Download or read book Johnny Dynamite Underworld written by Max Allan Collins and published by Ait/Planetlar. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rock 'em/sock 'em private eye from the Windy City, Johnny Dynamite's back with his best gal and faithful secretary Judy Kane by his side! In this hard-boiled, psychotronic occult period piece, Johnny's fighting zombies in Vegas with crime on their undead minds!
Download or read book Johnny Dynamite Explosive Pre Code Crime Comics The Complete Adventures of Pete Morisi s Wild Man of Chicago written by Max Allan Collins and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fight crime alongside the one-eyed, two fisted Chicago private eye in these explosive comics from the early 1950s! At the height of the Mickey Spillane crime novel craze of the early 1950s came Johnny Dynamite to rival Mike Hammer in wild, sexy yarns! Illustrated by Pete Morisi and written by Ken Fitch, the complete mini graphic novels from the rare Dynamite comic book (1953-'55) are collected here by the creators of Ms. Tree, Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) and Terry Beatty (Rex Morgan, M.D.). Collins, Spillane's chosen literary heir, and Beatty provide revealing and profusely illustrated introductions and a Collins/Beatty Johnny Dynamite tale is included as a bonus!
Download or read book Cold Burn written by Max Allan Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-04-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original novel in the forensic crime mystery series based on the critically acclaimed hit TV show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Remote. Peaceful. Picturesque. That's how the Mumford Mountain Hotel bills itself in its brochure, and it lives up to its billing -- most of the time. But this year, the hotel is hosting a prestigious conference for the study of forensic science, and the organizers have extended CSI head Gil Grissom an invitation he can't refuse. Joined by fellow investigator Sara Sidle, Grissom leaves the department in the capable hands of Catherine Willows and heads east. But he and Sara soon find themselves in all too familiar territory -- and back in Las Vegas, Catherine, Warrick Brown, and Nick Stokes have uncovered trouble of their own.
Download or read book Dark Angel Before the Dawn written by Max Allan Collins and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2002-11-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive prequel to the hit TV series. Never-before-told tales of action and adventure revealing the early days of Dark Angel! Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief, Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing “brothers and sisters” from Manticore, the covert agency with a sinister history of militaristic manipulation and control. By chance, Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist in Seattle, known to everyone as “Eyes Only.” The police are searching for his accomplice, a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max immediately recognizes Seth, one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate web of betrayal, greed, revenge, and selfless heroism that will only further fuel her quest to uncover the secrets of her past—and seize hope for the future. . . .
Download or read book Hellboy Odd Jobs written by Various and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of the 1996 illustrated novel Hellboy: The Lost Army, Dark Horse commissioned writer Christopher Golden to gather some of the brightest creative lights in horror and mystery fictionBrian Hodge, Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy A. Collins, Greg Rucka, Chet Williamson, legendary horror/humor cartoonist Gahan Wilson, and many moreto produce a prose anthology of Hellboy short stories, presenting original tales of the world's greatest paranormal investigator. Illustrated by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.
Download or read book More Giants of the Genre written by Whitley Strieber and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael McCarty interviews masters of the fantastic, including: Harlan Ellison, Whitley Strieber, Laurell K. Hamilton, Harry Turtledove, Boris Vallejo, Joe R. Lansdale, Max Collins, Charles Grant, The Amazing Kreskin, Richard Matheson, and many more
Download or read book Sin City written by Max Allan Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-10-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas -- the forensic investigators. Led by veteran Gil Grissom, the remarkable team assigned to the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift -- including Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, and Sara Sidle -- must combine cutting-edge scientiÞc methods and old-fashioned savvy as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. SIN CITY "If anything happens to me, get this cassette to the police," Lynn Pierce told her friends the night she disappeared without a trace. Pierce seemed to be a devout Christian, devoted wife and mother -- but she left behind a recording of her husband threatening to cut her into little pieces. Jenna Patrick was a professional stripper who said she was trying to get out of the sex trade and into junior college. She wound up strangled to death in a locked room in the back of the club where she worked. What could these two women possibly have had in common -- aside from the fact that they are both victims of homicide? Find out as Grissom, Willows, and the rest of the CSI team track down a sordid trail of secret lives and private dances, from the saintly to the seedier side of Sin City.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel written by Nat Gertler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tools for creating the next great graphic novel! What do the movies Men In Black, Road to Perdition, Ghost World, and X-Men all have in common? Each started out as a graphic novel-one of the fastest growing segments of the book publishing industry. Now, here is the first book to provide a comprehensive and detailed look at the process involved in creating a successful graphic novel.
Download or read book Ms Tree Volume 5 written by Max Allan Collins and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Tree is back with this new anthology of classic detective stories. Join the 6ft, 9mm wielding private detective as she shoots and solves her way through her thrilling adventures. No case is too small, no violence too extreme, and no mystery too touch for this sharp sleuth. From acclaimed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) and award-winning illustrator Terry Beatty (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) comes the fifth volume of classis Ms. Tree stories, collected for the first time. Fans of hard boiled and crime fiction will get a thrill from these terrific tales! “Ms. Tree hits the bullseye and blows it to pieces.” – Mystery Scene Magazine
Download or read book Dynamite 5 written by Allen Hardy Associates Inc and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men's adventure comics that served as a platform to launch one-eyed private eye Johnny Dynamite. Johnny gets involved in high-level political shenanigans when a tough city councilman wants to run for mayor and take on the Syndicate. A solo adventure featuring Johnny Dynamite's own Inspector Lestrade, homicide detective Luke Hennessy. The beautiful Leah leads Johnny into an ambush, but there's more going on than meets the...eye. Death Is So Lonely; The Killer Walked In; Luke Hennessy... Homicide; The Phoney Kill!The comic reprints from are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. Many people enjoy these authentic characteristics.
Download or read book Comic book Superstars written by Don Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the writers, artists, colorists, and letters who bring the stories to life. This book offers wide page margins for autographs and sketches. It's perfect for comics conventions, signings and store appearances.
Download or read book Getting Into the Business of Comics written by Lurene Haines and published by Caliber Comics. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamite 1 written by Allen Hardy Associates Inc and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men's adventure comics that served as a platform to launch long-running private eye Johnny Dynamite. The rivalry between two steeplejacks (high-rise maintenance workers) becomes dangerous when they are high over the city streets. U.S. Secret Service agent Ed Wells must act as a government courier in New York to trap a counterfeiter. Customs agent Nichols stumbles across a murderous gang of morphine smugglers.The comic reprints from are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. Many people enjoy these authentic characteristics.
Download or read book Hitman written by Howie Carr and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Scorsese’s The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of one of the city’s most notorious criminals in Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger’s Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld. For two decades Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty mob murders—for which Johnny would serve twelve years in prison. Carr also looks at the politicians and FBI agents who aided Johnny and Whitey, and at the flamboyant city of Boston which Martorano so ruthlessly ruled. A plethora of paradoxes, Johnny Martorano was Mr. Mom by day and man-about-town by night. Surrounded by fast-living politicians, sports celebrities, and show biz entertainers, Johnny was charismatically colorful—as charming as he was frightening. After all, he was, in the end...a hitman. The paperback edition of Howie Carr’s riveting true-crime story includes an epilogue detailing Whitey Bulger’s dramatic June 2011 capture.
Download or read book Handsome Johnny written by Lee Server and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century’s darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue from Lee Server, the New York Times bestselling author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing... A singular figure in the annals of the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli’s career flourished for an extraordinary fifty years, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the Roaring Twenties--the last protégé of Al Capone—to the modern era of organized crime as a dominant corporate power. The Mob’s “Man in Hollywood,” Johnny Rosselli introduced big-time crime to the movie industry, corrupting unions and robbing moguls in the biggest extortion plot in history. A man of great allure and glamour, Rosselli befriended many of the biggest names in the movie capital—including studio boss Harry Cohn, helping him to fund Columbia Pictures--and seduced some of its greatest female stars, including Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe. In a remarkable turn of events, Johnny himself would become a Hollywood filmmaker—producing two of the best film noirs of the 1940s. Following years in federal prison, Rosselli began a new venture, overseeing the birth and heyday of Las Vegas. Working for new Chicago boss Sam Giancana, he became the gambling mecca’s behind-the-scenes boss, running the town from his suites and poolside tables at the Tropicana and Desert Inn, enjoying the Rat Pack nightlife with pals Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. In the 1960s, in the most unexpected chapter in an extraordinary life, Rosselli became the central figure in a bizarre plot involving the Kennedy White House, the CIA, and an attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro. Based upon years of research, written with compelling style and vivid detail, Handsome Johnny is the great telling of an amazing tale.
Download or read book Johnny s Girl written by Kim Rich and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny’s Girl the nationally acclaimed memoir of growing up in Alaska’s underworld as the only child of gambler John F. “Johnny” Rich and exotic dancer, Frances “Ginger” Rich. It chronicles Alaska’s mean streets and her parent’s tragic lives that were cut short. Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after-hours hell of gamblers, pimps, and con men. She longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother, who suffered from mental illness, was a stripper and B-girl: her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage, Alaska in the sixties, a city flush with newfound oil money. Only after her father was gruesomely murdered when she was 15, and Kim became a journalist, was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one American dream gone horribly wrong. Kim's true story is a tale of a woman's search for her parent's secrets. What she finds is both shocking and tragic, but in the end she's able to discover her true self amid the remnants of her parents' lost lives.
Download or read book Sitting on a Keg of Dynamite written by John Neal Phillips and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 16, 1947, the French vessel SS Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, exploded in the port of Texas City, just north of Galveston, Texas. Nearly 600 people died instantly and property damage reached catastrophic proportions. The Texas City disaster remains, to date, the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. Among those killed was William Roach, a Roman Catholic priest known affectionately as Father Bill. Sitting on a Keg of Dynamite, by historian John Neal Phillips, tells the remarkable story of Father Bill’s life and premature death against the backdrop of the rapid growth—and near destruction—of an American industrial city. Through extensive archival research and oral interviews, Phillips pieces together previously unknown details of Father Bill’s story to present a well-rounded portrait of the man who is today revered as a hero. Born in Philadelphia, Roach attended seminary in Arkansas before he went on to serve as parish priest for St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal in Texas City. Restless, energetic, and beloved for his humor, tolerance, and empathy, Father Bill was an outspoken advocate for poor and working-class citizens, fair wages, and workplace safety. One evening, as Phillips vividly recounts, Roach sat on the church steps, looking out at the strange orange-yellow light created by hydrocarbon gas flares emerging from nearby oil refineries. “I feel like I’m sitting on a keg of dynamite,” he told parishioners who were passing by. His premonition proved prophetic. When a fire erupted onboard the Grandcamp, Father Bill hurried to the docks to lend assistance. It was then that the ship detonated. There is still much to be learned from the Texas City disaster—and from the legacy of Father Bill, an early crusader for social justice in America. Descendants of the disaster victims received financial reparations, and yet, as Phillips cautions, safety and environmental regulations barely exist in Texas today, particularly when it comes to the petrochemical industry. Sitting on a Keg of Dynamite serves as a cautionary tale for Texans—and all Americans—as environmental accidents continue to threaten our safety.
