Pulp 2.0 Press is pleased to announce the upcoming December release of the 25th anniversary edition of SCARLET IN GASLIGHT, the classic graphic novel starring two of literature’s immortal characters, SHERLOCK HOLMES and DRACULA. Written by Martin Powell and illustrated by Seppo Makinen this thrilling supernatural mystery-adventure has been reviewed by no less than the Washington Post who said that SCARLET IN GASLIGHT is “…more satisfyingly cinematic than many of the movies.”

This special collector’s edition features:

- remastered artwork from the artist

- a special introduction from noted pulp writer and scholar Win Scott Eckert (CROSSOVERS 1&2, THE EVIL IN PEMBERLEY HOUSE)

- a comprehensive interview with Martin Powell on the origins of SCARLET IN GASLIGHT conducted by Michael Leal.

Further details on this release will be available shortly.

Here comes THE MIRACLE SQUAD, the 1980′s indie comic that Pulp 2.0 has redesigned into a graphic novel.  Thrill to the adventures of the cast and crew at Miracle Pictures, a poverty row movie outfit in 1930′s Hollywood, as they use all of their skills at movie magic to thwart a hostile takeover by a local gangster who aims to launder his dirty money.

Created by writer John Wooley and artist Terry Tidwell, The Miracle squad was originally published in 1987 by Fantagraphics. It has never before been released in a collected format such as this edition.

This collector’s treasure features:

• The special preview and all four chapters.
• John Wooley’s original essay on the B-Movies featuring all new photos and illustrations from his personal collection.
• The original short story, “The Return of Mr. Mystery” which featured the first incarnations of the Squad.
• Wooley casts the Miracle Squad serial with famous B-Movie greats from yesteryear.
• A gallery of images by Terry Tidwell showcasing the development process for the series.  Many of these images have never before been seen.
• And much, much more!

All in all, over 50 pages of bonus features sure to thrill fans of the series as well as B-Movie enthusiasts!

Helen Highwater falls to her doom!

PLEASE NOTE: A DIGITAL EDITION OF THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL WILL NOT BECOME AVAILABLE UNTIL 2012.

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After learning that the legendary story of Frankenstein was based on fact, Medical genius Dr. Burt Winslow recovers and resurrects the legendary undead Frankenstein’s monster only to unleash a torrent of terror on the unsuspecting world as the monster escapes. Making its way across the European countryside, the monster encounters the psychic circus-master Dartani who wishes to use the creature for his own evil revenge, and brainwashes the creature as a deadly pawn rampaging against innocent villagers. This is the first volume in the New Adventures of Frankenstein horror-adventure series by Donald F. Glut (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back). Cover illustration by Mark D. Maddox (www.maddoxplanet.com)

October 1st, 2010
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Pulp 2.0 Press Announces New Line of Pulp Graphic Novels for Digital and Print

Pulp Publisher Launching Line by Licensing Wooley and Tidwell’s 1980’s Indie Comic Serials
MIRACLE SQUAD and TWILIGHT AVENGER for 2011 Release

Los Angeles, CA – Pulp 2.0 Press MPB Bill Cunningham today announced that the company is launching a line of what he calls “pulp graphic novels” for digital and print distribution. The company begins this new line of pulp entertainment media by licensing the publishing and media rights to the 1980’s indie comic book serials THE MIRACLE SQUAD and THE TWILIGHT AVENGER created by writer John Wooley and artist Terry Tidwell.

THE MIRACLE SQUAD was originally published as two 4-issue miniseries by Upshot Graphics and later, Apple Comics. The first serial chronicles the adventures of a team of 1936 movie studio professionals who take on the mob bent on ‘acquiring’ their poverty row studio as a means of money laundering. The team uses their unique skills in props, stunts, makeup, escapology and acting to uncover the leader behind the ‘hostile takeover’ and give him his two-fisted comeuppance. Cunningham is quick to say that, “The Miracle Squad is akin to today’s A-TEAM only set in 1930′s poverty row Hollywood. It’s fun, outrageous and jam-packed with all sorts of pulpy goodness.”

The second Miracle Squad serial BLOOD AND DUST features the adventures of the team when they tackle a group of land thieves capitalizing on the infamous ‘Dust Bowl’ crisis of the 1930’s. Set against the backdrop of the Oklahoma range, the movie studio adventurers go head-to-head against poverty, exploitation and cross-burning klansmen.

THE TWILIGHT AVENGER is the story of a college student Reece Chambers who uses an arsenal of super-scientific gadgets to seek revenge against the criminals who ran down his fiancee and left her in a coma. Unknown to Chambers is the fact the criminals are led by a masked villain known only as The Centipede. Originally launched by Elite Comics, the series was later published by Eternity Comics and featured zombies, mad scientists and even time travel.

“Both titles reflect the action-packed pulps, cliffhanger serials and B-movies of the 1930’s — the era which also inspired retro movies like THE ROCKETEER and THE INDIANA JONES series,” said Pulp 2.0 Press MPB (Mad Pulp Bastard), Bill Cunningham. “John Wooley and Terry Tidwell captured that dynamic era within the pages of their comic achieving the perfect blend of the heroic daring of the serials with the real-life drama of the 1930’s Depression. I remember reading both comics in the 1980’s when they were first published, and after I began building Pulp 2.0, I sought John and Terry out to see if their work was available. Their retro-styled comics are a perfect fit for our readers.”

After several emails and phone conversations, Cunningham licensed the rights to bring back the duo’s comic creations for both print and digital readers. While the books design style is still in the beginning stages of development, the company is approaching both Miracle Squad and Twilight Avenger as ‘pulp properties that look appropriate to their source material.’ As Cunningham says, “Pulp isn’t a particular medium, it’s an attitude.” Since both titles were obviously influenced by poverty row adventure cinema of the 1930’s it makes sense to keep and try to amplify that aesthetic. Miracle Squad and Twilight Avenger are both terrific stories and our audience deserves to read them in uniquely designed collected editions in whatever format they choose. This is the approach we have taken with our first book, BROTHER BLOOD by Donald F. Glut as well as our soon-to-be-released RADIO WESTERN ADVENTURES which features a ‘lost’ short stories by Glut and legendary DOC SAVAGE creator Lester Dent.”

To that end, Pulp 2.0 is digitally ‘cleaning up’ the original pages for both Miracle Squad and Twilight Avenger and compiling many bonus “behind-the-scenes” features for the print editions. The bonus features will include design sketches, notes, script pages and essays. “We take our time in the design phase and try and come up with a few special surprises for our readers,” said Cunningham. “Our goal is to create collectible editions that are easily available online.”

John Wooley, the writer / co-creator of Miracle Squad and Twilight Avenger had this to say: “No one loves pulps and the whole idea of classic pulp fiction more than I do, and our first phone conversation made it clear to me that Bill Cunningham was a kindred soul who not only shared that love, but also knew exactly how to get the Twilight Avenger and the Miracle Squad to a wider audience than they were ever able to reach during their initial runs. F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that there were no second acts in American lives. Terry and I are so pleased that, thanks to Pulp 2.0 Press, our ’30s heroes and heroines are going to be an exception.”

Both ‘pulp graphic novels’ are scheduled to begin release in 1st quarter 2011. More details will be made available as they develop. Please visit the Pulp 2.0 website at www.pulp2ohpress.com.

PULP 2.0 PRESS UPDATE: 13 September, 2010

Los Angeles, CA : Pulp 2.0 Press Mad Pulp Bastard Bill Cunningham announced today that the publisher is adding a never-before-seen Lester Dent tale to its upcoming wild west book release RADIO WESTERN ADVENTURES (RWA). Dent of course is the world-famous pulp writer of the 30’s and 40’s who created the legendary DOC SAVAGE and THE AVENGER pulp characters. This wild west tale, “Snare Savvy” written in 1932 will join Donald F. Glut’s cover tale, “Who Really Was That Masked Man?” to create a western “double feature” tribute to Jim Harmon, the Old Time Radio historian and author, to whom this special book is dedicated.

The contract for “Snare Savvy” was negotiated by the author’s agent, noted pulp writer and historian Will Murray on behalf of the Dent estate. The story is a classic western featuring Dent’s smart alec cowboy character Haw Kain who rides into town and a whole mess of trouble when he goes up against greedy land grabbers looking to strike it rich.

“We are pleased as punch to be able to add Dent’s ‘Snare Savvy’ to Radio Western Adventures,” said Cunningham. “ It makes an already unique book like RWA that much more special to western and pulp fans. As I read it I could easily see Roy Rogers and Dale Evans as the lead characters Haw Kain and Genie Quayle. Their banter matched perfectly, each giving as good as he or she got. I’m ecstatic over the prospect of publishing a pulp master like Dent’s work, and grateful that Will Murray thought Pulp 2.0 would be a good publisher for the tale.”

Radio Western Adventures will be published on Amazon’s Kindle platform for digital reading and will later come out as a print release via Createspace. The Kindle edition will feature both stories as well as an essay tribute to Jim Harmon whose love for radio western heroes was well known amongst fans. This digital edition will also include several photos resurrected from Don Glut’s archives showing the profound influence these radio cowboys had on the author and his peers. Pulp 2.0 Press’s print edition will include all of the above plus even more bonus features exclusive to the print version. Both versions will feature a stunning cover by artist Nik Macaluso (www.scripttease.tv) who created the fantastic blaxploitation cover art for Pulp 2.0’s first release BROTHER BLOOD (also by Glut).

We are very pleased to announce that Pulp 2.0 Press has released its first book in the Kindle format. BROTHER BLOOD is the blaxploitation horror novel by Donald F. Glut and can now be enjoyed by readers using their Kindle device, computer (both PC and Mac), Blackberry, Iphone or Ipad.

Priced at a bargain of only $2.99 USD or 2.22 UK Pounds BROTHER BLOOD can be downloaded immediately at:

Amazon’s BROTHER BLOOD page for Kindle

or –

Amazon UK’s BROTHER BLOOD page for Kindle.

Both pages offer the opportunity to sample the book’s Kindle edition which differs slightly from the BROTHER BLOOD print edition which contains collectible, behind-the scenes bonus features found nowhere else.

“These digital editions represent a tremendous leap forward for the company,” said Bill Cunningham Pulp 2.0’s Mad Pulp Bastard. “It allows us to fulfill our primary mandate of placing as much good pulp entertainment a s possible in the hands of readers everywhere. We will be shifting Pulp 2.0’s approach to a “digital-first” plan which will allow us to fulfill our mission more easily, and allow us to further develop our print books into the collectible, must-have editions for our fans. This is an exciting time for publishing, and for Pulp 2.0.”

For more Information on BROTHER BLOOD please visit us here.

Pulp 2.0 Press is excited to announce that we have a new title in production: RADIO WESTERN ADVENTURES!

This book is our tribute to western and old time radio enthusiasts who yearn for those thrilling days of yesteryear as envisioned by radio, movie and comics creators back in the 30′s and 40′s. It’s also our chance to pay tribute to Jim Harmon whose work made fandom a much better place.

With a western action novella, articles, galleries and other assorted cool stuff resurrected from the Glut Archives, RADIO WESTERN ADVENTURES is a book that is sure to have back in the saddle. The artwork is by our own Nik Macaluso with cover design by the Mad Pulp Bastard himself.

Check out the RADIO WESTERN ADVENTURES page for more details!

Here are a few more photos from our recent Brother Blood book signing at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA.

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This Saturday March 27th, Don Glut and I will be featured guests on Cult Radio A Go-Go discussing all things Pulp  2.0 such as BROTHER BLOOD and our new series.
Tune in at 6pm PST and hear all of the details about our new company and the books we’re publishing for fans like you.

See you then!