![]() ![]() ![]() Both were packaged by BPVP to be published by Pyramid Books. ![]() Now that we’re separated from Weird Heroes by about the amount of time it was separated from the original pulps, it’s well worth a look back at its truncated run.Įditor Byron Preiss was only 21 years old when he founded Byron Preiss Visual Publications in 1974, and the company began putting out two series of illustrated paperbacks the next year, Weird Heroes and Fiction Illustrated (which ran for four volumes with a fifth issued under a different name). That absence is a little surprising, as a whole new generation of writers has come along with an interest in creating new pulps. And yet Preiss’ long-term plans for Weird Heroeswere cut short with the eighth volume, and today it’s hard to find much discussion of the books online (though they’re well-remembered when they are discussed). Well-known creators from comics and science fiction contributed to the books, and one character would spawn a six-volume series of his own. ![]() The series had a specific set of ideals for its heroes, linked with an appreciative but not uncritical love of pulp fiction from the 1920s through 40s. Weird Heroes was a series of eight books put out by Byron Preiss Visual Publications from 1975 through 1977, a copiously-illustrated mix of novels and short stories that aimed at creating a new kind of pulp fiction with new kinds of pulp heroes. ![]()
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