Sat 7 Aug 2021
Now Available: Blood ‘n’ Thunder 2021 Annual
Posted by Steve under Magazines , Old Time Radio , Pulp Fiction , SF & Fantasy films[3] Comments
Taken from the Murania Press website:
The award-winning journal of adventure, mystery, and melodrama is back! After a two-year absence Blood ‘n’ Thunder returns as a book-length Annual, its 264 pages crammed with articles, illustrations, and fiction reprints. As always, the emphasis is on pulp magazines, vintage Hollywood movies, and Old Time Radio drama.
The Annual’s first section is a centennial tribute to the legendary detective pulp Black Mask, which celebrated its 100th birthday last year (an event planned for recognition in the canceled Spring 2020 issue of BnT). In addition to a history of the Mask, our tribute includes two reprinted articles from old writers’ magazines: a 1929 issue analysis by literary agent August Lenniger and a 1934 feature on pulp fictioneering by the Mask‘s most famous editor, Joseph T. “Cap†Shaw.
Also, Will Murray profiles aviation-pulp writer George Bruce (one of the few pulpsters to hit the big time as a Hollywood screenwriter); Tom Krabacher discusses the fantasy-adventure novels written by Spider scribe Norvell W. Page for Unknown; Denny Lien examines the 1936 one-shot pulp featuring Flash Gordon; Gilbert Colon compares the prose and filmed versions of H. P. Lovecraft’s classic yarn “Dreams in the Witch-Houseâ€; Matt Moring reveals the true identity of enigmatic pulpster “W. Wirtâ€; and Sai Shanker offers a history of the Butterick Company, the New York dress-pattern company that published Adventure, Romance, and Everybody’s magazines.
Additionally, Will Oliver covers the abortive Weird Tales radio show and a later attempt at supernatural horror, The Witch’s Tale. And there’s a lengthy excerpt from the new book by Martin Grams and Terry Salomonson on the creation and early development of the Lone Ranger radio program. BnT editor-publisher Ed Hulse contributes well-researched essays on the 1929 film adaptation of A. Merritt’s Seven Footprints to Satan, the 1943 Republic serial Secret Service in Darkest Africa, and the early career of well-regarded “Bâ€-movie director George Sherman.
Finally, the Annual reprints “Mountain Man,†the 1934 first installment in Robert E. Howard’s hilarious Western short-story series featuring Breckinridge Elkins.
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August 7th, 2021 at 1:00 pm
A few years ago at Pulpfest I bought this cover painting from Craig Poole, who deals in pulp and paperback original art. It was used as the cover for Detective Fiction Weekly, April 8, 1939.
It illustrates the meeting of two series characters, Daffy Dill(reporter) and Candid Jones(photographer). The author of these long running series was Richard Sale. Both series in Detective Fiction Weekly were quite popular with the readers.
One interesting thing about this painting the artist, Rudolph Belarski, had to leave an empty space below the camera to advertise that this story was about Daffy Dill and Candid Jones. So the painting has a blank space. I think most art collectors found this to be a big flaw but I found it to be quite interesting.
Since I’ve run out of wall space in my house the painting resides on the floor leaning against a bookcase. I have a serious lack of space to say the least! No room for paintings and also no room for any additional bookcases. New books and paintings now arrive to be piled up on the floor.
32 years ago I thought this house would be large enough for my collections. Turned out I was wrong.
August 7th, 2021 at 3:52 pm
You are an inspiration for all us, Walker, Always have been, always will be.
August 8th, 2021 at 8:23 pm
Always an attractive and interesting package, nice to see it back.