Bulwark Comics: CROSSROADS

This is the standard title for stories revolving around multiple Earths among Bulwark Comics publications. BC saw the benefit of the multiple Earths concept from some of its pulp stories and played with it first in 1944, having characters meet from the Guardians comic line in Bulwark comics (“Crossroads of Reality,” Best Comics #48, August [...]

January 29, 2009 Tags: "Crisis at the Crossroads", "Crossroads of Reality", "Crossroads of the Mind", 4-COLOR THRILLS, ANTIPANTHEON, Best Comics, BROOKLYON ADVENTURES, BULWARK BLAST HOUR, Bulwark Comics, Bulwark Mega-Action, Bulwark Publications, Charles Knight, Clash at the CROSSROADS, CLIFF COMET, Contest at the CROSSROADS, COSMICORPS, Crossroads, CROSSROADS & Crises, CROSSROADS Cases, CROSSROADS of Chaos, CROSSROADS of Crime, CROSSROADS: Legacies, CROSSROADS: Ragnarok, CROSSROADS: Timestorm, E.C. Buckner, Fear at the CROSSROADS, G.U.A.R.D., Guardian Games, Guardians Comics, Hanged at the CROSSROADS, ISLA MYSTERIA, John Farnsworth, LOKI, Michael Joseph, MISTER ENIGMA, multiple Earths, multiverse, NIGHTMARINER, NULLFATHER, Portals, Richard Corbett, Rob Sullivan, Silver Age, Stanley Mantel, Super Thrills, T.H.R.E.A.T., Thomas Roy Posted in: Genre-Heroic Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, World-Golden Age Comics, World-Silver Age Comics No 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

“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

Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected (#3)

Kharndam Collected: The Twelvelands—Volume One
Introduction by A.J. Soltare a.k.a. “Mark Shore”

Today—August 26, 2000—is my 90th birthday and, by sheer happenstance, the 56th birthday of one of the stories within this collection. I wrote “Parhim in Peril” in one sitting as dawn rose on this day in 1944. I delivered it that evening, trading my [...]

November 21, 2008 Tags: A.J. Soltare, Blake Montgomery, Bulwark Publications, Charles Clay, Clanwilds, Editing Thrills, Edward Page, Imperam, John Farnsworth, Kamlar, Kamlar Ogrescourge, Kamlar Outcast, Kamlar the Hawkmage, Kharndam Four, Kharndam Tales, Lluranal, Mark Shore, Markisles, Parhim, Parhim in Peril, Redressor, Sagas Supernatural, Tales Terrific, Tsarnus, Twelvelands, World-Kharndam, World-Vanguard Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Vanguard No Comments

Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected (#2)

INTERNAL MEMO–FOR EXECUTIVE EYES ONLY–BULWARK PUBLICATIONS, INC.
To: oscar.kharm@bulwark.com,
CC: larry.kharm@bulwark.com, susan.vance@bulwark.com, betsy.childs@bulwark.com
From: scott.tarrish@bulwark.com
RE: Kharndam Collected
Date: July 15, 1999
Mr. Kharm (and assorted department heads), your office had requested the initial breakdown and base catalog copy for the Kharndam Collected book series. While the catalog copy still rests in Legal awaiting full approvals, here is the projected series [...]

November 19, 2008 Tags: A.J. Soltare, Betsy Childs, Bheddar’s Climb, Blake Montgomery, C.K. Gill, Drakesfall, Eagle, Eagle’s Fury, Eagle’s Serenity, Eagle’s Wrath, Edward Page, Giant’s Bane, Hawkmage, Imperam Rising, Impramense Cycle, John Farnsworth, Kamlar, Kamlar Ogrescourge, Kamlar Outcast, Kamlar the Hawkmage, Khaor Jungles, Kharndam Tales, Kharndam’s Fall, Larry Kharm, Lluranal, March of Peace, Mark Shore, Nobelth Steppes, Oscar Kharm, Outlands, Pegasus Sovereignty, Pegasus Throne, Sagas Supernatural, Scott Tarrish, Shokanate, Sorcereigns, Sovereignty Cycle, Straits Cerulean, Susan Vance, Tales Terrific, Thomas Roy, Tsarnus, Twelvelands, Twelverising, Winged Resistance, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Vanguard No Comments

Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected

Kharndam’s Past & Present:
The Plan for Kharndam Collected
I’m Scott Tarrish, a senior editor for Bulwark Publications. I’d like to welcome you to step into a world you thought you knew only to discover more depth than ever.
Most of you reading this are fans come to Kharndam through the Sovereignty Cycle and two Impramense Cycle [...]

November 11, 2008 Tags: A.J. Soltare, Bheddar’s Climb, Blake Montgomery, Drakesfall, Eagle, Eagle’s Fury, Eagle’s Serenity, Eagle’s Wrath, Edward Page, Giant’s Bane, Hawkmage, H’Kariphati, Imperam Rising, Impramense Cycle, John Farnsworth, Kamlar, Kamlar Ogrescourge, Kamlar Outcast, Kamlar the Hawkmage, Khaor Jungles, Kharndam’s Fall, Lluranal, March of Peace, Mark Shore, Nobelth Steppes, Outlands, Pegasus Sovereignty, Pegasus Throne, Sagas Supernatural, Scott Tarrish, Second Impramense Cycle, Shokanate, Sorcereigns, Sovereignty Cycle, Straits Cerulean, Tales Terrific, Third Impramense Cycle, Thomas Roy, Tsarnus, Twelvelands, Twelverising, Winged Resistance, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, World-Bulwark Pulps, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics No Comments