Blood 'n' Thunder 2013-14 Special Edition

The largest single issue of a fanzine ever published, this Special Edition has three times the pages of a normal Blood 'n' Thunder (less those that would go toward duplicating ads and front matter, of course). Among the departments you'll find a preview of PulpFest 2014; coverage of a 1936 movie adapting Fred MacIssac's Dime Detective character The Rambler; an essay on the first serial adapted from a comic strip, 1934's Tailspin Tommy; and advice from noted SF editor Robert "Doc" Lowndes on cracking the pulp-magazine market. Feature articles cover a number of favorite characters, including Doc Savage and G-8. Rick Lai examines Will Murray's "heresy" of challenging Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Netwon universe in his latest Doc Savage novel, Skull Island. Scholar Nathan Madison is on hand with a fascinating treatise on "Yellow Peril" pulp fiction. Larry Latham joins BnT's Writers Brigade with a survey of dime novels and nickel weeklies that became full-fledged pulp magazines. Film historian Richard W. Bann returns with a behind-the-scenes look at the production of 1941's The Maltese Falcon, and BnT editor Ed Hulse revisits the Thirties film appearances of The Shadow with newly uncovered information on the 1931-32 Universal featurettes that introduced the character to moviegoers. There is a facsimile reprint of a novelette from a rare early issue of The Popular Magazine. Finally, as a bonus, this issue includes an entire book-length novel (85,000 words) first published in 1918 issues of All-Story Weekly: Randall Parrish's eerie adventure The Strange Case of Cavendish, which was made into a 1919 cliffhanger serial titled The Lion Man.