Blood n Thunder (2002-Present Ed Hulse) Pulp Fanzine comic books 2008-2010

Winter 2008. Features articles covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in various media. In this issue: They Put the 'Ash' in Trash - Lost 'Ashcan' Issues of the Spicy Pulps; Now It Can Be Told - the Real Story Behind the Writing of "Fear Cay"...and How This Yarn Changed Everything for Doc Savage's Creator; SF and Mystery Mingle in the Exciting Series by Top Pulpster Ray Cummings - "Crimes of the Year 2000"; 3 Daring Divas - Purveyors of Prurience in Paperbacks. 28 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.00.

Features articles covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in various media. Includes an account of the lengthy process involved in compiling Adventures highly touted 25th-anniversary issue of November 1935. From a 1930 issue of Writers Digest comes Writers A-Wing, an informative, comprehensive survey of the pre-Depression market in aviation pulps, written by genre stalwart Arch Whitehouse. Old-Time Radio researcher and author Martin Grams, Jr. returns to the pages of Blood N Thunder with the first half of a lengthy, richly detailed article on the Sam Spade radio show—which, as Martin reveals, dramatized some of Dashiell Hammetts Continental Op stories, replacing the Op character with Spade! Another installment of Cliffhanger Classics finds Ed Hulse examining the brief careers of Pathes last serial team, Hugh Allan and Gladys McConnell, whose starring vehicles included The Tigers Shadow (1928) and The Fire Detective (1929). This article is illustrated with rare photos from the late Ms. McConnells personal collection. 28 pages, B&W Cover price $6.00.

Fanzine featuring articles covering Pulps, Movies, and Old-Time Radio. Edgar-winning author Francis M. Nevins makes his Blood n Thunder debut with an overview of John Lawrences excellent Marquis of Broadway series, which ran in Dime Detective during the 30s and 40s. Dime Detective contributor, J.-J. des Ormeaux (Forrest Rosaire), laments the passing of the ultra-hard-boiled Black Mask style in Farewell to Bang! Bang!, an insightful look at pulp-fiction craftsmanship that originally appeared in a 1940 issue of Writers Digest. Old-Time Radio historian Martin Grams Jr. is back with Part Two of his exhaustive study of The Adventures of Sam Spade, chronicling the tumultuous events that led to the blacklisting of star Howard Duff and the programs fall from grace. 28 pages, B&W Cover price $6.00.

Spring 2009. Double Issue - Features articles covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in various media. In this issue: Norman Saunders; Booze, Broads and Bullets - the Great Prohibition-Era Gangster Pulps; the Secret Origin of Doc Savage's Greatest Nemesis; Gun-Slinging Action with B-Western Star Wild Bill Elliott; Air Adventures of Comicdom's Ace Aviator, Smilin' Jack; "Mask" Mystery - How a Pulp Hero Wound Up in the Comics...Sort Of. Cover price $11.95.

Summer 2009. Features articles covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in various media. In this issue: Street & Smith's Forgotten Pulp - Charles Agnew MacLean's Popular; Revisiting 1928's Smash-Hit Serial - Tarzan the Mighty; Murder, Mystery and Melodrama...Parisian Style; Flashback, 1934 - How to Break Into Ten Detective Aces; the Secret Life & Second Career of Pulp Writer Arthur J. Burks; Convention Report - Windy City 2009. Cover price $11.95.

Winter 2010. Features articles covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in various media. In this issue: In Old California with Senor Zorro - Fiction and Film; the Weird-Menace Strain in Pulp Detective Yarns of the Thirties; The Green Hornet - His Early Years As a Crimefighter; The Devil Doctor Returns - All-New Adventures of Fu Manchu; Long-Lost Serial Resurfaces After Seven Decades - Daredevils of the West Ride Again. Cover price $11.95.

Spring 2010. Features articles covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in various media. In this issue: Fiction to Film - Clarence Mulford's Hopalong Cassidy; the Curious Case of "Clubfoot" - Valentine Williams' Sinster Spymaster; Sex and Sadism in "Red Circle" Shudder Pulps of the Thirties; the Movie Serial - a Beginner's Guide to Chapter Plays; Pulp Legend G.T. Fleming-Roberts - Devising Gimmicks for Mystery Yarns. Cover price $11.95.

Summer 2010. Features articles covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in various media. In this issue: Adventure - Celebrating the Centennial of a Legendary Pulp; Gordon Young's Writing Career - From Wild West to South Seas; Adventure Editor Arthur S. Hoffman Offers Advice to Pulp Fictioneers; Lady Fulvia - Warrior Queen of Medieval Sicily; Buck Jones Stars as The Red Rider in Classic Serial. Cover price $11.95.

Winter 2011. Features articles covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in various media. In this issue: Lester's Little Helpers - Secret Contributors to Doc Savage Novels; Secret Revealed - How to Build the Perfect Pulp Yarn Brick by Brick; Making a Classic Adventure Film - 1939's Gunga Din; Revisited - NPR's 1985 Doc Savage Radio Adventures; the 1917 Serial That Provoked An International Incident - Patria. Cover price $11.95.