The concluding volume of the complete Big Nose Serrano stories. Three short novels and one novelette are from the rare gang pulps, Greater Gangster Stories (1933-34), and The Gang Magazine (1935). As the series progressed, Big Nose became a champion of FDR's New Deal policies, enforcing them with the gangster's tools of violence, kidnapping and murder--and a sense of humor. Great fun, and truly unique.

The first four Big Nose Serrano novels by gang-pulp superstar, Anatole Feldman, from Gangster Stories, 1930-31. Never reprinted since original publication. Feldman established Serrano as one of the earliest adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac, setting his hero in the Chicago of gangland times. He grew into a gangster of near-mythic proportions, inspiring to his Tommy gun toting followers, and feared by his mob enemies. But as violent and harrowing as his gangland conflicts became, he always kept a soft spot for a swell-looking frail. Unique in pulp fiction; and very entertaining.

The first and only book for uncles and aunts who want to have a positive and lasting impact on their sibilings' children, "Uncle" celebrates the unique, indispensable, and slightly zany role of aunts and uncles in our society.

The second volume (of 3) in the collected stories of pulpdom's most notorious Chicago gangster. In these four short novels from 1931-32, Big Nose plays the ponies; in two interconnected tales, he fights corruption in the Bloody Tenth Ward by running for assemblyman, and brings the same manic intensity to politics that he did to Tommy-gun warfare; in the fourth story, he struggles against a mysterious underworld nemesis, the Spider. Unique in pulp fiction.

Om Ma-ni pad-me Hum The first of its kind, the complete adventures of the Green Lama follows the adventures of Buddhist Jethro Dumont and his aides as the battle the forces of evil in the western world. Written by Kendell Foster Crossen, it's non-stop action in the vein of The Shadow Never completely reprinted before, the series is collected in three volumes. Each volume contains an all-new introduction, focusing on a different aspect of the character's life across several forms of popular media. Volume 1 contains in introduction by Will Murray and features the first five stories: "The...

Back after 20 years Doc Savage and his mighty crew return in a brand-new series of nightmare exploits that can only be called.... THE WILD ADVENTURES OF DOC SAVAGE Ferocious blood-red Things begin dropping down from the sky, the state of California is besieged by the Desert Demons-a phenomenon so fierce that it triggers a modern exodus. Only Doc Savage, the scientist-superman who was forged in the fires of scientific knowledge to battle the unknown, is equal to the challenge. From the Hollywood hills to the alligator-infested interior of Florida, the Man of Bronze wages war with cyclonic...

It began with an uncanny encounter on busy Seventh Avenue. Two men pass each other in the street, walking along calmly one minute-struck down the next by a horrific fate. All over Manhattan, soundless detonations cut down prince and pauper alike. No one is safe. Great buildings are reduced to ruin. Banks are demolished. The authorities stand helpless. Only one man, Doc Savage-scientist, adventurer and superman-can penetrate the eerie enigma that threatens to bring the mightiest city on earth to its knees. But when The Alchemist decrees that the Man of Bronze must surrender unconditionally to...

Frederick Nebel's unforgettable character Jack Cardigan was one of the main reasons behind the success of the legendary Dime Detective Magazine. His hard-boiled P.I. stories were a major influence to other writers of the era, yet only a handful have been reprinted since their original 44-story run eighty years ago. Volume 1 of this series contains the first 11 installments, complete and uncut, with an all-new introduction by Will Murray and the original illustrations by John Fleming Gould. "Death Alley (November, 1931)," "Hell's Pay Check (December, 1931)," "Six Diamonds and a Dick (January,...

Presenting Tough Dick Donahue, the inter-state detective agency operative who replaced the Continental Op after Dashiell Hammett stopped writing for Black Mask Magazine. Collected for the first time in a single volume is every one of the fifteen Donahue stories: "Rough Justice" (November, 1930), "The Red-Hots" (December, 1930), "Gun Thunder" (January, 1931), "Get A Load of This" (February, 1931), "Spare the Rod" (August, 1931), "Pearls Are Tears" (September, 1931), "Death's Not Enough" (October, 1931), "Shake-Up" (August, 1932), "He Could Take It" (September, 1932), "The Red Web" (October,...

When a mummy arrives at Doc Savage's New York headquarters wearing the clothes of his missing assistant, engineer Renny Renwick, Doc, Monk, and Ham rush to Singapore where they get on the trail of a swashbuckling pirate who calls himself the Scourge of the South China Sea, in whose hands a piece of the infernal Buddha has fallen. The trail leads to Pirate Island, the fate of Renny, and a mysterious box containing a terrible, unstoppable power. But that is only the beginning of the quest into which the Man of Bronze plunges-one that will take him to the upper reaches of the Yellow Sea and a...