CONTENTS
ClOSE-UP
• ALIAS, MRS. SLOVER by Michael Uslan — A secret identity, and a love-letter to Zorro! Excerpt from 'The Boy Who Loved Batman' by Michael Uslan.
FEATURED STORY
• FANTÔMAS: THE THOUSAND LEGS OF CHAOS by Frank Schildiner — Was the French super-criminal responsible for the dreaded insect invasions?
CLASSIC PULP FICTION
• THE BEATIFIC SMILE E.C. Tubb — “I had to find something to occupy my mind during the long weeks we drifted in space.”
• SADDLE BUM by William R. Cox — ‘Big Gringo’ was devastating the ranches — until an equally mysterious tramp puncher rode in on the HS spread to make enemies!
• VALHALLA IN THE HILLS by Emmet F. Harte — Honk and Horace are tasked with rebuilding a ghost town into a modern mecca!
• THE CHEWING GUM MURDER by John Russell Fearn — The clever fiend stood to inherit her fortune, unless she stopped him!
• NOAH by Charles Boeckman — He was the chosen one, the last man…
NEW PULP FICTION
• AMERICAN CRUSADER by Don Everett Smith, Jr. and Michael Grassia — A hero from the past returned to fight an evil menace in the present day!
• BLACK SUNRISE by Jack Halliday
• THE GRANNYWOMAN OF DEVIL'S BACKBONE by Teel James Glenn
• JONELLE PENTECOST by E. Doyle-Gillespie
DEPARTMENTS
• Editorial
• Bold Venture Bulletins
• Sinister Cinema: Marlowe (2023) Rich Harvey
