Awesome Tales, No. 1

AWESOME TALES brings you thrilling new adventures told with the gusto of the classic pulp fiction magazines! In the premiere issue, three tales of intrigue and adventure delight and dazzle your senses. In war-torn Europe, The Domino Lady, the original pulp femme fatale, teams with MI-6 supernatural agent Wicca Girl to battle a mystic force threatening London! In "Seven Pictures," by Jean Marie Ward, intrigue in the Pentagon leads to jealousy and blood sports. Back in the present day, Wicca Girl teams with Scotland Yard to solve the 300-year old mystery of "The Warlock Murders." "Pretenders to the Throne" is a full-length adventure, nearly 15,000 words long, by Rich Harvey and R. Allen Leider. It pairs the pulp super-heroine Domino Lady with the contemporary-created Wicca Girl, in an adventure involving Nazis and witches in 1943. Ellen Patrick, the Domino Lady, prowls London's streets, which have been darkened through mandatory blackouts. While citizens and soldiers alike hold their breath, fearing more devastation and destruction by Luftwaffe bombs, The Domino Lady plays a cat-and-mouse game to find hidden Nazi loot. But another interested party, a lesbian witch-in-training, also has designs on the loot. Rich Harvey is the publisher of Bold Venture Press, which brought readers "Compliments of the Domino Lady," the complete collection of her original pulp stories, with stunning new illustrations by legendary comics creator STERANKO. Harvey saw potential in a character no one else cared about -- after "Compliments of the Domino Lady" appeared, several Johnny-come-latelies scrambled to claim her as their own. Not deterred by the imitators, Harvey faithfully continued the Domino Lady's adventures in audio dramas from the AudioComics Company. Now she makes her dazzling return to prose in the debut issue of AWESOME TALES. But the author has advanced her well into World War II for this special adventure -- and confronted the Domino Lady with her most world-shaking adversary ever!

About the Author

Film reviewer/screenwriter R. Allen Leider (editor) began his career in 1970 as copy boy for "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." In 1973, he became features writer for "The Monster Times" and went on to work at "Show", "Celebrity", "Glitter", and other international publications. His photo-journalistic work has been syndicated worldwide. He lives in Manhattan with wife Barbara, a professional photographer. In 1984, he created the original story and screenplay for "The Oracle" (1985), and hosted his own radio show, "Cinemascene", on WWFM for five years. Presently, he writes and edits the online "Black Cat Review" magazine. His latest projects are "Wicca Girl", a magical fantasy action-adventure following 18 year old Maldonna Marie d'Lambert from her Medieval childhood thru her transformation to Witch Queen to her modern day assignments as a supernatural MI-6 agent ... and the "Hellfire Lounge" anthology series.

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