J. Walt Layne

War is Frightening and often ugly. But Heroes are forged on the Battlefield. Action and adventure are not simply stories, but the very words men and women fighting for their beliefs, their countries, or just to stay alive live by every single day. Bullets flying and bombs blasting, PULP AT WAR takes one of the most popular genres of action tales, the war story, and through the pens of J. Walt Layne, Rob Mancebo, and Teel James Glenn, brings it to two fisted, kill or be killed life. PULP AT WAR. From Pro Se Productions.

ADVENTURE IN THE SOUTH SEASWhen Irishman Corky O'Brian opened his bar, the Hanging Monkey, on the island of Motugra he had no idea it would become a magnet for some of the most colorful rogues ever to ply their trades in the South Seas. The cast includes his lovely, but deadly Chinese waitress Miko, Khuna the powerful island warrior, sea captain Nick Fortune and pilot Jimmy Dolan. Together these five colorful characters fight their way through one breathtaking adventure after another courtesy of writers Bill Craig, J. Walt Layne, Don Gates, Nancy Hansen and Lee Houston Jr. From chasing after a cursed diamond to uncovering the mystery of a lethal mermaid, when you stop in at the Hanging Monkey, there's no telling what will happen next These are old-fashioned South Seas tales done New Pulp style with fast-paced action amidst tropical sea breezes that will have readers soon clamoring for more...Tales From the Hanging Monkey.

RULES OF THE GAMEIn the grand tradition of those early sports pulp, Airship 27 Productions offers up a quartet of exceptional sports stories by today's best fiction writers all set in the 1930s. Terrence McCauley delivers up the tale of a former moonshiner looking to make his fortune on dirt tracks of stockcar racing. J.Walt Layne details one of the first interracial college football games ever played. Up next John Rose gets us into the ring with a boxing prodigy from the hills of Kansas and then Fred Adams Jr. offers up a barnstorming adventure with the Negro Baseball League Moline Wizards.Four pulse-pounding stories of men who dared to challenge the status quo and through their skills and courage achieved victory both on and off the playing fields of America. This premier volume also includes a bonus true-life memoir from Richard Kellogg recalling his first deer hunting experience with a beloved uncle.ALL AMERICAN SPORTS STORIES is for all sports fans, young and old alike.

GHOST BOY RETURNSIt is the mid-1960s and the U.S. is in thick of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and Red China. The country's greatest asset is Ghost Boy, a young genius with amazing supernatural powers, and his eight foot tall steel and chrome robot, Pops. Ripped from the pages of Jigsaw Comics, Ghost Boy returns in this collection of four brand new adventures.A rogue army invades America; a giant monster from another dimension attacks a small western town and a cunning foreign inventor creates a machine to enslave the minds of his targets. These are just some of threats facing our heroes as penned by pulp writers Terry Alexander, J.Walt Layne, Erik Franklin and Lee Houston Jr.So hold on to your hats, pulp and comic readers, the Cold War is about to heat up

Veteran Police Sergeant Clarke is gunned down by hoodlums, shot in the back of the head. As he lay dying, a rush of blood to his face formed a macabre mask, a crimson mask When his son, Doctor Robert "Bob" Clarke, saw that strange stigmata he interpreted it as a sign, inspiring him to become his father's avenger, the Crimson Mask Once again Airship 27 Productions digs into the dusty vaults of long forgotten, second tier pulp heroes to revitalize another great character in brand new, exciting adventures. Writers J. Walt Layne, Terrence McCauley, C. William Russette and Gary Lovisi took on the challenge of creating new, bizarre mysteries for the pharmacist turned crime-fighter and in doing so have put together a terrific collection of fast paced pulp action echoing the thrills of the original classics.Aided by retired Police Commissioner Warrick, his former college roommate David Small and lovely nurse Sandra Gray, the Crimson Mask must hunt down the villainous distributors of tainted heroin, stop an invisible thief, learn who ignited the latest city gang war and solve the mystery of a killer targeting his father's allies. Hold on to your fedoras, jump on the running board and get ready for blazing thrills galore, pulp fans, as the Crimson Mask is back