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From the pages of the classic pulps comes the most frightening avenger of them all, the Purple Scar! The handsome, debonair Dr. Miles Murdoch was a world-famous plastic surgeon. His life was the stuff of dreams until it all turned into a heart-wrenching nightmare. Murdoch's brother, a dedicated police officer, is brutally gunned down while on patrol. Before dumping his body into the river, his murderers pour acid over his face as a final act of contempt.

In the middle of the South Seas is the island of Motugra, so named by the natives. It has the only deep water port in this island chain. On Motugra you'll find The Hanging Monkey, an inn and bar owned and operated by Irish ex-patriot Corky O'Brien. Here gather some of the most colorful rogues, scalawags, and pirates ever to ply the trade routes of the Pacific during the late 1930s.

It was the 1930s, and America was locked in the grip of the Great Depression. Gangsters controlled the major cities, while outlaws roamed the rural back country. It was a time of speakeasy gin-joints, tommy-guns, fast cars, and even faster dames. This is the world of New York-based Private Investigator Rick Ruby. From the back alleys of Gotham to the gold laden boulevards of Hollywood, Ruby is the shamus with a nose for trouble and an insatiable appetite for justice.

Mobile Alabama in the early 1920s is a hot-house of history, tradition, political corruption, and racial bigotry. Amidst this landscape of both grandeur and depravity arises a new avenger to battle the forces of evil and injustice. He is the mysterious Bay Phantom, a dark clad warrior willing to mete out justice with his blazing .45s. But beneath this flamboyant mask is the often inept, naive Joseph Perrone, heir to a commercial fisheries empire.

Diogenes Ra, Joseph Lamere's breakout character of 2013, returns in Dramatis Personae: Character Flaws. Diogenes Ra is using his unique talents as a half-fictional character, working for an auction house that deals with the disembodied consciousness of famous - and infamous - fictions. Up for sale is the consciousness of Praed Pontine, so-called Master of Detection and heir to the memories and inner workings of the Great Detective himself, Sherlock Holmes. Security is tight. Tensions are high.

The truth isn't stranger than fiction. Truth is fiction! For your whole life, secrets have been kept from you. Science and history books have gotten it wrong. They tell only part of the story. Maybe someday these books will be rewritten, but only if Diogenes Ra's secret gets out. If you only knew what Diogenes Ra knew. He knows something the rest of us don't. Fiction is real. All your favorite characters exist, their stories overlapping in one grand, timeless narrative. Diogenes Ra can access that narrative.

All Ruby ever wants to do is earn enough to get by and stay out of trouble. But no matter how hard he tries to keep his nose clean, trouble has a way of finding him. From spies, to gang wars, hangings, and cold-blooded murder, writers Alan J. Porter, Ron Fortier, Bobby Nash, and Sean Taylor put Ruby through his paces. But in the end, the smart mouth shamus knows that to survive, he's going to need a little help from his friends.

When pulp worlds collide! The Moon Man and Doctor Satan, hero and villain of their own pulp magazines, meet here for the first time ever in the crossover that will leave you spellbound and begging for more. Written by Ron Fortier ( The Green Hornet, Rambo, The Terminator, etc.) and Gordon Linzner. This edition also includes the short story "Fury in Vermont" by Ron Fortier. This is an updated/reworked edition of the very first New Pulp book from Airship 27!

Kyle lives a typical teen's life in Cedar Falls, Washington, with his Canadian expatriate parents who commit their lives to free expression. After Kyle's parents display paintings at their art gallery that depict the president as a terrorist and mass murderer, the feds shut down the gallery and brutally arrest Kyle's parents for subversive activities.

Nobody believed that Kelly didn't know where her boyfriend hid the stolen Ruby Slippers. Kelly was dating Jared when he stole the Ruby Slippers, and Eric helped hide them in an abandoned iron ore mine. When Jared died, Eric was almost killed looking for the shoes, and everyone was sure Kelly knew more than she was admitting.

Stealing the Ruby Slippers from the museum was easy. Jared broke in, smashed the case, and got out without leaving any evidence. But when Hurricane Katrina wipes out the buyer he had lined up, he's stuck. The country's most famous shoes are hidden in his dirty laundry.