Greetings Loyal Airmen, we sincerely hope many of you got to enjoy Free Comic Book Day at your local comic shops.  The Air Chief had a blast at Gryphon Games & Comics here in Fort Collins, CO.  It was our seventh year as guest there.

Above is a shot of our table set up.  We apologize for it being somewhat blurred, we are never good at taking pictures. Still you do get the general idea. And note by the end of the day our table was a whole lot emptier and the shop had well over 1,500 comic fans come through the doors for this all day event. And as ever you know there will be super fans attired in really cool costumes.  One of these was our pal Alex who showed up mid-afternoon as none other than the original Captain Marvel. What a really great costume. The Air Chief is glad this pix came out clear and sharp.

Then towards the end of the day a young man stopped by our table and was mightily impressed with the few Airship 27 pulp titles we had on displayed.  While conversing, he let it slip that he was also a part art artist and then pulled out his smart-phone to show a coloring book he was working on for Colorado State University.  Wow, this fellow had serious talent.  Enough so we talked about his possibly doing some illustrating for us at Airship 27.  Before leaving, he opted to buy a copy of our CAPTAIN HAZZARD – CITADEL OF FEAR to get a feel for what pulps were all about.  Well, apparently he enjoyed the read because first thing this morning he e-mailed us the above quickly rendered sketch of the good Captain. We were blown away.  Looks like we’ve found ourselves another talented illustrations.

A little over a month ago we released the first volume of our ALL AMERICAN SPORTS STORIES.  There were lots of sport related titles in the golden age of the pulps and it was a thrilled for us to do this book.  Among the contributors was writer Richard Kellogg shown above holding a copy of the book with his lovely granddaughter, Caitlin.  Richard’s was a personal memoir of a deer hunting experience he had as a young boy with a favorite uncle.  AASS is available at Amazon in both hard copy and on Kindle.

Jase Marshall Collectibles recent added a new album featuring photos of their amazing Brother Bones action figure based on my original pulp hero. Here are just a few images from that album which can be found on Marshall’s Facebook page. He does such amazing work and perfectly captures our creepy Undead Avenger.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. Thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you back here next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!