This is very interesting -- Steve Fisher is one of the
authors whose estate I've been trying to track down for
years, and I've hit nothing but dead ends (despite doing some
fairly intensive detective work). I understand he was
survived by a daughter, but every attempt to locate and
contact the daughter has ended unsuccessfully. If the people
behind "Age of Aces Books" have succeeded in tracking down
Fisher's estate somehow, I would be very interested to find
out more.
If they did not manage to find Fisher's estate, I wonder how
they were able to secure the right to reprint these stories
which by default you'd have to assume are not out of
copyright.
--Charles
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Duane Spurlock"
<duane1spur@...> wrote:
>
> Some on the list may be interested in
this.
>
> Age of Aces Books - New pulp reprint
publisher!
>
> The mission of Age of Aces Books is to gather
together in single
> volumes many of the great series of aviation heroes
that ran in
> DARE-DEVIL ACES in the 30's and 40's.
>
> The first release (available now on Amazon.com) is
CAPTAIN BABYFACE:
> THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES by acclaimed hard-boiled
writer Steve
Fisher.
> These ten tales tell the story of Captain Jed
Garrett, of the US
> Special Agent Corps, and his struggle to defeat the
evil German
> genius, Mr.Death. Garrett, known as Captain Babyface
because of his
> youthful appearance, is assisted by his dog, Click
the hellhound.
> Together, they try to foil Mr. Death's bloodthirsty
schemes, which
> threaten defeat for the Allies in WWI.
>
> For Jed Garrett, his orders are simple: Kill Mr.
Death! But who is
> Mr. Death? One of Germany's brightest chemists and
inventors, he had
> grown weary of life and entered a monastery near
Alsace-Lorraine.
But
> war came and the monastery was bombed. Severely
injured, German
> surgeons patched him back together, though he was
left horribly
> disfigured. And now, sworn to vengeance against the
Americans, he
uses
> his evil genius for Germany in the "War to End All
War."
>
> Author Steve Fisher is best known for his hardboiled
work in BLACK
> MASK MAGAZINE and in novels like "I Wake Up
Screaming". In Popular
> Publications long-running aviation pulp DARE-DEVIL
ACES, he created
> the ten titanic tales of Captain Babyface. For the
first time, they
> are presented together in one volume. This is the
first in a series
> from Age of Aces Books that will feature some of the
greatest
aviation
> pulp heroes of the 1930's.
>
> CAPTAIN BABYFACE: THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES was
designed by the great
> Chris Kalb and features Frederick Blakeslee's
original
illustrations.
> It is 230 pages and is now available on Amazon.com
for $16.99.
> Here's the URL:
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Babyface-Adventures-Steve-
Fisher/dp/0979409209/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/pulprack-20
>
> - Duane
>
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