The Black Bat Companion

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  1. Chris Yates
    October 18, 2011

    Will there be a hardcover format for this title?

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  2. MB
    October 18, 2011

    Yeah!! Its on the top of my list.

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  3. moring
    October 18, 2011

    We had some formatting issues with the hardcover. I hope to get them corrected at some point, but I am unsure exactly when they’ll be straightened out, unfortunately.

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    • Chris Yates
      October 19, 2011

      Thanks for the quick response. Unlike the novels that I read, shelve, and (maybe) read a second time, reference books, like your Phantom Detective companion, get a serious amount of use (i.e., in and out of the bookshelf every time a reprint of an installment in the series appears). Hardcovers can take more use than a high page-count trade paper format before the spine gives out. I’ll (in)patiently wait for the hardcover. Keep up the great work!!

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  4. MBrown
    October 23, 2011

    Ordered. another to add to my collection.

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  5. David
    October 26, 2011

    Any chance of this coming out on the kindle soon?

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    • moring
      October 26, 2011

      I’d like to do ebook versions of all our books, but some would be more difficult than others. For example, this book heavily relies on images and 60+ pages of charts, all of which would be near-impossible to do given the constraints of ebook formatting currently. It’s possible we might release versions of such books with those sections removed, but it would be a big let-down compared to the print version.

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  6. David
    October 26, 2011

    Besides the Doc Savage book, any of the other older releases scheduled for an Ebook release anytime soon? (Ravenwood, Blackbat Omnibus, The Bat Strikes…. etc etc). I own virtually everything in hardcover, but would love have them on my kindle as well.

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  7. moring
    October 27, 2011

    I’ll probably answer this in greater detail in a blog post, but I’ve got an additional 5-10 nearly ready to go.

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  8. David
    November 1, 2011

    Cant’ wait. Any idea when they will be released yet?

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  9. moring
    November 1, 2011

    I hope to take another pass at it this week. I am looking into other solutions for this PDF issue it has.

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  10. MB
    November 1, 2011

    Review posted to Amazon.

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    • MB
      November 7, 2011

      Revised review posted to amazon.

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  11. DD
    November 3, 2011

    No longer available on Amazon – more on the way? Please?

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    • moring
      November 4, 2011

      Yep, it’ll be just a few days; thanks for your patience.

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      • MB
        November 4, 2011

        Strange, considering its POD thru Amazon’s “CreateSpace”…

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The Black Bat Companion

  • Pulp Histories
  • Pulp Reprints

by Tom Johnson, with Norman Daniels, Nico Mathies, Matthew Moring, Will Murray, Al Tonik, Prentice Winchell, and illustrated by Kin Platt and Raymond Thayer

One of the most beloved pulp characters, The Black Bat, is finally celebrated with this 340 page deluxe retrospective. Author Tom Johnson has indexed each issue, listing everything you need to know about the series, along with the following highlights:

  • A complete reprint of the rejected Black Bat adventure, "The Lady's Out for Blood"
  • A breakdown of the newly-discovered final Black Bat story, "The Celebrity Murders"
  • All 800 German Black Bat stories newly identified for the english audience
  • Nine complete reprints of the Black Bat's golden Age comic book stories
  • An interview with series creator Norman Daniels as well as his complete payment records... available here for the first time

Featuring additional articles by Will Murray, this is the ultimate history of the series.

338 pages, approx. 6"x9"x1", approx. 1.3 lbs.