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Post by dem bones on Aug 25, 2008 6:37:25 GMT
Here's a dummy cover for the new-look Paperback Fanatic which should be with us in November! Thanks to Justin for posting the following details. The Fanatic will be re-launched in November as a quarterly publication from Sequential Media. There will be some changes to make it feel more like a magazine, but it should still very much feel like 95% of the original Fanatic. The new publishers also wanted me to carry on with the design to preserve the look, but bearing in mind the increased workload I've turned that over to them. I'm currently writing Volume 2, Issue 3, so there are two issues currently being proof-read and designed. Maybe you could post the new dummy cover for people to check out? Volume 2, issue 1 content includes- Skinhead Revival! The Fanatic traces the rise and fall of the most notorious and collectible of 1970s paperbacks- the skinhead pulps from New English Library (I had to write this one for FM!)Jim Steranko, The Ivy League VampireThe Fanatic takes its regular look at the classic paperback artists – this time it’s the legendary Jim Steranko under The Fanatic microscope Confessions of a Paperback FanaticThe full story behind the mag you hold in your very hands! Edgar Rice Burroughs in paperbackWith a Princess of Mars movie in production, The Fanatic digs out its collection of British ERB paperbacks and takes a trip to Mars, Venus and Pellucidar A Fistful of Pulps!The Fanatic chats with Terry Harknett, the man behind the George G Gilman pseudonym and the million selling spaghetti westerns in print- Edge and Steele Fanatical ThoughtsFanatics from around the world have their say on the letters page The Paperback DungeonUpdates and corrections to previous features, as well as the latest news, reviews and gossip Men's AdventureIn this first instalment of a regular feature on Men's Adventure pulps, The Fanatic looks at the Malko super-spy series Pulp Horror Has Risen From The Grave!The concluding part to The Fanatic’s study of the classic horror pulps of the 1970s So there you go! Can't wait to see it out there. I think the launch event will be at the ABC Fair in London in November, so nearer the time I'll be looking to drum up some support from various alcoholic memebers of this board to turn up and cause mischief!
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Post by justin on Aug 25, 2008 8:31:10 GMT
There is a newer cover which I've just sent over which maybe you could share- hopefully it's more representative of the mag than the one below showing a bunch of yellowing, stained, dubious smut pulps.
On second thoughts....
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Post by dem bones on Aug 25, 2008 8:50:26 GMT
Ha! Your finger on the pulse Vault, home of the "slight technical error"! OK, slightly less sordid but still unmistakable PF, this is the real new cover! Thanks for forwarding this, Justin and congratulations on the impending tiny Fanatic!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 25, 2008 9:13:24 GMT
That looks splendid - How do I get a copy?
(I'll buy anything with Chetwynd-Hayes or Michael Moorcock on the cover and I am not ashamed. Which is why I'm here I suppose)
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Post by Calenture on Aug 25, 2008 9:19:55 GMT
Jim Steranko, The Ivy League VampireThe Fanatic takes its regular look at the classic paperback artists – this time it’s the legendary Jim Steranko under The Fanatic microscope... Confessions of a Paperback FanaticThe full story behind the mag you hold in your very hands! Edgar Rice Burroughs in paperbackWith a Princess of Mars movie in production, The Fanatic digs out its collection of British ERB paperbacks and takes a trip to Mars, Venus and Pellucidar These are the parts I'll be most interested in reading. I've got just one or two of Jim Steranko's legendary 'psychedelic' S.H.I.E.L.D comics from 1960s Marvel. The story was that Steranko got more interested in writing his history of comics than adding to that history himself, leaving a lot of Marvel collectors disgruntled. Including me. His work from that time is a little dated, but quite fascinating. Confessions of a Paperback Fanatic of course needs no explanation. These morbid explorations of hopelessly addicted and obsessed characters are always amusing. And the Mars and Venus books, and an author who had to start his own publishing company to keep up with his output, yay! Bring on the Fish Men and the magnificent Dejah Thoris! Almost unreadable now, but so influential on ancient Vaulters when in their teens! And Craig Herbertson in his dotage. And I suppose if the new publisher is doing the proofreading, I suppose I'll have to forgive Justin for not asking me to do it again. *sniff*
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Post by dem bones on Aug 25, 2008 9:24:10 GMT
It's coming in November, John, and you can be sure it will be getting a goodly plug or several on here nearer the time! Here's the site. Bear in mind that Justin recently advised us that 1-7 are now all sold out! www.thepaperbackfanatic.com/index.htm
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 25, 2008 10:57:08 GMT
I'll defend Burroughs till I drop. Great storyteller, never mind facts or political correctness, bring on the hero, the heroine, the villain and the ray guns. I had all these early editions and sold them several times. in fact i have some great looking copies still on the shelf that might just require rereading
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Post by allysonbird on Aug 25, 2008 12:50:18 GMT
Totally agree Craig - I was brought up on Edgar Rice Burroughs. I used go through all my dad's pulp fiction collection. When I found Burroughs I was in pure heaven.
A film in the making - I'll definately want to see it.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 25, 2008 20:46:54 GMT
The bad news Allyson is that as far as I know its a Disney film of A Princess of Mars.
Early Disney - and I'm talking here Pinnocheo was really rather fab but I dread to think what they will do to a book that I read about a hundred times as a ten year old. I don't think i could go and watch it without part of me dying.
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Post by allysonbird on Aug 26, 2008 1:34:19 GMT
We could always hope it gets cancelled Craig - if not I'll skip it. I'd rather keep my memories.
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Post by sean on Aug 26, 2008 7:52:16 GMT
I'll defend Burroughs till I drop. Great storyteller, never mind facts or political correctness Craig, have you ever encountered a story called 'The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod' by Philip Jose Farmer - its Tarzan rewritten as by William S rather than Edgar R. Very funny it is too. Well, strange at least. Apparently Farmer considered rewriting 'Nova Mob' in Edgar's style, but gave up after a couple of pages!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 26, 2008 8:46:21 GMT
No Sean. I'll look out for it. I read Tarzan Alive by Farmer which you've probably read too. It's great - the real Tarzan is filthy, lazy and illiterate, with teeth falling out and he spends his time masturbating or buggering anything that moves.
I think the alternate image that Farmer offers is a great antidote to believing in all the hero bullshit but then again I also maintain that the idealistic Tarzan is worth believing in too. I'm rereading Tarzan and the Forbidden City - its a novel that receives a terrible slamming from the critics. Its preposterous, full of stereotypes and unlikely coincidences. Yet by page 50 Tarzan has rescued two gorgeous women from cannibals or lions, one of them has just been abducted by an imaginary ape and the villain. already greasy, has become insane; at least four people have fallen in love and have been shooting or punching each other and half the cast are wandering the jungle in peril of their lives having crashed their plane. Mystery voices are sounding from the jungle and we haven't even reached the impossible underwater cities.
It was my first Burroughs book read at the age of nine and it had more addictive effects than crack cocaine
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