigators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KT Pinto<\/strong> provides another story, this time with private eye <strong>Raphael Jones<\/strong>, and <strong>Robert Water<\/strong> has a story about conquistadors in Central America.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully we will see another volume soon. This is a nice series and wish we would see issues more often. \u00a0Am told that v5 will come out in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After too long, we get a fourth issue of Awesome Tales, a fanzine produced by Black Cat Media (R. Allen Leider) and packaged\/published by Bold Venture Press. The cover story of this issue is Leider&#8217;s Devil Doctor\u00a0story, &#8220;The Manchurian Menace,&#8221; which has the doctor and his daughter after a Chinese scientist in WWII China. \u00a0He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6040,"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 takes a fanzine focus: 'Awesome Tales' #4. #newpulp","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":[56,7,1],"tags":[16],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fanzines","category-new-pulp","category-pulps","tag-fu-manchu"],"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\/2016\/11\/awesome-tales-4.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-1zf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029","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=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6085,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions\/6085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}