Welcome to Airship 27

My name is Ron Fortier, and I have been a professional writer for over forty-five years. I have worked on comic book projects such as The Hulk, Popeye, Rambo and Peter Pan. With my two most popular comic series being The Green Hornet and The Terminator (with Alex Ross). With Ardath Mayhar I penned two TSR fantasy novels, and in 2001 I had my first play, a World War II romantic comedy, produced.

This site serves as a portfolio of the work I’ve done to date, as a showcase for projects in the works, and as home for my online Journal (below), which will be updated frequently.

I am currently writing and producing pulp novels and short stories for various publishers and have several movie scripts floating around Hollywood looking for a home, and if that isn’t enough, I also have a review column at the www.pulpfictionreviews.blogspot.com website.

A devoted grandfather of six, at 75, I am thrilled to be part of the new web-comic evolution. Part of this joy is in the realization of a life long dream, that of becoming a pulp writer.

Thanks for visiting, and enjoy your stay.

CHIVALRY’S NEW INKER

19 Jun | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we thought we’d kick off this week’s Flight Log with some exciting news. We have a new inker on our 3 issue CHIVARLY, INC. mini-series now in production for Silverline Comics. Inker Erick Dotson, joins pencil artist Javier Lugo with issue # 2. Above is one of his first pages for the issue. He’ll be joined by colorist Mickey Clausen and letterer Mike Belcher. At this writing issue # 1 is now having covers done up, having been completed drawn and colored. Stay tune, it’s getting real.

THE BOY WHO WOULD BE SHERLOCK HOLMES

As most of you Loyal Airmen are well aware, for several years now, Airship 27 has been published the children’s books series, “Barry Baskerville Boy Detective,” as written by Richard Kellogg and illustrated by the terrific Gary Kato. The series follows the adventures of a young detective who idolizes his hero, Sherlock Holmes. Gary recently turned in the artwork for the 10th Barry Baskerville mystery and at present Art Director Rob Davis is assembling those pieces with the manuscript. With fingers crossed, the book could be up at Amazon by week’s end. If that happens, we’ll promote it at the end of this Flight Log. If not, then for sure next week. Stay tuned.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2 # 3

At long last! Boston Bombers Vol 2 # 3 is available at Indy Planet.
(https://www.indyplanet.com/the-boston-bombers-v2-3) The Air Chief had to laugh, as artist Rob Davis calls this our romance issue. He’s now working on issue # 4 while yours truly tries to whip issue # 5 into shape. No rest for us comic creators.

AN EXPENSIVE DREAM

Recently Antarctic Press Managing Editor, Ben Dunn, has been playing with doing up AI models of his company’s popular characters. You can imagine the Air Chief’s surprise when he opened his email a few days ago and found the above image awaiting him. We almost fell out of our chair. This is such a sweet Crimson Nun action figure complete with her two custom made automatics. Oh yeah. Sadly, the reality of what it would cost to purchase such a piece from any of the companies out there today would be astronomical. At least way, way…way more than either Ben or the Air Chief have in our piggy banks. But hey, as we told Ben, we can always dream.

UPDATE – BLACK TERROR 2.0

and finally we wrap up this week’s entry with this great peek at the new Black Terror comic the Air Chief is working on with artist Dell Barras. Above are illos of the “old” version from the Golden Age and on the right is our new interpretation of the character. Our colorist on the new series, David Rios, previewed that stunning cover this past week on the Silverline Tuesday Night Podcast show, on which the Air Chief is a co-host. Needless to say he wowed our fellow host and viewers. David has only a few pages left to color to completion and the lettering is almost finished as well. Can’t wait to assemble the package and get it off to Antarctic Press. Keep those fingers crossed, Loyal Airmen.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. Want to end with giving a loving shout-out to all the Dads out there for Father’s Day. Being a Dad has always been a blessing to yours truly. You are all heroes. Thank you. Ron – Over & Out!