Currently, he writes the Wild Adventures of Doc Savage for Altus Press. His acclaimed Doc Savage novel, Skull Island, pits the pioneer superhero against the legendary King Kong. This was followed by King Kong vs. Tarzan. Tarzan, Conquer of Mars, a crossover with John Carter of Mars, is forthcoming. www.adventuresinbronze.com is his website.
Dennis “Denny” O’Neil is a comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s. His best-known works include Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman with Neal Adams, The Shadow with Mike Kaluta and The Question with Denys Cowan, all of which were hailed for sophisticated (for the period, in the case of his 1970’s work) stories that expanded the artistic potential of the mainstream portion of the medium. As an editor, he is principally known for editing the various Batman titles.
His 1970’s run on Batman is perhaps his most well-known endeavour, getting back to the character’s darker roots after a period dominated by the campiness of the late Golden-early Bronze Age. He particularly sought to emphasize Batman’s detective skills. This grimier and more sophisticated Dark Knight, as well as new villains such as Ra’s Al Ghul, brought Batman back from the verge of pop culture oblivion. His work would influence later incarnations of Batman, from the seminal comic Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, to the movie Batman Begins in 2005.
Andrew Salmon has won several awards for his Sherlock Holmes stories and has been nominated for the Ellis, Pulp Ark, Pulp Factory and New Pulp Awards. He lives and writes in Vancouver, BC. His releases include: Queensberry Justice: The Fight Card Sherlock Holmes Omnibus containing the three Fight Card Sherlock Holmes books which introduced female Victorian bare-knuckle boxer, Eby Stokes. Sherlock Holmes Investigates: A Quintet of Singular Mysteries, The Dark Land, The Light of Men, and Ghost Squad: Rise of the Black Legion (with Ron Fortier) are also available. He has just released his first children’s book, Wandering Webber. His work has appeared in dozens of anthologies.
He is currently at work on his series of Eby Stokes Victorian spy novels as well as a myriad of other projects. To learn more about his work check out: www.amazon.com/Andrew-Salmon/e/B002NS5KR0
J. Scherpenhuizen is the author of numerous novels for children and adults, including Twilight Age Vampires, Profile of Evil and Catvengers (www.amazon.com).His short fiction has appeared in magazines and the anthologies Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook and Cthulhu Deep Down Under. A mainstay of the Australian comics scene, his work includes both writing and illustrating the gritty horror graphic novel The Twilight Age (also published as Time of the Wolves); co-pencilling with Michal Dutkiewicz a number of American comic-books such as Wolverine: Doombringer and Lost in Space; and inking artist Chewie Chan’s pencils on Buckaroo Banzai 2. He’s also done a slew of work while teamed-up with Australian comics scribe Christopher Sequeira, with whom he has developed and created several properties including Mister Blood, The Glowing Man and The Catamorph.
His new superhero character, Princess, co-created with writer Jason Franks, will debut in a nationally bookstore distributed graphic novel in mid-2019. Scherpenhuizen is currently writing and drawing a 350 page hybrid literary novel-graphic novel-thesis as his doctoral project at Sydney University.
Christopher Sequeira is a writer and editor who specialises in short prose and comic-book scripts for the mystery, horror, science fiction and super-hero genres. He has also written scripts for flagship superhero comic-books, such as Justice League Adventures for DC Entertainment, and Iron Man and X-Men stories for Marvel Entertainment. His Sherlock Holmes: Dark Detective graphic novel with Dave Elsey and Philip Cornell is published by Caliber Entertainment, and an authorised revamp of Dr Fu Manchu with long-time friend and collaborator W. Chew Chan is in the works. He has edited (or co-edited with Bryce Stevens and Steve Proposch) the award-nominated anthologies Cthulhu Deep Down Under (three volumes) and Cthulhu Land of the Long White Cloud (both for IFWG Publishing); Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook (Echo / Bonnier); and at time of writing the forthcoming H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia (Clan Destine Press), and the creator-jam-graphic novel SuperAustralians (for IFWG Publishing and Black House Comics).
I. A. Watson is the great-great grandnephew of Holmes’s great friend and chronicler Dr John Watson. And if you believe that he also has a Thor Bridge to sell you. He’s written about Holmes before—or discovered more of his famous ancestor’s manuscripts, if you prefer—in Airship 27’s Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective volumes 1-12 and counting, and in the novel Holmes and Houdini. Several of those contributions were nominated for Best Pulp Story of their year and one got the trophy.
Pegged by editors as a go-to author for iconic or long-since-published characters, I. A. Watson has been seduced into penning the Robin Hood novels King Of Sherwood, Arrow of Justice, Freedom’s Outlaw and Forbidden Legend, St George and the Dragon Volumes 1 and 2, Labours Of Hercules, Women of Myth, and half a dozen other books, plus contributions to around forty anthologies, and his first non-fiction essay volume ‘Where Stories Dwell’. Occasionally he stops writing and eats. He is considering sleep. Full publication details with links to additional material and free stories are listed at http://www.chillwater.org.uk/writing/iawatsonhome.html
Luke Spooner, who created this volume’s cover, is an artist and illustrator living in the South of England. He has a First Class degree in illustration from the University of Portsmouth and his current projects and commissions include illustrations and covers for books, magazines, graphic novels, books aimed at children, conceptual design and business branding.
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