Blood 'n' Thunder: Winter/Spring 2016

This double issue is crammed with articles, reviews, and reprints. Among them: Hollywood's cliffhanger serials starring The Spider, one of the great pulp heroes; The Shadow meets Doc Savage in an exciting novel by Will Murray; the pulp magazines that influenced "Conan the Barbarian" creator Robert E. Howard; the film, radio and TV incarnations of The Falcon, a favorite fictional character; Robert Bloch's radio show STAY TUNED FOR TERROR, which adapted many of his classic pulp yarns; an overview of the pulp series featuring The Lone Eagle, ace of the Great War airways; radio thrillers starring the Mysterious Traveler; revisiting an influential 1914 serial, THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY; reviews of classic issues of WEIRD TALES; a reprinted adventure of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective; an 80th-anniversary celebration of the 1936 Universal serial FLASH GORDON; reprints of lengthy court documents from the case of two pulp giants suing each other; and more. With the usual complement of illustrations -- pulp cover reproductions, vintage movie stills, original art, and so on.