Greetings, Airmen, well here it is Tuesday, and I'm back at the Airship 27 Hangar after a fun filled week-end in Dayton, Ohio, attending Pulp Con #35.  That's how many years they have been holding these gathering of true pulp magazine fans.  I met so many wonderful people there, and have some great stories to relate.  So I've decided to post early this week and keep adding to this one post as the week goes along.  So please, if you've read it today, come back tomorrow etc. as I will be adding lots of photos of the con itself.  But before I get to that fun and games, another happening over the week-end occured while I was in Dayton.  The first book in the new pulp anthology series I'm editing for Wild Cat Books was published.  LANCE STAR – SKY RANGER features four great new adventures of the 1930s flying hero by Frank Dirscherl, Bobby Nash, Bill Spangler and Win Scott Eckert.  The book is available at Lulu.com – Son Scott will be posting this cover and a link on our Air Fares page later this week.  But don't wait till then, go on over to Lulu and check it out.  The art, cover and interiors are all by the amazing Rich Woodall.  It's a great looking…and reading new pulp book.
                                          
This shot was snapped by William Lampkin, one of the many pulp-friends I've known via the internet and was finally able to meet at this show.  William took lots of great photos, including this one of me in Sell-Mode.  I do tend to get animated when talking about the literature of the fantastic…ha.  Note, distinguished gentlemen to my right in this photo is noted Canadian pulp historian/writer, Don Hutchinson.  It was a real pleasure to meet Don and be his con-neighbor for four days.  Behind Don is another friend, David Walker.  Who is now a new loyal airman.

                     
Three of the oldest, and most respected pulp fans were in attendance and I had the good fortune to meet two of two of them, from left to right, Al Tonic, Nick Carr and Ray Beam.  Nick is a pulp historian who wrote scores of articles on pulps that appeared in fanzines for years.  Ron Hanna, publisher of Wild Cat Books, with whom I attended Pulp Con is Nick's literary agent and just published a brand new book on his articles and essays that sold like hot-cakes.  As for Al, I had the good fortune of sitting beside him at the Saturday banquet and he was all ears about my revival of Captain Hazzard.  What a great guy.  As for Ray, I sadly did not get to meet him this time around.
                 
One of the great joys of this trip was meeting William Lampkin, above with yours truly.  William manages Pulp.Net, one of the greatest on-line sites devoted to the pulps.  It was by tripping over his site that I first discovered the amazing world of pulps now available on the internet and eventually led to my new career as a pulp writer.  He's a great guy and now, new pal.

               
Okay, Airmen, here it is Wednesday morning and a few more shots for you.  The one of above I call the Two Rons.  The fellow to my right is none other than the dude responsible for my new pulp career, my trip to Pulp Con and lots of other happy things in my life.  He's Wild Cat Book publisher, Ron Hanna.  A really great guy. It was a ball hanging with him in Dayton.
               
And here I am with fellow Flearun Forun amigo, Mr.Duane Spurlock.  An easy going dude, Duane is currently writing a new Ki-Gor Jungle Lord story for my anthology series.   Was a real pleasure meeting him at last.

          
One of the biggest highlights of my trip to Pulp Con was being cast in a dramatization of a Shadow radio play.
They do these quite often at pulp related cons and it was a thrilled to get up on stage with these other fans and imagine myself a radio actor in New York City in 1937.  The show we did was DEATH TRIANGLE and I played the villian, Corvet.  It was a blast!  Of course I'm the fellow in the white shirt about to start spouting his lines.

                                            
As a young man reading comics and dreaming of some day having a career as a writer, one of my all time favorite comics writer was Gerry Conway.   Either alone, or when he worked with his pal, Roy Thomas, Gerry wrote of the best DC and Marvel books ever produced.  Over the years, he drifted out of comics and moved to Los Angeles going to work for the movie-tv people.  I'd see his name pop up on the credits of LAW AND ORDER all the time, but thought it was another writer with the same name. Couldn't be the comic guy, I thougth.  Wrong.  Imagine my surprise when on Sat, the last day of the show, this gentlemen walks up to our table and begins a livelyconversation with Ron Hanna…and his name tag says GERRY CONWAY.   I introduced myself, shook his hand and thanked him for all the great comics that had so entertained me.  And yes, he is the same guy who writes all those gritty, tough Law and Order shows.  Amazing.  It was a real pleasure and honor to meet one of my personal heroes at long last.

Oh, and Scott has put LANCE STAR – SKY RANGER up at our Air Fare page.  So if you haven't gone over to check it out.  Please, give it a try.  It's a dandy pulp anthology and I think you'll like it.  Okay, today is Thursday.  For real.  I've been getting my days confused ever since I came home from Dayton, ha.  One more day of posting to this…my longest log entry ever!

TO BE CONTINUED…