Archive for January, 2010

Lone Ranger Covers

Here are the covers from those Lone Ranger comics I wrote about yesterday.
Note that No. 14 sports the King Features Syndicate logo.  The cover is essentially an enlarged comic strip panel, pencils and inks probably by Charles Flanders.
The dramatic painting that adorns No. 108 is more difficult to credit.  It’s sunset, the Ranger has both [...]

Posted on January 28, 2010 at 5:18 am by Rich · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Comics

The Lone Ranger at Dell

A couple of great Lone Ranger posts over at David Cranmer’s blog (here and here) rekindled my own interest in the legendary masked hero, so for a quick fix I dug into my long box of comic book westerns.
Already a star of radio (1933), motion picture serials (1938) and newspaper comic strips (1938), he  came [...]

Posted on January 27, 2010 at 5:12 am by Rich · Permalink · 7 Comments
In: Comics

A Conversation With Laurie Powers, Part Two

MB: How has your life changed with the publication of Pulp Writer?
LP: Well, the best part is that is has opened up a whole new world of people for me, like those people that I’ve met through the marketing of Pulp Writer and through online groups like Pulp Mags, Western Pulps and Black Horse Westerns, [...]

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 5:30 am by Rich · Permalink · 10 Comments
In: Books, Interviews, Pulps, Writing