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August 2002 Catalog - Pulps, Mystery & Adventure
* HIGH ADVENTURE #65. "Crimson Doom", the second Dusty Ayres story, along with "The Floating Phantom", "The Silver Caterpillar" and "Hanger Flying", all by Robert Sidney Bowen and published in Dusty Ayers and His Battle Birds August 1934. ... $7.95
* ROCKET BLAST #3 AND THE COMICCOLLECTOR SUMMER/ FALL 2002 by - James VanHise Magazine. 128 pages jammed with articles about the horror comics of the Golden Age, tributes to Johnny Craig and George Evans There's also pages of art from Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Carmine Infantino, Alex Raymond, Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel. ... $9.95
* PURPLE PROSE #16. An entire issue dedicated to the history of pulps, as seen by that master of the pulps: Harry Steeger, editor of Popular Publications. What was meant to be a definitive history of the pulp field, the book was never finished, but what was produced can now be read, extensively annotated by Mike Chomko. Don Hutchison provides a thoughtful Afterword. ... $5.00
Mystery & Adventure
* CONS, SCAMS AND GRIFTS by Joe Gores - Mysterious Press Tpb. In San Francisco, Dan Kearny Associates raids a classic car dealership, while in Los Angeles, a Gypsy's dying words finger a Gypsy princess for murder. In Hong Kong, a unique treasure has been stolen by tycoon Victor Hess--making Willem Ban de Post, in Rome, plot across continents with his uncle, the King of the Gypsies, to get it back. Mayhem ensues when both the Gypsies and the German Baron hire DKA to help them, especially as no one is exactly who or what they seem. ... $12.95
also available: STAKEOUT ON PAGE STREET, Crippen & Landru HC ... $40.00
* GROUCHO MARX, SECRET AGENT by Ron Goulart - Minotaur HC. Groucho Marx and his writer Frank Denby attend a lavish Halloween party hoping to land their new radio show on the host's network. During the party, someone disguised as the Grim Reaper approaches director Eric Olmstead and he passes out. When Olmstead is found dead the next morning, Groucho agrees to investigate, but he and Frank soon find that they are in way over their heads. ... $22.95
* WET GRAVE by Barbara Hambly - Bantam HC. In July of 1835, in the shadows of a decrepit shack in New Orleans, an old freedwoman has been found dead. Could her murder be linked to the myths of a fortune in gold hidden by famed pirate, Jean Lafitte? Or could it have something to do with the approaching wedding festivities between two of the city's richest families? ... $23.95
* RASHOMAN GATE by I. J. Parker - Minotaur HC. Young nobleman Akitada Sugawara is a clerk in Japan's 11th century Ministry of Justice, and welcomes the break in routine when he gets a chance to work undercover helping his old professor at the Imperial University. Quickly drawn into a net of gossip, petty rivalry and murder, Akitada is then asked by one of his students, Lord Minamoto, to investigate the disappearance of his grandfather. ... $24.95
* HARDCASE by Dan Simmons - Minotaur pb. Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge - and it had cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Out of touch, out of prison, he needs a job and signs on with the Farinos, a Mob family with a problem in their own backyard. Searching for an accountant gone missing, Kurtz starts rubbing the wrong people the wrong way for all the right reasons. ... $7.00
* KELLY'S PEOPLE by Walter Wager - Forge HC. The five intelligence agents gathered at St. John Institute are the best of the best. And they are all officially dead. Each has recieved a life-saving organ transplant, and each receives a mysterious golden injection twice a day. When a stolen atomic weapon detonates, and the threat of more explosions ever-present, the band of five agents must come out of hiding to prevent an all out nuclear war. ... $24.95
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