This is the original story about Zorro (Spanish word for fox), who lived in California at the time it was Spanish and Mexican. The story is about Don Diego Vega in the company of his deaf and mute servant Bernardo, his lover and future wife Lolita, Sergeant Gonzales and others.

The inspiration for Batman For the first time in one collection, all four appearances of the pulp hero The Bat, as written by pulp legend Johnston McCulley (Zorro). These stories from 1934-35 detail the adventures of Dawson Clade, a man who was inspired to fight crime by a bat's sudden appearance. Includes an all-new introduction by pulp historian Will Murray.

Arthur J. Burks, one of the great science-fiction authors, paints a vast canvas, creating a lurid, thrilling vision of the devastation and rebirth of the earth's greatest nation A science fiction epic reprinted with its amazing sequel for the first time In "Survival," David Haslup leads his people in flight from an invading army - deep into the bowels of the earth, carving out an interior world of supermen and super-science Centuries later, in "Exodus," David Haslup's descendant, 39 generations later, leads his people in battle to reclaim the surface world -- a world their generation has...

Bold Venture Press proudly presents PULP ADVENTURES #17, featuring an all-star line-up -- from the backwaters of post-Civil War Texas, the Prohibition-era of New York City, to an interior world several centuries in the future In "The Kidnapped Midas" by Johnston McCulley, a stingy skinflint is satisfied with his "life well lived," until The Thunderbolt holds him hostage, and demands he pay his own ransom "I'll Make the Arrest" by Charles Boeckman depicts an embittered police lieutenant who assures everyone that he'll arrest a murder suspect -- until the case turns personal. "Caverns of Ith"...

Winds whistled up the river, and winds whistled down from the hills, and they met to swirl and gather fury and rattle the city's millions of windowpanes. They carried a mixture of sleet and fine snow, the first herald of the winter to come. In the business district they swung signs madly back and forth, and roared around the corners of high office buildings, and swept madly against struggling trolley cars. They poured through the man-made canons; they dashed out the broad boulevards-and so they came to the attention of Mr. Roger Verbeck, at about the hour of midnight, as he turned over in his...

Sheriff Kowen looked up from his desk in amazement as the stenographer ushered in the woman. The name on her card had told him nothing, and he had expected to be confronted by some middle-aged, washed-out, tired wife and mother who would make a request to visit the jail and talk with an erring relative.

Pulp Adventures -- a quarterly safari through the pulp fiction jungle This issue is filled with iconic characters and authors. "Zorro Serenades a Siren" by Johnston McCulley; "The Lacquer Box" by Judson P. Philips, author of the Park Avenue Hunt Club series; "The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry, the story that introduced the Cisco Kid to pop culture; "Death in Harbor City" by John L. French, a new thriller with Midnight and The Domino Lady; "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, the story that inspired "Diary of a Madman" starring Vincent Price; "Cry Mommie" by Audrey Parente, "Robot Graveyard" by...