Greetings Loyal Airmen, before anything else, let’s take care of some comic book business.

How To Buy The Crimson Nun # 1

We have a limited number of copies of Issue # 1, both with the Fred Lang cover (above left) and with Ben Dunn’s cover (above right.) We are selling them for $10 each, this includes mailing. If you are interested in buying one, write us at (ronfortier104@gmail.com) include your check made out to Ron Fortier. We do not have PayPal and do not accept Postal Money Orders. Checks only. In your letter, tell us which cover you want and include, printed your own mailing address. Note, all copies will be autographed on the back cover. Again, this is a limited supply.

CHIVALRY INC.

Having recently bought a brand new tablet, inker Jesse Hansen and once again back to inking artist Javier Lugo’s beautiful pages for CHIVALRY, INC. # 1.  Again, this is a 3 issue mini coming from Silverline Comics when completed.

BROTHER BONES GRAPHIC NOVEL

And here’s the last two sets of character sheets by artist Joe Arnold for the Brother Bones Graphic Novel which he is hammering away on every day. The plan continues to be to divide the script into a mini-series to then be funded on one of the campaign platforms after which they would be collected. Each issue, a chapter of the graphic novel story, will also include a bonus short strip at the back to be done by guest artists. More as things near completion.

HAMLET’S END

Hooked up with western artist Zane DeGaine this past week to discuss our comic project. “Hamlet’s End.” Zane has completed 16 of the 22 pgs making up issue # 1 and of course the cover (above left). He’s excited in getting those last 6 pgs wrapped up by the end of next week. This book will be funded by a Kickstarter Campaign which Zane will run and our plan is to set a goal which, when reached, will get the book published…but in black and white. Whereas there will be a second tier goal and if we can get to that benchmark, we’ll do the book in full color. So, Loyal Airmen, lots will depend on your support for sure. If all goes well, we hope to launch the campaign by the 1st of Nov. All fingers crossed.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2

Rob Davis continues his stellar work on the third issue of The Boston Bombers Vol 2. Above is his just completed page three.  We are so wound-for-sound. This is a story over twenty-years in the making.

JUNGLE TALES Vol 3

And finally we wrap up this week with announcing the release of our newest Airship 27 pulp title, JUNGLE TALES Vol 3 featuring Ki-Gor the Jungle Lord. This volume contains two brand new Ki-Gor adventures by Terry Wijesuriya and Carson Demmans. Writer Curtist Fernlund introduces Jenna of the Jungle (above right) and Bob Madison feature adventure Richmond Kane. In all four great jungle stories with interior illustrations by John Gallagher and a stunning cover by Ted Hammond. In all, we think you Loyal Airmen are going to love this book. As ever, available at Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle.

And that’s it for this busy week, Loyal Airmen, as always thanks for stopping by and God Bless.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, been a fun and exciting week here at Hangar 27. Lots of great projects coming together slow but sure and we’ll touch base with a quite a few. So here we go.

HAMLET’S END

Artist Zane DeGaine isn’t wasting any time getting issue # 1 finished. Above (right) is the completed pg # 15 of this 22 page comic. Meaning 7 to go and then on to lettering and the launching of whatever funding program he wants to use. The initial idea will be to propose the book as a black and white….BUT….if we meet our goals, then will deliver it full, glorious western colors. Stay tuned.

SHORT STORIES OF KEVIN J. ANDERSON

From New York Times bestselling author, Kevin J. Anderson, “For those who missed my KJA Short Fiction Library Kickstarter last spring, the books are finally going to be released to the general public. Today, Fantasy Stories vol 1 is available from @WordFirePress https://wordfirepress.com/products/fantasy-stories-volume-1”

Basically what Kevin did was collect a lifetime of published short stories and printed them in a wonderful seven volume set, as his press release above indicated. Many, many years ago, Kevin and the Air Chief belonged to a correspondence writers’ club and became pals. Other members included David C. Smith, Ardath Mayhar, and the late Charles Saunders. During that time, Kevin and yours truly wrote a short story called “Skeleton in the Closet.” It is reprinted in Vol 2 of this Fantasy sub-set. See cover above at right.

BROTHER BONES CHARACTERS

More of artist Joe Arnold’s characters from the Brother Bones graphic novel now in production.

More characters sketches from artist Joe Arnold for the now-in-production Brother Bones graphic novel. Joe’s doing a great job with these.

CRIMSON NUN IS HERE!

And finally, per the title of this week’s Flight Log, CRIMSON NUN # 1 is officially out. We received our copies from Antarctic Press’ own Ben Dunn yesterday. We will have these, both with Fred Lang’s cover (above left) and Ben’s (above right) at November’s Rocky Mountain Con in Denver. It was a dream come true for the Air Chief to get this assignment and the comic looks fantastic. Thanks to artist Jesse Thomas and letterer Mike Belcher. Now on to issue # 2.  Oh, yeah.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, things are revving up with all the Air Chief’s many projects. So let’s jump right in, shall we.

BROTHER BONES GRAPHIC NOVEL

Artist Joe Arnold has been tweaking his design work for the characters that appear in our Brother Bones the Undead Avenger stories. All in preparation for the brand new graphic novel he is drawing. It will, for the first time ever, tell Bones’ origin in comic form. Stay tuned, it is going to be wild.

THE BOOK HUNTER’S DISCIPLE

Our newest Airship 27 Production pulp title release is “The Book Hunter’s Disciple,” by Barbara Doran. This is the second in Barbara’s Chinese fantasy series. Artist Gary Kato provides the nine black and white interior illustrations and Colorado’s own Guy Davis the fanciful color cover above here. As ever book is available at Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle. Continued thanks to all you Loyal Airmen for your support. It means the world to us.

A NEW SHORT STORY

We mentioned a few weeks ago that we were writing a Codename – Intrepid short story for Bob Mendenhall’s fourth volume in his action series. From creator/publisher Robert J. Mendenhall comes the complete roster. “Volume 4 is scheduled to hit the stands in February 2025 with a stellar line-up including Ron Fortier, Fred Adams, Jr, John C. Bruening, Andy Fix, and Gordon Dymowski. And some guy named Mendenhall. Holy Smoke!” The Air Chief is really thrilled to be included among this group of super talented New Pulp writers. Above is artist Ron Randall’s depiction of the Intrepid team.

ME & BOOMER

Was having a little chat with our dog Boomer the other day and our granddaughter Cora snapped the photo above. He’s a golden lab just a few months beyond a year old and we all love him dearly.

HAMLET’S END

Artist Zane DeGaine continues his excellent work our western comic, “Hamlet’s End.” Here’s his Pg 15 from issue # 1. Again, our hope to have it out in time for November’s Rocky Mountain Con here Denver.

And that’s a wrap for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever, thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday morning.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, last week we showed off three new pages from our new western comic, “Hamlet’s End.” Written by yours truly and art by good buddy Zane DeGaine. All of this came about when shortly after settling in Fort Collins, Zane and his wife Olivia, joined the Air Chief and Valerie in going out to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner one night. While awaiting our entrees, we asked Zane what kind of project he’d like to work on. Of course our intent was find out what he had a passion for and then seeing if it was something we might be able to offer him. “Westerns,” was his immediate reply.

It took a few years, but eventually the Air Chief came up with an solid idea for a western and that was “Hamlet’s End.” Zane read the script last year, loved it, and signed on. He even went as far as to do a short ash-can issue featuring the first 9 pages (above left) and sold them at a local con. Now he’s hard at work on completing the entire 22 pg first issue. Here’s pg # 13 (above right). His hope is to have it done within the next couple of weekss, and then he’s going to start a Kickstarter Campaign for it. Trust us, Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief is totally wound for sound about “Hamlet’s End.” Zane’s work on this comics is stunning and we can’t wait until the day you get to read it. We’ll keep youposted.

THE CRIMSON NUN

At the same time artist Jesse Thomas is back hard at work on the pencils for The Crimson Nun # 2. See those gorgeous pages above and that one sketch of our hero, Gabrielle Joan Cauxvette. You’ll allow the Air Chief grace for naming her after our mother, Gabrielle. And as far as we know, Antarctic Press is still set on releasing issue # 1 next month, Oct. Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen.

BROTHER BONES THE UNDEAD AVENGER

The Brother Bones graphic novel, now coming to life thanks to artist Joe Arnold, is also gaining steam  indicative of the pencil roughs above. Joe says he’s having a ball drawing this origin tale of our Undead Avenger and we can tell from the enthusiasm he’s exhibiting in his art.

Joe’s been using pages from a 1930s Sears & Roebucks catalog to research dresses for our female characters. His hope is to have 50 pgs completed before we start assembling the Kickstarter campaign. Dang, but we do have lots of fun stuff on the way, Loyal Airmen. Start saving up your pennies.

SPECIAL HARDBACK EDITION OUT!

As you’ll recall only two weeks ago we released our Super Special Edition of Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective Vol 20. We made a big deal out of this because Art Director did the issue up to look like a copy of the actual Strand Magazine where most of the original Sherlock Holmes tales had first appeared in print. About the same time we’d also released the hardback edition of “Metropolis – Resurrection,” the sci-fi prequel novel. So…a few smart Loyal Airmen went to Rob and asked why not a hardback edition of the special Consulting Detective. Ever one to satisfy our readers, Rob got on it immediately and now if you head on over to Amazon, you can pick this volume in four editions. First on Kindle, then our regular paperback size, then our bigger magazine size…and now that larger size in hard back. Hopefully that pleases all you terrific Holmes & Watson fans out there.

NEW PROSE FICTION STORY

Back at this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper con, we talked with writer Bob Mendenhall about possibly writing a story for his terrific Codename – Intrepid action series featuring a super-secret military team. Bob graciously gave us the green light and we recently wrapped up a story featuring Master Sergeant “Hammer” Downe (above right) called “The Lost Jungle.” Thanks to pal Lee Houston Jr. who helped with formatting. That’s a terrific sketch of Hammer by artist Ron Randall and the link below is to Bob’s site. Check it out, Loyal Airmen. This is the good stuff.

(https://robertjmendenhall.com/code-name-intrepid/)

ANOTHER AUDIO BOOK ADDED

A little while back Art Director Rob Davis decided to try posting one of our novels to Audible via its Amazon listing. I.e. Amazon makes this arrangement and Audible uses AI voices to do the narration. His first attempt was with one of Nancy Hansen’s Jezebel Johnston pirate books and everyone thought it worked better than expected. With that positive result, he’s now put up one of our Sherlock Holmes Consulting Anthologies, Vol 17 to be specific (see cover above) which features stories by I.A. Watson, R.A. Jones, George Tackes and Jonathan Casey. It’s now up at the Amazon page. If you enjoy audio book downloads, go on and give it a try. You may be pleasantly surprised.

BEYOND THE STARS # 4

And finally the biggest news of this week. Artist Andrea Bormida has finished work on our sci-fi series, “Beyond the Stars” # 4. The pages are now in letterer Mike Belcher’s talented hands and as soon as he wraps it up, the book will be delivered to Silverline Comics. As this is a six part mini-series, we are left with only to chapters left. Thanks again for all your Loyal Airmen who have helped by supporting the funding campaigns for the first three issues. We’ll let you know when this one is up.

And phew, Loyal Airmen, that’s plenty for one week. Ha. As Ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday morning.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we hope you all had a great holiday weekend. The Air Chief is still ecstatic about the return of our video podcast to You Tube. Remember you can find The Airship 27 Podcast # 95 there right now. And by now possibly # 96, as yours truly and Chief Engineer Rob Davis recorded them back to back. Please, should you watch either, do leave comments and let us know what you think, both good and bad.

HARDBACK BOOKS

Last year Amazon made it known that they could do hardback editions of our titles. So we did one collecting many of my Brother Bones stories. We liked the results and then put all that on the back burner. Our thoughts were to save doing hardbacks for when we had what we considered an exceptional offering. Well, that happened with the prequel novel, “Metropolis – Resurrection” by Charles Santino and Michael Panush, with art by James Lyle. Both the Air Chief and Rob thought this truly great book merited an extra something special; and that was a hardback edition. Ours arrived in the mail the other day (see above) and we are more than happy with result. This is a marvelous title and truly deserving of this beautiful edition. Again, as ever, available from Amazon.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2 – Issue # 3

Meanwhile, Rob Davis continues to draw “The Boston Bombers Vol 2.” Above is a page from Issue # 3. Yes, yes, Loyal Airmen, we are well aware we haven’t released Issue # 2 as yet. But that’s only because the good folks at (www.IndyPlanet.com) are taking a long-long time in getting it posted there. As soon that earth-shattering event happens, we’ll be sure to let you know. Sigh.

HAMLET’S END

Perhaps the most exciting item on this week’s entry is artist Zane DeGaine’s amazing new work on our western comic, “Hamlet’s End.” Above are his early roughs for pages 10, 11 & 12. Honestly, they once again remind us of why we love comics so much. When the Air Chief wrote these scenes in the script, the images in our mind’s eye was okay. But it was never as powerful and dramatic as what Zane has done here. We are so excited about this project and with luck could have this issue # 1 out before the end of the year. Wahooooo!

PODCAST # 96 IS LIVE!

And so as we wrapped up this week’s Flight Log, we are happy to announced that the Airship 27 Podcast Episode # 96 is now up at You Tube. In it, the Air Chief and Chief Engineer Rob Davis discuss the second 9 of the 18 titles we’d released since the start of the year. Then to add frosting to that cake, look what showed up in the Air Chief’s mail today!!  The deluxe, Special Edition Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective Vol 20.  It is beautiful and very much the collector’s item we predicted. Again, available at Amazon, Loyal Airmen.

And there you have, a fast and exciting week. As ever, thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen. Well, after a decade of publishing some of the finest Sherlock Holmes mysteries via our best selling series, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, we’ve reached volume 20. And to celebrate that achievement, we decided to make it super special.

Included in this special volume is writer I.A. Watson’s novella, “The Strand Magazine Murders,” wherein Holmes, Dr. Watson solved a murder at the various publishing house that chronicled their adventures. To add this theme, Art Director Rob Davis designed the book to look like a copy of that famous magazine and so we are offering it in three different formats. First there is our usual Kindle version, then our regular 6 X 9 paperback version, and then the larger square format to resemble the original Strand. Also withing these pages you’ll find stories by Teel James Glenn, Ray Lovato and Michael BLack. Loyal Airmen, we are serious when we say this book will soon be come a collector’s item. All three versions are now available at Amazon. As always, thanks so much for your continued support.

BASS REEVES PAINTING

Another of Airship 27’s popular pulp series is our “BASS REEVES – Frontier Marshal,” based on the exploits of that real life U.S. Deputy Marshal who rode the badlands of Oklahoma (before it became a state) and surrounding territories. That’s a picture of him above left. Also there was an 8 part mini-series on television recently. The other day, fellow new publisher, Milton Davis, let it be known there is going to be a panel at this week-end’s Dragon Con in Atlanta devoted to the life and legend of this lawman. In doing so Davis printed a new painting done by artist James Loveless (above right) which the Air Chief just had to share with all you Loyal Airmen. Here’s hoping that panel is a huge success.

GARY’S KING ARTHUR COMIC

A couple of weeks back we mentioned that our pal Gary Kato’s black and white “The Eternal Sword” graphic novel had just been published at Amazon. Well our copy arrived in the mail today, a little beat up but still okay to read and enjoy and have for our own library. Gary tells an adult tale of the famous King Arthur legend and though we do highly recommend to you pick up a copy, please aware it is not intended for children. That said, it is an incredible achievement with gorgeous artwork throughout.

NEW PROMO BEYOND THE STARS

As we awaiting the final touches on “Beyond the Stars” # 4, artist Andrea Bormida was generous enough to provide us with this new pin-up of two of our heroes. Thanks, pal. We love it.

THE AIRSHIP 27 PODCAST RETURNS!

After months of being unable to record a new episode, the Air Chief is happy to report the Airship 27 podcast is back!!  Over a week ago, we dumped our Comcast account and signed on to a new internet service which has proven to be efficient and rewarding. And so the Air Chief, and Hangar 27’s Chief Engineer, Rob Davis, got together via Skype and recording Episode # 95. As we write this, that episode should now be available for you to view on You Tube. Again, simply write in the search box – Airship 27 Podcast # 95 and you should be able to find it. We hope you are as excited about this as we are. Note we’ve also got our Bad Jokes segment that you won’t want to miss. As always Loyal Airmen, do leave us notes or comments and let us know your own thoughts. Thanks ever.

And that’s it for this week. Take care and we hope to see you back here next Friday morning.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, well summer for most students across the country is now finished and they are back in school. When young, we thought summers lasted forever. On becoming an adult the reality was something else. They all too short. Okay, so soon Fall will be upon us and meanwhile the Air Chief is pounding away at his newest writing gig.

CODE NAME INTREPID – CLASSIFIED

Few years ago, writer Robert J. Mendenhall came to Airship 27 with an idea about a super military team that operated in the time between World War I and II, taking on only the most crucial, special assignments that often dealt with the supernatural. He titles his collection of stories “Codename – Intrepid” and we were only too happy to publish it. (Above left.) Later, having gotten the New Pulp in a big way, Robert made the decision to create his own publishing imprint from which to continue the team’s adventures. (Note..all of them are available on Amazon – check them out.) Then last year he had the idea of inviting other writers to do stories with these characters and launched a series he called “CNI-Classified.” (Above right.) A really awesome idea. When we hooked up with Robert earlier in the year at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con, we congratulated him on the series’ success and suggested we might be interested in writing one of those tales. Happily Robert loved the idea and so we committed to having a story to him by the end of this year. After a few months of dealing with tons of other comic book projects plus all our new Airship 27 titles, we managed to come up with a plot and this past week have been hammering away at the keys. The story is coming along. Wahoo. We’ll keep you posted.

JEFF’S HORNET FUN

The first time we met artist Jeff Butler, at a San Diego Comic ages ago, he showed us a portfolio of his work and there was this pin-up sketch of the Green Hornette. (above left) We loved it and within months of that meeting, we recruited to Jeff to be our partner in producing the Green Hornet comic book for the now defunct Now Comics out of Chicago. Recently, on Facebook, fan Scott Garrison, has been talking about how he’s been collecting, through various sources on line ala E-bay etc, the entire run of that series. That’s quite an achievement in itself. Well eventually we saw that post and added a few comments of applause for his efforts. Then Jeff saw and the other day added as yet another Hornette (above right) this being our lovely Mishi Kato. So here they are side by side. We thought all you Loyal Airmen would get a kick out of seeing them. Enjoy…and thanks Jeff.

CAPTAIN JAIN’S OWN COMIC!

As many of you Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief has been writing the comic strip adventures of Captain Jain Marlee Space-Smuggler for a long-long time now. If memory serves us correctly, we’ve written at least six of these short tales. In fact the last, an 11 pager called “Ghost World” has yet to see print.

Very recently a fellow writer approached us with an intriguing proposition regarding our lovely space rebel. Enough so that it got us thinking maybe it was time we collected all those stories into one comic book. And that is indeed what we are setting out to do. Most likely through pal Rob’s Redbud Studio. As it comes together, we’ll keep you Loyal Airmen updated. As to what that idea presented to us entailed, well we’re going to keep that under wraps for a little while longer. Keep you guessing a bit. Till then, look forward to this one shot comic project.

And that’s a wrap for this installment, Loyal Airmen. As ever, thanks so much for stopping by we hope to see you back here next Friday. Till then stay well and God bless.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, the past week and weekend have been wicked busy at Hangar 27 so lets get cracking.

METROPOLIS RESURRECTION

After week’s of promotion, we are thrilled to announce the release of our newest Airship 27 title, “Metropolis – Resurrection” by Charles Santino & Michael Panush. This is a brilliant prequel novel to the classic silent sci-fi film, “Metropolis” produced by Fritz Lang. The book is so amazing, with all the art, both interior illustrations and cover, were done by James Lyle. So special is this title, that it is now available from Amazon in three formats; paperback, on Kindle and hardback. Trust us, Loyal Airmen, if you are a fan of the classic film, you’ll want to read this novel. As ever, thanks for your continued support.

AIRSHIP 27 RETURNS TO AUDIBLE

After a few years of focusing solely on print formats, Airship 27 has returned to the audio media. Audible is currently producing their titles via virtual voice. It was something both Rod and the Air Chief had been intrigued by. Finally Rob took the plunge and from what we’ve heard via their three minute sample, the quality is very good. Chosen as the first to be recorded in this manner was Nancy Hansen’s latest volume in her pirate queen saga, Jezebel Johnston – Captain Johnston. It can be found by simply going to Audible and putting that title in their search engine. Note, it is a female voice that narrates the adventure.

BROTHER BONES – GRAPHIC NOVEL

After almost a year, artist Joe Arnold has once again returned to working our Brother Bones graphic novel. This is the complete origin story of our Undead Avenger told for the first time in comic form.

Above are first-drafts only of some of the early pages and character sketches. If you are familiar with the book series, you’ll easily recognize what’s happening and who these characters are. To say the Air Chief is excited is an understatement. We’ll continue to keep you posted, Loyal Airmen.

WARRIOR OF RIGEL

And finally, we end this week’s Flight Log with out second Airship 27 title release in one week. “Warrior of Rigel” is a sword and planet fantasy adventure by writer Gary Lovisi, with all art, both interior illustrations and that cover above by artist Ron Hill. If you’re a fan of the old Edgar Rice Burroughs off world adventure, this book is for you Loyal Airmen. As always, available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle. Thanks always for your support.

And that’s a wrap. But we’re not slowing down one bit. See you back here next Friday morning.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as of 1st of Sept, we will only be using our new e-mail address. (ronfortier104@gmail.com) Please, drop us a quick one line letter telling us you received this information and have logged this into your own files.  When you do that, we can add you to our new address file as well. Thanks.  Now on to this week’s Flight Log.

BEYOND THE STARS # 4

So here’s page # 21 of BEYOND THE STARS # 4.  Meaning artist Andrea Bormida has only one more page to draw and he wraps up this issue.  Will be nice to see this one out. Leaving us only two more issues to finish the series.

GEEZERS 2

Am thrilled to announced the release of our Airship 27 title, GEEZERS 2 by writer Darryle Purcell. This continues the adventures of the likeable group of Vietnam veterans living in a California senior facility. And adventures they do have, show patriotism never grows old. Purcell himself is a vet and with writing the novel, also drew all the black and interior illustrations. While that stunning cover above was created by the amazing Adam Shaw. As ever now available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle. We thank you for your support, Loyal Airmen.

Happily we here in Colorado have finally starting getting rain, which has been a blessing in helping firefighters combat and end the many forest fires that have been plaguing us these past few weeks thanks to the hot temps. With them quench by the remains, hopefully we’ve seen the last of the scorching weather and can start looking forward to more moderate Fall weather.

And that’s a wrap for this week, Loyal Airmen, as ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, here we are in August and once again summer is disappearing on us faster than we’d like. Such is life. But here at Hangar 27 we continue to work on our pulp and comic projects. So let’s get started.

JIN & TONIK

Last we we showed you the black and white version of this beautiful drawing by artist Cesar Feliciano. For those of you who were unable to support our funding campaign and thus weren’t able to obtain a copy of JIN & TONIK, don’t despair. There are some talks in progress with a major independent comic company that might all of you smile. More as things develop.

CHIVALRY INC.

Work continues on CHIVALRY, INC. #1 with pencils by Javier Lugo and really nice inks by Jesse Hansen. Above the latest completed page. The book will be colored and when completed coming to you from Florida’s own Silverline Comics.

BEYOND THE STARS # 4

Artist Andrea Bormida is whipping through the last few pages of “Beyond the Stars” # 4. Above are his pencils for pages #19 and # 20. That leaves him only two pages left to complete the issue. Next up Angelo Vecciarelli adds his colors. When all 22 pgs are drawn, Mike Belcher letters them and then they are off to Silverline Comics. Keep in mind, this is a six issue series, ergo the publishing of #4 leaves us two left to wrap it all up.

A SWIPING COINCEDENCE

Norman Saunders was one of the finest pulp cover artist of his time. One of the many covers he painted was for the one and only issue of Captain Hazzard – Champion of Justice; Python Men of the Lost City. The first time we saw this image, it was in black and white on a small facsimile edition published by the late Bob Weinberg. Which is why we didn’t make the connection when many years later we saw Jim Steranko’s cover for the first issue of our Green Hornet comic series from Now Comics. Then again, another few decades elapsed, and we found ourselves writing brand new Captain Hazzard novels. And lo and behold, putting these two images side by side, realized Steranko had actually swiped Saunders. Not that swiping is anything new, it’s a standard practice among professional illustrators. What was unique was the fact that the Air Chief would be so intimately involved with both these two fictional heroes. Now that’s a coincidence.

And that wraps up this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. As always, thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you back here next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!