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August 10, 2018

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Radio Archives Treasures

Volume 37

Radio Preservation has always been at the core of Radio Archives. This exciting series is derived from our massive collection of thirty thousand radio shows from 16" transcription discs and fifty thousand shows from low generation reels.

This 20 hour collection includes shows from the classic days of Radio. You'll find rare and obscure as well as mainstream radio shows from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in the Radio Archives Treasures sets.

These shows have all been restored with state-of-the-art CEDAR technology - the audio processing system used by major recording companies to restore older recordings. We expect the shows to be the best sounding copies available anywhere.

Radio Archives Treasures are available as MP3 digital downloads or Audio CDs, restored to sparkling digital quality.

CD #1

The Dizzy Dean Show

#1 Lefty Gomez

Saturday, July 3, 1948 - 15:00 - NBC - Johnson's Wax commercials

The Dizzy Dean Show

#10 High Batting Average

Saturday, September 4, 1948 - 15:00 - NBC - Johnson's Wax commercials

The Dizzy Dean Show

#11 Ewell Blackwell

Saturday, September 11, 1948 - 15:00 - NBC - Johnson's Wax commercials

The Dizzy Dean Show

#12 Dizzy's All-Star Lineup

Saturday, September 18, 1948 - 15:00 - NBC - Johnson's Wax commercials

CD #2

The Doctor Fights

Captain Rayme's Story

Tuesday, July 24, 1945 - 30:00 - CBS - Schenley Laboratories commercials

The Doctor Fights

The Lam Ping Miracle

Tuesday, July 31, 1945 - 30:00 - CBS - Schenley Laboratories commercials

CD #3

Douglas of the World

The Murder Rap

1953 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials

Douglas of the World

The Judgement Day

1953 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials

CD #4

Doctor Tim, Detective

The Mystery of The Guest in Number Two

Monday, September 18, 1950 - 15:00 - Monarch Program Library syndication - No commercials

Doctor Tim, Detective

#4 The Mystery of the Man From Trouble Creek

Monday, September 25, 1950 - 15:00 - Monarch Program Library syndication - No commercials

Doctor Tim, Detective

#5 The Mystery of the Second Alarm

Monday, October 2, 1950 - 15:00 - Monarch Program Library syndication - No commercials

Doctor Tim, Detective

#6 The Mystery of the Dog That Did and Didn't

Monday, October 9, 1950 - 15:00 - Monarch Program Library syndication - No commercials

CD #5

Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert

Love Nest

Saturday, September 9, 1944 - 30:00 - Blue/AFRS - No commercials

Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert

Should I?

Saturday, February 10, 1945 - 30:00 - Blue/AFRS - No commercials

CD #6

Endorsed by Dorsey

The Shiek

Wednesday, May 1, 1946 - 30:00 - Mutual - Sustaining no commercials

Endorsed by Dorsey

The Last Show of the Series

Friday, October 18, 1946 - 30:00 - Mutual - Sustaining no commercials

CD #7

The Fabulous Doctor Tweedy

Tweedy Chamber Music Society

Saturday, January 12, 1946 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials

The Fabulous Doctor Tweedy

The Foundling

Wednesday, February 26, 1947 - 30:00 - AFRS - No commercials

CD #8

The Fire Chief

Jokes About the Stock Market and the Depression

Tuesday, July 26, 1932 - 30:00 - NBC - Texaco commercials

The Fire Chief

Trial by Jury

Tuesday, August 9, 1932 - 30:00 - NBC - Texaco commercials

CD #9

Firefighters

Program #1

Monday, November 14, 1949 - 15:00 - William F. Holland Productions syndication - No commercials

Firefighters

Program #2

Tuesday, November 15, 1949 - 15:00 - William F. Holland Productions syndication - No commercials

Firefighters

Program #3

Wednesday, November 16, 1949 - 15:00 - William F. Holland Productions syndication - No commercials

Firefighters

Program #4

Thursday, November 17, 1949 - 15:00 - William F. Holland Productions syndication - No commercials

CD #10

The First Nighter Program

Love Is Stranger Than Fiction

Thursday, February 12, 1948 - 30:00 - CBS - Campana cosmetic commercials

The First Nighter Program

Oh, Bury Me Not

Thursday, February 19, 1948 - 30:00 - CBS - Campana cosmetic commercials

CD #11

Four for the Fifth

#2 High Command

Saturday, June 10, 1944 - 30:00 - CBS - Fifth War Loan commercials

Four for the Fifth

#3 The Laughter

Saturday, June 17, 1944 - 30:00 - CBS - Fifth War Loan commercials

CD #12

Maxwell House Coffee Time

Going to a Baseball Game

Thursday, June 5, 1947 - 30:00 - NBC - Maxwell House Coffee commercials

Maxwell House Coffee Time

Holly's Graduation

Thursday, June 12, 1947 - 30:00 - NBC - Maxwell House Coffee commercials

CD #13

The Fred Waring Show

1st Song Shawnee

Wednesday, October 15, 1947 - 30:00 - NBC - Sustaining no commercials

The Fred Waring Show

Chester Gould

Tuesday, October 28, 1947 - 30:00 - NBC - American Meat Institute commercials

CD #14

Frontier Fighters

#9 The Donner Party

1937 - 15:00 - Transco Syndication - No commercials

Frontier Fighters

#10 The Fall of the Alamo

1937 - 15:00 - Transco Syndication - No commercials

Frontier Fighters

#11 General S W Kearney

1937 - 15:00 - Transco Syndication - No commercials

Frontier Fighters

#12 Brigham Young

1937 - 15:00 - Transco Syndication - No commercials

CD #15

The General Motors Symphony of The Air

An All-Wagner Program

Sunday, November 28, 1943 - 60:00 - Red - General Motors commercials

CD #16

Glamour Manor

Movie Star

Friday, January 4, 1946 - 30:00 - ABC - Ivory Snow and Crisco commercials

Glamour Manor

Circus

Monday, June 10, 1946 - 30:00 - ABC - Ivory Snow and Crisco commercials

CD #17

The Goldbergs

Sylvia Allison

Tuesday, December 10, 1940 - 15:00 - CBS - Oxydol commercials

The Goldbergs

More Trouble With Sylvia

Wednesday, December 11, 1940 - 15:00 - CBS - Oxydol commercials

The Goldbergs

Bad Blood Between Molly and Sylvia

Thursday, December 12, 1940 - 15:00 - CBS - Oxydol commercials

The Goldbergs

Emma Has Her Hooks Into Sammy

Thursday, August 6, 1942 - 15:00 - CBS - Duz Soap commercials

CD #18

The Greatest of These

#3 The Missing Funds

1946 - 30:00 - Syndicated - No commercials

The Greatest of These

#4 Doctor With a War Wound

1946 - 30:00 - Syndicated - No commercials

CD #19

The Lux Radio Theatre

#376 A Star Is Born

Monday, December 28, 1942 - 60:00 - CBS - Lux Commercials

CD #20

Dotto

Steve Morse and Carol Lee

1958 - 30:00 - CBS - Sustaining no commercials

Great Moments From the Lives of Great Women

Anna Pavlova - Audition Program

1937 - 15:00 - CBS - No commercials

Earn Your Vacation

First Contestant Is Helen Wickerham

Monday, March 7, 1949 - 15:00 - CBS - No commercials

20 hours - $29.99 Download / $59.98 Audio CDs

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James Christopher, Operator #5 Audiobook

#28 The Bloody Forty-Five Days

by Emile C. Tepperman writing as Curtis Steele

Read by Milton Bagby

The Purple Invasion story #3 of 13

America, last citadel of freedom and democracy in the world, has made a valiant but futile stand against the ravening war hordes of the cruel conqueror, Rudolph I, the man whose super-fighting machine is ruthlessly putting the nations of civilized man in thrall. Daily mass executions of men and women — even children — on the Eastern seaboard, are but one of the diabolical means of bringing the surviving patriots to heel. But there is one band that will never yield, who grimly say: “Death before dishonor!” Their leader, Jimmy Christopher, known to them as Operator #5, realizes that only one bold, desperate move can furnish his fellow Americans with the thundering fleet of air destroyers with which alone they can hope to save their country. Grimly, quickly, silently, he sets his plan in action!

The Purple Invasion was heady stuff for a pulp magazine. Never before had an action hero failed to resolve the main threat by the end of his own magazine’s lead novel. But in the new Operator #5 magazine, Jimmy Christopher was forced to fight on and on, with no clear victory in sight. In fact, the situation simply got worse and worse with each intense installment. Long-time characters perished. New ones were introduced. They fell in battle. It was heroic tragedy on a scale never before seen.

Thundering across a ravished America comes a loot laden train bearing twenty million dollars in gold, hurtling toward the despoiled metropolis of New York, where Emperor Rudolph I has established headquarters. Suddenly the train trembles to a stop. A desperate little band of American patriots, who refuse to bow to the conqueror’s yoke, make a bold attack. Their leader, Jimmy Christopher, known as Operator #5, realizes that that trainload of gold is the only chance for America to repel the brutal invaders!

The Bloody Forty-Five Days is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in the October-November 1936 issue of Operator #5 magazine.

Performed by 2017 Audie Awards winner, voice actor Milton Bagby.

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The Spider #12 Audiobook
Reign of the Silver Terror

by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge

Read by Nick Santa Maria

Fear stalked the corridors and offices on Capitol Hill, for it was from the ranks of the mighty — the rulers and lawmakers of America — that the Silver Assassins sought their victims! Singly, in pairs and in numbered groups they died, laying down their lives for their country — while panic spread, and the Spider, alone aware of the terrific catastrophe which impended, fought through black, bodiless shadows to reach and destroy the menace which festered underground!

For ten grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. No one knew his name. Pursued by the police, sought by the mob, the Master of Men crushed crime with a blazing intensity never witnessed before or since. Now he's back with a vengeance in a new series of audiobooks retelling his pulp-pounding exploits, as chronicled by Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge.

Page was a master of the dramatic. In his earliest Spider novels he seemed determined to outdo all that came before.

With Reign of the Silver Terror, Page goes all out. Relocating the action to Washington D.C., he plunges Richard Wentworth into a maelstrom of political foment. The Silver King and his deadly assassins are out to overthrow the government of the United States, building a new empire upon a monetary foundation of the precious metal.

From the first chapter, where the Spider rescues a number of U.S. senators from being scalded alive by molten silver, to a bizarre and even unbelievable climax on the Senate floor where a dead man pops up from his own coffin to point out his killer, this is one of the great over-the-top Spider novels.

That’s not all. During the course of the story’s events, Nita van Sloan crosses the line from being merely Wentworth’s dutiful fiance to becoming complicit with the Spider’s crimes when she makes her first kill!

Originally published in The Spider magazine, September, 1934. Read by Nick Santa Maria.

5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

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Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Jungle Stories #38 eBook
Spring 1948

Ki-Gor, son of the jungle! Orphaned son of missionary Robert Kilgour, raised in the jungle, he grew to a six foot bronzed-skin giant who ruled the jungles. Joined by Helen Vaughn, his fiance and later wife, Timbo George, the Masai chief, and N’Geeso, the chief of a Pygmy tribe, this band of adventurers roam the wilds of Africa in a series of pulp magazine stories that began in 1939 and ended with the last published story in 1954. Now, Ki-Gor is back, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:

A New Full-Length Ki-Gor Novel

Slave Of The Jackal Priestess

by John Peter Drummond

“Death to Helene!” The awful sentence of the devil-demon Momba-N’gar hammered against Ki-Gor’s brain as he staggered through that miasmic swamp. But what could he do? Where could he go? The great White Lord of the Jungle was blind!

“Slayer By Stealth” — Jungle-Drenched Novelet

by Wilton Hazzard

Two men dared follow the spoor of blood into the forbidden veldt. They knew that only one could return. Only one could escape the Headless Vultures of Umzinto!

Three Lion’s Teeth — Jungle-Drenched Novelet

by Cordwell Staples

Jim Ford’s war safari tracked the White Fetish to the moaning kraal of the fire monsters. But even his lion’s teeth juju could not keep the drums of death from beating over Bwana Helen!

The Sorcerer Of Kambara — Jungle-Drenched Novelet

by Dan Cushman

Could a trader-tramp like Johnny Starr save a gem-queen like Paulette Payan from the curse of the Black Sorcerer? Maybe he could — when the stakes were Sheba’s fortunes!

The Magic Of Fear — Short Story Of Strange Voodoo

by Edgar Wallace

A great story of weird power by one of the most popular jungle writers of all time.

Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want. $3.99

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$1.99

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Radio Archives Pulp Classics

The Spider #14 eBook
November 1934

by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.

Another epic exploit of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men! Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:

Meet the Spider!

by Will Murray

The Full-Length Feature Novel

Death’s Crimson Juggernaut

by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge

Nailed to a cracked tenement wall, bleeding to death from nail-riven hands and feet, a beautiful girl hung, crucified. Sudden, ghoulish laughter shrilled into the night — the mad triumph-cry of the Torture Killer. How could an unsuspecting nation know the dread portent of this first, startling crime, or foresee that the very heart of America would soon be squeezed dry in the Murder Master’s crimsoned, relentless hands... And the Spider himself, fleeing victim of a grim, deadly man-hunt; his allies captured and fettered; his friends dishonored and shamed, is put to the most critical test of his career to battle the dark, evil power of those who drive Death’s Crimson Juggernaut!

Doc Turner’s Inquisition — A Doc Turner Story

by Arthur Leo Zagat

The man who menaced Morris Street’s own was a torture fiend incarnate...

The Death Juggler — An Ed Race Story

by Emile C. Tepperman

It takes more than fast forty-fives to buck a crook like Pete Lucie!

The Web — A Department

by Inspector Leslie T. White

Cryptograms and codes explained by an experienced crime-fighter. $3.99

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Doc Savage Bantam Paperbacks

now in the Pulp Book Store

Doc Savage became known to more contemporary readers when Bantam Books began reprinting the individual magazine novels in 1964, this time with covers by artist James Bama that featured a bronze-haired, bronze-skinned Doc Savage with an exaggerated widows’ peak, usually wearing a torn khaki shirt and under the by-line “Kenneth Robeson”. The stories were not reprinted in chronological order as originally published, though they did begin with the first adventure, The Man of Bronze. By 1967, Bantam was publishing once a month until 1990, when all 181 original stories plus an unpublished novel, The Red Spider were published. Author Will Murray produced seven more Doc Savage novels for Bantam Books. Bantam also published two books by Philip José Farmer.

Used copies of the Bantam Doc Savage paperbacks are now available from Radio Archives Pulp Book Store. We have been building our inventory of Bantam paperbacks for a couple years and have as many as 11 copies of some titles to purchase right now.

We will buy your Doc Savage Bantam paperbacks. This is how we will maintain our inventory of Bantam paperbacks. eMail Service@RadioArchives.com for shipping instructions.

The Phantom Detective

October 1945

Death to A Diplomat

by Robert Wallace

The Phantom Detective steps into a dark maze of mystery to ferret out the evil perpetrators of a grim scheme of death and blackmail when a legate’s murder stirs a roiling brew! Follow the exciting exploits of Richard Curtis Van Loan as he delves into a crime case that baffles a nation!

The Corpse Comes Home

by John L. Benton

Marked For Murder

by Robert Sidney Bowen

7×10

86 pages

Adventure House

Cover Artist:

Published: 02/18

Pulp Replica $14.95

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The Spider

Volume 15

Pulp fiction's Master of Men returns in two classic stories from one of the pulp era's best selling magazines. In the first story -- could it be? Is The Spider dead? So it would seem, which forces Richard Wentworth to adopt the guise of Corporal Death in his battle with "The Mayor of Hell" (1936). Then, in "Fangs of the Dragon" (1942), The Spider visits the town of Bethbury, where the bite of flying dragons drives the populace to insanity and murder! This instant collectible contains two exciting pulp adventures that have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading and features both of the original full color covers as well as interior illustrations that accompany each story.

Girasol Double Novel Pulp Reprint $14.95

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During radio's "Golden Age", most programs were aired live, rather than prerecorded. Luckily, many were recorded while they were being broadcast — sometimes so a sponsor, a producer, a director, or a performer could listen to them later, other times for legal purposes. Most were recorded onto 16" records, called electrical transcriptions or Transcription Discs. With the introduction of audio tape in the 1950s, transcriptions gradually became a thing of the past, with many being discarded in large quantities. As a result, with the passing of the years, they have become increasingly rare and hard to find.

Though it does take special equipment to play such a large record, many radio enthusiasts collect them. Some people are interested solely in discs from a favorite series, while others just like to own a few rare and high-quality transcription recordings to frame and hang on their wall.

Buying transcription discs has always been difficult whether it is finding them, bidding against others in an auction, watching the price quadruple in the last few seconds, or not knowing the quality of the seller or the discs. That has all changed. When you see a transcription disc on Radio Archives that you want to buy, add it to the shopping cart and we will ship it to you the same day. Our flat rate postage of only $4.00 for US orders can save you a lot of money on these heavy discs. Radio Archives has handled 30,000 transcription discs over the last 19 years and we know how to ship them safely.

Add the transcription discs you want to purchase to the shopping cart along with Old Time Radio CDs, Audiobooks, or Pulps that you want for a low $4 flat rate postage for everything in your order.

Magic Island on Sale this week

Magic Island was a science-fantasy radio serial syndicated in 1935. The series had 130 15-minute episodes.

The storyline followed wealthy Patricia Gregory as she ended her 14-year search in the South Pacific for her long lost daughter Joan. When Joan was one-year-old, the Gregory yacht was shipwrecked near the 30th parallel south. Lashed to a lifeboat, Joan was presumed lost by all but Patricia. In the opening episode, she receives a tip about a white girl living on a mysterious island populated by scientifically advanced people in the Pacific. After the reunion of mother and daughter, the program dramatized their subsequent adventures on the island which could submerge to escape detection. Lots of technological “marvels” are encountered as they get captured, escape, get captured, escape, etc. Great sound and a wonderful retrospective on what 1930’s people thought the future held in store for us as far as technology is concerned.

Magic Island featured Sally Creighton as Patricia Gregory, Rosa Barcelo as Joan Gregory, Tommy Carr as Jerry Hall and Will H. Reynolds as Capt. Tex Bradford. The producer-writer was Perry Crandall, who was also the program's announcer.

The Magic Island discs are two-sided shellac discs, with one complete 15 minute program on each side. Excellent condition. Sale end Thursday night August 16th.

Audiobooks, Double Novel Pulp Reprints, Old Time Radio Books, Cassettes, Reels and Audio CD sets are all in the Bargain Basement.

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