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.

THE MAGIC OF SPACE

21 Mar | '2025

The Air Chief grew up reading science-fiction while in grade and high school. From Buck Rogers to Star Trek, we loved it all. Then NASA went a put a man on the moon and we were thrilled. It seemed like we were just on the cusp of exploring our Solar Sytem and taking mankind to the stars. But that never happened, as all you Loyal Airmen know because the government, that earth-bound organization unable to see beyond its own nose, shut them down. And with them our dreams. Well, its taken quite a few decades but now things are once again look up (pun intended) thanks to commercial interest in exploring the great unknown. Chief among those pioneers is Elon Musk. This past two weeks, he is responsible for sending up his Space Ex Dragon to rescue astronauts Sumita Williams and Barry Wilmore, left stranded on the space station for over seven months. Watching that rocket lift off from Cape Kennedy brought back so many glorious memories. Are we really going back to the stars? One can only hope and dream. In the meanwhile, welcome home astronauts and thank you, Elon Musk.

INSPIRED BY HAGGARD & DOYLE

Adventure 27 Production is thrilled to release a truly unique pulp adventure written by Thomas Kent Miller. Several years ago Kent wrote “Allan Quatermain and the Star of Wonder,” wherein H. Rider Haggard’s hero encountered evidence of alien incursions on our planet, specifically the African coast of Sierra Leone. This story takes place in 1873 and though Quatermain survives to tell the tale, it’s ending is not complete. Then, Kent changes course and offers up “Challenger and the Ancient Nova in Aquila,” which transpires 42 years after the Quatermain tale. In this adventure Conan Doyle’s eccentric Prof. George Challenger discovers, in the South American state of Ecuador a similar ruins whose origins and purposes he can only guess at. Both facilities, thought separated by an ocean, are identical in construction. Now, we’ve reprinted both back to back as Kent always intended in this new Kindle only edition. It contains the original interior illustrations by Clayton Hinkle and a new cover by Rob Davis.

THE SILVERLINE TUESDAY PODCAST

Every Tues night the Air Chief is a regular co-host of the Silverline Podcast where we talk about creating comics. The show is live streamed at 9 P.M. Mountain Time on both You Tube and Facebook. Above is an image from last Tuesday’s show. At upper left is moderator write Tim Thiessen, to his right artist Jose Fuentes, on bottom tier at right is colorist David Rios and the Air Chief is to his right. We really have a great time doing this one hour show.

DAVID DOES SOME COLORING

Lat Tuesday night we discussed when it was okay to leave panels empty of words. To showcase this, the Air Chief offered up a page of his black and white short western strip, “The Silent Gun,” by artist Madarro. What we didn’t know is, David, had downloaded that page and colored it for us, much to our delight while we talked about when to use “silent” panels. You can see both of above. And all you Loyal Airmen have an open invitation to tune us in every Tuesday night and ask whatever questions you might have concerning how to make comics.

And that’s it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by. See you here next Friday. God bless, Ron – Over & Out!