Greeting Loyal Airmen, if any of you live in an area considered a “drought zone” then you’ll know how much we here in Colorado do appreciate what rain we do get. But honestly this seems to have been one of the wettest Springs we’ve had in years and it is quite frankly getting frustration.  What with Memorial Day festivities last weekend getting cancelled or simply rained on.  Seems we’re locked into a weather pattern that gives us bright, sunny mornings and then by midday, the clouds move and so does the rain.  Ye Old Chief if often reminded of the monsoon seasons back in Vietnam. Here’s hoping we eventually do get a stretch of normal, warm weather…without the wet stuff.  Please.

Hot air balloons are a common site in our area but last Sunday morning we had one float over our home so low our neighbors were outside waving up at the fliers. Valerie grabbed her cellphone and snapped the picture above. What a truly beautiful sight.

Every year the good people of the Pulpfest convention give out the Munsey Award; named after one of the first editors of pulp magazines back in the 30s. It is a framed copy of the image above showing a ghostly Shadow coming out of a fiery typewriter. The award is given to that individual who has contributed to advancement pulp fandom in extraordinary efforts.  There are usually ten nominees and only past winners are allowed to vote each year.  We mention all this as the Air Chief is one of those ten nominees this year.  It is our third such and we are extremely grateful to those pulp fans who were kind enough to nominate us.  Win or lose, this is truly a singular honor and we thank the Pulpfest organizing committee for the great job they do.  As ever, Airship 27 Productions will be in attendance when the show rolls around at the end of July.  More on that as it approaches.

Meanwhile it’s time to update you Loyal Airmen on the two pulp comic series the Air Chief has been writing for Moonstone Comics.  Guns of the Black Bat # 1 should have been out last week, sadly there was a bit of a snafu in production and the wrong creator credits ended up on the cover. Above is the corrected cover and we’re told it went off to the printer this past week. All fingers crossed we’ll be seeing it in comic shops soon.  We’ll keep you posted for sure.

The second comic is a four issue mini-series called Black Bat – Domino Lady : Danger Coast to Coast and it is coming along rather well.  The Air Chief wrote the actual scripts a while back and they were all assigned to some pretty amazing artist. Issues 1 & 2 are being done by Michael Dorman, issue # 3 is in the hands of Mark Grammel and the last chapter (that’s a page from it above) # 4 is being done by the fantastic Vincezo Sasone.  We can’t exactly say when this particular series will be out, but we can tell you Loyal Airmen, it will be worth the wait.  We’ve had a blast writing these.

Finally it was officially announced this past week that British actor Theo James will be the new James Bond.  His first go at 2007 will be out in 2017.  He’s best known for his supporting role in the sci-fi Divergent movies. Could be a good choice. Time will tell.

And that’s it for this week Loyal Airmen, as ever, thanks for stopping by.

Ron  – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, this week’s Flight Log is about how all our lives are a constant mixture of the past and future as we all travel this road called life. And with a few days of each other, two poignant events in the Air Chief’s life brought that all to clarity. In regards to the past, we were saddened to hear of the passing of former Charlton Editor George Wildman.  Wildman, along with his assistant editor, Bill Pearson was the man responsible for the try-out series Charlton Bullsyes began in the mid-1970s to help give new talent a shot.

It was in the Charlton Bullseye (issue # 3) that artist Gary Kato and the Air Chief had our first ever comics work published; thus making us pros. The following year they asked us for another tale which ended up being the debut appearance of our Mr. Jigsaw Man of a Thousand Parts in Charlton’s Scary Tales # 38.  And as they say, the rest is history. But what a totally different history it might have been for both of us had it not been for George Wildman.  R.I.P sir, and thanks.

Whereas this time of year is overwhelmed with dreams of the future as colleges and high schools celebrate their new class graduations.  Among them last weekend was the Rocky Mountain High School class of 2016 among which was our grandson, Alex.  Above is a snapshot of him after the even with his older sister Cora on his left and their good friend Tinisha on his right.  Val and the Air Chief, as is all our family, proud beyond words of this young man. And we know he truly has an amazing and bright future ahead of him.  God bless you, Alex.

Finally we want to wish all you Loyal Airmen a wonderful Memorial Day weekend as we kick off the summer season. But at the same time ask you to take a moment to remember why we celebrate this day.  Unlike Veteran’s Day where we thank all our brave men and women in uniform, past and preset, Memorial Day is what it says, a day to memorialize all those who gave their lives for our country.  Who died to guarantee our freedoms and way of life. We must never forget them, both in out hearts and prayers, especially on this weekend.  May they all rest in God’s loving eternal rest forever.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen.  As most of you are aware, the Air Chief annually does two pulp shows and one comic con.  The pulp shows are the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con which just happened last month in Chicago and PulpFest which happens in Columbus a the end of July. Then come November, we have our Rocky Mountain Con here in Colorado.  Those are again routine appearance whereas it looks like this summer the Air Chief will be expanding his schedule to include a few other local events. The other day we met with an associate of the local Barnes & Noble bookstore here in Fort Collins. After a pleasant chat about our career, we were invited to do two appearance at this store in July.

The first of these will be a night time lecture on the history of American pulps and their evolution into comics and today’s New Pulp movement of which Airship 27 Productions is a major player. This will be followed by a book signing.  Then about a week later, we’ll be returning to the store on a Saturday afternoon along with our writing colleague, Todd Jones, do do a presentation on the history of comics and how they are made for young readers and their parents. It looks to be a fun time. We are most grateful for the good people at Barnes & Noble for affording us these opportunities.

Now the “other” summer event came as an unexpected, although extremely delightful, surprise.  It seems Fort Collins has their own version of what we called “block parties” back east.  On a given day, certain city streets are blocked off by the police and made available to neighborhoods to congregate and have games, showcase local businesses etc. etc. etc. and of course food vendors. Here they are called “Open Street Events,” and lo and behold they are going to have one here in our neighborhood come Sunday June 5th. When the Air Chief learned of this via a letter sent to everyone in the area, we contacted the officials in charge and told them about our being a comic book creator and would they allow us to set a table up with our Mr.Jigsaw books?  Happily they got back to us within a few days totally thrilled by our offer and said we were exactly the kind of participation they looked for in these events.  So the Air Chief contacted his amigo, Rob Davis, and asked him to whip up the promotional flier above, which we hope city officials can add to their further promotional packets.  And we’ve re-ordered more books to assure we have enough on hand when the day arrives.  Now all we have to do is pray it is a gorgeous, sunny day.  All fingers crossed.

And of course it is always great when our new comics arrive in the mail as was the case earlier in the week.  Here we are holding up copies of “Ron Fortier”s Tales of the Macabre.” This one contains three brand new stories by yours truly with art by Gary Kato, Sam Salas and Kurt Belcher.  Then there was “Paradise Falls,” our sci-fi murder mystery with artist John Williams and letterer Warren Montgomery. Both are available on-line from (www.IndyPlanet.com) As ever, thanks for your support.

Finally if you are in the Kansas City area this weekend, do your best to hit up Planet Comic Con where our partner artist Rob Davis will be one of the dozens of great guests. That’s Rob above in one of the promo pieces for this great show. Be sure to stop by his table and tell him the Air Chief sent you.

And that’s it for this week Loyal Airmen, as ever, thanks so much for stopping by.

Ron – Over & Out!

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!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, well the weather here in Fort Collins has finally turned around for the better.  Nice to see the sun again after almost a week of clouds and rains.  Okay, this week we are packing up tons of goodies to take with us to Gryphon Games & Comics here in town for the Annual Free Comic Book Day. The folks at this shop do it up big and we always have a great time.  Last year they had over 1,500 people walk through the store.  Here’s hoping tomorrow is even a bigger success.  We hope all our Loyal Airmen will take a break from their busy day to visit and support their own local comic shops.

Now as all of you know, the good folks at Radio Archives have been adapting our Airship 27 pulp novels and anthologies to audio.  A few days ago they released the third in our Sinbad – The New Voyages.  This one is a full length novel by C.B. Harvey and once again the super talented voice actor Jem Matzan does the reading. With each new book Matzan imbues the characters with so much life, listening to his audibooks is a treat.  Oh, and he also writes a regular blog on how he goes about creating some of the marvelous voices and sound effects in his recording.  You can go to it here.  (http://www.jemmatzan.com/2016/05/sinbad-the-new-voyages-volume-3-the-warriors-of-forever.html)  It is truly fascinating and shows how diverse creative people truly are.

And it is also fitting that this past week we released our 5th Volume in the SINBAD – The New Voyages series. This one features stories by Barbara Doran, Lee Houston Jr., Percival Constantine and even one by Ye Old Air Chief himself. That’s right, after creating these great characters, we thought it was high time we got to write their adventures as well.  And it was a blast.  Terry Pavlet provides the above stunning cover with Michael Dean Jackson doing the interior illustrations. It is a great package now available at Amazon in both hard copy and on Kindle.  We hope you’ll check it out.

Okay, now to give you all a sneak-peek at one of the most exciting projects we’ve ever worked on here at Airship 27 Productions; THE TOWERS OF METROPOLIS. Inspired by the classic sci-fi silent film by Fritz Lang, “Metropolis,” our anthology is a prequel and the stories in this book all precede the events which take place in the movie.  The amazing Pedro Cruz, another lover of the film, is now turning in the interior illustrations and the cover is by the great Michael Kaluta.  This is a dream project for the Air Chief and one we think all of you are going to love.  More as we go into production.  Oh, and for those of you sadly unfamiliar with the film the screen shot above is from the movie.

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

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we’ve got tons of things to share with you this week and all are about our amazing experiences at this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper Con in Chicago that went on over the weekend. We’d told last week we’d have a full report for you and so sit back and enjoy.  Above is Ye Old Air Chief and Art Director Rob Davis having set up our tables and ready for the show to get rolling.

Friday night the 7th Annual Pulp Factory Awards were handed out and Airship 27 Productions took four of the five categories. This year the awards were moderated by Pulp Factory members Gordon Dymowski and Van Allen Plexico and they were responsible for designing the beautiful acrylic awards you see above.  Winning Best Pulp Novel went to our friend Paul Bishop for his gripping police mystery, “The Lie Catchers.” Having reviewed it last year, the Air Chief recommends you all go out an buy a copy. It is that good. The book was published by our friends at Pro Se Productions.

Best Short Story went to our pal Derrick Ferguson for his tale, “Voodah of Thunder Mountain,” illustrated by Barry McClain (see illo above) and appeared in “The Legends of New Pulp Fiction,” which went on to take the award for Best Anthology Collection.  Having won the Pulp Ark two weeks ago, this books becomes the only new pulp title to win both awards.  That’s saying quite a bit.

Whereas our own Rob Davis won the award for Best Interior Illustrations for his art in our “Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective Vol 7,” it was his second Pulp Factory Award win.  Above is the Air Chief holding the award for Best Anthology and Rob proudly displaying his.

The Best Pulp Cover went to Czech artist Marco Turini for Airship 27 Production’s “Bass Reeves – Frontier Marshal,” which was our last title of 2015.  The Air Chief doesn’t even know if Marco has been notified of his win yet but will get on that immediately after writing this Flight Log.  We always knew that cover was a winner.

The true fun of these shows is meeting fellow creators and it was a pleasure to finally hook up with young Jaime Ramos, one of the two Assistant Editors who helped up put together “Legends of New Pulp Fiction.” The other was Todd Jones.  Well, Jaime finally came to the con and we had a blast sharing a fun panel with him on Sunday morning about how that amazing came together.  Along with Jaime and the Air Chief, we were joined by Doug Klauba who painted and of course Rob Davis, the book’s designer and Tommy Hancock, the man for whom the book was a benefit moderated.  What a great panel. All of us giving our audience a lot of behind the scenes stories of how that giant tome all came together.  Fellow writer, Andy Fix, was wise to bring a tape recorder and the entire hour long panel will be posted to his own podcast in a week or two.  We will be sure to post the link right here so all you Loyal Airmen can listen to it should you desire.

One of the traditions we adhere to at every Windy City show is the Sunday morning Pulp Factory breakfast at a local eatery.  Above left to right, in a group selfie, are Gene Moyers, the Air Chief, Rob Davis (peeking in) and Van Plexico.

Five minutes after snapping the first photo, artist Doug Klauba arrived and Van immediately got him into this picture.  Those breakfast get togethers are so much fun.

Sitting here writing this all out, the Air Chief is doing a mental check list of all our great friends we hooked up with over the weekend and my apologies if we forget anyone here.  Martin Gram, Doug Klauba, Van Plexico, Joe Gentile, William Patrick Maynard, Tommy Hancock, David White, John Bodnar, B.C. Bell, Gene Moyers, Jim Beard, Jaime Ramos, Michael Black, Bob Mendenhall, Andy and Claire Fix, Jeff and Lisa Fournier, Doug Ellis, Mike Chomko, Ed Hulse, Will Murray, Matt Moring, Lance Stahlberg, Gordon Dymowski.  If we forgot anyone, and we’re sure we must of, our apologies.  What a great group of friends and fellow creators. Every time the Air Chief goes to this show, he leaves all charged up to start new projects. We tend to inspire each other all the time. And believe us, several new pulp projects were hatched over the weekend that you will all be seeing by the end of the year. Trust us, it is good stuff.

Of course one of the best results of attending a show like this one is the positive creative energy that gets fired up and then folks go home with all kinds of ideas for new pulp projects.  Here at Airship 27 Productions we’re pleased to announce the start of a second anthology volume featuring the most bizarre pulp hero of them all, the Purple Scar. The book will contain four new Scar stories by Gen Moyers, Paul Findley, Erik Franklin and David Noe with the amazing artist Marco Santiago providing the interior illustrations. Those are his sketches of the character above. Hopefully we can get this together and out by Fall or early Winter. We’ll keep you posted.

And there you go, Loyal Airmen.  Thanks for stopping by as ever.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as you read this week’s Flight Log, the Air Chief and Chief Engineer Rob Davis are at the 2016 Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention in beautiful Lombard, Illinois, just outside of Chicago.  Every year this show is a blast and we get to see old friends and make tons of new ones.  On Friday night the Air Chief will once again be hosting the Pulp Factory Awards presentations. Rest assured we’ll post the list of winners here next week.  And then on New Pulp Sunday we have all those great panels we mentioned here last week.  As you can see this is a busy, fun time us and hundreds of pulp fans.  Please, if you are anywhere near the area, come on down and join in.

And while on the subject of awards, the 2016 Pulp Ark Awards were announced last night and I’m thrilled to say two Airship 27 titles were winners.  Our giant benefit anthology for Tommy Hancock, “Legends of New Pulp Fiction” won in the Best Anthology/Collection category and Best Pulp Novel went to Micah Harris’ awesome “Ravenwood Stepson of Mystery” novel, “Return of the Dugpa. Micah is a terrific writer and we couldn’t be any happier for him.  And to ALL the people who made that incredible anthology such a huge success, we tip our pulp fedora.

As you Loyal Airmen will remember, last week we talked about some of the “jungle” movies that would soon be at your local cinemas.  Well yesterday Val and the Air Chief went to see Disney new live action “Jungle Book” and we absolutely loved it.  Director John Favreau may have just given all of us his masterpiece.  Not afraid to use today’s technology to enhance his narrative, he gives a wonderful story so amazing and beautiful, both a feast for the eyes and the heart.  The voice actors are magnificent in their respective roles and the young boy playing Mowgli, is simply brilliant. We recommend this movie highly, though parents should see it first before little ones under six. It has a few tense scenes that might prove a bit too scary for kids

Okay, time for the Air Chief to get finished packing.  Hope to see you in Chicago. Come back next week for a full report on the con.  And thanks ever for stopping by.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, well we get the ball rolling this week with a look at the cover to GUNS OF THE BLACK BAT issue # 3 coming out in Aug from Moonstone. Below is the actual solicitation comic readers will find in the May issue of the Diamond Catalog.  As ever thanks for your support.

Guns of the Black Bat #3
Writer: Ron Fortier
Art: Silvestre Szilagyi
Cover: Michael Stribling
32pgs, grayscale, $3.50
UPC: 685239899108
Domino Lady and the Phantom Detective travel to the Congo to find a life-saving plant as the Black Bat and the rest of his team continue to battle prehistoric humans and animals on the streets of Manhattan.

With only two weeks left before the Windy City Pulp & Paper con, the Air Chief and Chief Engineer Rob have been doing maintenance on the old Airship 27.  Doug Ellis, one of the show’s organizers, asked Rob to do up a flyer showcasing the panels to be held on Sunday, the last day of the show. This has since become known as New Pulp Sunday as a bunch of super talented writers and artists come together to discuss the various facets of the New Pulp Movement.  Above is the finished flyer. All attendees will receive a copy upon entering the main hall. It list 20 creators and the five hour long panels that will be held.  Really looking forward to this and counting the days.

No one can ever excuse independent comics of being speedy.  Over a year ago, the Air Chief teamed up with artist John Williams and letterer Warren Montgomery to write an adult sci-fi mystery thrilled called PARADISE FALLS.  It took us a year and we finally released # 1.  The top left half of the image above being out cover, sans the logo etc. Then over the next ten months, working at whatever free time was avaialble to us, we actually managed to finish the second issue and just got it out about a month ago.  In discussing the cover, the Air Chief thought it would be cool to have the second being a continuation of the first, only spotlighting another character from the series and John was only too happy to do it.  And Warren, a multi talented guy, did the coloring again.  Both issues are available on-line at (www.IndyPlanet.com). As no work has even begun on issue # 3, your guess is as good as ours as to when that one will come out.  As ever, we’ll keep you posted.

We should label this next section, Welcome Back to the Jungle. This weekend Disney Studios releases its third version of Rudyard Kipling’s classic JUNGLE BOOK, the story of a young boy, Mowgli, raised in the jungles of India. Now as most of you will recall, Disney did a wonderful animated version in the 60s which was a huge hit. Later, in the 80s, they tried their hands at a live action version starring actor Jason Lee as an older Mowgli.  It was clear Disney was attempting to mine the success of the early black and white 30s version starring Sabu. Again, this new live version was really well done and we enjoyed it greatly.  Now, after a few more decades have passed, Disney is returning to the cartoon version of the 60s and with the magic of CGI morphing it, and its little boy hero, into a full blown live action spectacular.  The trailers alone are jaw-dropping and you can bet the Air Chief and Valerie will be buying their tickets shortly.  Later Warner Brothers is going to be offering us a new Tarzan flick, THE LEGEND OF TARZAN. Whereas they are going to keep the character in the era set forth by his writer-creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, they’ve also opted to include elements of authentic Congo history to enlivened the drama.  Again, this looks to be a great movie that will do Burroughs beloved character long overdue justice.  We can’t wait to see it.

Still, when talking jungle movies, we have to mention our favorite film of all time, the original, 1933 black and white KING KONG.  It is a movie experience that has remained with the Air Chief all his life, the story of a powerful beast ripped from his jungle home on Skull Island and brought to civilization to be made fun of and eventually killed still moves us every single time we’ve watched.  And yes, we also appreciated Peter Jackson’s loving version, as it was clear, he too loved the original and wanted to pay homage to it and he succeeded admirably.  Both are worth watching time and time again.  But now comes the news of yet another Kong movie and that has us very, very excited

Coming in 2017 will be KONG OF SKULL ISLAND.  But here’s the good news, it is NOT another retelling of the same story we’ve all come to know.  Rather it is a true re-imagining of adventure set in the mid 1960s when a platoon of soldiers are ordered from their base camp in Vietnam to sail to a recently discovered island in the South Pacific.  There, on this lost, uncharted island they encounter prehistoric monsters ala dinosaurs and of course a whopping big old gorilla.  Tom Hiddleston heads the cast and early stills from the production, now underway, look great. So as you can see, Loyal Airmen, Hollywood’s love of jungle tales is far from over.  Much to the Air Chief’s delight.  Oh, yeah.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, later today the 14th episode of AIRSHIP 27 THE PODCAST will go live on-line.  Last weekend, shortly after mentioning Rob and the Air Chief were getting set to record this new episode, we learned from Brant Fowler, the owner of Gonzo Goose Productions which records our show that our last episode had broken all their previous records with 1,427 downloads!!  We were bowled over!! Over 14 hundred Loyal Airmen out there are listening to our show.  Wowser!!  Rob and the Air Chief simply can’t thank you enough. This kind of support is just great and totally inspires to keep doing the show.  Thanks so much.

Now as most of you Loyal Airmen are aware, Rob Davis and the Air Chief do a regular comic series entitled RON FORTIER’S TALES OF THE MACABRE wherein we present a bunch of black and white short strips all written my the Air Chief. And the fun of this is that we get to appear on the cover of each issue, more or less in the role of your comic book host to the issue such as those above.

Now somewhere in the near future, a forthcoming issue of this series will feature a story called DEATH DERBY.  Sort of a manga style version of the famous Roger Corman classic B-flick DEATH RACE 2000.  The artist on the strip is the amazing Barry McClain and while discussing the project, we suggest the possibility of Barry doing a racing type cover for the issue the story will appear in.  But of course, with me totally in the scene as ever.  So early yesterday morning, Valerie took her phone-camera and snapped several shots of the Air Chief acting like a clown outside our home to hopefully come up with a pose that will be useful to Barry when he sits down to pencil the image.  Above is one of the three we sent him this morning. Upon seeing them, he broke out in laughter.  As you can see, Loyal Airmen, there isn’t much the Air Chief won’t do for his stories.  And rest assured, we’ll repost this very image after that particular cover is completed.

On Tuesday, the Red Sox opened their 2016 season in Cleveland playing the Indians in frigid weather conditions, but still took the victory lead by new Ace pitcher David Price’s 10 strike-outs and homers by both Mookie Betts and David Ortiz to win by a final score of 6 – 2.   GO SOX!!  So happy baseball is back!!

On the audiobook front, Radio Archives continues to put fantastic audio versions of our Airship 27 pulp books. This week they released the Air Chief’s own BROTHER BONES – THE UNDEAD AVENGER as read by F. Scott Bennett. Trust me, if you’ve read and enjoyed this book, wait until you listen to it.  Bennett is an amazing reader and it feels like old time radio.  Available from www.Audible.com –

Finally as most of you Loyal Airmen are well aware, Airship 27 Productions did a giant benefit anthology for our fellow publisher Tommy Hancock last year and had the book released a week before Christmas.  All proceeds were to be for Tommy and his family to defray of serious medical bills they’d been slapped with when he took unexpectedly ill at the end of summer.  Well, not only is Tommy doing much better these days, but the book, once released, sold through the roof and this past week we sent Tommy the biggest single royalty check we’ve ever paid out in our ten years of publishing.  And that’s all because of YOU, the people who jumped on board and supported this project. We can’t thank you enough.  Of course, why stop here? The book is still available at Amazon as a whopping big hard copy or on Kindle.  There’s even an audiobook works, we kid you not.  So if you haven’t got a copy, now is a good time to pick one up and help a really good guy and his family in the process. Oh, and Rob and the Air Chief will have 10 copies on our tables at the Windy City Pulp & Paper con coming up at the end of the month.  Betting they’ll sell out fast, so if you plan on being at the show and want one, hurry on over.

And that’s another Flight Log, Loyal Airmen, as ever, many thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you here next week.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we pray all of you had a wonderful Easter last weekend.  And even as we were celebrating this Holy holiday, we actually managed to get out our third Airship 27 Productions pulp title of the month.

Fittingly enough that book was THE DAGGER MAN (A Novel of the Clay Shamus) by Michael Panush.  It’s the first in series wherein a Jewish rabbi creates a life-like golem who becomes the synagogue’s protector as well as a private eye.  Believe us, this is one original action packed thriller.  Assisting Michael’s original story was artist Zachary Brunner who provided all the art for this book, the 9 black and white interior pieces and the stunning cover you see above.  As usual you can pick this up at Amazon in both hard copy and on Kindle and eventually it will be available as an audio book. We told you the old Airship 27 was going to fly to new heights in 2016. This is only the beginning.

As most of you know the Air Chief is currently writing his fifth Captain Hazzard – Champion of Justice pulp novel and hopes to have it out by the end of summer. Well imagine our surprise when fan Randy Shilling went and tool a Mego toy and customized it into a one-of-a-kind Captain Hazzard action figure.  He sent us the cool photo above.  Way to go, Randy!  That’s our hero, Captain Hazzard!

A while back the Air Chief told you about the new Captain Jain Marlee 6 pg comic strip he’d written along with the amazing art of Luis Rivera. With the strip finished, Warren Montogomery did the lettering and is now grayscaling the black and white version while Luis sent out the pages to a colorist friend. Here’s a look at the original character sketch first done now in vibrant color.  We love this and can’t wait to see the rest of the strip colored. Though we as yet have no idea where that version will ultimately appear.  We’ll keep you posted.

And finally, as we are now into April, Rob and the Air Chief will be recording episode #14 of the Airship 27 Podcast this coming Monday evening, the April 4th. So if there’s any question you would like have answered about Airship 27 Productions’ plans for the year etc. or anything else regarding the world of New Pulp, feel free to drop me a line and we’ll do our best to answer your query on the show.

And that’s it for another week, Loyal Airmen, as ever, thanks for stopping by.

Ron – Over & Out!