Howard Wright

Tom & Ginger Johnson are proud to announce the recipient of the 2012 ECHOES Award. This year it goes to Howard Wright, publisher of the fanzine, The Bronze Gazette, dedicated to Doc Savage, was the recipient of the 2012 ECHOES Award this year. Howard has been publishing The Bronze Gazette for 22 years now, and also promotes other pulp interests. He is well deserving, and long overdue the acknowledgement. We want to congratulate Howard for his achievements.

Tom & Ginger Johnson

Short Story Collection

Over the years I’ve written new stories featuring many of the original pulp characters, as well as some in the new pulp tradition. If you are a fan of any of these character, you might be interested in my short story collections from Altus Press www.altuspress.com/ and NTD www.bloodredshadow.com/ These are available also on Amazon, plus I may have a few copies on hand if you would rather get them from me at fadingshadows40@gmail.com

PULP DETECTIVES, available from Altus Press and Amazon, $24.95: Nine all-new stories starring the classic pulp heroes of the 1930s, featuring the following characters, written by pulp scholar Tom Johnson, it’s nearly 350 pages of excitement:

The Phantom Detective in “Satan’s Minions”

The Black Bat “Murder Under The Big Top”

The Lone Eagle in “The Nazi Spider Staffel”

The Masked Detective in “The Masked Detective’s Deadly Trail”

Secret Agent X in “The Spider’s Web”

The Black Bat in “Guns of Vengence”

The Phantom Detective (sort of) in “Fangs of Death”

 Nightwind in “Mystery of Haunted Range”

EXCITING PULP TALES, available from Altus Press and Amazon, 24.95: The exciting sequel to Tom Johnson's 2010 anthology, PULP DETECTIVES, brings you ten more all-new stories featuring classic pulp heroes:

The Angel in “The Devil of A Case”

The Green Ghost in “The Case of The Blind Soldier”

The Cobra in “Curse of The Viper”

The Crimson Mask in “The Mask of Anubis”

Gentle Jones in “Nazis Over Washington”

The Purple Scar in “The Skull Killer”

Funny Face in “The Star of Africa”

Mr. Death in “Coffins of Death”

The Jungle Queen in “Jungle Terror”

Ki-Gor in “The Lost Valley of Ja Far”

PULP ECHOES, available from NTD and Amazon, $15.50: Seven new stories in the pulp tradition, both new and original characters:

The Bat in "Blind As A Bat"

The Crimson Clown in "The Crimson Clown – Killer"

Nibs Holloway battles Dr. Death in "Till Death Do Us Part"

The Black Ghost in "Carnival of Death"

Captain Anthony Adventure in "Terror In The North Country"

The Black Cat in "A Cat Among Dogs"

Senora Scorpion in "Senora Scorpion"

The Moon Man, Secret Agent X and More

Now available on Kindle, three new books by Tom Johnson. Please visit my Author’s Page on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008MM81CM

Hunter’s Moon, featuring the Moon Man in his best adventure since Frederick C. Davis. With the police closing in on Angel’s hideaway, the danger for the Moon Man may be escalating for Great City’s Robin Hood. To compound matters, tragedy strikes closer to home. This time, he will not be able to provide help to someone close to him. Sergeant Steve Thatcher, seeing the people struggling to survive, dons the mysterious garments of the Robin Hood thief to relieve the filthy rich of their ill-gotten gains to be distributed among the poor by ex boxer Ned Dargan. When they come up against an illegal weapons manufacturer masquerading as a toy company, his fiancé is taken prisoner by criminals and he must not only remove them of their money, but put a stop to their weapons sale overseas. $1.99

In The Silence of Death, Colonel Jeremiah Custer’s Wild West Show comes across murder in a small Texas town. A mystifying murder mystery ensnares the famous criminologist and sharpshooter, Colonel Jeremiah Custer when his team encounters a young boy accused of mayhem. The lad cannot deny the charges for he can neither hear nor speak. The scientific brain of the greatest man hunter is put to task as he attempts to unravel this new crime! The ex intelligence officer puts his scientific brain to work to prove that the deaf mute boy is not the killer. Follow Colonel Custer and his aides as they unravel this deep mystery, and bring to justice this evil murderer. $1.99

Secret Agent X is back in The Death Tower. What could a German agent be after in America? During Secret Agent X’s recovery at the Montgomery Mansion after the battle with Zerna’s drug gang in 1937, Betty Dale falls into a trap while following a suspect and is captured by a German Spy. Her whereabouts are unknown, and indeed, it’s not known if she’s even alive. Although the Agent hasn’t fully recovered from his previous battle with Zerna and the underworld, it’s imperative for him to locate and rescue the girl. For Betty Dale is more precious to him than anything in the world. If she has been harmed, he will exact vengeance on those responsible! $.99

New Pulp

I often hear that New Pulp started around 2005, with never a mention of how it actually came about. New Pulp, so called because it tries to emulate the original pulp stories of the 1930s & ‘40s, began around 1994 with the publication of Will Murray’s new Doc Savage novels, and Jim Van Hise’s new novelettes featuring The Spider and Operator 5. At least we felt the water getting warm at that time.

In February 1995, Clansy O’Hara published the first issue of a new small press pulp magazine titled, PULP FICTION, beginning a short run of pulp type fiction, then in June 1995, Tom & Ginger Johnson released CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES, the first of several pulp titles in small press format, and the New Pulp was in full swing. For the next nine years Tom & Ginger published a string of titles, which included CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES, DOUBLE DANGER TALES, ALIEN WORLDS, STARTLING SCIENCE STORIES, WEIRD STORIES, DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES, and EXCITING UFO STORIES, as well as several reprint magazines like ACTION ADVENTURE STORIES & BEHIND THE MASK. All the magazines were in the pulp tradition. New writers were turning out new stories of The Phantom Detective, The Black Bat, Ki-Gor, The Masked Rider, Jim Haitfield, Doctor Death, and many others. The series all came to an end in 2004, but in 2005 Ginger collected the first of four anthologies titled, TALES OF MASKS & MAHEM, continuing the new pulp theme, but this time in modern POD technology.

Today, there are many publishers involved in New Pulp, including Wild Cat Books, Airship27, Altus Press, Pro Se Press, and NTD, among others. But the innovation began with Clancy O’Hara and Tom & Ginger Johnson in 1995.

Moon Man, Secret Agent X & More

Coming soon to Kindle, three new books by Tom Johnson.

Hunter’s Moon, featuring the Moon Man in his best adventure since Frederick C. Davis. With the police closing in on Angel’s hideaway, the danger for the Moon Man may be escalating for Great City’s Robin Hood. To compound matters, tragedy strikes closer to home. This time, he will not be able to provide help to someone close to him. Sergeant Steve Thatcher, seeing the people struggling to survive, dons the mysterious garments of the Robin Hood thief to relieve the filthy rich of their ill-gotten gains to be distributed among the poor by ex boxer Ned Dargan. When they come up against an illegal weapons manufacturer masquerading as a toy company, his fiancé is taken prisoner by criminals and he must not only remove them of their money, but put a stop to their weapons sale overseas.

In The Silence of Death, Colonel Jeremiah Custer’s Wild West Show comes across murder in a small Texas town. A mystifying murder mystery ensnares the famous criminologist and sharpshooter, Colonel Jeremiah Custer when his team encounters a young boy accused of mayhem. The lad cannot deny the charges for he can neither hear nor speak. The scientific brain of the greatest man hunter is put to task as he attempts to unravel this new crime! The ex intelligence officer puts his scientific brain to work to prove that the deaf mute boy is not the killer. Follow Colonel Custer and his aides as they unravel this deep mystery, and bring to justice this evil murderer.

Secret Agent X is back in The Tower of Death. What could a German agent be after in America? During Secret Agent X’s recovery at the Montgomery Mansion after the battle with Zerna’s drug gang in 1937, Betty Dale falls into a trap while following a suspect and is captured by a German Spy. Her whereabouts are unknown, and indeed, it’s not known if she’s even alive. Although the Agent hasn’t fully recovered from his previous battle with Zerna and the underworld, it’s imperative for him to locate and rescue the girl. For Betty Dale is more precious to him than anything in the world. If she has been harmed, he will exact vengeance on those responsible!

The 2012 Echoes Award

Tom & Ginger Johnson are proud to announce the recipient of the 2012 ECHOES Award. This year the Award goes to Howard Wright. The publisher of The Bronze Gazette, dedicated to Doc Savage, was the recipient of the 2012 ECHOES Award this year. Howard has been publishing The Bronze Gazette for 22 years now, and also promotes other pulp interests. He is well deserving, and long overdue acknowledgement from the pulp community. We want to congratulate Howard for his achievements.

Tom & Ginger Johnson