Chuck haplessly stumbles one step closer to the abyss…

TO: Oscar Kharm

FR: Charles Meade

DA: July 13, 2008

CC: Sam Herneson, Conrad Post

RE: Confusion within Soltare/Montgomery letters

[CM] I can’t seem to understand the issue of these letters-specifically a packet of nine letters wrapped with a gold-trimmed green ribbon. Consisting of scattered ( Read more... )

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This is the standard title for stories revolving around multiple Earths among Bulwark Comics publications. BC saw the benefit of the multiple Earths concept from some of its pulp stories and played with it first in 1944, having characters meet from the Guardians comic line ( Read more... )

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The Bulwark THRILLS™ Pulps

Among the most popular publications Bulwark put out from the 1920’s through the 1950’s were the THRILLS™ magazines. In fact, that trademark continues today with their nonfiction magazine on gaming (now mainly electronic, but also card and role- ( Read more... )

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I’d hardly seen them enter the tavern, but the fist that knocked me from my seat showed me what I needed to see.

I land hard, kissing the rushes and feeling the frigid stone beneath them. Despite that, I crack a smile far colder than the floor.

Bastard.

I might have ( Read more... )

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Kharndam Collected: The Twelvelands-Volume One

Introduction by A.J. Soltare a.k.a. “Mark Shore”

Today-August 26, 2000-is my 90th birthday and, by sheer happenstance, the 56th birthday of one of the stories within this collection. I wrote “Parhim in Peril” in one sitting as ( Read more... )

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INTERNAL MEMO-FOR EXECUTIVE EYES ONLY-BULWARK PUBLICATIONS, INC.

To: oscar.kharm@bulwark.com,

CC: larry.kharm@bulwark.com, susan.vance@bulwark.com, betsy.childs@bulwark.com

From: scott.tarrish@bulwark.com

RE: Kharndam Collected

Date: July 15, 1999

Mr. Kharm (and assorted ( Read more... )

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Kharndam’s Past & Present:
The Plan for Kharndam Collected

I’m Scott Tarrish, a senior editor for Bulwark Publications. I’d like to welcome you to step into a world you thought you knew only to discover more depth than ever.

Most of you reading this are fans come to ( Read more... )