Pulpsploitation cover

Super Powered Fiction's Nicholas Ahlhelm recently sent out an update on his Pulpsploitation project, an anthology book which includes a Black Bat story.  The book's cover layouts were revealed in the update, but artist Nik Poliwko displayed an inked version yesterday on his Facebook page.

We don't see much of The Black Bat, but what we do see appears to be a relatively traditional type.  I'll admit that the 80's aspect, and the "sploitation" portion of the book's title, made me wonder if this book might take a bit of a silly tone, but the cover is encouraging.

And in case anyone at SPF happens to read this...I am not particularly interested in the other characters in the anthology, so I only signed up for the Black Bat pdf.  I do prefer a print version of stories, however, so if you continue to publish these pulp anthologies, and you continue to include The Black Bat (or Miss Fury, for that matter) and you choose to release a compilation of the Bat stories in print format, I shall purchase it even if I already have all of the stories digitally.  Just sayin'. ;-)

Miss Fury by "Slangmead" on deviantart

The Black Bat has received most of the attention on this page in recent weeks for the simple reason that there is more activity based around him of late, but I'm still hopeful that we'll get good Miss Fury news soon.  In the meantime, let's enjoy the art work below from Stephen Langmead.

Float on over to his page to check out more of his work. The guy is ridiculously talented.

Day of The Destroyers: Jimmie Flint, Agent X-11, must save America

Moonstone continues to give The Black Bat the attention that Dynamite fails to provide (wish they'd do the same for Miss Fury) although I admit I'm unsure as to whether I'll get this book.  It seems as though The Black Bat's contribution may be relatively small.  Still, it might make for a good introduction to some other characters from the era.

Authors: Ron Fortier, Adam Lance Garcia, Gary Phillips, Paul Bishop, Eric Fein, Tommy Hancock, Aaron Shaps, & Joe Gentile 

Cover: Fernando Ferreiro 

6” x 9”, Softcover, 276pgs, $13.95
6” x 9”, Hardcover, 276pgs, $23.95

Based on a real historical event during the Roosevelt administration! 

Guest starring pulp heroes The Green Lama, The Phantom Detective, and The Black Bat! 

Day of the Destroyers is an all-original linked prose anthology – each story is part of a larger arc wherein Jimmie Flint, Secret Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command, battles to prevent the seditionist Medusa Council from engineering a bloody coup overthrowing our democracy. 

Agent X-11 fights across the country preventing an aerial assault on Chicago’s rail lines, destroying a secret factory of gas meant to enthrall millions in New Mexico, racing to stop a machine of fantastic destruction in Manhattan, and so much more! 

Written by pulp fictioneers: Ron Fortier, Adam Lance Garcia, Gary Phillips, Paul Bishop, Eric Fein, Tommy Hancock, Aaron Shaps, & Joe Gentile. 

Introduction by pulp historian and award-winning author Robert Weinberg! 

The book is scheduled for release in March of 2015 so I have some time to think about it but I gather that pathetic hoarder that I am, I'll likely end up getting it as long as the Black Bat that appears is a more traditional one.  I didn't care for the version that Moonstone introduced a few years ago, but they seem to be drifting away from that one.