The second volume of the Rickie Talos retrospective of photorealistic images is now available. Picking up from where the first volume left off, the book covers the post-pulp years of 1950-1979. The era of classic pulp magazines came to an end in 1949, but Rickie’s life went on. The book is divided into four sections:Continue reading “Rickie Talos: the Post-Pulp Years”
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Rickie Talos: A Retrospective of the Pulp Years 1930-1949
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…Continue reading “Rickie Talos: A Retrospective of the Pulp Years 1930-1949”
2024 Rickie Talos Calendar
She is without doubt the poster woman of the Doc Talos world…at turns dynamic, tough, elegant, brilliant and fierce. This is Rickie Talos. Pastiche of the classic pulp character Pat Savage, Rickie is “Pat Unleashed”. Scroll down to view page after page of the Talos woman of bronze for each month of 2024. The RickieContinue reading “2024 Rickie Talos Calendar”
Columbia Pat Savage, Part 3
Guest blogger Atom Mudman Bezecny wraps up her look at the 1930’s Columbia Pictures movie series featuring the magnificent Pat Savage. The films that never were…but should have been. __________ PAT SAVAGE, GIRL GANGBUSTER (1938) Saving the best for last: the poster for the third Pat movie captures the glamour and giddiness the series embodied.Continue reading “Columbia Pat Savage, Part 3”
Columbia Pat Savage, Part 2
Guest blogger Atom Mudman Bezecny continues her tour-de-force 1930’s cinematic history of Pat Savage by Columbia Pictures… ________ PAT SAVAGE – LADY LANCELOT (1937) A jail guard flinches at the eerie look in Pat’s eyes in this lobby card for the second Pat Savage movie. Is that a hint of a Mona Lisa smile onContinue reading “Columbia Pat Savage, Part 2”
Columbia Pat Savage, Part 1
Many thanks to guest blogger Atom Mudman Bezecny, who takes us deep into the movie career of Pat Savage…that never was. But oh, if it only had been… _____________ In the early days of cinema, movie theaters operated rather differently than they do today. Instead of offering a single A-tier feature for the price ofContinue reading “Columbia Pat Savage, Part 1”
Review of the Rickie Talos anthology
(Grace Ximenez hosted a noir/story/roleplay/film site for almost a decade, and headlined three pulp-peril short-story collections called The Grace X Anthologies. She is the author of the Doc Talos fan fiction story “Esperanza”, and was the primary inspiration for the character “Grace X” in The Talos Chronicle.) Rickie, by R. Paul Sardanas, Atom Mudman Bezecny,Continue reading “Review of the Rickie Talos anthology”
Pre-release sale for the Rickie Talos anthology
Rickie, the big anthology collection of vignettes, short stories, novellas and artwork featuring the Doc Talos pastiche of the classic pulp character Pat Savage, will debut on July 15! Despite appearing in forty original Doc Savage pulps, Pat Savage rarely got to truly shine. In more recent years, fans of Pat have been treated toContinue reading “Pre-release sale for the Rickie Talos anthology”
Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 15
The most recent appearance of John Sunlight in a mainstream venue was in the 2017 Dynamite Entertainment comic book limited series Doc Savage: The Ring of Fire. The author of this story is David Avallone, and the interior art is by Dave Acosta. This is also the last time (to date) that a Doc SavageContinue reading “Omnipresent Sunlight: Doc Savage’s archenemy – Part 15”
Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: I Died Yesterday
A few months back, I did a review of the story I Died Yesterday, but in essence it was more a discussion of my long literary love for the character Pat Savage, and how it reached one of its peaks in my reading of this short novel, which is narrated by her. In the contextContinue reading “Five first-person encounters with a man of bronze: I Died Yesterday”
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