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!