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 Comics: The Silver Age

Bulwark Comics: The Silver Age
In August 1964, Bulwark Publications relaunched Bulwark Comics for its second life. Having absorbed Guardian Comics and its catalog into the fold, Bulwark wanted a new incarnation of all its pulp comic book properties (especially since most of the fiction magazines had folded by this time).
The editorial directive for Bulwark [...]

January 14, 2009 Tags: ACE BARRIGAN, acronym, Adventures Amazing, Adventures Astounding, Adventures Celestial, Adventures in Combat, Adventures Occult, Adventures Supernatural, android, ARACHNAUT, ATOMICHASM, BLAZE BERET, BLUE WYCHFYRE, BRICK BRADLEY, BROOKLYON, Bulwark Allies, Bulwark Blasts, Bulwark Classics, Bulwark Comics, Bulwark Debut, Bulwark Double Feature, Bulwark Duos, Bulwark Horizons, Bulwark Mega-Action, Bulwark Publications, Bulwark Showcase, Bulwark Triple Feature, Bulwark’s Best Comics, Bulwark’s Fantasticomics, Carl Snow, Charles Knight, CONSTELLAGENT, Corps Cosmica, DOCTOR ENIGMA, E.C. Buckner, Fairgeth Blue, G.U.A.R.D., GASLIGHT, GLACIA, GOLIATH GIRL, Guardian Comics, HARMARKHIS, JOHN UNKNOWN, Judah Buxton, Justice Tales, Kharndam Tales, KNIGHTS OF THE ATOMICHASM, legion, M.E.N.A.C.E., NEMESISTONE, New Electri-Comics, Peter Edgars, Redressor, Sam Torwitz, Samuel Carris, SIGNALIER, Silver Age, SOLOMON LAZARUS, T.H.R.E.A.T., Tales Fulminant, Terry Zuller, Thrilling Adventures, Uncanny Exploits, VEIL, WIDOW, WIDOW & VEIL, “Father of Bulwark’s Silver Age”, “Five Old Men” Posted in: Genre-Contemporary Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Silver Age Comics One Comment

Kharndam Guide: Shay

Shay
One of the Four First Races of the world of Dharual, the shay bristle with elemental powers but never grow taller than young human children. The four natural shay are the arshay, flying wind-shapers; the ershay, hard-edged rock-melders; the firshay, blazing-haired fire-wielders ever-wreathed in heat mirages; and the washay, wan water-breathers and wave riders. [...]

January 2, 2009 Tags: Arlha, Arshay, Bulwark Publications, BULWARKS & BASILISKS, Divinity of Tsarnus, Eagle, Eagle’s Path, ershay, firshay, glators, Jhural’s Leap, kelshay, Kharndam Tales, Khiilm, Kobek Nine-Stars, Lluranal, Markisles, rhamathi, Sagas Supernatural, Skyheight, Star-Mages, Straits of Chamuk, Summer’s Bend, Tales Terrific, Tsarnus, Twelvelands, washay, World of Kharndam, World-Kharndam Posted in: Genre-Fantasy Fiction, Genre-Heroic Fiction, Medium-Books, Medium-Comics/Graphic Novels, Medium-Electronic Games, Medium-Magazines & Pulps, Medium-Role-Playing Games, World-Kharndam, World-Silver Age Comics No 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