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Will Murray Strikes Again - J. Flemming Gould on Norvell and Wentworth...

I don't have the exact quote yet, but when gonig through some old tape Will found an interview with Gould where he describes Norvell as trapsing around in an opera cloak, (so add to the flamboyant&nbs...
Posted by Norvell Page on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:57:00 PST

My Great-Niece Makes Up a Comic

there is a contest at Velocity Comics with Jack Kirby tribute as it’s theme and I just couldn’t control myself... I just couldn’t possibly have drawn it either. SO thanks to John, wh...
Posted by Norvell Page on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:33:00 PST

Spider in Mexico - thanks again to the illustrious Mr. Murray

 don't know if anybody saw the issues of a Mexican pulp called DETECTIVES Y BANDIDOS on eBay a few weeks ago. It is apparently a weekly pulp magazine published in the late Thirties that reprinted...
Posted by Norvell Page on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:39:00 PST

Thanks to the Illustrious Mr. Murray I Dont Need My Files to Update...

The master Pulp historian has files of his own and turned this up. Thanks again Will (and hes' who we really have to thank for about 80% of what goes up here): From a letter from Street & Smith ed...
Posted by Norvell Page on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:45:00 PST

"Dance of the Skeletons": Norvell Describes How Horror and Mystery First Met in the Pulps

I keep finding stuff I thought long lost: From "Weird Menace: Dark Council": "In an article written for "Writer's Yearbook" in 1935, Norvell Page described how he came to get the assignment for "Dance...
Posted by Norvell Page on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:00:00 PST

A Critical Look at "The Citadel of Hell" - author unknown - Spider as Street Musician

From "Pulp Era" 68, Nov./Dec. 1967 pp.29-31 March, 1934, Vol. II, No. 4, "Citadel of Hell" Lead story by Grant Stockbridge, (aka Norvell Page aka N. Wooten Poge) Interior illustrations by J. Fleming G...
Posted by Norvell Page on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:54:00 PST

A Very Brave Hero - Norvells’ Son Mac and His Fight Against Cancer

From the "Beacon Hill News/South District Journal", 12/2/81 by John Lustig McAllister Page is a big, husky bear of a man who seems to have the strength to match. When the 53 year old Southeast Seattle...
Posted by Norvell Page on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:01:00 PST

"The Spider" Radio Show

Thanks again Will. From Mr. Murray: Lee Falk, who later created Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom,directed most shows at KMOX at this time. The main KMOX actor wasbaritone-voiced Marvin Mueller, ...
Posted by Norvell Page on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:19:00 PST

Some Links to L. Ron Hubbard and Norvell Page, Pulp Writers

Norvell is referenced in all of the links. The most detailed references are excerpted here. There is a description somewhere on-line, written by Hubbard I believe, about his running into Norvell at th...
Posted by Norvell Page on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:34:00 PST

The Rest of the Story...Seances at Norvells’ House by Arthur J. Burks

...I was sitting in the lobby of a publishing house when a red-headed writer entered, (note: L. Ron Hubbard). A year or two previously, he had written a book which , then involved in a publishing vent...
Posted by Norvell Page on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:37:00 PST