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September 2002 Catalog - Pulps and Mystery & Adventure
* GOLDEN AMAZON #14: COSMIC CRUSADERS by John Russell Fearn - Gryphon Tpb. In this new Golden Amazon reprint, the Amazon cuts all ties with Earth and sets off with her husband Abna and daughter Viona to Alpha Centauri, where she encounters the Mizanu, her most deadly foe yet. For the Mizanu is not just a superhuman being - it is a planet-sized hypertrophied brain! Nothing can stop it from engulfing the Alpha Centauri system, Earth, and all other inhabited planets - unless the Golden Amazon can destroy it first! ... $15.00
* GOLDEN AMAZON #15: PARASITE PLANET by John Russell Fearn - Gryphon Tpb. On their next mission, the Golden Amazon, her husband, and her daughter - the Cosmic Crusaders - are off to explore a new system and help those who need scientific education. But they encounter something unexpected: a younger version of the Amazon herself, on a parallel planet to Earth, where everything is not as it seems... ... $15.00
* DOC SAVAGE PAPERBACK COLLECTION. While we don't usually list books that come in used, this set was just too exciting to stay quiet about. Fifty-three (53!) of the Doc Savage Bantam paperbacks in really excellent condition. Includes numbers:1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 69, 73, 76 and 77 along with Doubles 97/98 and 119/120. Only one set (obviously). ... $200.00
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. 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
* HARD FREEZE by Dan Simmons - Minotaur HC. In Buffalo, New York, "Little Skag" Farino, the last don of a local crime family, wants Joe Kurtz dead and is sending in platoons of hit men. His sister Angelina is back from seven years in Sicily and has her own deadly agenda for Kurtz. Meanwhile, Kurtz learns that the man really responsible for his partner's death is still alive and better protected than the pope. ... $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
* DEFENSIVE ACTION: SLINGSHOT PROJECT #1
(OF 3) by Don Pendleton - Gold Eagle pb. Stony Man #60. America's
enemies have mounted a stategic attack on a new state-of-the-art missle
defense system, an attack guaranteed to destroy the US in the process. Crisscrossing
the North American continent, it's up to our favorite cybernetics team to
race against time and halt the attrition...before America pays the price
in blood. ... $6.50
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