Crossover Cover: Black Water

 

Are you a fan of the pulp hero Secret Agent X?

Then you'll love Bobby Nash's story in this book, "Black Water," which has a cameo by X in one of his disguises!

For more information, be sure to purchase my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! Like the first two volumes, this one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Lance Star and the Crown of Gengis Kai

 

Lance Star and his comrade Buck Tellonger fly to the island nation of Magnapor to meet Lance’s old friend Simon Prentiss, an archaeologist who wants their help finding the crown of the legendary outlaw Gengis Kai. Along the way, they must contend with Magnapor’s dictator, the Overlord. A week ago, Lance and Buck were in a dogfight with Japanese Zeroes near Espritos Marcos in the Pacific. Lance “hadn’t met too many archaeology professors who could handle themselves in a fight. Except that one guy he met in Egypt. He had been able to protect himself well enough.” Lance opens a locked door using two small black pieces of metal, a method taught to him by a friend a while back. Espritos Marcos is from the TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep (aka Black Sheep Squadron). The archaeology professor Lance met in Egypt is Indiana Jones. Lance’s friend is the Domino Lady. 

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: The New Adventures of the Eagle

This anthology of new stories featuring Norman Daniels' pulp hero Jeff Shannon, aka the Eagle, has two stories with crossovers. In Bobby Nash's "Lights! Camera! Sabotage!," Agent Palmer of the FBI assigns Shannon to go undercover on the set of a film directed by a suspected saboteur. Agent Palmer also appears in Nash’s comic book Lance Star: Sky Ranger – One-Shot! (illustrated by James Burns) and the upcoming novel Lance Star: Sky Ranger – Cold Snap. His grandson is FBI Agent Harold Palmer, the protagonist of Nash’s novel Evil Ways, as well as its forthcoming sequel Evil Intent. Both novels are part of a series of thrillers set in Sommersville, Georgia. Since Lance Star and the Eagle are both in the CU, so are the two Agent Palmers. In Teel James Glenn's "The Coming Storm," Secret Service agent Rex Bennett assigns Shannon to rescue a kidnapped scientist. Shannon has read a series of articles about German Bunds by “that Donovan guy at the Daily Star.” Shannon’s friend Lefty Kovaks tells the disguised hero that he looks like a regular man of bronze, to which Shannon responds that that name is taken. Shannon consulted with an old instructor of his in New York, Andrew Mayfair, a noted biochemist, to create an antidote to any truth serums or sedatives he may face. Rex Bennett is from the film serials G-Men vs. the Black Dragon and Secret Service in Darkest Africa. Donovan is Moxie Donovan, an original character created by Glenn who appears in the collections Deadline Zombies: The Adventures of Maxi and Moxie and Headline Ghouls: The Further Adventures of Maxi and Moxie. The man of bronze is Doc Savage, of course; Andrew Blodgett “Monk” Mayfair is one of Doc’s five assistants.

Crossover of the Week

Winter 1967

A THING OF BEAUTY

            Sanford Biggs accepts a contract to kill the Green Hornet and Kato, and steals the Black Beauty for his museum, housed aboard his cargo carrier, the Bigg Dipper. The items in Biggs’ museum include a glowing green meteorite; the remains of a crashed experimental airplane that had been shot down over Switzerland in 1939; the mask, hat, and pistols of a famous lawman in the old west; and a bat-shaped metal throwing weapon. The Hornet recognizes the lawman’s equipment. In the aftermath of the Hornet’s battle with Biggs, everything in the museum is tagged, labeled, and accounted for, except for one empty case. The Hornet (aka Britt Reid) tells his ally, D.A. Frank Scanlon, that the case contained an heirloom stolen from his family many years ago, which belonged to his grandfather.

            Short story by Bobby Nash in The Green Hornet Casefiles, Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert, eds., Moonstone Books, 2011. The glowing green meteorite is a piece of kryptonite, one of the few substances that can kill Superman. The experimental airplane belonged to the Canadian pulp hero Lance Star; its destruction at the hands of Star’s foe Baron Otto Von Blood is depicted in Nash’s upcoming novel Lance Star: Sky Ranger – Cold Snap. The lawman of the old west is John Reid, aka the Lone Ranger. The Green Hornet radio series revealed that Britt Reid was the Lone Ranger’s great-nephew. NOW Comics’ Green Hornet comic established in turn that the Green Hornet from the 1960s television series was Britt Reid II, the original Hornet’s nephew. Therefore, Britt Reid II is actually John Reid’s great-grandnephew, not his grandson. The bat-shaped metal throwing weapon is one of Batman’s batarangs.

Crossover Cover: Operation: Silver Moon

In July 1943, Tom Lupis, a werewolf agent of the U.S. War Department, teams with the vampire lord Vlas to prevent the Nazis from using an orb they have discovered to unleash the monstrous Army of the Black Death to spread havoc. General Heinrich Krieger says to Professor Hans Steir, the archaeologist who unearthed the orb, “This toy you’ve discovered may very well be the most powerful weapon known to man. Perhaps even more than that Jewish ark that was lost to us a few years ago. This artifact is the key to our total victory.” Krieger is clearly referring to the events of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, bringing this graphic novel into the CU. An air strike on the valley where the Army is located is led by a pilot who refers to his men as Rangers. The pilots are Lance Star and his Sky Rangers, Canadian pulp characters who have been revived in the modern day by Nash and others. (Thanks to Bobby Nash for pointing this out to me.)