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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.

YES, WE GOOFED!

14 Aug | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen. Sometimes life seems to get away from us all. Having lots of fun things to show off in last week’s Flight Log, we didn’t realized until it had been posted that we had forgotten to put up page 4 of The Great Airship Race. Ouch, do forgive us and here it is, Loyal Airmen.

THE GREAT AIRSHIP RACE Pg 4

The action is heating up, Loyal Airmen. Be back here next week for the 5th and final page.

THE CRIMSON NUN Issue # 3

Artist Jesse Thomas has been hard at work on issue # 3 of our series for Antarctic Press. In this page, Gabrielle, who will become the Crimson Nun in our story, meets the head of Vatican Security, one Henri Metien. He will be responsible for her training as the first ever Swiss Guard. Stay tuned.

THE RETURN OF DOC ATLAS

Even since the creation of the classic pulp hero, Doc Savage by writer Lester Dent, tons of would be pulp scribes have attempted to do their own version of a globe trotting adventure who leads a team of specialist in battle. Heck, if the Air Chief has done five such novels reviving the one-shot wonder, Captain Hazzard. Still, one of the more successful clones by Doc Atlas by Michael Black and Ray Lovato. Thus far Airship 27 has published two volumes of his adventures and at present the Air Chief is editing a Volume Three. So if any of you Loyal Airmen are at all intrigued, we’re happy to remind you Volumes 1 & 2, as seen above, are still available at Amazon in both paperback on Kindle. Till then, keep an eye out for Volume Three.

BEYOND 175

Earlier in the year, Airship 27 had the thrill of reprinting BEYOND 30, a long forgotten sci-fi novel by the late, great pulp writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book had long since gone in public domain and one of our writers, Harding McFadden, had come to us with an actual sequel to that novel. So, he, yours truly, and Rob Davis decided to do an Airship 27 edition before releasing Harding’s exciting sequel, BEYOND 175. Now we’re happy to announce that BEYOND 175 has been published and is now our latest Airship 27 release of 2026. The book is now available of Amazon in paperback and soon on Kindle. We think you Loyal Airmen are going to find it a truly remarkable, fitting sequel to the Burrough’s lost classic.

BEYOND THE STARS # 6

An don’t look now, Loyal Airmen, the but long awaited final issue (# 6) of BEYOND THE STARS is now in the final stages of production from Silverline Comics. As you can see from the gorgeous colored page above, artist Andrea Bormedia is putting forth his most beautiful art with this climatic last issue. All that remains now is the lettering by Mike Belcher and we’ll be ready for publication. Ending an almost three year journey. Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen, we’ll let you know when the funding campaign launches.

And there you have it for this busy as ever week, Loyal Airmen. We always appreciated your joining us here every Friday morning. And remember, unless we have another memory hiccup, we’ll be presenting the last page of the Great Airship Race. You won’t want to miss it! Ron – Over & Out!