{"id":7297,"date":"2018-06-06T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2022-05-17T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T21:32:53","slug":"pulp-adventures-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2018\/06\/06\/pulp-adventures-28\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pulp Adventures’ #28"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Pulp<\/a>Bold Venture Press<\/a> is back with another new issue of Pulp Adventures<\/em>, #28 for Winter 2018.<\/p>\n

We get not<\/strong> just another Norman Saunders<\/strong> cover, but a previously never published cover! With it we also get to see some of the preliminary sketches he did and what the original plans for it were.<\/p>\n

As always, a mix of old and new pulp in a wide range of genres: mystery, western, horror, adventure, pulp hero and more. We even get two stories from the same author, but they were published under two different pseudonyms in the same pulp magazine!<\/p>\n

From classic pulp we get the following:<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“Murder, Maestro, Please!” by Charles Boeckman<\/strong>, which I thought fit well with the cover artwork. It appeared in Famous Detective Stories<\/em> in the ’50s (though this isn’t noted in the issue). It focuses on sad lovers trying to improve their lives, and is more psychological than the usual fast-action pulp story. Bold Venture has put out some collections of Boeckman’s works, along with an autobiography.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“Killer Wanted \u2014 First Class” by Geoffrey North<\/strong> comes from Private Detective Stories<\/em>. Here a PI is on the trail of the killer of a sheriff, at the request of the sheriff’s nephew.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“The Word Wranglers” by Stephen Payne<\/strong> comes from the March 1949 issue of West<\/em>. Both these pulp reprints include the original illustrations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0David Wright O’Brien<\/strong>, like many pulp authors, wrote tales under his own name and several other names, such as John York Cabot<\/strong> and Duncan Farnsworth<\/strong> (this as an homage to his uncle, Farnsworth Wright<\/strong>, editor of Weird Tales<\/em>), as well as collaborating with other writers. He wrote over a hundred stories, most in the fantasy\/sf field, but his career (and life) was cut short when he was killed in action in WWII. For this we get an article about him by Audrey Parente<\/strong>. Then we get a humorous essay on himself from the March 1942 issue of Amazing Stories<\/em>, and two stories under two different pseudonyms he used: “The Fantastic Twins” by Cabot\u202fand “Afraid to Live” by Duncan Farnsworth. Both have the original interior artwork by the same artist. “Fantastic Twins” is a humorous tale of an ad-copy writer given a special gift. “Afraid to Live” is more serious, about a report trying to save potential suicides.<\/p>\n

For new fiction we get:<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“My Stripper Past” by Michael Bracken<\/strong> is an interesting first-person story of, well, a former stripper.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Two stories: “The Doom That Came to Al Capone” by David Bernard<\/strong> and “Benny the Beezer” by John E. Petty<\/strong> are more or less in the style of H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“Janeck\u2019s Death” by Dan McCarthy<\/strong> is a bit of a crime tale.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“Woolworth\u2019s … For All Your Defensive Needs” by C.J. Henderson<\/strong>, which is one of his PI Jack Hagee<\/strong> stories. Bold Venture has put out four volumes of stories with this character.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0“Monkey Men” by Johnny Strike<\/strong> is an interesting little story, to say more will give too much away.<\/p>\n

As always, a great collection of stories. If I had any complaint it is that in this issue the sources for the reprinted stories aren’t told in the issue itself. I hope that was just an oversight. The next issue should be out in a couple of months as they’ve done a good job of being pretty consistent on getting this out. I look forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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