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1998: Year of The Spider
The Spider is enjoying another mini-renaissance with the following licensed projects.
Feels like it's sixty years ago, gang!
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Deluxe Reprints!
Pulp Adventures Press
is promising to reprint the entire run of The Spider Magazine -- all 118 issues.
And not just the stories. These reprints feature the original artwork, cover and format of the pulp
-- re-typeset and squarebound! If that isn't enough, each issue is introduced by a noted pulp
historian, and the whole thing only costs $10.00 an issue (plus $3.00 shipping). This labor of love
kicked off February '98 with "Reign of the Silver Terror," followed by "The Devil's Pawnbroker" in
March, and is still going strong with new reprints every other month!
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The Spider: Back in Comics!
Having suffered through many incarnations, the original Spider made his way
into comic shops this summer. Writer/artist Mark Wheatley (Mars) has given fans a Thirties-Style blow-out that pits
Richard Wentworth against the Cannibal Queen of New York. The bloody return of the Spider is the
only comic story in the pulp-throwback Titanic Tales,
which features stories-with-art by the talented members
of Insight Studios, including Gary Henry, Allan Gross, Damon Willis, Steve Conley, Frank Cho,
and still more work by Mark Wheatley.
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Electronic Reprints Continue!
Pulp Fiction Central continues to reproduce pulp
magazines in the cheapest and easiest format available -- Adobe Acrobat, which allows for multiple pages of text, illustration
and a two-column pulp-style format all in one file. Delivery is electronic, and it only costs $4.50!
Acrobat files can be read on screen (so your boss doesn't think you're loafing),
or printed out. To date, Pulp Fiction Central has reissued over 25 stories, including the final,
unpublished Spider manuscript "Slaughter Incorporated." (Check this
full listing of stories for details.) Other
characters and authors are also available from Pulp Fiction Central, not to mention
The Spider Kit, a file of printable paper toys.
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