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Greeting Loyal Airmen.  Hope all of you are staying warm as a bitter cold blanket falls across the country.  As I write this Log entry, its a balmy minus eleven degrees outside.  Obviously winter is the time of the year to stay safe and snug indoors, especially if, like the Ross Family above, you can curl up with a good pulp.  Ye Old Air Chief has been telling anyone who would listen for the past two and a half years that we are enjoying a new interest in the pulps.  We here at Hangar 27 will go so far as to call it a Renaissance of Pulps.  The above photo was sent to us by writer John Bear Ross, who has his first published story in SECRET AGENT X Vol III, the book his supportive family are all locked into.  Now that's our kind of family, and by their looks, Mom, Dad and his two younger brothers seem very, very engrossed with those amazing adventures of pulpdom's greatest spy.  Oddly enough, John sent me this shot within days of Rob Davis, showing us a recent article in the L.A. Times that says, according to an association of book-sellers, reading is up by 33% in America today.  Now that is something I call great news.

Rob of course is our Art Director for Airship 27 Prod. and provides much of the fantastic artwork that graces our titles, both covers and interior illustrations like the one above, from the very same book the Ross Family are so enthralled by.  So, if you haven't picked up your copy yet, what are you waiting for?  Simply go to the dirigible logo to the right of this column and click away.  The link takes you to our on-line store where this volume and all our books are available at a discount price for all you Loyal Airmen.  Don't get caught short and left behind.  The Pulp Revolution is underway and you need to join in.

Still skeptical about that?  Then might I suggest you take at trip to the New York Comic Con held Feb. 6-8 th. in downtown Manhattan.  Well over 60,000 fans showed up last year to make this show a total blow out.  This year the promoters expect that number to swell.  We bring this up because this year the Con will be hosting a Pulp Panel!  Yup, a bonafide gathering of pulp enthusiasts to spend an hour talking about the coolest old-new genre in the book world.   Ed Catto of Captain Action Enterprises, LLC will be the moderator and seated up on the stage will be Joe Gentile, editor/writer of Moonstone Books, Anthony Tollin, editor of Nostalgia Press, the fine folks doing those Amazing Doc Savage & Shadow reprints.  Mark Halegua, pulp dealer/historian and President of the Gotham Pulp Club, Charles Ardai, Editor of Hard Case Crime and the current editor of Weird Tales Mag. whose name escapes me and I apologize for that.  Oh, and one other notable pulp character, Ye Old Air Chief!!  Yup!!  The invitation came this week and I could not be happier or more excited to help spread the Gospel of Pulp to a huge, HUGE audience.  We've been spreading the word about this panel all week long and many of our Loyal Airmen and Airship 27 writers and artists have made plans to attend.  So if this is the first time you are hearing about this and live in the metropolitan New York City area, we hope you'll come on over and join in the fun.  The actual panel will be held Friday 6th at 4:30 PM in room 1 A21.  We really hope to fill up the place and have a great time.

So there you have it,  Pulps are back and in a big-big way.  We wouldn't lie to you.  Also, before signing out this week we want to thank all you Loyal Airmen who wrote in saying how happy you were about the return of our Mr.Jigsaw comic book, as explained in last week's entry.  Really made us feel super to get so many messages from Loyal Airmen who remember the character so fondly and share our joy in bringing him back.  We'd also want to offer our sympathies to the families of actors Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban, both of whom passed away this week.  Ye Old Air Chief was a fan of both these gentlemen and enjoyed their work immensely. They will be sadly missed.

Okay, that's it for this week.  Thanks as ever for stopping by and catching up.  Stay warm and for those of you with strong faith, say a few prayers for our President Elect.  He's facing some truly daunting challenges and will need all our support in the weeks and months ahead to get America back on its feet.  We didn't vote for the fellow, but that was politics and we'd like to think those are finished.  Now its time to roll up our sleeves and work together. That's what we Americans do best.

Till next week, Ron, Over & Out.