C.K. Gill

One of the greatest creative minds ever employed exclusively by Bulwark Publications, C.K. Gill is famous for his creations, his odd sense of humor, and his longevity in publishing. Most who met Gill found his easy smile and infectious laugh what they most remember, though more people remember his writing (which varied from strong to [...]

November 2, 2009 Tags: A.J. Soltare, AIR RAID REED, Almanarcana, AMERIKIDDO, August Villers, BARNSTORM BRADLEY, Books Bizarre, BRICK BRADLEY, Brooklyn, BROOKLYON, BULLETEENS, Bulwark Comics, Bulwark Publications, Bulwark Publishing, C.K. Gill, CALAMATINA, CATTALION, Chicago, Clark Kent, Collected C.K. Gill, Comte du San Gyrmayn, CONSTELLAGENT, Croatia, Crotia, dime-novels, DOC SCARAB, DOCTOR ENIGMA, DYNAST, editor, Ellis Island, encyclopedia, FIVE PROMETHEANS, G.U.A.R.D., Geneva House, Golden Age, Great Britain, Green Gazette, Gyrmayn Annals, HANDORR, HEADLINE HAL, historian, Illinois, John Hawksmoor, JOHN UNKNOWN, Kharm, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, MIKE MAELSTROM, Milwaukee, National Periodicals, NEWSIE, Northwestern, O.R.P.H.A.N., orphanage, Oscar Kharm, penny dreadfuls, penny papers, PHARAOHAWK, PHARLAKANS, Pierre Aurlathe, RAPTANS, research, Rupert Kharm, silver, Silver Age, Stavros Krashos, T.H.R.E.A.T., TANK TAYLOR, THEONS, Toronto, University of Chicago, urn, USAPES, Vanguard ring, Vasily Nashivev, Villers, VOID VANDALS, volume, volumeternal, William Carson, Wisconsin, World War I, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Vanguard, writer, XERXREX, ZYNTHORN Posted in: Genre-Adventure Fiction, Genre-Battle Fiction, Genre-Biography, Genre-Contemporary Fiction, Genre-Detective Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Frontier Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Genre-Holiday Fiction, Genre-Horror/Weird Fiction, Genre-Mystery Fiction, Genre-Science Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Golden Age Comics, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics, World-Vanguard One Comment

A.J. Soltare

“A.J. Soltare is one of our authors of whom we’re very proud. He has worked with Bulwark under my father and my uncles Rupert and Sebastian. He claims I’m the easiest `boss’ with whom he’s ever had to work, but I suspect I let him get away with more as he’s been around the offices [...]

July 10, 2009 Tags: "Six-Spell-Shooter", A.J. Soltare, ACE BARRIGAN, Alexander James Soltare, Arcaniac, author, bibliography, Blake Hart Montgomery, Bold as Brass, Books Bizarre, Boxing Thrills, BRASS BRADLEY, Bulwark Publications, Bulwark/Prospect, Chicago, Curtis Winter, DOC ENIGMA, Gaming Thrills, Green Gazette, H. Bedford Jones, HERO THRILLS, Ignisceror, Jack London, John Solo, KHARNDAM Collected, Kharndam Tales, Lester Dent, MISTER CONUNDRUM, Nemeses Nocturnal, Occult Thrills, ORKNEY STREET, Oscar Kharm, pseudonyms, quartet, Racing Thrills, Romance Thrills, Rupert Kharm, Sagas Supernatural, Science Thrills, Sebastian Kharm, Silver Age, Space Thrills, Tales Terrific, THE GASLIGHT, THE REDRESSOR, TRUE-LIFE MAGAZINE, Twelvelands, Underwood, Virginia Harold, Western Thrills Posted in: Genre-Adventure Fiction, Genre-Battle Fiction, Genre-Biography, Genre-Detective Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Genre-Holiday Fiction, Genre-Horror/Weird Fiction, Genre-Mystery Fiction, Genre-Science Fiction, Medium-Audio/Radio, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-TV/Movies, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Golden Age Comics, World-Kharndam, World-Seven Cities, World-Silver Age Comics, World-Vanguard 2 Comments

Bulwark Publishing: The THRILLS™ Pulps

The Bulwark THRILLS™ Pulps

Among the most popular publications Bulwark put out from the 1920’s through the 1950’s were the THRILLS™ magazines. In fact, that trademark continues today with their nonfiction magazine on gaming (now mainly electronic, but also card and role-playing) GAMING THRILLS™.

The first magazine was the only one that was a digest-sized magazine [...]

January 10, 2009 Tags: "Fairgeth on Fire", "His Teeth Made a Racket under My Fist!", "Skeletons Make a Racket", "Terror in a Blue Haze", "To Scale a Mountain of Skulls", A.J. Soltare, ACE BARRIGAN, Adventures in Combat, Air Thrills, Allied Thrills, BARNSTORM BRADLEY, Barnstorm Bradley's Air Aces, Blake Montgomery, BONNIE VILLE, bootleggers, BOSS MACKAY, Boxing Thrills, BRASS BRADLEY, Bulwark Press, Bulwark Publications, BULWARKS & BASILISKS, Carson Cullen, CHANTEUSE, Chester Blythe, cops, CRIMSON CORSAIR, DEMON FIGHTER, digest, DOCTOR ENIGMA, Edgar Rice Burroughs, FAIRGETH, FANGED DETECTIVE, gaming, Gaming Thrills, gangbusters, Gangland Thrills, GASLIGHT, Green Gazette, HERO THRILLS, John Farnsworth, Jungle Thrills, LEXICON JONES, NINE-LIVES TAYLOR, Occult Thrills, OPERATIVE #8, paperback, Pinkertons, Pirate Thrills, private eyes, pulp, RACE CLARK, Racing Thrills, REED BRAND, role-playing games, Romance Thrills, science fiction, Science Thrills, SKIDOO MARTIN, SOLOMON LAZARUS, Space Age, Space Thrills, Stan Plymouth, Thrills, TOR-KAN, Western Thrills, Wing-Walking Wonder, World of Kharndam, World War II, WWII Posted in: Genre-Adventure Fiction, Genre-Battle Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Frontier Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Genre-Horror/Weird Fiction, Genre-Mystery Fiction, Genre-Science Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Golden Age Comics, World-Kharndam, World-Seven Cities, World-Vanguard 3 Comments

Bulwark Publishing: The WISHLAND Books

Edward Ventesch wrote the original WISHLAND stories at the request of London editor E. Charles Tennet for A Child’s Wonder Stories magazine. The initial WISHLAND tales appeared monthly from July 1897 through 1903. These garnered enough response to be packaged into novelized forms (compiling and editing together six months’ worth or more of stories into [...]

December 18, 2008 Tags: A Child’s Wonder Stories, A Cure for Hiccoughs, A Dance at Midnight, A Kitten’s Adventures with her Girl, A Motorcar in Wishland, A Snoring of Carbuncles, A Troll in Camden Town, A Wish for Christmas, Andrew Lang, Another Wish for Christmas, Arnold Garrison, Aura Covill, Aura Ventesch, BARNEY THE CLOCKWORKER, BARROWDELLS, Boardings by Boggils, BRUINCLAWS, Bulwark Publications, Bulwark Publishing, BULWARKS & BASILISKS, CARBUNCLE, Charlotte Ventesch, CLARICE MATHESON, Claws of a King, Clockwishes and Fishes, CLOCKWORKER, CLOOT THE MISCHIEF-MAKER, D.R. Ventesch, DAGUERROTIGER, DAVID MATHESON, Deirdriana, Denys Ventesch, E. Charles Tennet, Edward Ventesch, EVERBURNING HILLS, Faerie Court, Fairy Books, Farewell Merrincopse, FEYBERGS, Flip-Books, Flowers for Forgotten Friends, GLOWHALES, GNARLMOORS, Green Gazette, HOLLY MATHESON, HORATIO ARDENT, Into the Caves of Gloom, INVISIBEARS, IRON HORSE, IRON HORSELANDS, IRON HORSEMAN, Kharm, Kharm’s Gazette, KING MATH, L. Frank Baum, Lost in the Either Orchards, Lost Puzzle Peaces, MAGGIE MATHESON, March of the Clockworkers, MARY MATHESON, Mary’s Waking Dream, MERRINCOPSE, Message in a Bottle, MOTHER MATHESON, NILES ALTOAK, Oscar Kharm, OZ, PRINCE DAREK, PRINCESS GAVINA, QUEEN LARKSPUR, RAZOR PRAIRIES, REDRAGOONS, Return of the Iron Horse, Revenge by Rail, S.D. Ventesch, SHARDSEAS, Skating on Thin Niceties, SNOWOLVES, Stanley Denys Ventesch, STRAY THAUTS, Summer Holidays at the Hear-side, The Caves Plundered, The Crown Shattered, The Flag Unfurled, The Gatehouse Shattered, The Manor Ruined, The Three Princes, The Throne Transformed, The Train to Wishland, The Wishing Star, TIN-TYGERS, TODD MATHESON, Todd Matheson’s Faerie Grandmother, War Comes to Wishland, When the Magic Flickers, Wishes in the Highlands of Harmony, Wishland War II, WOES, World-Wishland Posted in: Genre-Children's Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Wishland No Comments

“Honed by Hate”-An Excerpt

I’d hardly seen them enter the tavern, but the fist that knocked me from my seat showed me what I needed to see.
I land hard, kissing the rushes and feeling the frigid stone beneath them. Despite that, I crack a smile far colder than the floor.
Bastard.
I might have accepted this all as bad [...]

December 3, 2008 Tags: Alrok, Green Gazette, Griffin Thomas, John Farnsworth, Malthas, Markisles, Nomar, orkald, Psavorn Guard, Roal, Sorran, Valdon, Valdon the Rebel, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Adventure Fiction, Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Uncategorized, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam 4 Comments