Greetings Loyal Airmen, well the month of December is certainly racing along and before we know it, Santa will soon be packing up his sled and directing his magical reindeer all over the world to gladden the hearts of boys and girls…of all ages.  To say the Air Chief isn't getting excited too, would be a tall whopper for sure.  We so love this time of year.  Of course, we had let you know that we would be shutting down the pulp arm of the Ariship 27 Productions – Redbud Studio operations.  After releasing a record breaking 27 titles from the old Airship 27 this past year, we thought it was time we grounded her for a mechanical overhaul.  In the meanwhile the Air Chief and Rob Davis have been devoting lots more time to their many comic projects still rolling along under our production lights.  We thought this week we'd give you a little peek at three of the Air Chief is working on.

                                        
Some three years ago, Rob and the Air Chief thought it would be great to do a one-shot comic starring that classic pulp spy, SECRET AGENT X.   Within a few weeks we did up a script and then scoured the internet for an artist.  At that time, Rob was merely going to act as director.  We eventually found a talented young man and initially he was enthusiastic about the project and started turning in a few pages. But as often happens in comics, ultimately the guy just couldn't stick with the project and after almost a year of keeping us waiting, bit the bullet and bowed out of the project.  Again, these things happen all the time and we were disappointed but not overly so.  We put the project aside with the thought that some day we'd get back to it.  So lo and behold, way back at the start of 2014, Rob came to the Air Chief saying he'd given it some thought, and depending on how his scheduled looked by the end of the year, he wanted to take a stab at drawing the SECRET AGENT X comic.  We are thrilled to report, several weeks ago, true to his word, Rob dusted off the script and went to work on bringing it to visual life.  We couldn't be more excited.  The comic is just over 30 pages long and Rob recently turned in page # 11, so as you can see this IS going to happen at long last.  Above is a peek at page one which kicks off this super paced pulp thriller.  Sit tight, pulp fans, it is coming.

                                    
Then way back at the start of Nov. we mentioned having attended the super fun Rocky Mountain Con promoted by our pal, Tim Moret, and how we'd met several really talented artists.  One, in fact, had agreed to take on the third Simon Pryce Private Eye written by yours truly and Bill Gladman.  Another project that had been sitting in our files collecting dust for a long-long time.  That artist was Barry McClain and in the past few weeks we've showed some sample of his character pin-up pieces from the story.  Well, we teamed Barry with super incker Paul Frey and together they have begun knocking out some truly stunning black and white pages.  Above is a peek at page one of this 23 page project.  Eventually our amigo Rob Davis will be handling the lettering.  We sure do keep Rob busy, don't we. Anywhere this is another typical Simon Pryce murder mystery and we hope you'll think the wait was well worth it when we get it out.

And lastly, but certainly not the least, we'd like you to meet Fenneck, a wandering adventure, paladin.  Fennec is a Western African Fox and this particular colorful character was created by another artist we had the fun of meeting at Rocky Mountain Con, Mr. Jason Meents.  The Air Chief was immediately taken by his loveable, cartoony style and we discussed various things from comics to possible children's books. This past week, Jason posted the above image on Facebook and asked if anyone would be at all interested in helping him the develop the creature into a possible hero for an on-going, full color comics for kids.
You can imagine how quick the Air Chief jumped on this offer.  At present Jason and the Air Chief are kicking around various ideas and approaches, nothing has been formulated yet, but this creative world building is always a blast and with fingers crossed, when done, we'll have come up with something turly special that you fans will want to pick up.  Keep your fingers crossed for us.

So there you have Loyal Airmen, three of many projects, both comics and prose, keeping the Air Chief busy these days.  As ever, thanks for stopping by.  Be nice to each other while out there on the streets doing that last minute gift buying…and in the melee, try to give some thought to the real reason of this season.  It should warm your hearts.  Till next week, take care,

Ron – Over & Out.

Greetings Loyal Airmen, last week we celebrated the release of our 100 Airship 27 Productions title.  Well, this week we are announcing the the release of 101 and our record breaking 26th title of the year.

OCCULT DETECTIVES Vol One features four stories featuring a quartet of popular fictional characters.  Three new heroes created by writers today and the fourth stars a classic hero from the 1930s.  Josh Reynolds provides a new Charles St. Cyprian – The Royal Occultist entry.  Joel Jenkins offers up his Native American shaman warrior, Lone Crow and Jim Beard relates a new ghostly cape starring his Sgt. Janus – Spirit Breaker.  Which left the book with one open slot and Ye Old Air Chief jumped on it in a flash.  As we've always been a big fan of the little known classic pulp character Ravenwood – Stepson of Mystery, this was our chance to have fun with him.  And boy did we ever, making this particular Ravenwood adventure the sequel to our popular graphic novel, DAUGHTER OF DRACULA. That's right, you read that correctly.  For those of you who have ever wondered what happened to Marya Dracula after the events depicted in that adult comic tale, now you can find out in the story we titled “JAZZY.”
OCCULT DETECTIVES Vol One is now available from Amazon in hard copy and should be out in Kindle within a few days.  All the interior illustrations are by Art Director Rob Davis as is the cover, which was colored by Jesus Rodriguez.  We hope you'll check this out.  And honestly, it makes a Christmas gift for the readers in your family.

With OCCULT DETECTIVES, Airship 27 Productions is once again going holiday hiatus, as the Air Chief and his partner, Rob Davis, take some much needed R & R to devote ourselves to the holiday season.  But don't worry, Loyal Airmen, we've got some truly awesome titles in the queue that will be coming your way in 2015.  And with putting out 26 books this year, it will be interesting to see if we can match that count next year….or possibly surpass it?  Time will tell.

On the comic book front, the fourth collection of THE ADVENTURES OF MR. JIGSAW is finally out and available from Amazon.com – This volume collects regular issues 10-11-12 and features a bonus section of pin-ups by Tim Ellis, Rob Davis, Darren Goodhart, Will Meugniot and Gonzalo Martinez. Each a true gem.  So you Jiggy fans out there, we hope you'll check it out.  Another great gift idea for the comic readers in your life.

And finally, as many of you know, this past year, Colorado State University here in Fort Collins, hosted its first ever comic and gaming festival.  It was such a great hit, that the university is going to do it again next year in a much bigger campus venue.  The second FoCo Comics & Gaming Festival will be held on Sunday March 8th at CSU.   You can imagine the Air Chief's surprise when their mascot Ram, drop by unexpectedly this past week to make sure we were going to be in attendance.  We were only too glad to confirm we will certainly be a guest at this over-the-top fun event.  If you live in Colorado or Wyoming, mark that date on your calendar.  We'd love to see you there.

And that's it for this Flight Log, Loyal Airmen, we hope all of you are staying safe and warm from these cold winter blasts covering parts of the country and won't let that dampen your holiday spirit. Remember, tis the season to be jolly.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving with friends and family.  Ours was grand and the Air Chief is convinced he's added five pounds to his weight with just that one mean. Ha.  There's been a lot of great things happening at Hangar 27 Headquarters this week, so let's get to it.

Earlier in the week we released our 25th title of the year, YOUNG NEMO AND THE BLACK KNIGHTS by writer Michael Vance.  It chronicles the adventures of Jules Verne's immortal character Captain Nemo as a young adventurer and is a fast paced action tale from start to finish.  It features interior illustrations from artist Chuck Bordell with a cover penciled by Rob Davis and colored by Shane Evans. As ever, it is available from Amazon.com – both in hard copy and on Kindle. We hope you'll get it a look see.

Now this book has the honor of being our 100th title published by Airship 27 Productions!!  Nearly ten years ago, the Air Chief and his artist pal, Rob Davis, had this idea of paying homage to the classic pulps by publishing brand new pulp novels and anthologies featuring those old pulp heroes but as written by today's best writers and artists.  And here we are, ten years later and with 100 titles in our catalog.  Not bad for two pals and a dream.  Of course two sets of people deserve all the credit for our success. The first is all our amazing writers and artists who actually created these fantastic books.  To each we owe such a debt of gratitude.  The second group we have to thank is you, our Loyal Airmen, who have supported us both with your well wishes and your hard earned dollars.  Without you, the old Airship 27 could have never soared to the heights it has reached.  And believe us, the best is yet to come as we've already got a dozen great titles in production that you'll be seeing in 2015.  Again, thank you so much.

Of course the fun doesn't stop there.  Two years ago we introduced the first ever Airship 27 Log Patches and they went over with all of you like hot cakes.  Fans loved getting these at our con tables. So this year we decided it was time for a brand new premium to that end we've whipped up the official Airship 27 Coffee Mug which we will be selling at all our con appearances next year to include the Windy City Pulp & Paper show in Chicago and of course Pulp Fest in Columbus.  So if think you'd like to have one of these colorful cups to drink your favorite hot or cold beverages in, let us know and we'll put one aside for you.

And finally, as many of you know, earlier in the year we were approached by T. Glenn Bane of Scaldcrow Games Inc.  Glenn and his team do up gaming modules for popular role-playing games.  Somehow Glenn had tripped over our pulp character, Brother Bones – The Undead Avenger and thought he and his outfit could do up a great module based on Bones and his world of Cape Noire.  Rob and the Air Chief loved the idea, contracts were signed and off we went.  Glenn and his team are doing up a detailed map of Cape Noire, a character index that will list ALL the characters that have ever appeared in any Brother Bones story, be it pulps or comics and lots more goodies.  To include a brand new 5 pg Brother Bones comic strip that we wrote for this module and Glenn will be drawing.  Above is the on-line promo poster he has made up to start getting our fans ready.  This is going to be a Kickstarter progam and Glenn will be looking for cash sponsorship when the time comes to produce the module.  Rest assured we'll keep you all posted right here.

And that Loyal Airmen, is this week's post-Thanksgiving Flight Log.  Thanks as ever for stopping by. Take care, have a great week and we'll see you all back here in seven days.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, this past week we had several events happen that reaffirmed our philosophy of never giving up on a story idea no matter how hopeful it may seem to get it published.  Two years ago we wrote a sci-fi strip starring a female space smuggler named Captain Jain Marlee and a gifted artist named Jimmy Bott was going to draw it for us.  Jim did three of the eight pages and then one day wrote the Air Chief saying for all kinds of personal issues, he was leaving comics altogether.  We were so sad to hear this as Jimmy's talent is outstanding.  We bid him adieu with nothing but well-wishes and then tried to find another artist to take on the strip.  That proved fruitless and in the script and those finished three pages simply languished in our “dead” files.

Then, two weeks ago, out of the blue, Jimmy contacts us again asking if he can finish the script.  Yup, he was back, with a new determination to wrap up what he'd begun two years ago.  We couldn't be happier and immediately resend him the script.  Above is Page # 1 for A COLD DEMISE, a Captain Jain Marlee adventure that Jimmy did two years ago.  As we pen these words he's busy at work on the last remaining five pages.  Once the strip is totally finished, you'll be seeing it pop up in our own anthology title; RON FORTIER'S TALES OF THE MACABRE.  Stay tuned.

                                            
Now if you think waiting two years to see a project completed, what would think about one that was written twenty-five years ago?   Several months, while the Air Chief was on the phone with his artist pal, Gary Kato (who does the Mr.Jigsaw series with us) Gary told mentioned having recently spent a day cleaning up old files in his art studio and among theme he found a short horror strip we had written and sent to him over two decades ago.  He asked if we remembered a story called, THE MIND OF DAVID QUEEN…and quite honestly, at first, we did not.  Ha.  Twenty-five years is an awful long time, Loyal Airmen.  Anyway, the more Gary discussed the plot it slowly began to itch at our dusty cluttered memory and until we actually recalled having done a story like that…though there was no way we remembered it in much detail.  Thing is Gary wanted to draw it at long last and of course we gladly gave him the green light to proceed. This week his manila envelope with copies of the finished strip arrived in the mail and we were truly excited at sitting down and reading it again…after twenty-five years.  Gary did such an awesome job with the art and this will also be slated for our TALES OF THE MACABRE comic. So stay tuned, Loyal Airmen.  As you can see, we never, ever let a good idea die.  No matter how long it takes to get realized.

On the pulp scene, Airship 27 Productions released its 24th title of the year this past week and the fourth volume in our SINBAD – THE NEW VOYAGES series.  This one has a quartet of exciting fantasy tales by Ian Watson, Jeff Fournier, Joe Bonadonna and Ralph L. Angelo.  The gorgeous cover seen above was painted by Pat Carabjal and the book contains nine beautiful black and white interior illustrations by Phi Cho.  We think the book is a winner and you buy it from Amazon as either a hard cover or digitally for their Kindle readers.  Thanks as ever for your support.

Finally, we want to wish all you Loyal Airmen and your loved ones a truly joyous and HAPPY THANKSGIVING.  While sitting around the dinner table enjoying a sumptuous turkey meal with all the fixings, take time to thank the Almighty God who has blessed all of us and our great country.  We here at Hangar 27 will be giving thanks to all our great writers and artists who make our books possible and to you, our Loyal Airmen, who have so wonderfully support us these past ten years.  THANK YOU..& GOD BLESS YOU.

Ron (Over & Out!)

Greetings Loyal Airmen and welcome to another Flight Log.  Last week we talked about how thrilled we were to have found a super talented penciler in young Barry McClain who would be illustrating “Man of Ash,” the third Simon Pryce mystery comic book, titled PRICE FOR THE ASKING.

The first thing Barry did, upon reading our script, co-written with Bill Gladman, was to do up some sketches of the principle characters to include the Detroit private eye hero, Simon Pryce (above).  As is easy to tell, Barry has a very loose, free-flowing drawing style which looks great, but does end up offering all kinds of challengers to an inker.  So we put out an ad at our favorite comic-creators site, Digital Webbing, explaining we were hunting for really talented inkers who could tighten up loose pencils.

Within twenty-four hours our ad generate a half dozen interested inkers all wanting a shot at be a part of this project.  So we sent all of them several of these character sketches Barry had done up and are now awaiting the results.  Among the very first to get back to us was one Paul Frey, whose inks over Barry's pencils were truly amazing (see above).  He really is confident in his brush strokes and though we've still a few other inkers to look at, we hope to have a final decision within a few days.  And quite frankly, Paul is very much at the head of the list right now.  We think you'll agree.

Over the past few weeks, Valerie and the Air Chief have seen quite a few outstanding movies.  From GONE GIRL to FURY, these are the kinds of straight up adult dramas, be they mysteries or action themes, that Hollywood holds for their Fall releases.  Well, this past week we finally went to see Christopher Nolan's outstanding, mind-blowing space adventure, INTERSTELLAR, starring Matthew McConaughey….and be loved it.  The plot basically revolves around the fact that in the near future the Earth is dying and will no longer be habitable for humans to live on.  Some day, as our sun continues to burn, that will be a reality.  Whereas in this movie, unknown forces have opened up a black hole near the planet Saturn as if inviting mankind to pass through into another part of the universe where there could be earth-like planets for us to escape to and survive.  McConaughey plays Cooper, the pilot given the job of taking the mission through this black hole.  Whereas he has to leave his family behind well aware of the Einstein theory of relativity that time will not move at the same speed for him and his crew as it will for the people on earth.  Meaning, even is they should succeed in finding a safe haven for earth, but the time they returned, everyone they knew would have aged considerable, including Cooper's daughter, whose faith in him is at the core of this amazing film.

Okay, so there are scientist who've made it a point to pan the movie for its scientific inaccuracies as if that was the point of the entire movie.  Sadly they fail to grasp the fact that movies are not documentaries and Christopher Nolan is more interested in the larger issue; how long do we keep trying to save the earth before we begin to get back to a true, dedicated space program that will allow us to leave this world and move out into the stars.  He, and ye old Air Chief, believe, that man is wired with a questing gene and though the earth is our birthplace in the universe, it was never meant to be our permanent home.  The Air Chief constantly butts head with obsessed environmentalist who would have us squander billions of dollars on saving one single planet while at the same time shutting the gates to man's future amongst the stars…where we will one day inhabit millions of planets.  IF….we are smart enough to reach for those stars.  Only time will tell.  Till then, go see INTERSTELLAR, it's a winner.

Ron – Over & Out!

This past Wednesday, Nov. 5th, ye old Air Chief turned 68!  Yup, we are still scratching our head trying to figure out exactly how that happened.  Honestly, we don't feel a day over 16, the real age deep inside this old frame.  Hahahaha.  Honestly, Loyal Airmen it was such an incredible, fun day.  We woke up to 127 e-mail Happy Birthday wishes from our Facebook account.  And we vowed to thank each and everyone we would receive throughout the entire madcap day.  We lost count way past 300.  It was both fun and humbling to be so well thought of us by all of you.  Mere words can't convey our gratefulness.  God has truly blessed this wonderful life.   Of course the family held off until after dinner for our personal little birthday shindig put on by Valerie, Alan and his wife Nicole, and our grand kids Cora and Alex. Above is a pix as the Air Chief is surrounded by his new toys and treats.  A giant Star Wars Stormtrooper action figure which, for no particular reason, we've named Mike.   Cora, a truly gifted young artist, drew a pix of actor David Tennant as Doctor Who, a show the Air Chief loves.  There were several Amazon gift cards….for which we say…WAHOOO.  Our Wish List there is about to be knocked down a few items.  In the bag was a new book and Blu-Ray DVD….and finally, that yummy looking thing in front of the Air Chief was (note the past tense) a peanut-butter pie.  Oh, yeah.   All and all a fantastic birthday…and to all of you who took the time to send along those wishes….THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

On to more fun news.  Early today Moonstone Books put out their Press Release for a new anthology called DAY OF THE DESTROYERS that features a brand new classic pulp hero, Jimmie Flint – Agent X-11 who battles to save America in the 1930s from a group of revolutionaries.  Gary Phillips edited the project and beside the Air Chief, the anthology contains stories from Adam Garcia, Gary Phillips, Paul Bishop, Eric Fein, Tommy Hancock, Jeri Westerson, Aaron Shaps and Moonstone's own Editor Joe Gentile.  The book has a scheduled March 2015 release date.  Oh, and our story is called, HELL FROM ABOVE.  We'll continue to keep you posted as when you can pre-order this really great book.

On the comics front we've got yet more great news.  Two years ago, writer Bill Gladman and the Air Chief created a new private eye character who operates out of Detroit.  His name was Simon Price and we play with that in calling the series – PRICE FOR ASKING.  Bill wrote the first issue and it was illustrated by Brian Latimer.  We wrote the second and our pal, Rob Davis, provided the art.  See covers above. Both are still available from (www.IndyPlanet.com).   Thing is, Bill and the Air Chief then co-wrote a third mystery called MAN OF ASH which we hoped to get out in short order.  Alas, proving to find another art team for this third story just didn't work out and one artist after another first signed on and then bailed on us.  Truly frustrating.  In the end we simply filed the script away.

As you'll recall, the Air Chief was a guest at a local Colorado comic con two weeks ago. Well, it was there we met young Colorado artist Barry McClain.  He was kind enough to show us his portfolio and we were blown away by his drawing skills.  After the show, we kept in touch via e-mails and Barry let it be known how much he wanted to do a project with ye old Air Chief.  Which was when we remembered that third and final Simon Price tale.   And so we offered it to Barry and he eagerly signed on.  Even as we write these words, Barry is busy at work bringing MAN OF ASH to graphic life.  We couldn't be happier.  Again, stay tuned and we'll keep you posted as it progresses.  We might even post peeks at the new artwork.

Which in the end proves you never give up on a project.  Ever.  Just as the Good Lord has never, in his infinite love and mercy given up on us.  As this past week proved.  Take care and as ever, thanks for stopping by.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, as promised, we are back this week with lots of pictures from our fun time last weekend as a guest at Rocky Mountain Con # 2.  Remember, this con was established last year as a charity event to collect funds for the victims of the Aurora Movie House shooting a few years ago.  Tim Moret is the genius with the big heart who put this all together and to him go our heartfelt thanks for another great show.  The Air Chief had a blasts meet old and new friends.

Pro-comic book Chad Hardin was the big Guest of Honor at this year's show.  Here he holds up a copy of the super popular Harley Quinn comic series is currently drawing for DC comics.  It was a special treat for the Air Chief to finally meet Chad as he had three of our past Airship 27 pulp titles with his cover paintings, the last being the cover to Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective Vol V.  Chad is an awesome dude with a great sense of humor.  Only wish we could had more time to spend together.

Now the fun of these shows is all the costume players and Rocky Mountain # 2 had some truly amazing, creative and just plain awesome cos-players.   My two were the young man abvoe dressed as the new TV Flash.  His costume was almost an exact duplicates of the one worn on the show.  Just fantastic.

Equally amazing…to the point of mind-blogging, was this fellow dressed as Batman's arch enemy, Mister Freeze…complete with bubble dome, goggles and white skin.  It were as if he'd stepped out of the animated series to flown blown life.  We can only imagine the hours of work that went into this terrific outfit.

The second artist guest ye old Air Chief was thrilled to meet a long last was California based artist, Michael Dorman.  As most of you know, Mike is my partner on the new BLACK BAT – DOMINO LADY comic series we are currently doing for Moonstone Comics.  Mike is so damn talented and the work he has done on the Air Chief's scripts is stunning.  He's also a grown up class-clown and kept all of us stitches during the entire weekend.

Amongst our Fort Collins gang of creators present as well was our friend Todd Jones, who just happened to have a booth directly across from Mike's and snapped this pix of Mike and the Air Chief holding up that gorgeous limited editon print Mike had made up just for this show alone.  First thing Sat morning he gave us a copy and it will soon be hanging up on our wall Hangar 27 HQ.

Speaking of that special Denver print, it shows the Black Bat & Domino Lady battling bad guys in 1930 in front of the Colorado state capital building in front of which stands the famous Bronco Buster statue.  Well, while we were all doing our thing at the convention, Mike Dorman's lovely wife Jamie and his son, Trenton, went Denver sightseeing and upon spotting that famous landmark, they stopped and posed Trenton in front of it holding up his father's beautiful art print.  Too cool.

Meanwhile back at the Con, Todd went and snapped this shot of a very well done Iron Man cosplayer…and hey, who is that behind him to the right?  Ha.  The Air Chief manning his booth of course. Which is as good a time as any to personally thank Todd for taking most of the photos in this week's Flight Log.

And here's the Air Chief himself as ever having a grand time.  Sincerely, we so love meeting comic book fans of all ages and spending time with other creators.  We are happy to report we did make a whole lot of new contacts at this show and from those, several new and fun projects were discussed and begun.  Stay tuned.   And hey, do you Loyal Airmen like my new Mr. Jigsaw baseball shirt?  Had it made up just for this show.

Of course seeing all these great cosplayers, ye old Air Chief eventually had to get in on the fun, especially with these two really fun kids, she as Poison Ivy, he as…well he's either Action Jackson …or even Michael Jackson.  With that Afro, who can tell.  But they were so much fun to talk to and graciously consented to take this pix with the Air Chief.

And finally, we earlier mentioned con promoter, Tim Moret.   Well this year, Tim went and recruited a Girl Friday in the overly competent Amanda Kay.  A seasoned cosplayer herself, she fearlessly took on the task of being Tim's guest co-coordinator and it was her job to see that guest like the Air Chief, were given proper booths, recruited for various panels and just generally making sure all of us were comfortable and had everything we needed to have fun.   As things were wrapping up Sunday afternoon, Amanda went around thanking people and saying goodbye.  When she spotted the Air Chief packing up, she pulled out her smart-phone and asked to us to do a “selfie.”   Ha.  And here it is.  Amanda admitted to be wiped out at the end of the show, but said she had so much she's already agreed to do the job again next year.  Bravo!!

And there you have it, Loyal Airmen, a colorful look back at a truly super awesome weekend at the Rocky Mountain Con.  Tim promises next year's show will be even better…and bigger.  Wow!!  We can't wait.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, as most of you are reading this, the Air Chief will be busy packing up his comics and other goodies to take to this year's Rocky Mountain Con being held Sat & Sun. But more about that in a minute.  Right now it's time to promote our 23th Airship 27 Productions title of the year.

Several years ago, British writer I.A. Watson came to us with this idea to write a brand new trilogy re-writing the Robin Hood saga.  Whereas he lives near Sherwood Forest and is a huge fan of the legend, we were totally receptive to the idea never realizing back then what a great series he was about to write for us.  Soon we had ROBIN HOOD – KING OF SHERWOOD out and our readers loved it.  What Watson had done was placed the myth against a real historical background and blended them so that while reading the familiar Robin Hood tales, albeit in a new and exciting presentation, fans were also getting a marvelous dose of authentic British history as well.

Soon ROBIN HOOD – ARROW OF JUSTICE was out and the following year the entire thing wrapped up with ROBIN HOOD – FREEDOM'S OUTLAW.  Believe me, we are Airship 27 Productions be more proud of these three amazing books…and if you are a true Robin Hood fan and have yet to read them, we advise you strongly to do so.  Anyway, late last year Watson wrote me saying that he still had a half dozen or so short Robin Hood tales, some that had seen print in other publications, some never, and a few added histories about the character, the legends and that time in English history.  The thing is, combined, all these extra stories were enough to fill as yet another book.  But should we do it?  A trilogy usually means three books and then you are finished.  Well, considering the quality of what he had given us previously and the entertainment these book gave our Loyal Airmen, we realized it would be a crime NOT to publish what we came to promote as a very special, BONUS fourth title – ROBIN HOOD – FORBIDDEN LEGEND.  See that great cover above by Jesus Rodrigues, his first work for us…but not his last.  The volume, now available at Amazon in both hard copy and Kindle, has those short stories, essays, maps and even an 8 pg Robin Hood comic strip illustrated by our own Art Director, Rob Davis.  That alone should make you want to get it immediately.  It truly is a super package and we hope you'll give it try.

Okay, back to subject about the Rocky Mountain Con.  We showed you this amazing limited edition print by artist Michael Dorman, who will be one of the many guests at the show,  a few weeks ago and response to it has been amazing.   RMC is being held at the Crown Plaza Convention Center located only a few miles from the Denver International Airport. Along with the Air Chief and Mike, other guests include Mike Baron (Badger – Nexus) Chad Hardin (DC's Harley Quinn) and one of the most accomplished Marvel artists of the 1960s, Mr. Bob Hall.  And dozen of others.  The show opens 10 a.m. on Sat and kicks off with the Air Chief moderating a panel on comic writing, joining me will be writers Todd Jones and Shawn Gustofson.  Should be a blast.  Also remember, part of the proceeds for this weekend's show go to AURORA RISE, the charity established to help the victims of that tragic movie house shooting in Aurora, CO several years ago.  It is a great cause and the show brings in quite a few dollars for it.  So again, if you are anywhere in the Denver, Cheyenne area this weekend, why not drive on up and come join the fun.

And there you go, Loyal Airmen.  Hopefully we'll have some photos of the con to show you next week. Till then get ready, HALLOWEEN is coming fast!!
Ron – Over and Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen.  We've got some really fun items to discus this week so let's get started.  Airship 27 Productions has two brand new titles that were just released within the last week and a half.  One of them perfectly suited for Halloween.

THE PURPLE SCAR is our latest pulp thriller…with a clear emphasis on that word thriller.  Perhaps one of the scariest pulp characters ever created, he was Dr. Murdoch, a plastic surgeon, well known and respected in his community.  Then one night his brother, a policeman, was gunned down by mobsters.  They then threw acid in his face before throwing his body in the river.  When it was washed ashore, the dead man's face was a real horror to look upon.  Seeing it, Murdoch vowed to bring his brother's killer to justice and to do so he assumed a new vigilante identity.  He made a plastic death-mask of his brother's scarred face, one he could pull over his own face and use to go after criminals.  No doubt many had coronaries just looking upon that frightening, purple visage.  Now Airship 27 brings four brand new creepy tales of the Purple Scar as written by Gene Moyers, Jim Beard, Jonathan Fisher and Gary Lovisi. The art for the book, including that amazing cover above was all done by Canadian artist Richard Serrao with the colors on the cover provided by Shannon Hall.  We think it is easily one of the most stunning we've put out.  The book is now on sale at Amazon in both hard copy and on Kindle.  We hope you'll check it as it really is the perfect pulp fare for Halloween.

On a much lighter note, Airship 27 Production's second release was our latest children's book, JAMIE AND THE FISH-EYED GOGGLES.  The story is by Ye Old Air Chief and the super colorful art is by our pal, Gary Kato.  When Jamie and his friend Kristi a pair of goggles in the town library, they soon learn that the goggles possess a strange magic and when they look through them…..well…we don't want to give everything away here, do we?  We were inspired to write this story from a picture taken of our grandson Alex while on a family trip to Disneyland in Calif.  That was almost eight years ago.  And now the book is finished and available, again, at Amazon both in hard copy and on Kindle.  Early reviews, especially from grade school teachers has been extremely heartwarming.  So if you've little ones in your house, you might want to give this a look-see.  The intended target is kids between 7 and 11.

                                       
And lastly we wanted to leave you all with a really special sneak-peek.  At present we are writing two new comic book series for Moonstone Comics.  One of these is called GUNS OF THE BLACK BAT and is a kind of pulp hero team up book, with half a dozen such classic characters, under the guidance of the Black Bat, banding together to save New York City from a deadly plague that mutates both humans and animals into monstrous beast.  Toward the end of issue number one, the pulp heroes on the ground get some air-support from a brand new pulp character we recently created, he's called NIGHTHAWK – The Flying Spy and will soon be making his debut in a prose novel coming from Moonstone Books.  So you'll be seeing him in both prose and comics.  The artist on the comic is the super talented Silvestre Szilagyi and believe me the Air Chief couldn't be happier in seeing these early pages.  The guy is a major talent and we think this pulp comic is going to WOW comic fans everywhere.  Stay tuned, we'll keep you posted as it moves along towards publication.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen.  As you can see things just keep hoping here at Hangar 27.  Thanks ever for stopping by and we'll see you back here in seven days.
Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen.  As you'll remember, last week we celebrated our pal, and Airship 27 Production's Art Director, Rob Davis, who retired from his day job.  Even more than we had expected, Rob's being available now to work on our various projects has pumped up our output tremendously.

Last year we produced 18 books, our best year ever.  This week we released book # 20 for 2014…and we've still got a whole two months left to go.  We are truly rolling now, Loyal Airmen.  And that 20th title is THE BAY PHANTOM – Confederacy of Devils by Chuck Miller.  It introduces the pulp world to a brand new hero operating out of Mobile, Alabama in the 1930s. The book is an original twist on the old avenger types, what with racial bigotry and political corruption a major backdrop to this tale of action and adventure.  The cover and interior illustrations were all provided by the amazing Zachary Brunner.  The book is available at Amazon in both hard copy and on their Kindle. As ever, we hope you'll give it a try.

And speaking of talented artists, one of the greatest illustrators of the past thirty years in the comics and animation field has been Bret Blevins.  Bret has worked for the major comic companies from Marvel, to DC and Disney and over the years won several Emmy Awards for his work at Warner Animation on several of their various comic based TV series.  A truly illustrious guy and the big news is, Bret is doing a project with us here at Airship 27 Productions.  That's right, he is all the art for the first ever full length RAVENWOOD – Stepson of Mystery novel by writer Micah Harris called The Return of the Dugpa.  The nine interior illos are finished and all of them are fantastic whereas Bret is now at work on the painted cover and we can't wait to see it.  With fingers crossed, this title should be coming your way in just a few short weeks.  It is because of super nice people like Bret that we've earned the reputation of putting out the best looking New Pulp books on the market today.

And finally this week we are putting the final touches on our latest children's book, one we actually wrote almost fourteen years ago – JAMIE & THE FISHEYED GOGGLES.  Months ago we dug it out of our files, dusted it off and sent it to our pal, and Mr. Jigsaw artist Gary Kato, to illustrate.  This past week he turned in dozens of amazing illos (like the one above) to accompany the text and of tonight it is off to Amazon.  We hope to have it on sale in the next few days…and we'll post the actual cover here next week with the news that it is available for sale.  Stay tuned.

Finally before signing off this week, allow us to make a plea for people who truly love to read.  Because our output at Airship 27 is increasing rapidly, we find ourselves short of proof-readers; people to look over our text files to catch omitted words and other such typos.  At present we've only two regular proofers and we really need more.  Now there's no pay involved, but a proof reader does get a free PDF of the book he or she reads for us and if they so desire to purchase a hard copy of the publish title, they can buy it from us at our cost, plus a small shipping and handling fee.  So if you are a Loyal Airmen who loves our books and would like to be an official member of the production team, please drop me a line.

That's it.  Take care, Loyal Airmen and as ever, thanks for stopping by.
Ron – Over & Out!