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Welcome to the bookstore for Doc Talos publications! The Doc Talos series offers a mature-audience pastiche of the classic pulp hero Doc Savage.

Born from a love of classic pulp adventure, these books strive to elevate that form of storytelling for adult readers, bringing a new dimension of emotional and intellectual depth to the landscape of New Pulp.

To order any books, please email a list of the titles and formats you are interested in to: taloschronicle@gmail.com We can answer any questions you might have, then process your order via PayPal, check or money order.

ABYSS by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon. 267 pages, paperback — Book dimensions: 6 x 9 – EXPLICIT CONTENT – FOR ADULTS ONLY

Volume 1 of the Talos Chronicle

In Victorian London, Dr. James Wilder is drawn into a secret society that engages in powerful rituals of sex and death.

The Gnostic Archons have mastered techniques that result in extended life, and the cult’s leader, the charismatic “archdemoness” Ruha, has further plans of her own to create a dominant figure within the Gnostic cult: a Primal Man. Ruha’s daughter, a sophisticated albino outlaw named Grace X, opposes these designs, and the two women become locked in a bloody conflict for control of the Archons. Caught in the midst of this secret war, Dr. Wilder is ravaged, body and soul.

Successful in her revolution to overthrow the Archons, Grace leads an expedition to the sanctuary of the Archon cult, in Central Africa. Instead of ushering these ancient powers into the Age of Reason, disaster overtakes the expedition, which is consumed in a frenzied orgy of death and transformation. By the story’s end, Wilder will become Talos, an embodiment of violent lust that will soon cast its shadow across London, and history.

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ALLEYS by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon. 153 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT – FOR ADULTS ONLY

Volume 2 of the Talos Chronicle

Spiraling between Victorian London and primitive Central Africa, Alleys tells the story of Dr. James Talos Sr. in his final descent from enlightened, idealistic physician to becoming Jack the Ripper.

Now the husband of Ruha, leader of the Gnostic Archon cult, Talos’ reason is overwhelmed in a storm of violent sexual psychosis. He preys on the prostitutes of Whitechapel as part of a ritual he barely understands, in order to nurture occult qualities in his and Ruha’s son, the nascent Primal Man.

The narrative volleys from moments of cool reason to hallucinogenic episodes of searing madness. Talos perpetrates each of Jack’s murders clinging to the hope that he can subvert an atavistic evil – he runs a gantlet that includes experiences of revelation, flashes of strange and violent beauty, and uncontrolled brutal lust. It is an unforgettable plunge into the soul’s darkest corners, and lays bare secrets that haunt the world to this day.

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TOWERS by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon. 181 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

Volume 3 of the Talos Chronicle

The 1939 New York World’s Fair becomes the focal point of terrible wonders as Dr. James Talos and Lord John Grersoun become enmeshed in plots by the prime Archons to manipulate the destinies of both men.

Doc Talos is the target of Saklas, the Archon Demiurge…the “World’s Fair Ogre”. A mystery unfolds as a strange figure from the past returns, and events move toward a shocking burst of violence during the Fair’s opening Gala. Lord Grersoun and his wife Lady Helen are simultaneously being seduced by the Gnostic Archdemoness Ruha, culminating in an orgy of sex and murder inside Salvador Dali’s World’s Fair surrealist house, the Dream of Venus.

Opening Day of the World’s Fair will end in death…but for whom?

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SAVAGES by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 249 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

Volume 4 of the Talos Chronicle

Set in the late 1960’s, Doc Talos and Lord Grersoun are pitted against one another in a deadly encounter across Central Africa and Scotland, with both antagonists provoked into a condition of sexual insanity. Once-heroic figures, they are deep in a state called the blood-phase, which vaults them into uncontrolled arousal connected to violence and murder.

The battle with the secret society of Gnostic Archons comes to a head when Ruha, one of the cult’s co-leaders, murders the Demiurge Saklas, and intends for either Talos or Grersoun – whichever one survives – to take his place.

Savages is a roaring engine of pulp blood and thunder, re-imagining the Sixties sexually-explicit adventure writings of Philip José Farmer. Fifty years after that seminal storytelling, it brings a psychological edge and new boldness to a classic of adult fiction.

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PASSAGES by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 142 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

Volume 5 of the Talos Chronicle

This memoir of the adult life of James Talos Jr. spans over fifty years in the form of stream-of-consciousness thought. It keys on two events: his ultimately-deadly encounter with the beautiful and vicious gangster Maria the Saint in the 1920’s, and the aftermath of the war with the Gnostic Archons in the 1970’s.

His relationship with the woman he thinks is his cousin, Rickie Talos, is also explored in powerful depth. Forty years of their sexual affair is laid bare, plunging deep into the intense passions and violent obsessions that drive them both.

That violence, and both the shadows and realities of death, come full circle from the events that shaped Doc’s father into Jack the Ripper, through his own journey to become a man embodying peace and hope.

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MADONNAS by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon. 234 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

Volume 6 of the Talos Chronicle

In the not-distant future, Doc Talos, in his arctic retreat, prepares to conduct a bold and dangerous experiment: the revivification of the murdered prime Archon, Ruha.

Using virtual reality techniques, he first interacts with the women in his history. Not just Ruha, but Mona, the woman he almost married, and his half-sister Grace, who had been slaughtered by Jack the Ripper over 150 years before. Reality and fantasy blur, until Talos’ own sanity slips toward collapse.

The experiment precipitates a catastrophe, and all contact with Doc in his retreat is lost. Rickie Talos and Lord John Grersoun travel to the arctic to find out what’s happened, and they too are swallowed up in a cyber-psychotic ordeal of sex and death.

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ESOTERICA is a collection of short stories, art, features and photos. It includes tales featuring Doc’s aides, Rickie Talos stories, a collection of short stories set during WWII, art gallery features by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, and a photo pictorial of Rickie Talos. — EXPLICIT CONTENT — ADULTS ONLY

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Omnibus Editions

THE TALOS CHRONICLE OMNIBUS #1 by R. Paul Sardanas, 800 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

Combined for the first time in a single volume! All six books of The Talos Chronicle (text-only without color illustrations). Includes WWII and post-pulp era short stories.

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THE TALOS OMNIBUS #2: TALOS PULP by R. Paul Sardanas (with selected short stories by author colleagues), 800 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

Contains all five of the classic-pulp pastiche novels, Wolves, Fear, Fortress, Yesterday and Annihilation, plus the two character anthologies Rickie and Mona. Plus photostory extras.

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All of the full page painted illustrations for The Talos Chronicle in one volume, on special 80# highest quality print stock. 375 color plates.

THE ART OF THE TALOS CHRONICLE by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 375 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

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All of the full page painted illustrations for five Doc Talos classic pulp re-imaginings in one volume, on special 80# highest quality print stock. 270 full color plates.

THE ART OF TALOS PULP by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 270 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

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RICKIE by R. Paul Sardanas & 4 Archon Agents, 248 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

Despite appearing in forty original Doc Savage pulps, Pat Savage rarely got to truly shine. Rickie takes its own independent path, expanding and deepening the vitality and mystique in a new pastiche of this beloved character.

Rickie will take the reader along with Patricia Talos from her early life as a teenager (and avid pulp reader) in Canada, to her arrival in 1930’s New York, to her career as a businesswoman and aviatrix, to her place as the Primal Woman within the secret society that shadows and shapes the lives of the Talos family.

Across the tapestry of Rickie’s life, the reader will experience her growth and evolution as a woman of strength and remarkable heart. There are tributes to Lester Dent and the “Kenneth Robesons”, a visit to behind-the-scenes Hollywood where Rickie was almost cast in the sequel to The Man of Bronze film. You’ll visit a Harlem nightclub in the 1930’s (where the truth about the “real” King Kong is revealed), experience the end of the pulp era in a 1950 tale, and celebrate New Year’s Eve with Rickie, Doc and the gang in the Fifties. You’ll see Rickie’s role as a WASP pilot in WWII. You’ll burst into the era of modern tech and beyond.

Rickie has a total of 23 tales, told chronologically from the 20th to the 21st centuries. In addition to a Foreword exploring the long history of Pat Savage stories and pastiches, there are tales by Doc Talos creator R. Paul Sardanas, and by superb authors Atom Mudman Bezecny, D. B. Brodie, Joe S. Stuart, and André Vathier. Almost 90 black and white digital art illustrations bring these unforgettable characters and stories to life.

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MONA by R. Paul Sardanas & a Cadre of Archon Agents, 153 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

Elegant, brilliant, kind…she is the woman deeply loved by James “Doc” Talos, Jr., and this is their bittersweet love story.

Beginning in 1920’s Guatemala, this collection of short stories, vignettes and art by R. Paul Sardanas, Atom Mudman Bezecny, Marissa Sarno, Andre Vathier and Grace Ximenez presents the arc of Mona Chayak’s life as a young sculptor, on to a display of her work at the 1939 World’s Fair, a glimpse of her life during World War II, her intended marriage to James Talos…and the dissolution then redemption of much that she holds dear.

Black and white digital art illustrations bring further dimension and emotion to these poignant tales.

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WOLVES by R. Paul Sardanas & Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 203 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

The year is 1934…Alec Talos, younger brother of Doc’s deceased father, lives in the Canadian Pacific Northwest, and his estate is under siege by a vicious group calling themselves the “Werewolf Gang”. Looking to recruit assistance, Alec, his daughter Rickie, and a Native American couple, Jeremiah Travels-by-Water and Miriam Small Cloud, go south to Seattle, and run afoul not only of gang members, but the gang’s secret leaders, the Gnostic Archons.

In a burst of shocking violence, Alec is killed, and Rickie calls on her famous cousin Doc Talos, for aid. At the snowbound Canadian Talos estate, these forces clash in a conflict underscored by occult manipulations that will shadow the Talos family for decades to come.

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FEAR by R. Paul Sardanas & Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 157 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

A bizarre gang called the Dead Sun Mob involve Doc Talos, his five aides, and his cousin Rickie in a violent struggle over what may or may not be the Fountain of Youth.

A woman born in 1874 who looks a fraction of her age, a drug kingpin who can murder by intimate touch, and an anarchistic outlaw who bears a strange resemblance to a fictional jungle lord unleash a death-erotic nightmare. Beginning in Depression-era Miami and New York, the conflict will reach its deadly climax at the mysterious Terror Cay in the Caribbean.

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FORTRESS by R. Paul Sardanas & Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 122 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

In the year 1938, a small group of purged Russian scientists are expelled from a Siberian gulag, then transported to the arctic Greenland coast and abandoned. Led by the charismatic outlaw Sergei Illumus, they discover a mysterious domed installation, which proves to be a place of both wonders and terrors.

It is the arctic retreat of Dr. James Talos…the man known to most as “Doc”. Inside the sanctuary are weapons of horrific destruction, as well as books, notes and films that provide a deep and nuanced look into the psyche and heart of one the Twentieth Century’s most enigmatic figures.

Illumus must decide if the man whose drives, ambitions and demons are an uncanny mirror of his own, should be an ally or opponent…to be embraced or killed.

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ANNIHILATION by R. Paul Sardanas & Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 149 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

In the year 1972, Dr. James Talos removes a woman serving a life sentence for a brutal murder from prison, and brings her to the Greenfields Institute…the “Crime College” where he has rehabilitated violent and destructive people for decades. But this time things are different: Faith Carnahan is the daughter of the mob assassin James himself killed in 1928, and his desire to redeem her life becomes entangled in his yearning for personal atonement.

1960’s and ’70’s radical movements, crime, cults, music, comix and social upheaval provide a dark tapestry that James and Faith must grapple with…and hoped-for redemption may prove impossible.

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YESTERDAY by R. Paul Sardanas & Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 149 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

In the year 1948, Rickie Talos is going through a dark period in her life. Her decades-long affair with her cousin, Dr. James Talos, has come to an end, and though accepting the situation, it has left her bitter and restless.

In this state of mind, she becomes entangled in the underground world of the violently erotic Church of Thelema. The author of a subversive book about the roots of the cult becomes obsessed with Rickie as an embodiment of both Scarlet Woman and Primal Woman, and soon she is all but swamped in a dangerous, bloody and sexual conflict within the Thelemic occult circle.

As a winter blizzard clamps down on Manhattan, this struggle for ascendancy comes to a head in a secret Greenwich Village shrine where the divine feminine is worshiped…and if Rickie survives, she will be changed forever.

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MONTAGE by R. Paul Sardanas & Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, 222 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

The first Doc Talos flip book!

In a panorama spanning the 1930’s to the 1960’s, Doc Talos and his father are linked through a series of enigmatic and dangerous films, all either starring or produced by Damaris Emem, who is also the Archon Archdemoness Ruha.

From a pre-Code Hollywood horror film, to the mysterious and never completed Orson Welles opus Heart of Darkness…on through a besieged Berlin at the end of World War II, to a controversial Biblical epic and an intense giallo, threads of celluloid weave together a montage of the 20th Century’s passions.

The elder Talos will die at the top of the Empire State building on a snowy night in 1932, and in 1964, his son will come to understand the pain and travail of their relationship in a powerful new light.

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APOCALYPSE ISLAND/ISLAND APOCALYPSE by William Dexter & R. Paul Sardanas, 130 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9. All proceeds from this book are donated to charity.

The second Doc Talos flip book!

Setting up the tales on each side of the book, we find none other than Rickie Talos (the “real-life” inspiration for Pat Savage in the pulps) in the year 1950…one year after the death of the hero pulps. Paperbacks are now all the rage, and a new publisher hoping to jump into the void left behind when the pulps were cancelled has approached Rickie to see if he can involve her in the launching of a new line of books. She meets two ghostwriters in a New York City diner, and they brainstorm together. The authors, William Dexter and R. Paul Sardanas, both love the pulps, and along with Rickie, they come up with two very different stories. William will channel classic 1930’s pulp in a novella echoing some of the best of the “good guy” Doc Savage tales, and R. Paul will round out the double book with a short story channeling the more racy, violent “bad girl” stories coming into vogue at the beginning of the ’50’s.

Apocalypse Island goes right to the heart of 1930’s pulp adventure, taking inspiration from the 1933 Doc Savage story The Land of Terror. One of Doc’s mentors is murdered in horrifying fashion, by a weapon that evaporates organic matter. And this is just the beginning of a tale that plunges into fabulous mysteries, including an island in the Bermuda Triangle where time has gone mad.

For Island Apocalypse, imagine a scenario riffing from the opening scenes of the 1936 Doc Savage novel The Black Spot…a gangster/moll themed party thrown by an eccentric millionaire. In attendance at Long Island Sound’s Rat Island we find Rickie Talos herself. Everyone is expecting a good, slightly wicked time. No one is expecting the party to become a killing frenzy as all the guests are poisoned by a vengeful femme fatale, who promises an antidote only to the last man or woman standing.

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MADNESS/AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, with classic original story by H.P. Lovecraft, illustrated with paintings by Nicholas Roerich. 164 pages, paperback. Book dimensions: 6 x 9.

The third Doc Talos Double flip book!

The pulp legend of HPL’s “Professor Dyer” being in actuality the Doc Savage aide Johnny Littlejohn is explored in Talos pastiche. As with all Doc Talos Doubles, the book is physically flipped over to start the second story from the other side. Madness is illustrated by powerful semi-abstract painting/collages created by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, some of which have as their foundation the above-mentioned paintings of Roerich. The flip side Lovecraft original is decorated by artwork of Roerich himself.

The stories are a study of stark contrasts…Lovecraft, of course, was devoted to the building of mood, often to the exclusion of characterization, and Sardanas shifts the focus with equal devotion to the characters. Roerich painted in a dreamlike, elegant style, and Bellerophon is fierce and dynamically experimental. The result is two stories that take a single concept to wildly divergent ends: from cosmological weight to the immediacy of the human mind and heart.

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WE ARE CONNECTED BY INVISIBLE LINKS by André Vathier and R. Paul Sardanas with archival photo illustrations and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon artwork, 82 pages, paperback. EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

A tale from the late 19th, early 20th century takes Thomas Davies, possible bastard grandson of the Gnostic Archon Demiurge, from London to Gabon in West Africa. As a member of the French Foreign Legion, Thomas encounters the apelike Folk, the almost-legendary Fon warrior women, and survives the slaughter of his legionnaire comrades to come face to face with powerful, primal mysteries.

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STAINS by Atom Mudman Bezecny with full color illustrations by R. Paul Sardanas, 92 pages, paperback. EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

In a bold fusion of the Talos mythos and pulp horror, Atom Mudman Bezecny presents a harrowing, unforgettable story of a family corrupted and destroyed under the influence of the Gnostic Archon Archdemoness, Ruha.

Across a span of decades, an eerie psychological mirror-image of the events of The Talos Chronicle comes into focus. But when applied to common people rather than heroic superlatives, the occult techniques of transformation and apotheosis infect and corrode the minds of all those who become involved, with consequences that become the stuff of nightmare.

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There are five stories in the collection, four of which have appeared in Doc Talos Magazine, and one which has been newly created for this book.

In a pre-WWI tale, Private Andy Kingman encounters Nikola Tesla at his Wardenclyffe laboratory, amid a complex web involving a mysterious double, German spies, and the notorious Tesla death ray.

In arctic Greenland in the 1930’s, John Renner must fight for the lives of a small band of scientists in the shadow of Doc’s “fortress of solitude”, against a madman who has become a human monster.

Doc’s cousin Rickie Talos impulsively investigates a gathering of serial killers, but before she can even get there, she is plunged into a life and death struggle with a brutal murderer.

A dying girl’s final dream comes true, when she journeys to New York City to visit its legendary Big Building, and a newsboy helps her meet her hero, Doc Talos.

A wild road trip for the ages, as Rickie Talos, John Renner and Andy Kingman are tasked with the delivery of a mysterious package, and on the way take part in an epic eating contest and foil a desperate theft, then run afoul of a cadre of femme fatale foreign agents.

THE KILLER: FIVE DOC TALOS TALES by Glen Held

135 pages, 6 x 9 deluxe paperback, with cover and black and white interior illustrations by R. Paul Sardanas. Foreword by Sardanas, Afterword by Held. $12 plus shipping, or $5 for PDF download.

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THE HILLS OF THE UNCONSOLED DEAD by R. Paul Sardanas & Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, hardcover. Book dimensions: 9 X 7 — EXPLICIT CONTENT — FOR ADULTS ONLY

This is a unique book in the Doc Talos library. A gorgeous, 9 x 7 landscape-format hardcover, with art reproduced on the highest quality paper stock. A “deluxe short story”, channeling classic pulp, daring eros and modern high literature as it weaves together themes pioneered by creators as diverse as Robert E. Howard, Philip José Farmer, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

The artwork too is something new and special — sprawling, powerful collages by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, which viscerally transport the reader into this hybrid world of storytelling.

Set in close to the present day, Rickie Talos receives a birthday gift from James Talos: a virtual reality program of unprecedented sophistication. She uses it to immerse herself into the story of one of her favorite pulp tales, Robert E. Howard’s The Hills of the Dead. For her companion in the experience, she chooses a man she had liked and admired, but who had died in Africa fifty years earlier.

Expecting it to be an intense, violent, sexual game, it quickly becomes far more, as the presence of the dead all around her ratchets Rickie’s own emotions, compulsions and desires to a fever pitch.

Will anyone leave the hills of the dead alive?

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This book of collected Rickie Talos (pastiche of the pulp character Pat Savage) art is now available in both hardcover and PDF. In the form of a “photo album”, it presents scenes from Rickie’s life from a period that parallels the heyday of the pulps, beginning in 1930 with her as a teenager in Canada, and continuing to the end of the 1940’s, with Rickie in her mid-thirties. The book is assembled into four blocks of time, showcasing her early life, her arrival in New York City and her beginnings as a business entrepreneur, her service in the WASPs during WWII, and her postwar life up to the threshold of the 1950’s.

Overall, there are forty photorealistic portraits of Rickie across the years, done by Doc Talos co-creator R. Paul Sardanas. For lovers of the classic character Pat Savage, the book provides both an admiring tribute and a visual adventure.

RICKIE TALOS: A RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PULP YEARS 1930-1949: Prestige 8.5″ x 8.5″ hardcover, full color, 40 pages. $24.00 plus shipping. Also available as a PDF download: $5.00

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Doc Talos Magazine

DOC TALOS MAGAZINE Issue #1 – July/Aug 2023 – 64 pages. Printed magazine: $19.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Contents:

Introduction by R. Paul Sardanas

The Shy Man by Leslie Payton – in 1919 New York, James Talos experiences his first night of intimacy.

Midnight in the House of Endings by R. Paul Sardanas/artwork by Fugazi – in Victorian London, a misogynistic doctor finds himself at the mercy of women he has preyed upon.

Man of Tomorrow by Don Murphy/artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – at the 1939 World’s Fair, James Talos encounters a very different “Maximus”.

Love-talk of the White Apes by R. Paul Sardanas/artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – during a spirited bout of lovemaking between John Grersoun and Rickie Talos, she demands to hear some poetry, and he obliges — in the language of the apes.

Wolves, Part 1 by R. Paul Sardanas/artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – first of a four-part serialization of the pastiche novel based on the classic pulp Brand of the Werewolf.

Rickie Talos Wolves Poster by John Gallagher

Pinups by Fugazi, Iason Ragnar Bellerophon & R. Paul Sardanas

Men Who Smile Know More – cartoons and humor

The Observation Deck – correspondence and commentary by fans, friends, and creators.

Pulp Community Bookstore – special section showcasing creations from around the pulp community.

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DOC TALOS MAGAZINE Issue #2 – Sept/Oct 2023 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 80 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Contents:

Editorial by R. Paul Sardanas

There is a Perfection by Joan Lee – In 1941 New York, James Talos, through secretive intermediaries, commissions author Anais Nin to write stories to illuminate the subtlety and mystery of feminine passion.

Interview With Damaris Emem conducted by DT Magazine – In 1968, at her villa in Italy, movie star (and secret leader of the Gnostic Archon cult) Damaris Emem talks frankly about the scandals, controversies, sensationalism — and subversive brilliance — of her life and career.

The Night Road by R. Paul Sardanas/artwork by Steff Murschetz – In 1931, Doc Talos travels to a dying town in a high pass of the Rocky Mountains. Determined to counter the Great Depression with agency and hope, he contemplates how great civilizations age and pass away.

Don’t Call Me Dagny by R. Paul Sardanas/artwork by RPS and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – At a social event in 1957 Manhattan, Frank O’Connor, the husband of Ayn Rand, encounters Rickie Talos, who gives him her unfiltered thoughts on the philosophy of objectivism.

Peters’ Story by Atom Mudman Bezecny/artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – An intimate horror story about father and daughter master criminals.

Wolves, Part 2 by R. Paul Sardanas/artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – Second in a four-part serialization of the pastiche novel based on the classic pulp Brand of the Werewolf.

Pinups by John Gallagher, Steff Murschetz & R. Paul Sardanas

The Observation Deck – correspondence and commentary by fans, friends, and creators.

Pulp Community Bookstore – special section showcasing creations from around the pulp community.

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Issue #3 – Nov/Dec 2023 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 74 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Contents:

Editorial by R. Paul Sardanas

Ruha Talos Initium by R. Paul Sardanas with poetry by Charles Baudelaire / artwork by SeaQuester – In 1886 on a ship bound from Africa to England, James Talos Sr. and Ruha consummate their intimate union.

Ruha Talos Terminus by R. Paul Sardanas with poetry by Dante Alighieri / artwork by John Gallagher – In 1932 in his suite at the top of the Empire State Building, James Talos Sr. is murdered by nationalistic Mayans, while Ruha watches.

Mad Eyes Donovan and the Wolf in Ape’s Clothing by Brooklyn Wright / artwork by RPS and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – On a wild rainy night in 1936, a pulp story conference with Laurence Donovan and Andy Kingman begins in a railyard and ends in a cathouse.

Halt! by Glen Held / artwork by RPS and IRB – Channeling the classic pulp tale Who Goes There?, John Renner struggles against a man turned into monster in the shadow of Doc’s Fortress of Solitude.

Madness, Part 1 by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by RPS and IRB with archival photography and posthumous collaboration with Nicholas Roerich – H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness is re-imagined, as the MIT/Johns Hopkins Antarctic Expedition of 1930-’31 penetrates into a frozen wasteland of horror and death.

Wolves, Part 3 by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – Third in a four-part serialization of the pastiche novel based on the classic pulp Brand of the Werewolf.

Pinups by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, Steff Murschetz & R. Paul Sardanas

The Observation Deck – creators from this issue discuss their process and inspirations.

Pulp Community Bookstore – special section showcasing creations from around the pulp community.

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Issue #4 – Jan/Feb 2024 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 78 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Contents:

Editorial by R. Paul Sardanas – the William Blake connection, with painted art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon after Blake.

A Single Ray of Light by Glen Held / artwork by RPS and IRB – In 1913, Army Private Andy Kingman encounters the notorious, brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla at his Wardenclyffe laboratory in New York, and deadly chaos ensues.

Esperanza by Grace Ximenez / artwork by RPS and IRB – A pastiche epilogue to the much-loved 1970’s Marvel Doc Savage Magazine story “The Mayan Mutations”, in which Doc and missionary Esperanza Vespa share an intimate moment in the aftermath of adventure.

Son of a Gun Maybe by Andre Vathier / artwork by RPS and IRB – In 1933, a patient at Doc Talos’ “crime college” develops an erotomaniacal fixation on one of his physicians, Dr. Michael Fenris. And did the procedure to erase his memory even work?

Madness, Part 2 by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by RPS and IRB with archival photography and posthumous collaboration with Nicholas Roerich – The re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness continues, as the MIT/Johns Hopkins Antarctic Expedition of 1930-’31 unearths strange geologic specimens, and a dangerous decision is made to explore deeper into the unknown polar wastes.

Wolves, Conclusion by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – The final segment in a four-part serialization of the pastiche novel based on the classic pulp Brand of the Werewolf.

Pinups by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon & R. Paul Sardanas

The Observation Deck – creators from this issue discuss their process and inspirations.

Pulp Community Bookstore – special section showcasing creations from around the pulp community.

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Issue #5 – Mar/Apr 2024 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 72 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

SPECIAL RICKIE TALOS ISSUE!

Contents:

Editorial by R. Paul Sardanas – Reminiscences about Pat Savage/Rickie Talos in the comics, books and independent film.

The King and the Angel by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – In 1935, Rickie spends a night out in Harlem, in which she learns the “true story” of King Kong, and gets stoned for the first time.

They Should Be Behind Bars by Joe S. Stuart / artwork by IRB – In 1950, Rickie and Doc find some old pulps in a Manhattan bookstore, which prompts a discussion about who loved them (Rickie) and who didn’t (Doc).

The Killer by Glen Held / artwork by IRB – In 1935, Rickie hears Doc and his aides discussing a gathering of serial killers, which Rickie — to prove herself — decides to crash ahead of the boys. Before she even gets there, she runs afoul of a killer with a Zorro fetish, and must fight hard for her life.

Steely Dan III from Yokohama by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – In the not-so-distant future, Rickie is put on the trail of a rogue samurai/cult leader who has taken possession of an Archon sword with distinctly horrifying attributes.

Elegant Beast by Maxie Vega / artwork by IRB – A powerful poem that crystalizes the duality of passion and violence in the lives of Rickie and Doc.

Rickie the Pulp Goddess by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – A tour-de-force of 22 artworks depicting the fierce charisma of Rickie Talos.

The Observation Deck – creators from this issue discuss their process and inspirations.

Pulp Community Bookstore – special section showcasing creations from around the pulp community.

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Issue #6 -May/Jun 2024 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 70 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Contents:

Editorial by R. Paul Sardanas – Creating the appearance of Doc Talos from iconic past depictions of Doc Savage.

Tales of the Big Building: The Girl From Missouri by Glen Held / artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – The touching tale of a young fan whose last wish is to meet Doc Talos.

There is Sorrow Enough by Don Murphy / artwork by RPS and IRB – In 1931, James Talos says farewell to the beloved dog he saved from death a decade before.

The Foundation of Beauty by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by RPS and IRB – John Grersoun is railroaded by Damaris Emem (AKA Ruha) into doing a violently erotic film for her own mysterious purposes.

Tobacco and Other Consumable Ash Residue… written and illustrated by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – Examination of a bizarre book unlocks esoteric secrets.

Madness, Part 3 by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – The penultimate chapter of the Talos pastiche re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness.

Smiling, to the Death by RPS / artwork by John Gallagher – Rickie Talos takes part in an Archon erotic death tournament.

The Observation Deck – creators from this issue discuss their process and inspirations.

Pulp Community Bookstore – special section showcasing creations from around the pulp community.

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Issue #7 – Fall 2024 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 64 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Contents:

Editorial by R. Paul Sardanas – Exploring the poetic voice of A Feast Unknown.

Italian Ices and Earth Wreckers by D. B. Brodie with visual excerpts from Doc Savage Magazine #5 – In 1976, Rickie Talos and Harry Kingman (son of the Talos pastiche of Monk Mayfair) spend a day at the beach on Coney Island and pick up the latest copy of the Marvel Doc Savage magazine to read.

Madness, Part 4 by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – The concluding chapter of the Talos pastiche re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness.

I am James, I am Patricia by RPS / artwork by IRB – Poetry and art portraying how fictional characters can become passionately merged with their readers.

The Scripture of Ghost and Lion by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – A powerful, sweeping blend of poetry, philosophy and Talos history spanning life and death in the Talos family from the 18th to the 19th centuries.

In Cold Blood by Richard Lawrence / artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – In Truman Capote’s harrowing classic of murder and its consequences, Capote cites Doc Savage’s “Crime College”. In this tale, Capote and Doc Talos meet and discuss both the horrors and hoped-for redemptions for those who succumb to crime.

Nails, Part 1 by RPS / artwork by IRB – A major story in the Doc Talos canon begins in serialized form, as Rickie Talos is kidnapped in Africa by a false “Tarzan”, then imprisoned in the Archon Sanctuary, where she is subjected to a nightmare of indoctrination by the cult’s leader, Ruha.

The Observation Deck – creators from this issue discuss their process and inspirations.

Pulp Community Bookstore – special section showcasing creations from around the pulp community.

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Issue #8 – Winter 2024 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 66 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Contents:

Editorial by R. Paul Sardanas – Advocacy, Inclusiveness and Dignity in New Pulp.

Midnight Coffee After the Screamin’ Jay Moondog Doc Talos Ruha Jam Howl by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – In 1967, four remarkable individuals (James Talos, Damaris Emem, “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins and “Moondog” Hardin) gather in New York City and make music together that becomes a primal experience. Afterward they talk together in a nearby coffee shop.

Daughter of the King by Marissa Sarno / artwork by R. Paul Sardanas – In 1949, James Talos travels to Guatemala to visit Mona Chayak during a traditional festival…and asks her to marry him.

He Shakes the Earth & Waves of Death by RPS / artwork by IRB – Two short stories set in Japan just before the full outbreak of World War II explore passionate interludes for Bill Johnson and Tom White (Talos avatars of Johnny Littlejohn and Long Tom Roberts).

Nails, Part 2 by RPS / artwork by IRB – A major story in the Doc Talos canon continues in serialized form, as Rickie Talos, kidnapped in Africa by a false “Tarzan”, is imprisoned in the Archon Sanctuary, where she is subjected to a nightmare of indoctrination by the cult’s leader, Ruha.

In Destruction’s Dance by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – In 1886, Radhika Jamarayan, proprietress of the Solon brothel in London — a center of opposition to the Gnostic Archon cult — experiences the last hour of her life.

Fear, Part 1 by R. Paul Sardanas / artwork by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – The serialized re-imagining of the classic Doc Savage adventure Fear Cay begins, as an anarchic gang called the Dead Sun Mob embroil Doc Talos, his aides, and Rickie Talos in a scheme which may or may not include the actual Fountain of Youth.

The Observation Deck – creators from this issue discuss their process and inspirations.

Pulp Community Bookstore – special section showcasing creations from around the pulp community.

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Issue #9 – January 2025 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 70 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Contents:

Editorial by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – Dossier of Gnostic code in the body of Doc Talos.

Occidendum by RPS and IRB – In Victorian London, two homicidal characters, Edward Hyde and Marion Bama, discuss their philosophies on a day that begins in a graveyard and ends in a bedroom that only one will emerge from alive.

The Apparency of an Answer by RPS and IRB – The founder and promulgator of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, slips into a psychotic episode of intense fear that he is going to be taken down by a pulp character, or the real-life avatar of that character, Doc Talos.

Nails, Part 3 by RPS and IRB – The serialization of this major novel in the Doc Talos canon continues, as Rickie Talos, imprisoned in the African sanctuary of the Gnostic Archons in 1968, is subjected to powerful indoctrination by the Archon leader, Ruha.

Fear, Part 2 by RPS and IRB – The second episode of the Talos re-imagining of the classic Doc Savage novel Fear Cay, set in 1935. Doc, his five aides, and Rickie Talos square off against the bizarre Dead Sun Mob and the Jungle Rot Kid, who may or may not possess the secret of the Fountain of Youth.

The Observation Deck – creators from this issue discuss their process and inspirations.

Pulp Community Bookstore – special section showcasing creations from around the pulp community.

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Issue #10 – May 2025 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 64 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Editorial – by R. Paul Sardanas: A look at how juxtaposing pulp and classic literature enriches both.

Music in the Unearthly Night – by RPS and IRB: On the night before the opening of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, James Talos takes his almost-but-not-quite lady love for a stroll through the wonders of the Fair.

Goddess of the Luminous Void – by RPS and IRB: In 1950’s New Haven, teacher and critic Harold Bloom is invited to a performance of Macbeth, starring the notorious (and scandalous) Damaris Emem. Their backstage conversation transforms the event into a night of revelation.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North – by Donald R. Cannon, art by RPS and IRB: After the battle of Saipan in World War II, Dr. James Talos and a blinded Japanese soldier struggle to reconcile their philosophies of peace with the horrible realities of war.

A Beast Unblown: One is One and All Alone and Ever More Shall Be It So – by RPS and IRB: Chapter One of a strange epic written in the style of William S. Burroughs introduces the mystical legacy of Jack the Ripper.

Nails, Part 4 – by RPS and IRB: Rickie Talos, her resistance faltering from an onslaught of psychological and physical indoctrination by the Archon Archdemoness Ruha, is expelled from the African sanctuary of the Gnostic cult, only to find herself trapped with a homicidal proto-human.

Fear, Part 3 – by RPS and IRB: The penultimate chapter of the Doc Talos re-imagining of the classic pulp novel Fear Cay.

The Observation Deck: Thoughts and insights from this issue’s creators.

Pulp Community Bookstore: New Pulp authors, artists and publishers share news and links to their latest projects.

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Issue #11 – Fall 2025 – front and back cover art by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon – 62 pages. Printed magazine: $21.00 plus shipping – PDF download: $5.00

Special John Grersoun (the Talos pastiche of Lord Greystoke) issue!

Contents:

Editorial – by R. Paul Sardanas: A look at the similarities and differences between John Greystoke and John Grersoun.

La Land – by R. Paul Sardanas & Iason Ragnar Bellerophon: In 1962, Grersoun is sent by the Archons to remonstrate with one of their agents who has gone rogue. Her name: Marilyn Monroe.

Forest Spirits – by Atom Mudman Bezecny and IRB: In Guatemala after her aborted wedding to Doc Talos, Mona Chayak encounters a brutal, delusional revolutionary, and fights against him by Grersoun’s side.

A Beast Unblown: Two, Two, the Lilywhite Boys – by RPS and IRB: The second chapter in the bizarre tale of the Jungle Rot Kid.

Rickie and Her Mate – by RPS and IRB: On a snowy Manhattan afternoon, Grersoun’s decades-long affair with Rickie Talos comes to an end.

Nails, Part 5 – by RPS and IRB: In 1968 Africa, in the aftermath of a lethal battle with a proto-human, Rickie Talos and Grersoun have a feverish erotic encounter.

Fear, Part 4 – by RPS and IRB: The climax of the Talos re-imagining of the classic Doc Savage novel Fear Cay.

The Observation Deck: Thoughts and insights from this issue’s creators.

Pulp Community Bookstore: New Pulp authors, artists and publishers share news and links to their latest projects.

Special Art Edition Paperbacks

The special art editions of the Talos Chronicle are identical to the clear text editions listed above, but are composed entirely of full color scans of the raw paintings and paint-spattered texts that comprise the original manuscript of the books. It is like reading a secret document, exhumed from a dark and mysterious past. While they provide the richest views of Iason Bellerophon’s art, the text in them can be challenging to read. So for every purchase of an Art Edition, we are happy to provide a clear PDF download of the book’s text at no additional charge. Here is a sample of how the pages look compared to the standard clear text editions:

All art editions are $30 each in paperback, $10 for PDF download. The art editions all have wraparound covers with different painted art than the standard editions.

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