Review
The past year has seen the release of such important pulp art retrospectives as Pulp Culture and Infinite Worlds. At the same time, a circle of smaller publishers have made it their mission to reprint pulp tales, reacquainting the reading public with everything from Hugh B. Cave's weird fiction to the multi-volume "Purple Invasion" epic from the obscure hero magazine, Operator #5. The newest volume from the Insight Studios Group takes this nostalgia to a new level, offering up a brand new pulp with fiction promised "to rot your brain". Titanic Tales offers a wide range of stories, all of which ring with the lurid cackling and overwrought gasps found in the original hero and terror mags. The interior art is sharp, the layout and design attractively retro. The book's centerpiece is a new Spider story, "Burning Lead for the Walking Dead," which is not prose, but a nicely noir-ish illustrated tale by Mark Wheatley. Regular readers of indie comics will also welcome the stories featuring such established characters as the Reality Knight and Doc Cyborg. The interview article with legendary artist Al Williamson could have been longer, and the book as a whole should have been proofed more carefully, but readers hungry for new pulp thrills will not be disappointed with Titanic Tales. -- --James Lowder, Sci-Fi Universe, Oct. 1998
Product Description
Not since the glory days of the pulps has there been a book like TITANIC TALES! Hard-hitting, gut-wrenching, pants-wetting fiction is waiting for you in this throw-back to those exciting days when men were men, women were women and pulps were pulps! And TITANIC TALES couldn't have picked a better time to arrive. Just when nearly all the life has been sucked out of entertainment, leaving a grey, politically correct dullness, TITANIC TALES serves up a heaping helping of the stuff that straightens the spine with horror, excitement, and the inspiring actions of heroic men and women. TITANIC TALES isn't afraid to call it as it sees it, shoot straight and throw an upper-cut to the intellect.
