The Obscure Works of Joel Jenkins, Part 4 or the Revenge of Sly Gantlet

In my posting entitled The Obscure Works of Joel Jenkins, Part 3 I mention that the only place (or at least the only legal place) you can find a print copy of one of the Gantlet Brothers adventures is in the pages of Adventure Mystery Tales.

After doing some pondering I realized that this is not an entirely true statement. Sly Gantlet appears in a fun little tale called Dead Beat in La Esca which I co-wrote with author Derrick Ferguson. In this story Derrick Ferguson's character, Dillon, world-wide adventure and the flamboyant Sly Gantlet, rock musician and erstwhile gun for hire, have a not-so-chance meeting at a night club in New York City.

If you take a look at the Vaults of Caladrex header you will see Sly Gantlet holding the Desert Eagle .44 handgun with the laser sight.

Sly and Dillon don't get along too well, and sparks begin to fly--and when they finally realize that not all is as it seems it may be too late to extricate themselves from the trouble they've found.

I had a blast writing this tale with Derrick and am quite pleased with the results. If you'd like to check it out for yourself you find Dead Beat in La Esca in the pages of Thrilling Adventures which a search shows me has disappeared from the Amazon.com website.

However, Thrilling Adventures still appears to be available at the 86th Floor Press website along with a number of their other titles.

In some other posting, for the fun of it, I'll show you a couple alternate covers for Thrilling Adventures which didn't get used.

Also, in future posts I'll relate some various encounters that the Gantlet brothers had with some people that were also quite famous in the music scene of the eighties--as culled from various newspaper clippings and from their own personal anecdotes.

It seems that Thrilling Adventures will not be the last publication to print a Gantlet Brothers adventure. I actually have an advance cover for the eventually-to-be-released Nuclear Suitcase novel to be published by Pulpwork Press, which I will also share with you at a later date.