The latest issue of Blood ’n’ Thunder arrived in yesterday’s mail.
Popular Publication’s purchase of Adventure and the efforts of its new editor, Howard Van Lieu Bloomfield, to recapture the glory of the magazine for its 25th anniversary issue.
Also in this issue is one of my favorite reads: a reprint from a vintage Writer’s Digest. This time out it’s tips on writing for the aviation pulps by Arch Whitehouse from 1931.
The previous issue of BnT looked at “ashcan” magazines printed for the Spicy line of pulps and celebrated the 75th anniversary of Doc Savage Magazine with an article by Will Murray on Lester Dent’s breakdown in the mid-1930s.
It’s a shame it’s only quarterly, but producing a zine takes quite a lot of effort. And I prefer the quality-to-quantity stance Ed takes with Blood ’n’ Thunder.
– William
