Newsletter from the Moonstone Gal
2.4.06

Greetings and salutations to one and all from your cute Gal on the Moon!

Welcome one and all to our new email newsletter at Moonstone, your monthly or so dose of what is new under the Moon.

So, what’s new under the moon?  What kind of exciting new books are on the horizon?  So glad you asked!

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AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW!!!

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****THE PHANTOM #9, 32 pages, color

Story by Chuck Dixon, art by EricJ, and painted cover by Doug Klauba

Part 1 of 2.

The Phantom is in Antwerp, running down a lead in an effort to stop the diamond trade.

Amazing action with highly-detailed interior art that is sure to make you clamor all the more for issue #10,coming in March ’06.

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****BUCKAROO BANZAI: the Preview

16 pgs, b/w, ONLY 50 CENTS

Story by Mark Rauch and WD Richter, Art by Stephen Thomson and Keith Williams, Cover by Dennis Calero.

Get this preview issue to whet your appetite for what is sure to be the smash-hit of 2006!

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February/March 2006:

**CYCLONE BILL and the Tall Tales**

Original graphic novel by Dan Dougherty, 232 pages $16.95

At the height of his popularity, Bill Czynkowski, guitarist and bandleader for Cyclone Bill and the Tall Tales,is shot dead in front of a packed house.  In piecing together what happened that night, the remaining Tall Tales wonder if a supernatural force was behind his murder.

See why CBG said: “Pick of the Month.  Four stars out of four.”

**THE PHANTOM: The Ghost Who Walks TPB**

$17.95, color, 172  pages- New printing with an ALL NEW Doug Klauba painted cover!

Contains the first three Phantom graphic novels published by Moonstone: “The Ghost Killers,” “The Singh Web,” and the SOLD OUT “Treasures of Bangalla!” Extras include: pin-ups, sketches,  author/artist commentary, and cover gallery.

**KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER Terror from Within TPB** $16.95, color, 150 pages

Collects for the first time anywhere the three sold out graphic novels: Pain Most Human, Pain without Tears,and the Bram Stoker nominated Devil in the Details.  Cover by the now exclusive DC artist Don Kramer!

**PAT NOVAK FOR HIRE Graphic Novel**

$4.95, 48 pages, black and white

Pat Novak, once San Francisco’s toughest PI, now wiles away his retirement on his house-boat under the watchful eye of his granddaughter.  All that peace comes to a sudden end when a case from his past involving a dirty senator who ran a deranged sex cult comes back with a vicious vengeance.

Written by none other than Steven Grant and art by the incredible Tom Mandrake.

This is definitely one to check out!

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 As you can see boys and girls, Moonstone keeps cranking out the quality comic book reads! And as always, there is more to come!

 I have to let everybody know that the ALL NEW Moonstone message board is up and running at the Moonstone website: www.moonstonebooks.com.

I have my own section on there, with links to all the interviews I’ve conducted so far for Moonstone, including December’s interview with Phantom #9’s Chuck Dixon and EricJ, January’s interview with Team Banzai AND February’s interview with the creative team behind the new noir graphic novel: Pat Novak. Be sure to check it out, along with all the other features: links to news/reviews,

areas devoted to all our fan-favorite projects like westerns, noir, The Phantom, Kolchak the Nightstalker and more!

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NEWS FLASH!  Just announced! 

A NEW contest on the Moonstone Message Board, starting on Feb 1st, running through the end of the month, to get the details go to our message board and click on “contests.”

The grand prize THIS TIME around is an ORIGINAL PAGE OF ART from Kolchak: Get of Belial by Art Nichols.

Talk about cool, how about a little piece of Carl to hang on the wall in the den at home? I think you better all run over to the message board to register so you too can participate in the contest!

That’s all for now, and as always thanks for supporting Moonstone for over 10 years!  Can’t find Moonstone comics at your LCS?  You can always order direct from the Moonstone website.  Questions or comments about Moonstone or any title in particular, send them my way!  You can email me at moonstone_gal@yahoo.com or go to the message board on www.moonstonebooks.com, and the “Gal on the Moon” section is where you want to post those questions/comments.

Can’t wait to chat with you all again, soon!

Moonstone Gal out!

Kisses,