ew pulp-related books and periodicals available from Michael Chomko for February-March 2012 For a good portion of January, I was updating the PulpFest website. I’m happy to report that the site is now up to date and the convention is accepting registrations for the 2012 convention. Please visit http://www.pulpfest.com/ and check it out. You can stay informed about the convention by subscribing to our email newsletter. Look for the “email list” box on the website. I shipped a good number of books in late January and early February. So you may very well have received something from me. Included in the shipments were several different titles from Battered Silicon’s Lost Treasures of the Pulps series. I have one extra copy of one of these titles, The Compleat Adventures of Satan Hall . If you ordered one of these from me, but have not received it, please drop me a line. I mistakenly wrote down the wrong customer’s name when I recorded this order and cannot find who the book was actually meant for. There was an unexpected death in the month of January. Author and pulp fan Howard Hopkins who, many years ago, published the Golden Perils fanzine, passed away at the age of fifty. PulpFest will be holding a tribute to Howard and David Burton (whose death I announced last month) on Saturday afternoon, August 11th Customer Scott Urban has had another story published by SM Horror Magazine , an online periodical. You can read “Biting the Hand” by visiting http://www.snmhorrormag.com/snmfebmarissue1.htm . My son, Peter, has had an article concerning Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novels accepted for publication in the journal Clues , published twice a year by McFarland. It will be appearing in fall 2013. Needless to say, I’m very proud of him. Hippocampus Press won the Horror Writers Association’s Specialty Press Award for 2011. John Gunnison’s Adventure House will be selling Frank Robinson’s magnificent pulp collection over the next few months. This is probably one of the finest collections ever assembled. Please visit for http://adventurehouse.com/ for further details. For current pulp-related news and events, you can turn to Bill Thom’s award-winning Coming Attractions website at http://www.pulpcomingattractions.com/index.html as well as Bill Lampkin’s The Pulp.et at http://www.thepulp.net/ . If you want a more regular fix of pulp-related news, there’s a blog called All Pulp . You’ll find it at http://allpulp.blogspot.com/ . And for those of you interested in science fiction, you’ll find the latest fanzines at http://efanzines.com/ . Before moving to this month’s books, here are the particulars. I offer a ten percent discount on all publications not marked “no discount.” My shipping charges are $3 – 12 for media mail, depending on your order’s weight (postage rates have risen). If you prefer UPS or priority mail, or are from outside the United States, shipping will cost more. Checks and money orders can be sent to Michael Chomko at the address noted below. I also accept Paypal payments at [email protected] . However, if you use a credit or debit card to pay me via Paypal or you are from outside the United States, please note that you are responsible for any fees that Paypal may charge me to collect your payment. This allows me to maintain lower prices for everyone. If there’s a book you’d like that is not listed, please ask. There are many other publications available to me. You can get in touch with me via email at [email protected] or [email protected], via regular mail at 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA, 18104-6542, or by telephone at 610-820-7560. My cell phone number is 610-737-2003. And don’t forget to visit the Mike Chomko Books website at http://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/ . RECENT ARRIVALS (for further details, please see my previous catalogs ) • BIG BOOK OF BRONZE #4—fourth annual illustrated book contains 26 articles by authors Rick Lai, William Lampkin, Will Murray, Courtney Rogers, Jay Ryan, Arthur Sippo, Duane Spurlock, and others—$25 (softcover with no discount) • THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN PHILIP STRANGE—Donald Keyhoe wrote these 64 stories for Flying Aces about an American intelligence officer gifted with ESP—$252 (3 folio-sized hardbounds with no discount) • THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF NEEDLE MIKE—William E. Barrett wrote sixteen of these fast-paced crime stories Detective Story Magazine and Dime Detective Magazine . Almost 600 pages—$62 (folio-sized hardbound with no discount) • THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF SATAN HALL—these 24 stories by Carroll John Daly appeared in Detective Story Magazine, Black Mask, Detective Tales, and other pulps. Over 500 pages—$82 (folio-sized hardbound with no discount) • THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE SUICIDE SQUAD—Emile Tepperman created the Suicide Squad for Ace G- Man, writing 23 such stories. The Squad is a trio of G-men. Over 400 pages—$77 (folio-sized hardbound with no discount) • CONJURE WIFE—Fritz Leiber’s first major horror novel concerns a college professor who learns that his spouse is part of a secret network of wives using magic. Illustrated by Marcela Bolivar—$100 (signed hardbound, limited to 150 copies) • DEAD TITANS WAKEN—an early draft of The Web of Easter Island and Invisible Sun, both by Donald Wandrei, plus artwork by Beksinski, Jon Armstrom, and Rodger Gerberding—$75 (signed hardbound, limited to 300 copies) • DOC SAVAGE #55—dinosaurs and prehistoric humans survive in “The Time Terror.” Then, a series of crimes is committed by graduates of the Man of Bronze’s Crime College. Plus all the original art and commentary by Will Murray—$15 (softcover) • THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ZORRO— Johnston McCulley’s sequel second Zorro story from Argosy All-Story Weekly of 1922. Never before reprinted—$5 (side-stapled with reset type, original interior illustrations, and color cover) • HELL HOUSE—one of the scariest and most inventive haunted house novels ever written, Richard Matheson’s novel is a terror classic. William F. Nolan has written an insightful introduction—$175 (signed hardbound, limited to 100 copies) • HIGH ADVENTURE #122—”I.O.U. Murder,” a Jim Anthony story from Super-Detective —$10 (softcover) • HORROR IN GOLD—The Abolisher decrees that the Man of Bronze must surrender unconditionally to save New York. The second of Will Murray’s “Wild Adventures of Doc Savage”—$25 (softcover) or $40 (limited hardbound at no discount) • INSPECTOR WEST GOES TO WAR—Roger West, a Scotland Yard inspector, was created by John Creasey and appeared in 35 novels. Here are the first five novels of the series, nearly 400 pages—$77 (folio-sized hardbound with no discount) • KARL EDWARD WAGNER: MASTERS OF THE WEIRD TALE—collection of all of Wagner’s horror fiction. Edited and introduced by Stephen Jones with interior illustrations by J. K. Potter—$295 (signed hardbound, limited to 200 copies) • LEE BROWN COYE: A RETROSPECTIVE—includes nearly all of Coye’s pulp covers, book illustrations, and pulp illustrations, and the complete Weirdisms —$250 (clothbound, slipcased, limited to 100 signed copies) (no discount) • THE LONE RANGER for July 1937—Fran Striker’s “Heigh Yo! Silver!” and more—$15 (softcover) • MR. CHANG OF SCOTLAND YARD and MR. CHANG’S CRIME RAY— Elmer Albert Apple’s version of Fu Manchu, Mr. Chang was created for Detective Story Magazine . Here are two of the Chang stories—$27 (softcover with no discount) • OPERATOR #5 for December 1936—Emile Tepperman’s “America’s Plague Battalion,” part of the “Purple Invasion” series, the so-called “War and Peace” of the pulps—$35 (pulp replica) • OUR LADY OF DARKNESS—Fritz Leiber’s classic on alienation within the urban environment and its capacity to suck up miseries and spew forth monsters. Illustrated by John Stewart—$100 (signed hardbound, limited to 150 copies) • PAPERBACK FANATIC #21—articles on the Corinth Regency pulp reprints, Perry Rhodan, the TNT men’s adventure series, A. Merritt paperbacks, Gold Medal crime paperbacks, and more—$10.50 (imported digest magazine in color) • THE PAPERS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES—nine new Holmes stories by David Marcum—$27 (softcover with no discount) • THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE for August 1934—Richard Curtis Van Loan meets “The Silent Menace”—$15 (softcover) • THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE for June 1938—”Extra! Extra!” Richard Curtis Van Loan solves “The Front Page Murders,” plus mysteries by Joe Archibald and Ray Cummings—$15 (softcover) • PLANET STORIES for Summer 1941—space opera written by Nelson Bond, Leigh Brackett, Ray Cummings, Raymond Z. Gallun, Henry Hasse, Sam Moskowitz, Ross Rocklyne, and others—$15 (softcover) • SECRET AGENT X #30—”Death’s Frozen Formula,” written by G-T Fleming-Roberts—$5 (side-stapled with reset type, original interior illustrations, and color cover) • THE SHADOW #57—The Shadow battles “The Five Chameleons,” master villains able to blend with their surroundings and feels the savage sting of “The Wasp.” Plus all the original pulp art and commentary by Will Murray—$15 (softcover) • SECRET AGENT X #32—”Slaves of the Scorpion” from the June 1937 issue of the classic hero pulp—$5 (side-stapled with reset type, original interior illustrations, and color cover) • SHIPMATES WITH HORROR—a sea adventure written by Johnston McCulley for The Argosy in 1908-09 about a supposedly haunted sailing ship—$5 (side-stapled with reset type, original interior illustrations, and color cover) • SIGN OF THE SKULL—J. Allan Dunn’s complete novel from the April 18, 1918 issue of Adventure . An exciting story inspired by Stephenson’s Treasure Island —$5 (side-stapled with reset type, original interior illustrations, and color cover) • THE SPIDER for January 1940—”The Spider and the Pain Master,” by Emile Tepperman, plus a Doc Turner story by A.