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October 25, 2024
2 new products and 5 featured products from Radio Archives this week!
All new and featured products are discounted the first week.
Featured: previously released
Jungle Jim! The very name conjures up images of exotic locales, wild beasts and hostile natives. Jungle Jim braved these with the aid of his faithful Hindu companion Kolu as he traveled the wilds of southeastern Asia in search of adventure.
Jungle Jim is best remembered as the star of sixteen Columbia B-movies starring Johnny Weissmuller, fresh off his twelve-year stint as Tarzan, beginning in 1948. But Jungle Jim’s history goes back more than a decade.
Produced by Jay Clark and often written by Gene Stafford, The Adventures of Jungle Jim was on the air weekly from 1935 to 1954. A combination of jungle danger and colonial politics, the show brought listeners tales of slave traders, pirates, foreign spies, wild beasts, poachers, hostile tribes, and, during World War II, the Japanese, as Jim often served as an Allied operative. Armed with his trusty .45 automatic, the adventurer searched for lost treasure and investigated such mysteries as ghosts and unknown islands. Throughout it all, Jungle Jim maintained a cool head.
Beginning with Tarzan, the pulp era was full of jungle characters. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones, in that he wasn’t a barely-literate loincloth-clad tree-dwelling wild man, but rather Jim Bradley, a hunter – a “great white hunter” in the mold of heroes of earlier popular fiction such as H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain and Lord John Roxton from Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World.
Jungle Jim was the archetypal Great White Hunter that one thinks of at the mention of “lost worlds”, which filled the pages of pulp magazines, and later, movie serials. He was everything one could ask for in a pulp protagonist – handsome, brave, resourceful.
Following a number of successful B-motion pictures for Columbia, Johnny Weissmuller continued the role in a 1955-56 Screen Gems television series consisting of 26 episodes. Jungle Jim also appeared in comic books by Standard (1949-1951), Dell (1953-1959) and Charlton (1969-1970).
This volume contains forty fifteen-minute episodes from 1937 and 1938, including the conclusion of “The Tiger’s Claw” (#81-96) and the beginning of “The Afghan Hills” (#97-120), for ten hours of exciting and intelligent adventure.
Featured: previously released
The Great Gildersleeve stood out as one of the comedy shows that took advantage of a device usually reserved for soap operas or movie matinees - serial storylines. Beginning with the Widow Ransom’s pursuit of Gildy, having stories spread over several episodes became somewhat a standard for the show. These events that took up several episodes often revolved around Gildy’s love life and the chaos that ensued, but other things were used as well, such as Gildy running for Mayor and getting fired from his job. In 1948, a baby was left in Gildy’s car, leading to one of the most popular serials within the show.
Known for often spreading a storyline over several episodes, the serial within The Great Gildersleeve that is likely the most remembered began on September 8, 1948. Gildy discovers a baby in his car. Unsure what to do, he takes it home and almost instantly the infant becomes a part of the family, so much so that this story played out through the fall of 1948. Kraft Foods, the show’s sponsor, even held a contest for listeners to name the baby. This story came to a bittersweet end, however, on December 22, 1948, when the child’s father appeared and the baby was returned to him.
This style of storytelling carried The Great Gildersleeve in a different direction than most comedies. The humor in the program not only came from the catchphrases that developed or Gildy’s laughter or tumultuous love life. What makes The Great Gildersleeve still humorous to listeners even today was the fact that the comedic moments felt so much like real life. People in the audience knew others like the Jolly Boys or had their own Widow Ransom to deal with, or were raising kids like Leroy and Marjorie. The Great Gildersleeve proved to be a fantastic example of character comedy done right.
Discover why The Great Gildersleeve is not only considered a great comedy, but also one of the best shows of classic radio in this collection of twelve original broadcasts of The Great Gildersleeve, Volume 28, complete with Kraft Foods commercials and restored to sparkling digital quality.
Featured: previously released
Adventure Wanted!
by Bobby Nash, Jim Beard, Barry Reese, and Andrew Salmon
Read by Nick Santa Maria. Liner Notes by Bobby Nash
Adventure wanted — will go anywhere — do anything — Write Box Thirteen c/o Star-Times.
When Dan Holiday opens Box Thirteen, he never knows what adventure awaits him. A former newspaperman turned novelist, Holiday crafts the plots for his books by living them. Spurred into action by letters from his readers, Dan Holiday’s adventures ranged from the outrageous to the dangerous. Whatever the case, Dan Holiday is sure to find adventure.
Based on the 1948-49 radio drama starring Alan Ladd, this collection includes 6 all-new Box Thirteen tales that carry on the action-packed tradition of the originals.
“The Mystery of the Menacing Manuscript” by Bobby Nash. A surprise invitation sends Dan Holiday on a mystery writer’s weekend retreat filled with treachery, deceit, and murder.
“The Horror of the Plague Doctor” by Barry Reese. A worried investor’s letter puts Dan Holiday in the crosshairs of a death doctor’s nefarious plot.
“The Out Of This World Affair” by Bobby Nash. A cryptic message sends Dan Holiday scurrying to find the truth about Citizen X’s extraterrestrial discovery before men in black suits catch them both.
“Room 13” by Jim Beard. A request for aid puts Dan Holiday on a collision course with mobsters, a mechanical man, and a scientist who wants to harness the author’s brainwaves.
“The Game’s afoot, Mr. Holiday” by Bobby Nash. A killer gives Dan Holiday a chance to stop him before he murders his next victim. Can he decipher the killer’s clues in time?
Lastly in “Kaleidoscope” by Andrew Salmon, a frantic letter from a troubled wife sends Dan Holiday straight into a murder investigation where he’s the chief suspect.
Dan Holiday’s new adventures spring to life as Nick Santa Maria opens up adventure’s favorite address, Box Thirteen. The beautiful cover painting is by Douglas Klauba.
6 hours - MP3 regular price $11.99
Featured: previously released
Murder's Legionnaires
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
He was known only as the Devil and, because he inflicted hideous death merely by looking at his victims, no one ever lived to describe him! So great was his incredible cunning that he hid behind the authority of the Mayor, behind the honor of the Police Department — even behind the sinister cloak of the Spider — while his murder minions carried on!... The One Hundred and First novel featuring Richard Wentworth, gentleman, sportsman... and — the Spider!
Even though he was fiction’s most maniacal manhunter, there was a human side to the Spider.
When he met Nita Van Sloan, his life had already been pledged to the service of humanity for three years. So he had fought against the love he knew could never reached culmination in marriage. What man could marry, have a home and children, when death and disgrace hung hourly over his head? No, he could not permit Nita to face such a possibility.
Also, his best friend, Commissioner Stanley Kirkpatrick, pointedly informed him on one blunt occasion that he would send Richard Wentworth to the death house if positive proof that the wealthy criminologist was really the Spider ever came into his hands. Once, Kirkpatrick actually did. And Wentworth admired him for it.
Here lies the genius of Norvell W. Page’s Spider. Wentworth had a secret identity, but hardly anyone was fooled by it! The white-hot relationships between the cast of characters were mature. This while he battled supercriminals such as the Fly, Iron Man and the Bat-Man.
Nick Santa Maria reads Murder's Legionnaires with indescribable emotion. Originally published in The Spider magazine, February, 1942.
 New eBook
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
Wherever red-blooded adventure was to be found, there Man Stories All Adventure would take its readers. Across the globe, this magazine took its audience to thrilling locales that most could only imagine. From the eerie bayous of Louisiana to the surf-kissed islands of the South Pacific... from the hunt for gold in frozen Alaska to burning sands of Arabia... from the dangers of the African savanna to the mysteries of the Orient... these pulp tales offered the excitement of high adventure. Man Stories All Adventure was an early entry into the adventure pulp genre, making its debut with the October 1930 issue. However, it failed to find sufficient audience and changed its name in November 1931 to Popular Fiction. Then another name change in January 1933 to Nickel Detective, and one final name change in November 1933 to Strange Detective Stories. In all, there were 27 issues published, with the first eight of those under the title Man Stories All Adventure. But while those eight lasted, they offered some top-shelf adventure from authors like Hugh B. Cave, H. Bedford-Jones, Cyril Plunkett and Worthen C. Cornish. Man Stories All Adventure returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 New eBook
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
Crack Detective Stories was a magazine that underwent multiple name changes... eight of them! During the middle of its run, it was known as Crack Detective Stories, but it didn't start out that way. Detective Yarns, as it was first known, made its debut with the June 1938 issue, coming from Columbia Publications. It switched to a character pulp, featuring The Black Hood as of September 1941, and its name changed to Black Hood Detective. Then it became Hooded Detective for two issues until Crack Detective was born in May of 1942. After ten issues a single word was added to the name, and it became Crack Detective Stories. With the November 1949 issue the title was changed to Famous Detective, and then after three issues it became Famous Detective Stories. The final incarnation began in December 1956 with the name Crack Detective and Mystery Stories. This title lasted for four issues. The final issue was July 1957, outlasting most of the other pulp magazines on the market. There were 97 issues published in all. Crack Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Featured eBook
Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.
Another epic exploit of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men! Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
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