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Welcome to Airship 27

My name is Ron Fortier, and I have been a professional writer for over forty-five years. I have worked on comic book projects such as The Hulk, Popeye, Rambo and Peter Pan. With my two most popular comic series being The Green Hornet and The Terminator (with Alex Ross). With Ardath Mayhar I penned two TSR fantasy novels, and in 2001 I had my first play, a World War II romantic comedy, produced.

This site serves as a portfolio of the work I’ve done to date, as a showcase for projects in the works, and as home for my online Journal (below), which will be updated frequently.

I am currently writing and producing pulp novels and short stories for various publishers and have several movie scripts floating around Hollywood looking for a home, and if that isn’t enough, I also have a review column at the www.pulpfictionreviews.blogspot.com website.

A devoted grandfather of six, at 75, I am thrilled to be part of the new web-comic evolution. Part of this joy is in the realization of a life long dream, that of becoming a pulp writer.

Thanks for visiting, and enjoy your stay.

BEYOND THE STARS # 5

17 Apr | '2026
Greetings Loyal Airmen; as you can see by the cover above, we are wicked excited to announce the release of BEYOND THE STARS #5. This past Tuesday night, on the Silverline Comics Podcast, the Airchief and his co-host had a little launch party to kick of the crowd-funding campaign for the issue. You can probably still find that episode on You Tube. We post the link below. This issue features all out action as our heroic science-warriors battle all manner of alien beings to retrieve the three giant solar batteries that will power their weapon in hopes of defeating the galaxy devouring black cloud. As ever, super artist Andrea Bormida provides the art for 22 gorgeous comic pages with pal Mike Belcher adding the lettering and Angelo Vecciarelli the coloring. Note, when going to the funding page, you’ll find Silverline is offering three covers for you to choose from. This being Andrea’s Cover A. In the next two week’s entries, the Air Chief will show off the other two. Wow, still can’t believe we are one issue away from wrapping up this sci-fi sage started three years ago. And for the record, issue # 6 is almost finished. Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen, it’s going to be awesome!
Part of the fun of the show was a game the Air Chief whipped up in which our co-host, while going through sketches of the characters from the series had to guess who actually created them, either Andrea or the Air Chief. It was a fun hour and we hope you’ll check it out. Podcast Game for BTS # 5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y_DojBZupM) As for the funding campaign, our goal is $750 and we’ve till May 5th. Here’s the link. (https://www.fundmycomic.com/campaign/985/bts5)
Finally a reminder, if you’re at all interested in picking up issue # 5, but weren’t aware of the series before now and don’t have the first four, no worries. At the Funding site, you can still pick issues 1, 2, 3 & 4. So we’ve got you covered, Loyal Airmen.

NEW SINBAD VOL 9 IN DEVELOPMENT

It was beginning to look like our entire Flight Log this week would be focused on BEYOND THE STARS # 5, not that that is a bad thing. But you Loyal Airmen know, we do like to spice things up by giving you peeks into multiple projects not only happening with the Air Chief, but good old Airship 27 Production as well. So yesterday Art Director Rob Davis informed me that artist Gary Kato had turned in all 12 black and white illustrations for the latest SINBAD – The New Voyages # 9. This volume features two full length novellas. One by Richard C. White and the other by Fred Adams Jr. As we pen this entry, Rob is now busily assembling the PDF version to send to our proof reader. When ready, the cover will be done by Michael Youngblood who blew us all away with his cover for Vol 8. Fingers crossed these latest adventures of the Nubian Sailor Prince and his international crew of the Blue Nymph will be released sometime in early May.

And there you have it, Loyal Airmen, this week’s Flight Log. Before signing off, we have to let you know the funding campaign for BTS # 5 passed the half-way mark to its goal in just twenty-four hours. We’re amazed. Here’s hoping by next week’s Log, we can report goal reached. Thanks so very, very much for your continued support and God bless. Ron – Over & Out!