{"id":9646,"date":"2020-03-13T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2025-05-07T21:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T01:02:01","slug":"the-pontine-dossier-millennium-edition-vol-1-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2020\/03\/13\/the-pontine-dossier-millennium-edition-vol-1-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Pontine Dossier, Millennium Edition’ Vol. 1, No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'The<\/a>I’ve posted several times about Solar Pons<\/strong>, a popular character inspired by Sherlock Holmes<\/strong> that was created by August Derleth,<\/strong> continued by Basil Copper<\/strong> and more recently by David Marcum<\/strong>. (I think calling him a pastiche doesn’t do him justice.) We’ve gotten reprints of the original works and collections of new stories, and now we get the return of the scholarly journal on Solar Pons: The Pontine Dossier<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Originally The Pontine Dossier<\/em> came out in the 1960s and ’70s for about 10 issues (I think). The original was put out by the Praed Street Irregulars and PSI founder Luther Norris<\/strong>, while this new version is put out by Belanger Books<\/a>, which has reprinted Derleth’s Pons stories and put out the collections of new stories.<\/p>\n

This new version is called The Pontine Dossier Millennium Edition<\/em>. The first issue, volume 1, number 1 is dated Winter\/Spring 2020, and recently came out in print and ebook on Amazon. The plan is to do this as an annual publication, maybe twice a year if there is enough interest.<\/p>\n

This first issue is about 80 pages with seven articles plus an introduction. Chris Chan<\/strong> provides a couple of articles: One looks at August Derleth and his literary works, and the second looks at whether Pons really meet Hercule Poirot<\/strong>. David Marcum<\/strong> gives an overview in his introduction to Solar Pons and explains how the new stories and reprints came about. Other articles look at various details in several stories.<\/p>\n

Overall I enjoyed this first issue. It makes me want more to revisit the original Pons stories, which I haven’t read since I first read them in college.<\/p>\n

As I write this another new collection of Solar Pons stories is coming, this time combining H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong>‘s Cthulhu Mythos. Titled The Necronomicon of Solar Pons<\/em>, this collection should come out this April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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