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June 20, 2025
1 new Phantom Detective Audiobook, 2 new eBooks, and 5 featured products from Radio Archives this week!
All new and featured products are discounted the first week.
Featured: previously released
Mission to Montabania
Volume 4
Tom Collins played the lead role of American-born Frank Chandler, who had learned occult secrets from a yogi in India. Known as Chandu, he possessed several supernatural skills, including astral projection, teleportation and the ability to create illusions. Chandu's goal was to "go forth with his youth and strength to conquer the evil that threatens mankind”. "Time and space are only an illusion” to the American called Chandler. Endowed with strange gifts, in the first episode he teleported himself to his sister's Beverly Hills home.
Launched in 1931 on KHJ in Los Angeles, the series was soon heard throughout the West Coast. It was then heard, starting in February 1932, over WOR in the East. Nationally, it aired over Mutual starting October 8, 1932.
Chandu the Magician was revived on the Mutual-Don Lee Network on June 28, 1948 as a 15-minute weekday program. Radio Archives has restored all 154 fifteen minute episodes of this exciting radio serial.
Starring Tom Collins as Chandu and Luis van Rooten as the villainous Roxor, plotting world domination. Chandu’s sister, Dorothy Regent, was portrayed by Irene Tedrow. Cyril Armbrister directed the scripts by Vera Oldham which took Chandu to far-flung locales, both real and mythical. Romantic interludes for Chandu were introduced with Egyptian Princess Nadji played by Veola Vonn. Also appearing in the cast were Norman Field, Lee Millar, and Joy Terry. Created by Harry A. Earnshaw and Raymond R. Morgan with Howard Culver as the announcer and music by organist Juan Rolando (Korla Pandit), the series continued until January 28, 1949 when it changed to a 30-minute format, each with a self-contained storyline. The oriental-styled musical score via an eerie organ and crashing symbols created a highly effective out-of-the world atmosphere.
White King Soap was the sponsor for all the episodes in this serial.
In 1932 Chandu the Magician was produced as a film, with Edmund Lowe as Chandu and Bela Lugosi as Roxor. In The Return of Chandu (1934) Lugosi portrayed Chandu, and in Chandu on the Magic Island (1935) Bela Lugosi once again played Chandu.
Chandu the Magician, Volume 4 Mission to Montabania has been expertly restored for Sparkling Audio Quality by Radio Archives and features a beautiful cover by the great artist Virgil Finlay.
Featured: previously released
Volume 12
It's a typical evening in a typical Midwestern home of the 1940s. The couple that live here are engaged in their usual activities: the wife is in the kitchen washing the dinner dishes and the husband is in the living room smoking his pipe. Suddenly he's inspired to break out his old ukulele and play himself a tune. He gets up from his chair and heads for the hall closet, opens the door, and...
Now, if we were anywhere else but Wistful Vista USA, this little scenario would likely end with a musical solo...but, because we're at the home of Fibber McGee and Molly, we know for sure exactly what's going to happen next. The man of the house will open that door and all of the books and contraptions and souvenirs and junk that he's been stuffing in there for years will come pouring out - complete with a string-less ukulele that's been that way since at least 1937. "Gotta clean out that closet one of these days," he'll say, and we'll laugh like we always do because almost every one of us has a closet or a junk drawer or a basement just like that in our own homes.
For many years, radio enthusiasts and the general public have been enjoying the antics of Fibber and Molly thanks to the generous recording library left by the Johnson's Wax Company, the long-time sponsor of the series. To add to these programs, RadioArchives.com has acquired nearly the complete run of their later fifteen-minute daily series for NBC and has been releasing them in a series of popular compact disc collections - hilarious adventures that literally haven't been heard since they were first aired in the mid-1950s. Featuring the Jordan's, along with neighbors like Wallace Wimple, the Old Timer, and Doc Gamble, played by Bill Thompson and Arthur Q. Bryan, the newly-discovered shows in these collections are just as warm and entertaining today as they were more than fifty years ago.
If you're in need a good laugh, "Fibber McGee and Molly: The Lost Episodes, Volume 12" is the best way to get one - a whole lot of them, in fact. In this six-hour collection set, you'll enjoy twenty-four full-length broadcasts, transferred from the original NBC master recordings and fully restored for sparkling audio fidelity. Here is the complete content of this wonderful collection of shows, presented here just as they were originally aired between December 1955 and January 1956.
The Diamond Killers
by Robert Wallace
Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
The world’s greatest sleuth takes a hand in a grim game of smuggling and slaughter! When the U.S. Customs is defrauded, the Phantom Detective pits himself against a diabolical murder merchant who heads a greed-maddened combine of criminals! Follow the masked nightmare of the underworld as he takes a hand in a game of smuggling and slaughter!
The Phantom Detective’s name is a perfect description of Thrilling Publications’ own answer to The Shadow. Richard Curtis Van Loan undertook a rigorous training program that not only turned him into a fine physical specimen, but also honed apparently natural abilities to think critically and solve problems and mysteries. Writers made sure that whatever skill he needed to solve a mystery, he’d learned it himself. Becoming an expert in crime detection and all the sciences related to it, Van Loan most definitely earned the Detective part of his alter ego’s name.
The Phantom half of the name was also earned by Van Loan’s dedication to his mission, to take on the underworld single handedly. Focused on his identity remaining a secret and being able to get out of any jam he might get into, the millionaire turned masked man taught himself to be a master escape artist and a wizard at disguises. As a matter of fact, this aspect of his masked identity was so pervasive that he was only referred to as ‘The Phantom’ in the stories, never as the Phantom Detective. With only one man ever knowing his identity, The Phantom Detective made good use of disguises. Over the course of his 170 stories, he assumes several identities, including chemist Dr. Paul Bendix and Lester Cornwell.
‘The Diamond Killers’ was originally published in the May 1948 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
5 hours - MP3 regular price $9.99
Featured: previously released
The House of Murders
by Robert Wallace
Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
Death stalks menacingly through a mysterious mansion of ghastly, blood-curdling horrors as crime takes its grim toll. Armed with a razor-sharp intellect, a well-trained body, and most of all a desire to crush criminals wherever they may be, The Phantom Detective walks into a horror house, one that not even he may survive!
Oftentimes, readers of Pulp magazines in their Golden Age of publication read the wild, over the top stories for one reason - escape. Looking to get out of the humdrum of Depression or War era America, fans of all ages marveled to the adventures of larger than life heroes and insane villains. The Phantom Detective both met this qualification to be a Pulp Hero, but also stood out in his own unique way as a relatable character. Though born into wealth, Richard Curtis Van Loan became a self-made man when he decided to become The Phantom Detective. Undertaking to train himself in every aspect of crimefighting, including disguises and escape techniques, Van Loan crafted his own destiny. He also did this without a super scientist father, a likely mystical training in a far-off land, or any other such devices. Granted, he had wealth that many of his readers did not have at his disposal, but still, Van Loan was in many ways a regular joe who saw a need and came up with a very unique way of helping fill it. Yes, he is introduced in the earliest stories as a world renowned detective, but later tales fill out how he came to be such, why law enforcement around the world respects a masked man so much, something that many of his counterparts before, during, and after his series did not enjoy.
‘The House of Murders’ was originally published in the February 1935 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Featured: previously released
by Robert J. Mendenhall
Read by Paul Curtis
In 1933, the Assistant Secretary of War, Henry Hines Woodring, under the orders of the President, created a top secret department known as the Office of Special Actions. Its purpose; to investigate incidents and situations which threaten the security of the United States that are outside the realm of normal occurrence. A skilled team is assembled from all the U.S. services and designated Codename – Intrepid.
Lt. Colonel Rick Justice, United States Army Air Corps leads the unit. Joining him are Lt. Commander Roger “Sky Hawk” Winchester of the Navy, U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Dexter “Guns” Preston, Master Sgt. Michael “Hammer” Downe U.S. Army. The final member of the team, Rita Marshall, daughter of Admiral James Marshall, Commander of the Atlantic Fleet. A beautiful, college educated spitfire, Rita is more than capable of holding her own with the rest of the team. Together these five take on the most dangerous threats facing America including insidious agents from the rising German Third Reich.
In this volume, writer Robert J. Mendenhall offers up the squad’s first five thrilling adventures reminiscent of such classic pulps as The Secret Six and Ace G-Man. Here are full throttle pulp action tales as only Airship 27 can deliver.
Canadian Artist Ted Hammond created the beautiful cover. Read with stirring excitement by Paul Curtis.
Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction for a New Generation!
7 hours - MP3 regular price $13.99
 New eBook
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.
The Phantom Detective! The name alone conjures up action and adventure. From the same publisher that brought you The Black Bat, Captain Danger, The Crimson Mask and The Green Ghost came one of pulpdom's best-known detectives. Scourge of the underworld, The Phantom, as he was called, aided the Law with his sweetheart Muriel Havens. His first adventure was published in February 1933 and they continued for 170 thrilling exploits until the Summer 1953 issue. The Phantom Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 New eBook
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.
A steely-eyed private dick with an unshaven jaw of granite... a gat of dull gun-metal gray sags heavily under his armpit... he works the seamy underbelly of the city, coming up against squinty-eyed thugs, weasels who value human life less than the coins jingling in their pocket, and red-lipped bimbos with hot breath, wide eyes and long silky legs. The stories are hard, gritty and action-packed. They fairly scream, "pulp!" This was what Private Detective Stories offered beginning with its first issue in June of 1937. It came from the same publisher who brought you Blazing Western, Candid Detective, The Lone Ranger Magazine, Speed Adventure Stories and Speed Mystery. In all, 134 issues were published until the magazine closed in June of 1949. Private Detective Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Featured eBook
by Frederick C. Davis writing as Curtis Steele
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.
Jimmy Christopher, clean-cut, square-jawed and clear-eyed, was the star of the most audacious pulp magazines ever conceived — Operator #5. Savage would-be conquerors, creepy cults, weird weather-controllers and famine-creating menaces to our mid-western breadbasket... these were but a few of the fiendish horrors that Jimmy Christopher was forced to confront. Operator #5 returns in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
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. New Kindle's use ePub. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.
Comments From Our Customers!
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