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    Domino Lady: Death On Exhibit
    Domino Lady: Death On Exhibit
    Domino Lady: Death On Exhibit
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    Domino Lady: Death On Exhibit

    By Rich Harvey

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    That masked manhunter, The Domino Lady, takes a vacation from the soundstages and back alleys of Los Angeles for San Diego and the California Pacific International Exposition. Overseeing the exhibition as one of the investors, Ellen Patrick learns of a jealousy-driven plot to destroy the exhibition -- and the city's economy! "Death On Exhibit" represents a bold new project for The Domino Lady -- it's a full-length adventure written as a radio drama from the 1930s! Part One "All's Fair In War" appeared in the Moonstone Books anthology Domino Lady: Sex As a Weapon. It was eventually recorded with a full-cast by the AudioComics Company in San Francisco. Now, for the first time, you can read the full-story ... A One-Million Dollar Bill, John Dillinger's armored car, and a villain who redefines "entitlement."

    Includes the scripts: All's Fair In War, Moxie's Gamble, Blood Is Thicker. Cover by Jun Bob Kim.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBold Venture Press
    Release dateSep 3, 2015
    ISBN9781310056376
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      Domino Lady - Rich Harvey

      Contents

      Copyright Information

      Domino Lady: Death On Exhibit by Rich Harvey

      Part 1: All’s Fair In War

      Part 2: Moxie’s Gamble

      Part 3: Blood Is Thicker

      Introduction: Theater of the Mind by Ron Fortier

      Production Notes by Rich Harvey

      Copyright Information

      Death On Exhibit © 2015 Rich Harvey. All Rights Reserved.

      Illustrations © 2015 Ed Coutts. All Rights Reserved.

      Cover art © 2015 Jun Bob Kim. All Rights Reserved.

      Book Design and Digital Coloring: Rich Harvey

      Retail cover price $14.95

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without express permission of the publisher and author.

      All persons, places and events in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, places or events is purely coincidental.

      Published by Bold Venture Press

      www.boldventurepress.com

      Introduction

      Theater of the Mind

      By Ron Fortier

      Having been born in 1946, I was ten years old before I ever saw a television set. The only place I could see moving pictures telling me a story was whenever Dad would drag me down to the local movie house on Saturday afternoon to catch the latest B-western and cliffhanger serial chapter.

      When we were home, the only electronic entertainment we had was the heavy box radio standing in the living room corner. Now I wish I could go on and on about what great shows I heard during the formative years of my life, but truth to tell I have very little memories of those programs as I generally had my young nose stuck in a comic book while some noise sounded in the background. It was really Mom and Dad, and their entire generation, that were the true benefits of the cornucopia of wonder provided over those airwaves in the years just prior to and following World War II.

      It wouldn’t be until much later, as an Army veteran myself, that I would begin to comprehend the real cultural importance of radio to American society in the 20th Century. Somewhere between high school and the military, I’d found cassettes of old radio melodramas, bought them and began to appreciate just how wonderful they truly were. I slowly came to realize that many of the early TV shows I’d grown up watching were born on the radio from the Lone Ranger to Superman, Gunsmoke and lots of others too many to name. Of course possessing a writer’s ever curious mind, I continued to learn more and more about the radio programs of the 30s and 40s as my collection of cassettes, and eventually digital disc, continued to grow.

      Being a bonafide pulp fan, shows like The Shadow and The Green Hornet were of particular interest to me, as these were my favorite heroes, the masked avengers who prowled metropolitan streets in search of underworld villains. Once you’ve listened to enough of these old 30-minute adventures it becomes readily obvious that radio, unlike television and movies, was indeed the theater of the imagination.

      Without anyone giving you, the listener, an actual picture of the characters and the dire situations they would find themselves in, your only recourse was to sit back and use your imagination to create those pictures in your mind. And believe me, once you’ve gotten into the habit of doing so, you soon realize no other form of storytelling can have the same personal, visceral impact on an audience. Radio forced their audience to become a vital part of the process.

      Of course, today, it’s a regular game played amongst pulp fans to wonder what kind of radio melodramas could have been done with all those other B-heroes that were not so fortunate as to have massive followings and thus were deemed unworthy to translate to other media. We often talk about doing shows featuring Secret Agent X, the Black Bat, the Moon Man…or even the sexiest pulp avenger of them all, the Domino Lady.

      Which brings us to the book you are now holding in your hands; the work of a dedicated pulp enthusiast and one of the Domino Lady’s biggest fans, Rich Harvey. It would be a fair statement to say that until a few years ago, not a whole lot of people, including pulp fans, had ever heard of the alluring Miss Ellen Patrick; a gorgeous California blonde socialite who donned a mask to avenge her father’s murder by unscrupulous politicians.

      As the Domino Lady, she appeared in only a half dozen tales and was mostly forgotten by today’s readers…until Harvey, and a select few others, set about either reprinting her original stories or featuring her in new comic tales. As the New Pulp Movement began to evolve in the last decade, more of those B-heroes began getting the long overdue attention they so richly deserved. Harvey’s efforts began to bear fruit as more and more companies, to include Moonstone, began new Domino Lady projects until at long last she started to take center stage; which she always deserved.

      Of course, not one to simply rest on his past successes, Rich Harvey hatched the brilliant idea of writing an actual Domino Lady radio show done in the over-the-top melodramatic style of those old classics. Here he has whipped up a terrific plot that revolves around a San Diego fair exhibition, added some nefarious white collar villains and into this mix dropped the ever sensuous and cunning, Ms. Patrick. Reading this three part radio play, it is easy to imagine gifted voice actors bringing these colorful characters to audio life and each chapter begins and ends with iconic opening themes and parting announcer cues demanding the listener tune in next time!

      It’s a romp from start to finish and one we hope will someday be actually recorded so that all of us can sit back, close our eyes and be transported back to a bygone day when maybe life was a little less complicated and the world still had room for daring, mysterious, gun-toting vigilantes in high heels and a domino mask whose calling card read, Compliments of the Domino Lady. Now what I wouldn’t give to HEAR that.

      Ron Fortier

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