Steeger Books

Introducing the Black Mask Library

Authors include Robert Reeves, D.L. Champion, Merle Constiner, and more

and featuring characters such as Cellini Smith, Rex Sackler, Luther McGavock, and many more

Operator 5: The Complete Purple Wars

The “War and Peace of the Pulps” is finally collected in a two-volume deluxe, hardcover edition. Running in the pages of Operator #5 magazine from 1936–38, this 14-part epic chronicled the invasion and conquering of America by a mysterious foe from Europe: The Purple Empire. Written by Emile C. Tepperman (author of The Spider and The Masked Marksman) and containing nearly 300 illustrations by John Fleming Gould, this half-million-word saga remains the greatest epic to see print in Golden Age of the pulps.