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A world scarred by terrorist attacks and global pandemics fights for survival. Unbound by invasion, a millennia old enchantment ends. A daughter of Earth must learn to wield the very power she fears. Dr. Katarina O'Brian, a molecular biologist, fights from her lab in Memphis, Tennessee to find a cure for Reaper, a deadly virus plaguing humanity. During another late night at work, a mental voice touches hers, chiseling a crack in her mental fortress and tempting her to explore the powers she suppresses.

From the creator of Zorro comes a lost hero of the past - Johnston McCulley's The Man in Purple lives again in The New Adventures of the Man in Purple. The Man in Purple is Richard Staegal, a wealthy man-about-town with a colorful past. Donning a purple mask and suit, Staegal leads a life of outrageous adventure stealing from the rich and ruthless and giving the spoils away to the powerless people who are unable to fight for themselves! From out of the past comes new tales of the Violet Vigilante!

Ghost boy returns. It is the mid-1960s and the US is in thick of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and Red China. The country's greatest asset is Ghost Boy, a young genius with amazing supernatural powers, and his eight foot tall steel and chrome robot, Pops. Ripped from the pages of Jigsaw Comics, Ghost Boy returns in this collection of four brand new adventures.

Dilbert Pinkerton's not the greatest private detective, but he's good at sniffing out clues. Of course, it's hard to take a five-foot-nothing mutant armadillo in a trench coat and fedora seriously. He sticks his snout where it doesn't belong far too often while digging for the truth. So when some rich dame asks him to steal - ahem, retrieve - a pearl necklace from her ex-husband, Dill almost reconsiders. Until, that is, she offers him so much money that he can't refuse.

Who can confront the great mystery of The Sun Fortress? A man who doesn't need a license to kill. A man who is the weapon of last resort. When they've run out of options, they call him back. No debates, no hand wringing, just get it done. That man is Maxim Gunn! Maxim Gunn: The Sun Fortress by Nicholas Boving. From Pro Se Productions.

A world where heroes and villains existed since the day the market crashed and the world almost collapsed. Common people granted great powers and awesome responsibility. A world where one of them knew all the secrets, good and bad, and put them down in a book. A world where that man and that manuscript disappeared. Until now.

It has been several months since veteran Green Beret Jim Slate escaped captivity at the hands of New Jersey mob boss, Michael Monzo. Employing a mercenary wizard, Monzo had transformed Slate into a werewolf with the intentions of using him as his own personal "hitwolf". But Slate managed to foil Monzo and fled to the New Jersey wilderness known as the Barrens.

One of the most famous unsolved murder mysteries was the shooting death of well-known actor-director William Desmond Taylor in Hollywood, circa 1922. Nine years later, while investigating an alleged curse on German composer Wilhem Richard Wagner's lost opera, occult detective Ravenwood uncovers a connection between the missing score and the death of the flamboyant Taylor. He is hired to find it. Upon arriving in Hollywood, he discovers others connected to the lost opera have also perished under mysterious circumstances.

Easily one of the most little known pulp heroes was Ravenwood, the Stepson of Mystery. In all he appeared in only five stories, as backup tales in issues of Secret Agent X. Several years ago Airship 27 Productions released its first volume in this series, bringing back this unique occult detective whose different-colored eyes are always changing, along with his Tibetan teacher/mentor, the Nameless One; and his loyal British butler, Stirling. Now, get ready for another quartet of brand-new tales of suspense and action.

On the distant alien planet of Rhajnara, a conspiracy created by the facist Khandra Regime is set into motion to overthrow the rightful Rhajni Republic and instigate a policy of ethnic-cleansing. The conspirators are cunning, and it seems nothing in the universe can derail their mad apocalyptic scheme. Nothing that is, but three rambunctious Space Marines from the Third Regiment Company E of the United States Space Marines assigned to Rhajnara with the Terran Expeditionary Force.

During the golden days of American pulps, hundreds of masked avengers were created to battle evildoers around the globe. The Black Bat, Moon Man, Domino Lady, and the Purple Scar, to name only a few of these amazing pulp heroes. Now Airship 27 Productions introduces to pulp listeners brand new pulp heroes cast in the mold of their 1930s counterparts.

The Silver Manticore - to some he is nothing more than an urban legend rising from the fears of cowardly criminals. To others he is a masked mastermind of evil cutting into the biggest schemes, helping himself to the largest share. And then there's the truth: that the Manticore, unknown to both the law and the underworld, is a force of good merely posing as a crook! Regardless of what those who know of the mysterious figure believe, the Manticore has come into contact and conflict with allies and enemies.

He hunts the most dangerous prey alive! His mission: To fight criminals and villains who are out to destroy our society! Beware all who commit evil! For you shall feel the sting of the Silver Manticore! Created and written by P.J. Lozito, The Sting of the Silver Manticore is an homage to classic pulp masked heroes and other such archetypes that populate pulpdom!

The Adventures of Gravedigger returns and Sovereign City's haunted heroine continues her mission of justice and vengeance, with the redemption of her soul at stake! In this volume, Gravedigger and her faithful agents confront the twin threats of Hiroshi Tamaki and the immortal beauty known as Pandora when they investigate the strange secret of the Silver Skull!

From a mysterious island hidden in the Pacific comes a man known to friend and foe alike. Genius. Scientific Wizard. Adventurer. Troubleshooter. Hero. A force for justice that strikes like thunder! Pro Se Productions, in conjunction with Altus Press, presents The New Adventures of Thunder Jim Wade! The latest in the Pulp Obscura line, The New Adventures of Thunder Jim Wade features brand new tales of this classic hero by six of the finest writers of new pulp today!

Years ago Gideon Synn tried to save Faith Bloodstone from a deadly family curse in upstate New York. He failed and Faith died at the hands of a mysterious blood-drinking fiend. Synn ran from his failure and became a world traveler, joining the French Foreign Legion and eventually becoming a mercenary in China. Now, years later, he has opened a security firm with his sister Kathy. Charity Bloodstone, Faith's younger sister, comes to him for help against the same curse.

In dozens of hellish concentration camps scattered throughout Germany, thousands of emaciated men and women are kept ignorant of these events. With over 14 million already murdered in the gas chambers, the Nazis are all too aware the remaining survivors could become a serious liability, all of them living proof of their barbaric Holocaust. Into one of these death camps comes a man named Aaron. Unlike the hopeless, starving men around him, he is strangely aloof and detached from the living nightmare,

There has always been something strange about Nocturne, Florida: the City That Lives by Night. It is an entertainment nexus luring tourist from around the world to its night clubs, music venues, and other, more adult entertainment venues. But there is a darker side to which these carefree revelers never see; one of dark doings, violence, and eldritch evil. Now, a new sinister force threatens Nocturne and only a handful of unique, gifted beings can protect the city's innocent.

Kade Truth awakens in a strange house sideways of reality, where he learns he has "died" in a mysterious attack on the Statue of Liberty. Rather than facing the afterlife, he now wields energy powers, including flight. Kade joins and befriends Caduceus - eccentric caretaker, magician, and feeder of soup - and Mao F'Yang - an intoxicating girl with the uncanny ability to disappear - in a quest to regain his memories, uncover who is behind the attack, and discover why he has been so drastically altered.

These two women walk very different paths, paths that crossed explosively. But as they clash one final time, the Pulptress and the Bone Queen have something in common, the one thing that may kill them both - they thirst for vengeance!