Second Hazzard Audio Book Announced!
He was a hero that rose out of the adversity of the late
1930s.
He's back! and Captain Hazzard is
roaring out of the past for his second audio adventure. Airship 27 Productions, in conjunction with
Dynamic Ram Audio, is thrilled to announce they are about to produce Captain Hazzard - Citadel of Fear,
co-written by novelists Ron Fortier & Martin Powell with voice actor Joe
Stofko reading.
Captain Hazzard was originally a single-issue pulp
magazine published in 1938 by Magazine Publishers. Hazzard was a rich
adventurer in the Big Apple who battled for justice with a team of
super-scientists.
The Captain had suffered blindness for fifteen years, and
his afflection had enhanced his other senses — including his intellect. After
surgery restored his eyesight, and equipped with almost two decades of
immersing himself in studying hypnotism and mysticism, the Captain was ready
for a fight--with crime! He headquarted his team at Hazzard Laboratories, a
complex of scientific labs and aircraft hangers.
So the riproaring adventures began.
Last year Dynamic Ram Audio released Captain Hazzard's first
audio adventure, Python Men of the Lost City, to the applause of pulp
and adventure fans everywhere. Joe Stofko voiced that book as well. At the time
of its publication, it was the first new Captain Hazzard novel in over
65 years.
Joe Stofko is a busy stage, and audio drama actor. After
military service, he worked for 13 years in radio broadcasting as a newscaster
and disc jockey. He was employed in a number of technology positions after
leaving broadcasting, and continued working behind the microphone with
occasional voice-over work for several cable television franchises in the
northeast.
Captain Hazzard and the Python
Men of the Lost City was Joe’s first audio
book. It is still available from Audible.com, Airship 27, and the Dynamic Ram
Audio website.
“We were so happy with how well
that audio version came out, it was only natural that we would want to follow
it up with the second book in the series,” explains Fortier. “And again, we can’t envision anyone reading
this other than Joe. He totally becomes
the Champion of Justice!”
Co-author Ron Fortier's other novels include: Trail of
the Seahawks with Ardath Mayhar, Monkey Station with Ardath Mayhar, The
Hounds of Hell with Gordon Linzner, three additional Captain Hazzard
novels, Brother Bones, and Witchfire. His comics work includes Popeye,
Daughters of Dracula, Adventures of Mr. Jigsaw,, Green Hornet,
and many others.
Co-author Martin Powell is the author of hundreds of science
fiction, mystery, and horror stories. He has worked in the comic book industry
since 1986, writing for Marvel, DC, Malibu,
Caliber, Moonstone, and Disney, among others, and has been nominated for the
coveted Eisner Award. Martin also writes children’s books, and frequently
contributes prose for many short story anthologies.
Airship 27 Productions is one of the leading publishers of
the New Pulp Movement, keeping alive the classic pulp literature of the 30s and
40s while producing newer pulp themed titles by today’s brightest writers and
artists. The publisher now offers sixty novels and anthologies, and all titles
are available digitally via Amazon’s Kindle as well as at several other
outlets. Some are available as e-books. To learn more about Airship 27 and the
books they publish, go to airship27.blogspot.com/ or http://airship27.com/.
Dynamic Ram of Scotland produces and distributes audio books.
The company's titles include
Railroad, Hugh Monn Private Detective, and Doctor
Despicable's Chamber of Cinema. Its Audio Manager and Sound Engineer is
Chris Barnes. More information about Dynamic Ram is available at
http://www.dynamic-ram.co.uk/.
