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.