In My Shorts: Hitler's Bellhop and Other Stories

Product Description


Have you ever wondered: How the world would react to a real superhero, even one whose methods left his criminal victims dead? If those outlandish stories about Big Foot, Batboy, and Elvis being alive and living in a trailer park in Lickskillet, OH published in that supermarket tabloid were true? Why a world famous 1960s screen comic would risk everything to get his screenplay—a comedic romp through World War II with Adolph and Eva—produced? Is it inspiration that drives creativity, or something deeper...and bloodier? No problem if you haven’t. Paul Kupperberg has done the wondering for you in the sixteen stories in this collection, tales ranging from the real world to the realm of the fantastic, from the last thoughts of a man going knowingly to his death to the musings of a young woman waiting on the arrival of a blind date. “In My Shorts stories range from quite humorous to very disturbing, with side stops to sardonically entertaining...including “Reflected Glory,” which offers up a view of the world’s first superhero...and the lowbrow p.r. flack with less than pristine moral standards who seeks to mine the hero’s celebrity for his own purposes to a truly novel conclusion.” —Robert Sodaro, Examiner.com


About the Author


Paul Kupperberg is the author of The Same Old Story (Crazy 8 Press, 2012), the young adult novel Kevin (Grossett & Dunlap, 2013), co-creator of the Crazy 8 Press anthology ReDeus trilogy, and more than two dozen fiction and non-fiction books for readers of all ages. He has written almost 1,000 comic book stories for DC Comics, Archie Comics, Bongo, Marvel, Charlton, and others, including his own creations, Arion, Lord of Atlantis, Checkmate, and Takion. He was the writer of the groundbreaking 2014 “Death of Archie” storyline in Life With Archie: The Married Life, and is currently involved in both an editorial and creative capacity with comic book publisher Charlton Neo Media (CharltonNeo.blogspot.com) and the Pix-C Weekly Web Comics website (Morttodd.com/Pix-C.html) and is the creator of Paul Kupperberg’s Secret Romances, The Scarry Squad, “Digger” Graves: Paranormal Investigator, and N.E.O. Paul has also been an editor at DC Comics, executive editor of the fake news tabloid Weekly World News, and senior editor of World Wrestling Entertainment’s WWE Kids Magazine. He currently lives in Connecticut but dreams of one day moving someplace warm. You can follow Paul at PaulKupperberg.com, Facebook, and on Twitter (@PaulKupperberg).