We were at the PulpFest in Columbus, Ohio this weekend premiering our new book. Strange War has six exciting stories of “the Phantom Ace of G-2″ with an introduction by Sid Bradd and all beautifully wrapped up in an exciting new design by Chria Kalb. Keyhoe’s Brain-Devil takes on all manner of pterodactyls, flaming fire balls raining down from the sky and demon aces with the help of Tom and Noisy Jay—the twin aces of G-2 affectionately known as the Jay Birds.

The Captain Philip Strange stories ran for nine years—from 1931 through 1939—in the pages of Flying Aces magazine. And we’re already preparing the second volume which will collect the Fraulein Doktor stories—Strange’s former love, now nemesis due to circumstances brought about by the war. (This book will be out later this year.)

Strange War should be available at Amazon very soon—it sometimes takes a day or two for them to add the book to their system. And speaking of PulpFest, for those who couldn’t attend, here are some links to download the various flyers he had out for people to pick up:

• Our General Aviation Titles Flyer
• Captain Philip Strange: Strange War
• The Adventures of The Three Mosquitoes: The Thunderbolt Ace

William E. Barrett, better known for fare like The Left Hand of God and Lillies of The Field, cut his teeth on short stories in pulp fiction aviation and detective magazines. We had originally posted a few of these Iron Aces stories in our Age of Aces Presents section. They were so good we had to collect all nine Iron Ace stories and present them in one volume!

We will be debuting the hardboiled adventures of Hugh McQuillen at PulpFest this Friday. Stop by our table and meet the Age of Aces team and pick up a copy of The Iron Ace or any of our other titles at a special reduced PulpFest price. If you can’t make it, the book will be available to order through Amazon at the usual price.

We sold our first copy of The Spider Vs. The Empire State during dealer setup on Thursday night, and this proved to be a good omen for sales. As I posted previously, we SOLD OUT of the title on Friday and could only take orders for it on Saturday and Sunday! (We also sent people to its Amazon listing, natch.) Some of these customers were not even Spider fans (initially), but had been drawn to our table by the Empire State flyers we had put outside the dealers’ room, or the large “movie poster” of the ad image behind our table. That was exciting.

In fact, so many people asked us about the poster, that we put our one extra (nice, unused) copy into the Saturday night auction, where I (but not Bill or David) was surprised to see it fetch $100. The assembled crowd must have been stunned too, because there was much applause at the end of the heated bidding. I want to publicly thank everyone that bid — as well as Tom Krabacher, who provided the oversize prints — you really made my weekend! What’s so fun about these shows is meeting people that are just as passionate about this stuff as you are.

Our aviation collections sold better than ever too, and much credit should be given to the PulpFest organizers who almost doubled attendance over last year’s PulpCon. Not only are we looking forward to next year’s show, I think we’ve all come away from the convention more excited about pulp publishing!