Greetings Loyal Airmen, we hope you are all enjoying the Fall season and getting ready for the big Halloween party just around the corner.  The Air Chief totally loves this time of year.  Oh, yeah.  Another thing we have always been huge fans of were the old movie cliffhanger serials produced by such companies as Republic Studio, who did the best serials ever.   So it is with much pleasure we are announcing our newest pulp title.

Months ago, writer Curtis Ferlund submitted his manuscript for a novel called THE QUEEN OF ESCAPES and it was his homage to those classic cliffhanger serials.  The book deals with a Hollywood film crew going into the wilds of the Amazon jungles of Brazil to shoot a serial, unaware they have crossed into a forbidden area inhabited by a tribe of deadly Amazons.  Soon it is up to the hero of the book, the stuntwoman, to warn her friends and save the day.  Written like those old melodramas, each chapter leaves our heroine in danger and has the readers wondering how she is ever going to survive all these death traps.  Sincerely, its a great book and we at Airship 27 Productions were only too happy to pick it up.  Then we assigned the ever talented James Lyle to do nine gorgeous interior illustrations and the cover painting, inspired by one of those illos was done by the amazing Andy Fish.  This is Andy's first ever work for Airship 27 but we guarantee you, it won't be his last.  THE QUEEN OF ESCAPES is now on sale at Amazon in both hard copy and on their Kindle.  We hope you'll give it a try.

One of the many books we now have in production is our first PURPLE SCAR anthology.  The Purple Scar was a little known classic pulp hero from the golden age of the pulps.  He was a doctor whose police officer brother had been gunned by criminals, then they threw acid in his face and dumped him the river. By the time the poor man's body had been recovered, his face as a thing of horror.  Our hero, being a plastic surgeon, made a death-masks of it…then putting it on, became the avenging angel known as the Purple Scar.  What is unique about the character is that he combines elements both from the pulps and horror mags into one gruesome characters.  Luckily while on-line, we discovered the art of Canadian Richard Serrao and knew immediately he was the one artist to capture what we envisioned for this kind of book.  Happily Richard signed on and has been hard at work doing the illustrations for the first two Purple Scar stories of the four that will be part of volume one.  Meanwhile, Richard has become so fond of the character, between doing the actual story illos, he has started whipping up what he calls “bonus” pieces and has been so kind as to share them with us….like the great piece above. Our plans are to include these extra illustrations as a special bonus feature in the back of the book when it goes to press.  Stay tuned.

On other fronts, the Air Chief has been extremely busy with new writing chores.  We currently almost done writing the comic script to MR. JIGSAW # 12 and have just started work on a new pulp story, The Lady in Red, which will appear in our second collection of BROTHER BONES stories, that you can expect to see early next year.  Before that we'll be putting an original Brother Bones novel, THE SIX DAYS OF THE DRAGON, by writer Roman Leary.  Believe the Air Chief, its special.

                                   
At the same time we have begun assembling new pulp comic strips for a third issue of AIRSHIP 27 presents ALL STAR PULP COMICS which we hope to have out early next year.  One of the strips to be included will be a brand new Ki-Gor Jungle Lord by artist Sam Salas and writer Dave Beers.  Looks to be a fun strip by their pin-up above.

Appearance wise, we will be guest at the Rocky Mountain Comic Con takes place Nov. 13 – 14, at a hotel just outside the Denver International Airport.  Proceeds from the con are all going to the Aurora Fund to help those victims who survived the tragic movie house shooting over a year ago.  It looks to be fun show and we'll post more about it as it draw near.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. Thanks as ever for stopping by and for your continued support of all our humble efforts.
Ron – Over & Out!