This rare Howard typescript for “A Witch Shall Be Born” recently sold at auction for $22,500. This is not the final version, as the description from the Heritage Auctions website (shown below) states, but rather the first draft of this famous Conan story.

A Complete Robert E. Howard Typescript of One of His Most Famous Conan Stories

Robert E. Howard. Original Typed Manuscript, Ribbon Copy, for the Conan Story, “A Witch Shall Be Born.” Forty-five pages (rectos only) on 8.5 x 11 inch typing paper. Originally published in Weird Tales in December, 1934 and later collected in the 1954 Gnome Press publication of Conan the Barbarian. Howard has inscribed and signed in pencil at the top of the first page of the typescript, “Best Regards, / Robert E. Howard.”

“A Witch Shall Be Born” is perhaps the best known Conan story of Howard’s career, particularly for the scene in which the mighty Cimmerian, after being beaten, tortured, crucified and left for dead, bites his way through the neck of an impatient vulture. Additionally, on the verso of fifteen pages of the manuscript, Howard re-used the paper to write another story, this one a western-themed thriller later published as “Knife River Prodigal” in the July, 1937 issue of Cowboy Stories. The pages are numbered sequentially 1-14, with an extra page 8, comprising fifteen pages of typescript.

The manuscript is quite clean, with errors corrected by erasure and retyping. Minor toning to the paper, with a few scattered, very occasional instances of thumb-soiling or spotting. Marginal perforations vertically along the left edge, likely as preparation for binding by its previous owner, and Lovecraft associate, Robert H. Barlow. A fine and unique Conan manuscript comprising two full Howard stories, with an inscription from the author on the first page (Howard signatures are quite rare in their own right), and likely the only time in a generation or two that one will be able to acquire such a treasure.

Accompanying the manuscript are several pages of provenance, comprised of the following: a four-page handwritten letter in pencil, presumably unsent, from Barlow to Robert E. Howard’s father, expressing his condolences on the author’s “shocking death”; a one-page handwritten copy (in Barlow’s hand) of a letter sent from Howard to Barlow, transmitting ownership of this very manuscript from the former to the latter (a photocopy of Howard’s original typed letter signed to Barlow is also included); photocopies of two other typed letters signed sent from Howard to Barlow; and a photocopy of a letter from Glenn Lord identifying the western story as “Knife River Prodigal.” From the John McLaughlin/Book Sail Collection.

McLaughlin was a world-renowned book collection who passed away in 2005. Fantasy author David C. Smith did a nice tribute to him here.

Some lucky Howard collector has added a magnificent item to his collection this month, but it cost him a whole passel of pazoors!

Eighty years ago, on April 10, 1933, King Kong was released and the world of cinema hasn’t been the same since.  It’s undoubtedly one of the most influential movies ever made and Kong clinging to the Empire State Building is one of the most recognizable images ever created by Hollywood.

Howard fans have often wondered if their favorite writer ever saw the movie, because no surviving correspondence of the Texan mentions his attending the cinematic classic, or what he thought of it if he did.  However, if we dig into the Breckinridge Elkins story, “The Peaceful Pilgrim,” we’ll soon discover that Howard did indeed see the movie, and it must have made quite the impression on him—he even used an iconic scene from it to spice up his western tale.

I’m sure we all remember the image of Kong moving through the jungle, carrying the beautiful Fay Wray, and the dedicated pursuit by Bruce Cabot along with some brave sailors who are determined to keep the girl from any harm.  Kong safely deposits Ms. Wray into a tree and returns to face the rescue party who are attempting to cross a giant log-bridge, hoping to come to grips with the great beast—of course what they’re going to do when they catch up to Kong is something they must not have thought through to any great extent.  Kong craftily waits until all are upon the log and then he reaches down, lifts his end up into the air and starts shaking it, sending most of the sailors into the abyss below.  The great monster soon tires of this and finally just tosses the entire bridge off the ledge into the canyon, and the audience watches in horror as the misguided rescuers tumble screaming to their deaths.

Now, if we turn to Howard’s “The Peaceful Pilgrim” we’ll discover how REH incorporated this scene in his humorous classic.  Breckinridge Elkins is being chased by a gang of desperados and he hopes to keep these ruffians from following him across a log-bridge similar to the one in King Kong.  I’ll let Elkins, in his own words, continue the tale.  “But I got to the end of the bridge in about three jumps…I bent my knees and got hold of the end of the tree and heaved up with it.  It was such a big tree and had so many hosses and men on it even I couldn’t lift it very high, but that was enough.  I braced my laigs and swung the end around clear of the rim and let go and it went end over end a hundred feet down into the canyon, taking all them outlaws and their hosses along with it, them a-yelling and squalling like the devil.”

Howard later rewrote this yarn and included it in A Gent from Bear Creek under the title “Cupid from Bear Creek.”  He slightly changed this action-packed scene because this time the outlaws come over the log without their horses and at first, Elkins just shakes the bridge, causing the men to drop their rifles as they frantically attempt to hang on.  Elkins musters his prodigious strength and then finally swings the giant limb completely out into space and he watches as his pursuers vanish into the canyon.

These two tales provide the proof for us to know that REH was one of the millions who saw King Kong. In Howard’s stories the pursuers fall into a river and are carried away—for those of you who know your Kong wouldn’t it have been cool if Howard would have had them falling into a spider-pit instead?

Well, looks like it is time to geared up for Howard Days 2013. Hard to believe it is only two months from now that everyone will be gathering in Cross Plains for the two day celebration of the life and works of Robert E. Howard. The theme of this year’s Howard Days is “REH in the Comics.” To bolster that theme, REHupa OE Bill Cavalier posted recently on the REHupa website that TGR contributor Timothy Truman will be this year’s Guest of Honor. Truman is a Renaissance Man of many talents: writer, artist, musician, editor, etc. Currently, Truman is writing Dark Horse’s adaptation of The Hour of the Dragon.

Here is the preliminary schedule of events and activities:

2013 Howard Days Schedule (Summary Version)

Friday, June 7th:

8:30 – 9:00 am: Coffee and donuts at the Pavilion, compliments of Project Pride.

9:00 am – 4:00 pm: Robert E. Howard House Museum open to the public.

9:00 am – 4:00 pm: REH Postal Cancellation at Cross Plains Post Office.

9:00 am – 11:00 am: Bus Tour of Cross Plains and Surrounding Areas.

10:00 am – 5:00 pm: Cross Plains Public Library open.

11:00 am: PANEL: REH in the Comics.

Noon: Lunch hosted by Project Pride. Donations Welcome.

10:00 am – 4:00 pm: Pavilion available for REH items Swap Meet.

1:30 pm: PANEL: Tim Truman, Guest of Honor.

2:30 pm: PANEL: Travels with Bob, Rob and Bob

5:30 – 6:30 pm: Silent Auction items available for viewing and bidding at Banquet site.

6:30 pm: Robert E. Howard Celebration Banquet and Silent Auction at the Cross Plains Community Center.

Following the Banquet and Silent Auction: The Fourth Annual Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards.

9:00 pm: PANEL: Fists at the Ice House (meet at the Pavilion and walk to the Ice House).

Afterward there will be some extemporaneous REH Poetry Reading at the Pavilion.

Saturday, June 8th

9 am – 4 pm: Robert E. Howard House Museum open to the public.

9:00 am – 4:00 pm: BARBARIAN FESTIVAL held this year at Treadway Park, 3 blocks west of REH House.

10:00 am – 3:00 pm: Cross Plains Public Library open.

10:30 am: PANEL: REH and Dark Horse Comics.

10:00 am – 4:00 pm: Pavilion available for REH items Swap Meet.

Noon: The Robert E. Howard Foundation Legacy Circle Members Luncheon.

Lunch and Festival Activities at your leisure during the day.

2:00 pm: PANEL: To Be Announced.

3:30 pm: PANEL: What’s Up with REH? (at the Pavilion).

5:00 pm: Sunset BBQ at the Caddo Peak Ranch.

Note: The Robert E. Howard House Museum will be open again this year on Thursday (June 6th) from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm. No docents on duty.

 Howard Days Pre-Registration

You do not have to pre-register to partake of the weekend’s festivities. All are welcome to attend, visit the House and enjoy all of the activities free of charge. Project Pride likes to pre-register folks primarily to get a head count of how many will be attending the Banquet on Friday night. All the panels, tours, Swap Meet, Pavilion activities e, etc.,are presented at no cost.

Your registration fee covers coffee & donuts Friday morning, lunch at the Pavilion at noon on Friday, the Friday Evening Banquet and the Saturday evening BBQ at Caddo Peak Ranch.

The cost for pre-registration this year is only $15.00 per person. Please send your name(s) and address with a check or money order:

Project Pride
Attn: REH Days 2013 Pre-Registration
P.O. Box 534
Cross Plains, TX 76443

Or you can or register via PayPal: ProjPride@yahoo.com.

Please pre-register before June 1, 2013.

As you can see, it will be a Howard Days to remember. So don’t procrastinate, sign up now — there are only 120 seats available for the banquet. Be sure and check back here, on the TGR Facebook page and the follow new TGR Twitter account for further details.

And for you Legacy Circle Members, if you have not done so, there are only a few days left to get your nominations for the REHF Awards submitted for awards that will be given out at this year’s Howard Days banquet.

This is first post for 2013 of the online version of Nemedian Dispatches. This feature previously appeared in the print journal and is now on the blog. On roughly a quarterly basis, Nemedian Dispatches will highlight new and upcoming appearances of Howard’s fiction in print, as well as Howard in other types of media.

In Print:

Pirate Adventures
This collection of Howard’s pirate stories, verse and related material from the REH Foundation Press, is now available. In addition to great pirate adventures, the book features a fantastic pulpish cover by Tom Gianni and an Introduction by Rob Roehm.

The Dark Man Vol 7, No. 1
The new issue of TDM has arrived. Contents include: “The Writer’s Style: Sound and Syntax in Howard’s Sentences” by David C. Smith, “I and I Liberate Zimbabwe: Motifs of Africa and Freedom in Howard’s “The Grisly Horror” by Patrick R. Burger and “Robert E. Howard and the Lone Scouts” by Rob Roehm, plus reviews and more. The new TDM is available in electronic form as well as hard copy and can be ordered from Lulu.com. Also, TDM is in the process of making all back issues of the journal available free of charge in electronic form.

I Am Providence (Softcover Edition)
Published in 1996, S.T. Joshi’s award-winning biography H.P. Lovecraft: A Life provided the most detailed portrait of the life, work, and thought of the Old Gent from Providence ever published. While that book was massive, that edition was greatly abridged from Joshi’s original manuscript. This expanded and updated two volume edition restores the 150,000 words that Joshi omitted and, in addition, updates the texts with new findings. A must have for Howard fans, this reasonably priced softcover edition is the next best thing to owning a copy of the hardcover edition, which is now out-of-print and much sought after by collectors.

Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian
Editor Jonas’ anthology takes on Howard’s Conan as its only subject. Two TGR contributors, Frank Coffman and Jeff Shanks, are among the many contributors The collection of Conan essays focuses on the following topics: stylometry, archeology, cultural studies, folklore studies, and literary history, additionally the essays examine statistical analyses of Howard’s texts, as well as the literary genesis of Conan, later-day parodies, Conan video games, movies, and pop culture in general. By displaying the wide range of academic interest in Conan, this volume reveals the hidden scholarly depth of this seemingly unsophisticated fictional character. The volume is published by McFarland & Company, Inc.,

Coming Soon:

The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage
Currently being printed and available soon, this volume is an extensive tribute to  Brundage  and her art. Her fantasy, science-fiction, and horror paintings graced the cover of many an issue of Weird Tales and other pulps during Howard’s lifetime. The sexy, alluring and sensationalistic Brundage covers even featured Conan nine times. She was the first female cover artist of the pulp era and her work was controversial for the day, often featuring bondage themes, with semi-nude young women bearing whips. The book comes in three editions, all with full color art. Visit the publisher’s website for more details and ordering information.

The REH Foundation Press
Four volumes of boxing stories are coming soon from the Foundation Press.  This will be a  comprehensive collection of REH’s humorous and straight boxing yarns. Needless to say, getting the volumes done was a massive undertaking by Patrice Louinet, Mark Finn, and Chris Gruber.

Also in the works for the near future is a volume of Howard’s straight western stories. One has to imagine the humorous yarns will get their own volumes a little later on. Additionally, the limited hardcover edition of Mark Finn’s Howard biography, Blood and Thunder is sold out and Rob is prepping it for the Foundation Press’ Lulu.com Storefront. So it will still be available for purchase via POD.

After a few delays, the December 2012 issue of The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies is finally available to order. You can now order an e-version of the zine in addition to the hard copy version, as editor Mark Hall recently explained on the REH Inner Circle group:

Okay, TDM enters the 21st century today. If you want an edition that can be read on most e-Readers, you can now buy TDM Vol. 7, No. 1 (the new issue) at [this] link.

It is in the ePub format which a heck of a lot of devices can use (not the Kindle I am told, but others; you may need to download an app from Adobe).

The ePub edition sells for $4.50. The print copy will sell for $7.50 (and will probably be on sale the end of next week after the proof comes in and is reviewed).

Also, we are starting to put sold-out issues on line for free. The first one being made available is TDM Vol. 3, No. 2. You can download it from [here]

Contents of the new issue include:

• Prefatory Remarks by Mark E. Hall
• “The Writer’s Style: Sound and Syntax in Howard’s Sentences” by David C. Smith
• “I and I Liberate Zimbabwe: Motifs of Africa and Freedom in Howard’s ‘The Grisly Horror’” by Patrick R. Burger
• “Robert E. Howard and the Lone Scouts” by Rob Roehm
• Plus severals reviews by Charles Hoffman and Charles Gramich.

UPDATE 02/08/2013: The print edition is now available.

With a quick movement of the clock’s minute hand, we started a New Year, leaving behind last year’s memories, both good and bad. In my case, I want to leave those bad memories far, far behind — 2012 was not a stellar year for me. But it has been a stellar year for this blog.

All the bloggers and guest bloggers gave it their usual 100%, posting informative, interesting and groundbreaking posts about Robert E. Howard, his writings and his life and times. Throughout the year, dozens of posts went up. Here are just a few of the many great posts of 2012:

“Something in Seminole” by Rob Roehm

“Robert E. Howard and the Issue of Racism: The African and African-American Poems – Part 4” by Barbara Barrett

“The Pirates of Cross Plains” by Damon C. Sasser & Patrice Louinet

“New Letter Found in Glenn Lord Effects” by Rob Roehm

“The Ring of … Set?” by Keith Taylor

“Out of the Shadows—Finally, “Kid” Dula – Part One” by Brian Leno

“If Wishes were Horses — Part Three” by Keith Taylor

“PulpFest 2012–The Conan Panel, the Black Circle, and My Collecting Habits” by Brian Leno

As we move into 2013, the year holds a lot of promise for another year of excellent posts.

As they did last year, today Rob and his father are driving to Texas armed with a few clues and a lot of determination to find new information on Two-Gun Bob. Hopefully the pair will strike gold and share those nuggets with us.

Additionally, Patrice has promised some surprises that will knock the socks off Howardom and Brian is getting geared up as well, armed with new topics that always make his posts so interesting. Not to be left out, Keith will finish his series on horses and has half a dozen other posts and series of posts he is working on for the New Year. And I’m sure a few guest bloggers will pop-up from time to time.

It looks to be a busy year on the blog.

New Year’s Eve is supposed to be a festive occasion, celebrated with parties, good cheer and hopes for a happy new year at the stroke of midnight. New Year’s Eve 2011 was far from an ordinary News Year’s Eve for Howard fans. While everyone was celebrating with friends and family, terrible news rocketed across the internet and bounced off of cell phone towers around 10:00 pm Central Time – Glenn Lord was gone. The party ended for me the moment I read the news on my iPhone.

Howard Heads worldwide collecitvely got a punch in the gut that evening one year ago today. The man who single-handedly saved REH from obscurity, had sudden left us. It was hard for me to accept — I had just seen him six weeks prior at his 80th birthday celebration and had just received a handwritten thank you card from him for attending that special event. In the hours and days following the news of his death, tributes and remembrances of Glenn flooded the internet. Here on the TGR blog all posts for the first week of 2012 were devoted to him.

December is certainly a bittersweet month for Howard fans — it is the month Conan was born and the month Glenn Lord passed away. Like Conan, Glenn was many things in his life: son, soldier, husband, father, provider, collector, literary agent, grandfather, who left a legacy for all of use, seeking out and keeping Howard’s writings for posterity. But most of all he was a friend to all Howard fans and throughout his life, he always took time to sign books, answer letters and questions for everyone. Easy going, soft spoken with a wry sense of humor, he was one of a kind and it was an honor for me to have known him.

When I started publishing TGR again in August of 2003, Glenn mailed me a check for the issue. I returned the check to him with the magazine and a note that said: “Glenn, your money is no good here.” From then on, Glenn’s copy was the first to go in the mail. Recently, when I began, mailing out copies of the new issue, I couldn’t mail it to him – which felt strange. However, I decided the first copy of every new issue would be mailed gratis to someone I felt epitomized what Glenn was all about – the ultimate fan and collector. So a new tradition was born out of an old one.

A few weeks ago, I drove over to Humble to visit Glenn. Some folks might wonder why he is buried in Humble instead of Pasadena, some 28 miles away. Well, Rosewood Memorial Park is where Lou Ann’s family (her maiden name is Yates) has a plot and many of her family members are buried there, including her mother. Glenn has a VFW grave marker, one of the benefits of being a veteran, which includes Lou Ann’s marker where she will be buried someday next to her beloved Glenn. One little known fact about Glenn is his full name — Oliver Glenn Lord; he did not care for his first name and he always went by his middle name.

If you are ever visiting the Houston area and want to pay your respects, Rosewood Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 2602 South Houston Avenue, Humble, Texas 77396. Below is a map (click to enlarge) and information for finding his gravesite in the cemetery.

Locating Glenn’s Gravesite in Rosewood Memorial Park

The cemetery entrance is on South Houston Avenue. You will see the main building (pictured above) on your right. Go to the third cross street and turn left as shown by the green line on the map. Drive to the third intersection, which is a small traffic circle, and turn left. On your right is Section 3. Drive slowly toward the end of the section. Almost on the corner of the section, you will see a large granite grave marker (yellow dot on map) with the name “Dohmann” on it. Stop the car and get out, facing Section 3. A short distance parallel from the “Dohmann” marker you will see Glenn’s grave (blue dot on map), which is near the curb. His marker is flush with the ground, so it may take you a moment or two to locate it.

So this last post of 2012 ends the year as it began, with Glenn. While we all miss Glenn and his wisdom, he left us an endowment of all the Howard material he had collected over a lifetime and a few surprises – some previous unknown and unpublished bits and pieces that we will be enjoying over the next several years. Glenn is gone, but he is not forgotten and never will be as long as we keep him alive in our hearts and minds and thank him for giving us the gift of Robert E. Howard.

Now that Christmas is over and the wrapping paper has been picked up and stuffed into garbage bags, ready for the landfill and the family dog is back from the vet after drinking too much pine-laced water from the Christmas tree stand, thoughts turn to the upcoming slate of pulp and comic conventions. Of course, the elves who put on these big events work year round, often beginning work on next year’s convention while this year’s is still going on. A good place to keep track of all these events is on Bill Thom’s Coming Attractions website. Bill  recently posted news of one of 2013′s early conventions, April’s Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention:

This year’s themes will celebrate the 80th anniversaries of science fiction and fantasy magazines (using as our starting point Weird Tales for fantasy and the scientifiction issue of Science & Invention for SF), as well as the 100th anniversary of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu.

Those themes will be the focus of our film programming, once again being assembled by Blood ‘N’ Thunder’s Ed Hulse, as well as our art show, program book and evening panels.

If you have any appropriate art that you’d be willing to make available for display, please let me know. And we’re still looking for more material for the program book, which once again is in the hands of Tom Roberts of Black Dog Books (and if you’d like to place an ad in the program book, the deadline is March 5, 2013).

Our Friday night auction will once again feature material from the estate of Jerry Weist, but this time most of the material will be from Jerry’s personal collection (as well as a few lots from the warehouse find that has been the focus of the last few year’s auctions). As many of you know, Jerry collected for condition, and there are some beautiful pulps among the over 1100 items that will be spread across 200 lots. We’re in the process of photographing and scanning, and have 41 lots currently available for viewing on our website and Facebook page — check them out! More will be added soon.

Among the highlights of the auction are over 80 issues of All-Story, including 16 issues with ERB (including 3 installments of his first story, Under the Moon of Mars), a complete run of Planet Stories in great condition, 11 stunning issues of Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories, a rare publisher’s bound copy of Overland Monthly featuring 2 stories and 2 poems by Clark Ashton Smith (including his first published story and first published poem), items from the files of the Gernsback magazines, early issues of Blue Book, and tons more.

The convention runs April 12-14, allowing all you income tax procrastinators an excuse for putting it off for the very last minute. Of course, Windy City is also a great place for Howard fans,  especially those who live in the mid-west, to congregate and talk Howard. And if you are a  Lecacy Circle member, there is always a Foundation luncheon scheduled for you to attend.

The 2013 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention will be held at the same hotel it was at last year, the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL. Rooms can be booked online here. The deadline for booking rooms and getting the convention rate is 5:00 pm Central Time on March 25, 2013. Also, check the convention’s website or Facebook page for news and updates.

Howard’s “The Phoenix on the Sword” introduced Conan to the world in the December 1932 issue of Weird Tales and so now that he’s 80, I thought I’d commemorate his birthday with a trip down memory lane and map out some of the high points of my life that were brought about due to my fondness for the mighty Cimmerian.

I first really discovered Howard’s timeless hero when I was about ten, through the Lancer editions, and was even able to make a stop at the Howard abode in Cross Plains back in 1967.  This was a highpoint of my reading life—my family never would have made the Cross Plains stop if Conan hadn’t fired my youthful imagination.

In fact I was so fired up that years later I wrote a story about a Conan-like warrior’s melancholy end and mailed it to Jonathan Bacon’s Fantasy Crossroads and even got it accepted, although my literary hopes were dashed when the fanzine went out of business before the tale got published.  Howard has inspired quite a few people to write—whether this is a good or bad thing all depends on the opinion of the reader, of course.

But this enthusiasm for Conan (and all things Howard) never left me and in 2007, on the fortieth anniversary of my first journey to Cross Plains I was lucky enough to return, and believe me it was quite the moment when I realized that I was only a few feet away from where my family had parked all those years ago.

Fast forward five years and I’m invited to be on a panel at PulpFest celebrating the Cimmerian’s birthday.  That was a pretty big deal for me.  I sat, and shared the stage with, Don Herron, Rusty Burke and “Indy” Cavalier—an impressive trio of Conan scholars and that’s a fact.

While it was very cool being part of PulpFest, I think the coolest thing occurred when some younger members of the audience started asking questions.  These newer Robert E. Howard fans were not known to any of us, but it was apparent to all of us that these guys were excited.  Evidently they had seen the Momoa movie and it had spurred them to search out the talented Texan and read the real Conan stories.  So now they were hooked and their lives were beginning to be changed by the Cimmerian too; in short, they, like me forty-six years before, were enthused.

Conan has made it to 80, and judging by what I saw at PulpFest the tough barbarian is going to be around for a long time.  PulpFest displayed to me that there are a lot of Howard fanatics out there that we don’t even know about, but I’m willing to bet that as the years go by we’ll be hearing from them.  I don’t know if I’ll be alive to celebrate my eightieth birthday, but I’m damn positive that Conan will be here for number 100 and many more.  The Cimmerian has trampled many heroes into the dust under his sandaled feet and I feel he will continue to do so—who out there could possibly stop him, or his fans?

After a five month delay due to my accident, issue number 16 of The Definitive Robert E. Howard Journal is now ready and available to order. As most folks know, the new issue always appears at Howard Days each June, but that was not possible this year due to my injury.

However, I believe you will find it was well worth the wait as the issue is chock full of rare Howard fiction, a little poetry, articles and essays by the top Howard scholars and some fantastic artwork by a who’s who of artistic Howard fans. In addition to Howard, contributors include: Barbara Barrett; David Burton; Bill Cavalier; Bob Covington; Stephen Fabian; Nathan Furman; David A. Hardy; Clayton Hinkle; Morgan Holmes; David Houston; Brian Leno; Patrice Louinet; Jim Ordolis; Richard Pace; Michael L. Peters; Terry Pavlet; Rob Roehm; Jeffrey Shanks and Joe Wehrle.

For a full list of contents, price and ordering information, please visit the order the issue webpage.