New Super Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels

Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008
Posted By: Kevin Powers

New Super Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels

Lovers of high adventure know well the names of such larger-than-life heroes as Tarzan, the Shadow, Zorro, and Doc Savage - all of whom sprung to fame from the long-ago all-fiction magazines known fondly as the pulps.

Now, another name has arisen to take its place with those memorable characters. It's Jim Anthony - Super-Detective, retrieved from the moldering pages of the pulps to thrill and delight a new generation of readers. Off-Trail Publications, in conjunction with Reverse Karma Press, presents two of Jim Anthony's greatest adventures in a brand-new trade paperback called Super-Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels.

Intentionally packaged in a style reminiscent of the famous Ace Double Novels of the 1950s and '60s, Super-Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels offers readers a pair of full-length Jim Anthony tales from the 1940s, appearing in book form for the very first time.

The first novel, Legion of Robots, is a wild and woolly science-fiction opus that finds Anthony in full hero-pulp mode, battling the sinister Rado Ruric and his automaton accomplices across the breadth of North America . The second, Murder's Migrants, is a timely-as-today's-headlines tale taken from later in Anthony's pulpwood career, when his editors had changed him from a Doc Savage-type superhero to a more hard-boiled kind of crimefighter. Murder's Migrants, incidentally, was created by two of the greatest detective-story scribes of the pulp era, Robert Leslie Bellem and W.T. Ballard.

Introductions for each novel, penned by writers and pulp scholars John McMahan and John Wooley, supply plenty of background information on Anthony and his creators, including his rather close relationship with perhaps the most well-known fictional superhero of them all - the Krypton native who wore a big red "S' on his chest!

With the publication of Super-Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels, a high-flying, hard-charging hero re-emerges to take his place among the very best that America 's pulp magazines had to offer. Those who've enjoyed the reprinted Doc Savage and Shadow novels, as well as other readers with an affinity for full-tilt escapist fare, should waste no time making the acquaintance of Jim Anthony - Super-Detective!


About the book:
Super-Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels by John Wooley, Robert Leslie
Bellem, John McMahan
ISBN: 9780978683696
Publisher: Off-Trail Publications
Date of publish: Mar 10, 2008
Pages: 176
S.R.P.: $18.00

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