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MORE FAMILY PICTURES

  • On 24 Jun | '2011

Greeting Loyal Airmen, last week we posted a bunch of family pictures Valerie and the Air Chief snapped while on our trip back east.  Here are the rest we promised to share with you, each special to us.

     

Granddaughter Chelsea LeClerc offering up some java at the coffee she works at back in Berwick, Me., Aroma Joe's.   The Air Chief and Valerie made it a point to stop by and pick up our favorite brew.  Chelsea will be a junior at Noble High School next year and is her class president.

     

Our granddaughter Kristi and the family pet, Chloe.  Dig that cowboy hat, the Air Chief still has to get one of those.  Kristi finished her first year at the University of New Hampshire on the Dean's List and we're all so proud of her.

     

And finally my favorite pix of course, Chelsea, the Air Chief and Kristi.  How lucky and blessed can one man be. Valerie and the Air Chief have six amazing grand kids and getting to visit and spend time with these two was truly wonderful.  We love and miss them already.  Those twelve days back in New England went by in a blur.

    

Last we also announced the release of  MR.JIGSAW – Man of a Thousand Parts # 9 from Redbud Studio.  Well we've produced as yet another title from this outfit and it is the private eye strip, PRICE FOR THE ASKING, which is co-written by the Air Chief and his pal, Bill Gladman.  Now a new page of PFTA appears every Monday on the Comic Related website.  Then, when the story is completed, we collect and print them as we've done with this first tale, “Yesterday's Burning.” It features the art of Brian Latimer, Chris Hoskins and Tim Hagans and the book also has two short prose stories by yours truly starring Detroit private-eye, Simon Pryce.  So we hope you'll check it out by going to our Redbud Studio link on our LINKS page.  Note, the second PFTA story arc, “Moving Targets” is now running on the site.

Finally, last year the good folks Wild Wolf Entertainment honored us with their best-selling award for our graphic novel, DAUGHTER OF DRACULA.  Well, lo and behold, Sean Collins of WWE recently informed Rob Davis and the Air Chief that our first ADVENTURES OF MR.JIGSAW collection has won that title for last year.

     

This was quite an honor and we can't thank Sean enough.  Let's see if we can go three for three.  Wild Wolf Entertainment will soon be releasing their edition of the award winning BOSTON BOMBERS graphic novel, thus getting it out to a larger audience for us.  All WWE books are on sale at Amazon and other book distributors.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen.  Except to say we've truly been enjoying the current crop of summer comic book movies.  Both THOR and the GREEN LANTERN were much fun.  Haven't seen the new X-Men reboot, but we are totally psyched about CAPTAIN AMERICA.  Hope you Loyal Airmen are too.

Ron – Over & Out!

WE’RE BACK

  • On 17 Jun | '2011

Greetings Loyal Airmen, after twelve days back in New Hampshire and Maine visiting family and friends we are back at Hangar 27 HQ here in wonderful Fort Collins, Colorado.  We took a few fun pictures and wanted to share some of them with you this week and next.  But before we jumped into those, we have a truly important announcement to make.  Our newest Airship 27 Productions pulp title is out!  DAMABALLA is a novel by noted writer Charles Saunders and features the first ever African American 1930s pulp avenger.

               

This is a history making title in the pulp genre and we hope you'll give it a look.  It features a cover by Charles Fetherolf with interior illustrations by Clayton Hinkle, design work by Rob Davis and edited by Ye Old Air Chief.  You can pick up a copy by clicking on the Dirigible logo to the left of this column as ever.  Or download digital copy, again follow that link.  All of us involved with DAMBALLA are extremely proud of this effort.

           

And now on to those pictures of our trip.  Above is Valerie and her family.  Bottom row, left to right, her sisters Barbara, Lorraine the matriarch of the clan and sister Sandy.  Standing behind them, Valerie and brother Ronnie. It was taken at the Rockingham Assisted Living Home after we all shared a super Italian dinner together.

         

Not to me outdone, here's a shot of the Air Chief and his mom, Gabrielle, taken at the Wentworth Home.  It was great seeing her again, in her usual upbeat good spirits.  Mom's a spry 86.  Oh, and she loved our Airship 27 tee-shirt.  Too cool.

       

Here's a great photo of Val and our oldest daughter, Michelle, taken at her home in Maine.  We said across the street at one of their neighbor's home.  They had an apartment affixed to their house and were overly kind in allowing us to rent it during our stay.
 
       
             
And lastly a great shot of the Leclerc Family, left to right, Chelsea, Chris, Michelle & Kristi.  We've missed them so much and it was a pure joy getting to see them again.  Both Val and the Air Chief love our family more than mere words can say and they made our trip back something truly wonderful.  Next week we'll post a few more fun pictures.

             

And our last news of this first week back is the release of MR JIGSAW – Man of a Thousand Parts # 9 at long last.  We love artist Gary Kato's cover (above).  This volume features three brand new Jiggy adventures; “The Puzzle That is Charlie Grant,” “The Boring Captain Yawn,” and “I had Mr.Jigsaw's Secret Love Child.” As you can probably guess by those zany titles, this is another 24 pages of madcap, wholesome comic fun as only Jiggy can deliver.  We hope you'll pick it up. Simply go to our Links Page and click on the Redbud Studio icon.  Next week we'll showcase as yet another new title being launched from Redbud.

Till then, it's great to be back and thanks for stopping by as ever.
Ron – Over & Out!!

      

      

    

ON VACATION

  • On 1 Jun | '2011

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as we write this short entry, it is Tuesday night, 31st May. Tomorrow, Valerie and the Air Chief are flying back to New Hampshire for a two week vacation. It is our first trip back East since we moved here to Fort Collins, Co. and we are naturally anxious to see family and friends again.  Mark your calendars Loyal Airmen, as the Air Chief will be off-line until we return to Hangar 27 on June 13th. 

But before heading out, we wanted to leave you with two items.  One a bit of pride for our pulp outfit, Airship 27 Productions and a book we put out last year.  GREEN LAMA UNBOUND.

 

This fantastic book earlier this year won the Pulp Factor Award for best novel going to Adam Lance Garcia and for Best Interior Art going to the amazing Mike Fyles.  Then in May it also captured the Pulp Ark Award for Best Pulp Revival.  We at Airship 27 thought it was only fitting to applaud these victories and have redesigned the cover to show them off for this talented duo.  Congratulations Adam and Mike, truly well deserved.  Oh, and if you'll sneak a peek at the back cover, Art Director Rob Davis took this opportunity to add the spiffy New Pulp logo to the book.  This movement is gaining steam big time.

Finally, we are going to leave you with something truly important. Yesterday we all celebrated Memorial Day and many of us took the time to remember and thank all those brave men and women who gave their all for our country, to include those severely wounded.  Well earlier this evening our oldest son, Scott, made us aware of a young G.I. who was recently wounded in Afghanistan, and may lose both his legs.  He has been shipped back to the states and is in an Army Hospital in Texas, where his long, hard road to recovery is about to begin.
Below in his mailing address and I would ask all Loyal Airmen reading these words to take a few minutes and send him a get well card…and add your thanks as fellow Americans.  If you have small children, get them to draw and color a picture, anything to help bring a smile to this brave young soldier.

           Brook Army Medical Center
           Attn:  Galeazzi, Gregory (2-S)
           Building 3600/3851
           Roger Brooke Drive
           Fort Sam Houston, TX  78234-6200

God bless you, Specialist Galeazzi and thank you so very, very much.

Ron – Over & Out!

New SHERLOCK HOLMES TITLE

  • On 27 May | '2011

Greeting Loyal Airmen.  It's been a hectic couple of weeks since our return from Pulp Ark. Regarding that fabulous weekend, the Air Chief finally finished his full Con Report and posted it over at the Comic Related website for all to read and enjoy. We also added 34 photos depicting the event and the very cool creators who were in attendance. So if you want to read it, head on over to (www.comicrelated.com).

         

The Air Chief is also extremely excited to announce the release of our latest pulp title from Airship 27 Productions, SHERLOCK HOLMES – CONSULTING DETECTIVE Vol III –  The first two volumes of this series were best sellers for us and we've no doubts this one will be as successful.  Holmes fans enjoy the fact that all the stories these books are written in the same classic style as the original tales written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Volume three shown above with that gorgeous cover by Brian McCulloch features five new stories by Ian Watons, Andrew Salmon, Joshua Reynolds and Aaron Smith (who penned two of them).  The design and interior illos are by our partner Rob Davis, the same fellow who won a Pulp Factory Award for his illustrations in Volume One. The book is now on sale at our Digital Website and will soon be available at our on-line shop as well, then of course it will arrive at Amazon, Barnes & Nobles and other well known book dealers. Just click on to our dirigible logo to the left of this column.

     
                   Artist Mike Manley and his Pulp Factory Award for Best Pulp Cover
Earlier this year, Rob and the Air Chief has the pleasure of announcing the winners of the 2010 Pulp Facotry Awards at the Windy City Paper & Pulp show in Chicago. Several of the winners could not be present and so their trophies were mailed today. This past week, we found this great shot of winner artist Mike Manley on his Facebook pages and wanted to share it with all of you. We hope Mike doesn't mind that we borrowed it.

            
                     Robin Hood Cover by Mike Manley
And just in case you forgot what Mike won the award for, here is that stunning painting without any text or logo.  From the first time the Air Chief and Rob Davis set eyes on it, we knew we had something truly special and apparently the voters for the PF Awards agreed with us.  Again, congratulations Mike and well deserved.  The exciting news is Mike is painting the second Robin Hood book in this series by author I.A. Watson entitled ARROW OF JUSTICE.  Look for it this Fall from Airship 27 of course.

         
                         Rough Sketch of ZONE 4 cast by artist Andrew Law
As all your Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief every Sat. night dons his flying cap and becomes Sky Captain Ron, one of the four hosts of the popular Comic Related podcast, episodes post on the website the following Friday night. Well one our biggest fans, Australian artist Andrew Law took us up on our suggestion that there should be a Zone 4 comic and he has started work on such by doing up a series of roughs on his drawing pad. This week he shared a half dozen pages with us and we wanted to give you a sneak-peek at what he is whipping up.  The figures in the rough above feature, left to right, Chuck Kennedy (and his smiling triplets) Cary Kelley in the ship's porthole at sea, Brant Fowler at the radio controls and that last figure at the airship gondola's steering wheel is none other than Sky Captain Ron.  We love the energy evident in these roughs and are truly anxious to see this project develop.  We'll keep you posted and hopefully show other images as it all comes together.

Finally, this is the Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of the summer season.  Kids are out of school, days are longer and the baseball season is in full tilt, Go Red Sox!!   At the same time, it is also a time of remembrance for all those brave men and women throughout our country's history who made the ultimate sacrifice on her behalf.  It's our hope that somewhere during this fun filled weekend, all Loyal Airmen will take a few minutes to bow their heads in a silent prayer of thanks for those who will never be forgotten.

God bless, and see you back here next week.
Ron – Over & Out! 

       

PULP ARK ROCKED!!!

  • On 20 May | '2011

Greeting Loyal Airmen, well here we are, home from the first ever Pulp Ark convention/conference. It truly was one of the most memorable weekends we've ever experienced and we wish to thank pulp promoter Tommy Hancock and the good people of Batesville, Arkansas who welcomed us and help make this first show a tremendous success.

       
           The ALL PULP Crew – Plexico – Fergusson – Fortier -Hancock & Reese
We could wax eloquently for hours on all the various aspects of those three days that made them so unique and special to us, but the Air Chief truly believes the primary reason for the show's success was the amazing assemblage of the coolest, most talented new pulp writers in the business today.  Shown above are five of the All Pulp crew led by Tommy Hancock and they are right to left, Van Allen Plexico, Derrick Ferguson, the Air Chief, Tommy Hancock & Barry Reese. To say we were humbled to be among these great writers is an understatement and the only thing greater then their talent was their kindness and generosity towards each other.  This truly was a Band of Pulp Brothers.

         


      Rob Davis of Redbud Studio Shares Award Air Chief
Another truly memorable moment was Sat. night at the Award presentation where the Air Chief picked up the Pulp Ark Award for Best Pulp Comic for our graphic novel THE BOSTON BOMBERS, published by Rob Davis' Redbud Studio. Happily my amigo went up to accept the award with the yours truly, given to us by Tommy via the charming and lovely Pulptress.  She is Tommy's new spokeswoman/representative for the New Pulp movement we discussed last week.  Anyway, THE BOSTON BOMBERS is one of the Air Chief's personal favorites of all our comics work and to see it recognized in this fashion was a true joy.

     
                   Hamming it up, the Air Chief, Van Plexico & Tommy Hancock
Tommy had so many cool things happening all weekend it was hard to keep up with them.  One was the radio melodramas that were staged live, reading excerpts from several pulp stories written by some of the guests. Above the Air Chief participates in a scene from Van's own GIDEON CAIN story, with Van and Tommy. Oh, we assayed the role of the demon monster Cain slays.

     
          More radio fun with Rob Davis, Tommy, Art Sippo & Fuller Bumpers
Not to be outdone, Rob got involved in the second radio skit, this time with Tommy, Art Sippo and Fuller Bumpers based on a scene from a LANCE STAR adventure by our own Bobby Nash.  They performed superbly.  The audience loved every second.

    
                    The gun-toting Pulptress gets a bead on writer Bobby Nash
Speaking of the affable Mr.Nash, he was supposed to be in the group shot with us posted at the top of this column, but alas had to split just prior to it being snapped.  So here's a shot of him having fun with the Pulptress. Bobby and the Air Chief first met nearly five years ago at Dragon Con in Atlanta and it was much fun to catch up with this talented young man once again.

     
                   In the “real” Bookcave with Ric Croxton & Dr.Art Sippo
Radio wasn't the only audio feature at Pulp Ark.  The entire show was recorded live by pulp podcasters supreme, Ric Croxton and Dr. Art Sippo.  Ric & Art host the tremendously popular pulp podcast known as the Bookcave and they were true celebrities at the show.  One of the highlights was getting them to pose in the old, musty, rock walled cellar where panels were held.  It seemed like the appropriate, authentic setting for these two inhibitors of the literary “book” cave.

          
               Wayne Reinagel & the Domino Lady
Also on hand during the weekend was one of pulpdom's true classic characters, the sexy and mysterious Domino Lady; a character the Air Chief has actually written.  The young lady portraying her truly looked the part and our writer amigo, Wayne Reinagle was only too happy to have his photo taken by her side.

In the course of those three days the Air Chief took lots more pictures and they could easily fill this Flight Log for the next month; photos of other friends old and new such as Wayne Judge and his son, Victor, the Cranford brothers Scott & Patrick, Nancy Hansen and Lee Houston Jr., Bob Kennedy and Joe Gentile of Moonstone.  Believe us when we say the weekend was indeed a Pulp All Star Gathering. One we will never ever forget and hope to see you at next year for Pulp Ark Two.  For sure!!

     
               COMING IN THE FALL!
Finally we leave you with this gorgeous cover by Doug Klauba of Moonstone's newest project, a comic size pulp magazine that will combine both prose and comic stories.  You Loyal Airmen will recall that last year the Air Chief wrote several stories (in both formats) of an obscure pulp hero form the 30s, I.V. Frost. Well we are delighted to let you know those stories will be appearing in this and subsequent issues of this exciting new magazine.  We are told this premier issue will be out in August.  We can't wait!

And that wraps it up for this week, Loyal Airmen.  As always thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend. We'll be back in seven days as always.
Ron – Over & Out!

NEW PULP IS HERE!!

  • On 12 May | '2011

Greeting Loyal Airmen, to another early Flight Log.  It's Wednesday as we write this.  Tomorrow afternoon the Air Chief is flying out to Little Rock and then its on to Batesville, Arkansas for the premier of Pulp Ark, a brand new pulp convention.  Which is a good time to mention the New Pulp Movement.  For the past six years the Air Chief has been reporting we are witnessing a renaissance in pulp literature.  Enough so that six years ago there were maybe five publishers putting out new pulp fiction and art.  Today there are over a dozen with more coming into the field every year.  Why this new interest in an old literary genre?  Primarily because pulp fiction is solid, escapist entertainment which was born during the height of the Great Depression to bring some relief to weary people wanting to forget their troubles for even only a few hours.  Today, academics as well as fans, are recognizing pulp literature for its contribution to society pre-World War II as something truly unique.  From this love of the old pulps has emerged a New Pulp, this one spearheaded by today's talented writers and artists of wanting to recapture that magic and push it boldly into the future.

Recently Tommy Hancock of Pro Se Productions coined the term New Pulp and one of his artists pals drew up the logo you see above.  Almost immediately after its creation, a half dozen publishers, to include Airship 27 Productions signed on to help spread the movement by using the tag on their titles. It is our hopes that it will quickly become a recognizable brand signifying only the finest in both fiction and art in this exciting new literature form.  We hope all you Loyal Airmen will both encourage and support the New Pulp movement.

      
        Air Chief – Felipe Echevarria – Jeff Herndon

And finally, before signing off, we wanted to tip our hats to the comic fans of Fort Collins, Colorado, who came to the Gryphon Games & Comics Shop last Saturday during Free Comic Book Day and helped us celebrate this hobby we all love so dearly.  Among the many guests on hand to greet fans were yours truly, artists Felipe Echevarria, Jeff Herndon and Lee Oaks plus writers Todd Jones & Mike Baron.  A special thanks also goes to shop owners Liana & Sherman Sanders for inviting us to participate.  It truly was a fantastic, fun day.

And there you have it Loyal Airmen.  I hope you all have a great weekend, while the Air Chief joins his partner Rob Davis at Pulp Ark.  Expect to see lots of photos when we return.  Till then, be safe,
Ron – Over & Out!

          

FCBD 2011

  • On 6 May | '2011

Greetings Loyal Airmen, here we are, one day away from Free Comic Book Day, the annual party day wherein the major comic companies provide free comics to retail comic shops across the country.  Most comic shops celebrate the event with guest creators and whatever else they can think of to entertain their old and new customers to come to pick up all these cool…and free comic books on this one day.

 

This year the Air Chief will be a guest at Gryphon Games & Comics here in our new home town of Fort Collins, Colorado.  Husband and wife team owners, Sherman and Liana have five other professional creators on hand beside the Air Chief, one of these being the Eisner winning writer of Nexus and the Badger, Mike Baron. So please, if any of you Loyal Airmen are in the area, please stop by.  The address etc. is listed above.

The Air Chief will have copies of all our issues (1-8) of  MR.JIGSAW, Man of a Thousands Part to sell and autograph to all the folks who stop by and visit.  And we'll also be giving away to each person who stops by a free Mr.Jigsaw trading card.
   
Speaking of our loveable break-apart hero, issue # 9 is complete and should be going to the printers any day now so stay tuned for more goofy fun as only Jiggy can provide.

THOR the summer blockbuster based on the Marvel Comic series opens in theaters all over the country today. Early advance screenings have created a real positive buzz that this movie is a solid, action hit.  The Air Chief hopes to catch it Monday afternoon.

Next week's Flight Log will be another early entry, as next Thursday evening we are flying down to Arkansas to attend the first ever Pulp Ark convention/conference.  The Air Chief and his pal, Rob Davis, will of course be representing Airship 27 Productions and we are both extremely excited about this new show.  Over twenty eight of the finest writers and artist of the New Pulp movement will be on hand in this truly historical gathering.  We'll have more to tell you about this after we get back.

Till then, enjoy the weekend and we'll see you all back here next week.
Ron – Over & Out.

WINDY CITY Part II

  • On 29 Apr | '2011

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we still have tons of great photos from our fabulous trip to this year's Windy City Paper and Pulp show and wanted to share more of them with you this week.

            
                                       Shot of Convention Floor From on High!
Sometime during the Saturday afternoon of the show, Rob Davis climbed up on his chair to take this great shot of the convention floor.  As we'd mentioned earlier, the floor was expanded this year to make room for more vendors and as you can tell, it was put to great use.

              
                                                          Fantasy Writer David C. Smith
Over thirty years ago, when starting our writing career, the Air Chief belonged to a writers group called The Small Press Writers & Artist Organization (SPWAO).  From its ranks over the years came such great writers as Charles Saunders, Ardath Mayhar, Kevin J. Anderson and fantasy author, David C. Smith.  Lo and behold, but who walks up to our table at the show but David Smith and another old SPWAO writer, Joe Bonadonna.  We couldn't have been more surprised or delighted.  They are both great guys and eventually David is going to be bringing some of his amazing fiction to Airship 27 Productions.

           
                                                 Chicago Pulp Writer B.C. Bell
We also hooked up with lots of pulp amigos like Airship 27 writer B.C. Bell who is a Chicago native. Chris has written several stories for us including a his TALES OF THE BAGMAN book featuring his original pulp hero.  Always so much fun to spend time with Chris. A great guy and terrific writer.

            
                        Tommy Hancock & the Air Chief
A real high-light of the show for the Air Chief was meeting and getting to know Tommy Hancock of Pro Se Productions.  Based out of Batesville, Arkansas, Pro Se is another fine publisher of new pulps very much like Air ship 27 Productions and Tommy and the Air Chief had a great time talking shop.  Tommy is the force behind next month's new pulp conference/convention, PULP ARK, which will be held in Batesville.  We already got our airline tickets bought and room confirmed. Looks to be a truly great new pulp show.

         
                                                                              The Art of Abbas Saleem Khan
On other fronts, one of my internet friends of the past few years has been Abbas Saleem Khan of Pakistan. We first became friends because of two loves; comics and baseball. So recently, deciding to put Abbas' talent to use, we wrote a comic strip called THE CHALLENGE which is a sci-fi baseball tale about a robot pitcher. Abbas has started to turn in pages and they are gorgeous. We wanted to share one of his recent panels with you. This story will appear in a Twilight Star Studio comic title when finished.  We'll be sure to keep you posted.

Finally, this past week we've been invited to be a guest of the Gryphon Games & Comics shop here in Fort Collins, CO for Free Comic Book Day coming Saturday May 7th.  We're extremely excited about this event and our first opportunity to meet other area creators and fans.  If any of you Loyal Airmen live in the area, mark your calendars.

And that's a wrap for this week, Loyal Airmen.  As always, thanks for stopping by and we'll be back in seven.
Ron – Over & Out.
             

WINDY CITY 2011 AMAZING!

  • On 22 Apr | '2011

    
                   A Pulp & Paperback Collector Checks Out Old Treasures

Greetings Loyal Airmen.  This Flight Log goes up a few hours late this glorious Friday morning, only because last week's trip to Chicago to attend the 11th Windy City Paper & Pulp Show was both fun and exhausting. The Air Chief's stamina isn't all it used to be when he was in his twenties and thirties.  Hahaha. Still the trip was a blast and we're told by con promoter, Doug Ellis, the best thus far in attendance with 447 registered attendees.  We believe Doug, as we think most all 447 stop by our table to say and buy some of our Airship 27 books and DVR Disc.  Oh yeah, that was something else we did this year, all thanks to partner Rob Davis.  We actually sold pdfs of our titles which Rob had downloaded to a digital stick.  We had a catalog with color images of all 35 of our covers and a customer only had to look through it, pick out the titles they wanted, for only $3 each, and the Rob would proceed to use his laptop to burn each pdf to a single disc.  Our first digital customer actually bought 11 of our titles like this.  We've really entered the digital age now!!

        
                           The Air Chief  – Ray Riethmeier & Rob Davis

Of course aside from selling our pulp titles, the main reason Rob and the Air Chief have been attending this show for the past five years (this was our sixth trip) is to meet our colleagues and fantastic fans.  One such was Ray Riethmeier who walked up to our table wearing the oh-so-cool brand new Sky Captain Ron tee-shirt.  (See above).  And as promised, for his efforts in help promote us, Ray walked away with a free copy of our comic book, Mr.Jigsaw – Man of a Thousand Parts # 1 autographed by yours truly.  The tee really looked awesome and Ray reports he got great comments on it from other con-goers all weekend.

Another Loyal Airmen who made the trip was regular John Bodnar, who had recently undergone serious knee surgery and he was in pain just being there.  He told us no amount of such was going to keep him from going to this show, one of his favorite things.  Now that's a Loyal Airman. Get well soon, amigo.  Of course Rob and the Air Chief did hook up with lots of old colleagues such as, Mark Halegua, Chris Bell, Joe Gentile of Moonstone and Wayne Reinagel of Knightraven Studios. We also met new amigos in Tommy Hancock & Bumper Fullers of Pro Se Productions.  These are the guys putting on the new Pulp Ark show next month (May 15th) in Batesville, Arkansas, which we will be attending.  And finally, western pulp writer Thomas McNulty and his lovely wife,
Jan and fantasy author Larry Santoro and his charming wife, Tycelia.  All truly wonderful new friends.

           

Of course the Air Chief always look to buy at least one fun item at each of these shows.  Usually in the past it had been serial cliffhangers on DVDs.  But not this year. Rather we picked up this great remastered set of the original 1985 Doc Savage radio adventures produced for Public Radio.  Over the years pulp fans have had to do with degraded mp3 files found on-line.  Now Radio Archives has put out this amazing set and the sound quality if fantastic.  Hours of great melodrama fun with Doc and his crew. The set included the two book adaptations plus a behind the scene audio documentary on the making of the show.  For any pulp lover, this is one package you have to have.

And there you have it, Loyal Airmen.  Note, we do have dozens of photos and as always we'll be parceling them on out here for the next several weeks.  As for the Air Chief, he's going to be writing a up full con-report for the Comic Related website, then start thinking of what we're going to be bringing to Pulp Ark now only three weeks away.  Till next week, take care as always,
Ron – Over & Out