''Weird Heroes'', subtitled "New American Pulp", was an American series of novels and anthologies produced by

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characters. The series was 'packaged' by Byron Preiss Visual Productions and was published by Pyramid/Jove/HBJ. Four of the books are anthologies, four are novels. During the same time, Preiss also produced the ''

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'' series with the same publisher. Most of the characters were never seen after the demise of ''Weird Heroes''. Preiss did write one novel about his character Guts, and planned a second. This was published by

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, maybe as part of a 'revival' of the concept as single novels.

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reprinted

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's Greatheart Silver stories in a single volume with new art and Reaves's character Kamus appeared in two books by other publishers.

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's "Quest of the Gypsy" was meant to be a series of novels but only two have been published. The first volume was reprinted by iBooks, but no word if further books will be reprinted as iBooks went gone bankrupt following Preiss's death.

Series

* ''Weird Heroes'' #1 ** Greatheart Silver in the Showdown at Shootout,

** Quest of the Gypsy,

** Adam Stalker: The Darkstar File, Archie Goodwin ** Rose in the Sunshine State, Joann Kobin ** Guts, the Cosmic Greaser,

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Ted White ** Cordwainer Bird in "The New York Review of Bird",

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** The Camden Kid, Charlie Swift ** Viva,

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** Na and the Dredspore of Gruaga, graphic tale written and illustrated by

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** SPV 166, The Underground Express,

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** The Return of Greatheart Silver,

* ''Weird Heroes'' #3: Quest of the Gypsy,

* ''Weird Heroes'' #4: Nightshade: Terror, Inc.,

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* ''Weird Heroes'' #5: Doc Phoenix: The Oz Encounter,

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/ Ted White * ''Weird Heroes'' #6 ** Shinbet Investigates,

** Orion,

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** 50 Years of Heroes: The Edmond Hamilton Papers,

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** Greatheart Silver in the First Command,

** Galactic Gumshoe: a Franklin Davis Thriller,

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* ''Weird Heroes'' #7: Quest of the Gypsy: Eye of the Vulture, Ron Goulart * ''Weird Heroes'' #8 ** Seward: The Deep Fix,

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** Kamus: The Big Spell, J. Michael Reaves ** Orion 2: Flood Tide, Ben Bova ** Kamus 2: The Maltese Vulcan, Reaves ** Robeson: The Grant-Robeson Papers "Savage Shadow", Maxwell Grant (Philip Jose Farmer)

Reprints and follow ons

*''I, Alien'' (Michael Reaves) Ace Books, 1979. *''Guts'' (Byron Preiss) Ace Books, 1979. **Produced by BPVP for Ace. Illustrated like WH was, in many ways a continuation of WH. "Guts" first appeared in WH#1. A second Guts book and a second `I--Alien' book ('I--Alien in NY') were promised, but not published. *''Darkworld Detective'' (J. Michael Reaves) Bantam Books, 1982. **Reprints first 2 Kamus stories from WH#8 plus 2 `new' ones. *''Kamus of Kadizhar: The Black Hole of Carcosa'' (John Shirley) St Martin's, 1988. **contains character from WH#8. *'' Greatheart Silver'' (

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, 1982. **reprints GHS stories from WH *''Orion'' (Ben Bova) *''Dragonworld'' (Byron Preiss and J. Michael Reaves, art by Joseph Zucker) Bantam Books, 1979. **Actually planned as fifth "

" work. *''Oz Encounter'' Marv Wolfman, based on an idea by Ted White,

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, {{ISBN, 1-929527-09-8 ** hardback reprint of the Doc Phoenix novel Characters in pulp fiction