Going on hiatus

This blog, That’s Pulp!, is going on an extended vacation. I can’t tell you when I’ll return… I don’t know.

To all you pulp fans who have visited here over the past two years, I want to thank you for your interest, your support, and your kind comments. And to Bill Lampkin, who owns and operates ThePulp.Net, I want to extend my sincere gratitude for allowing me the opportunity to address you weekly. A nicer and more helpful guy I’ve never met.

I hope you will all continue to support pulpdom. Read those great old stories; don’t let them die. Buy the old magazines. Support the efforts to reprint them. Attend the pulp conventions. Share your enthusiasm among your friends. If you’re an artist, I hope that the pulps inspire your works. And if you’re a writer, may you write about the pulps. Write some pulp fiction!

If you don’t have a copy of my book, The Shadow in Review: The Ultimate Guide to the Pulp Magazine Series, let me put in one final plug. Every novel of The Shadow is reviewed in over 500 pages of pulpy satisfaction. And all for only 10 bucks. You can order it at my page on Lulu.

And finally, something special just for you. I’ve placed a rare radio script for The Shadow online for you to download. What makes it so rare? It’s the earliest Shadow radio script known to exist, titled “Special Orders,” originally broadcast on Oct. 5, 1932. This was five years before Orson Welles made his debut as the invisible crimefighter on Mutual. In this script, The Shadow is not part of the story… he is only the announcer and host. And Frank Readick was the voice of The Shadow.

Here’s the link to the script (a 12MB pdf). It’s my parting gift… from me to all of you.