Publisher War Zone - Episode 59

A man in black with a skull on his chest & a blazing tommy gun. His enemy, capable of forcing police & soldiers to do his bidding. Another guy who makes wisecracks from the future. Can Falk end their bloody feud? Listen to find out!

Publisher War Zone, episode 59 of This Gun in My Hand, was punished by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What am I gonna use to pry open that gate you’re guarding? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Horn & Hardarts was a chain of coin-operated self-serve restaurants popular in the middle of the Twentieth Century, also known as automats. Watch That Touch of Mink (1962) starring Doris Day for an overview.

2. The Black Terror is a public domain comic book character, last seen in Episode 11, “Curse of The Bubbe.” 

3. If The Publisher’s military service began in 1920, he might have deployed to Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and a handful of times in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1920%E2%80%931929

4. Gary Mackinder, agent to the biggest anti-heroes in Parabellum City, appeared in Episodes 11 and 26 of This Gun in My Hand.

5. Cloning fax machines are discussed in Episode 31, “Take A Powder.” But start with Episode 27, “Hardly Boiled.” It’s a five part mini-series.

6. Do not follow the advice presented by any of these characters thinking it’ll help you get published. How to humor rich people is a bigger mystery than anything these wannabe gumshoes have solved in 59 episodes. Hell, if I knew how to get published, would I be trying to sell my short story collection or other books with an unrelated podcast? 

Credits:
The opening music clip is from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music is from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Music during “Pizzicato” commercial: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4, F Minor, Op.36 - III. Scherzo Pizzicato
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed by European Archives, via Wikimedia Commons
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/75-symphony-no-4-in-f-minor-op-36/#

Sound Effect Title: chugging diesel (bus) and rev.MP3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/CraftyIndividual/sounds/418436/

Sound Effect Title: diesel truck jake brake and air brake.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/nuncaconoci/sounds/555266/

Sound Effect Title: bus coach ext pull up brake air release idle.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454420/

Sound Effect Title: Bus Closing Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/am7/sounds/520753/

Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: Machine gun.wav
By CGEffex
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/101962/

Sound Effect Title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of page 11 of the public domain comic book Crime and Punishment, Number 65 (January 1954), art by George Tuska. It also includes a modified detail from the public domain cover of America’s Best Comics, Number 24 (December 1947), art by Alex Schomburg.