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21.02.2025
cover art by A.L. Ripley Read/Watch 'em In Order #177 The second work of prose fiction (I'll be skipping a few poems in the issue) in the ...
20.02.2025
cover artist uncredited Gee whiz, you would think that hungry dinosaurs and violent cavemen would be trouble enough for Turok and Andar! Now...
19.02.2025
FEBRUARY IS THE ORIGINAL HAUNTED TANK MONTH! This 1967 cover is by Russ Heath.
1953: Art by Pete Morisi Sorry, no Wednesday or Thursday post this week. Tradition demands I pay attention to my wife.
Fort Laramie : "The Buffalo Hunters" 9/9/56 A pair of buffalo hunters are illegally hunting on reservation land. This is the sort of thing...
Sherlock Holmes : "Tell-Tale Pigeon Feathers" 1/21/46 The story starts in an unusual way, with Mrs. Hudson going to Mycroft rather than Sh...
It's my understanding that The Dagger Affair , by David McDaniel (1965) is the first of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. novels written after the s...
FEBRUARY IS THE ORIGINAL HAUNTED TANK MONTH! From 1970: A Joe Kubert cover
cover art by Rich Buckler Giant-Size Fantastic Four #3 (1974) is far from the best FF story of that era, but I like it anyways. The story...
FEBRUARY IS THE ORIGINAL HAUNTED TANK MONTH! A Joe Kubert cover from 1970.
01.02.2025
Challenge of the Yukon : "Underground Ambush" 10/18/48 Sgt. Preston goes undercover in a gold rush boom town to weed out counterfeiters. T...
31.01.2025
cover art by A.L.Ripley Read/Watch 'em In Order #176 Today, we begin a story-by-story look at a randomly chosen issue of Adventure , a pul...
30.01.2025
cover art tentatively credited to Nick Cardy Planet Comics (published by Fiction House) began life with an issue cover-dated January 1940...
28.01.2025
JANUARY IS SINGING COWBOYS MONTH!! A Tex Ritter cover from 1954.
25.01.2025
Weird Circle : "Murders in the Rue Morgue" 1/2/44 Weird Circle 's adaptations of classic stories often take bizarre liberties with those s...
24.01.2025
My wife got me an awesome Sherlock Holmes desk calender for Christmas. (I got her a Chicago Cubs desk calendar, thus proving myself to be ...
23.01.2025
cover art by Rick Hoberg JLA Annual #1 (1983): Plot by Paul Levitz, script by Len Wein, art by Rick Hoberg The last chapter ended with Za...
21.01.2025
JANUARY IS SINGING COWBOYS MONTH!! A Rex Allen cover from 1957.
18.01.2025
Suspense : "The Man Who Cried Wolf" 2/9/53 William Powell plays a Russian desperately trying to defect, only to discover no one believes ...
17.01.2025
A friend of mine recently pointed out a cool YouTube channel to me called Full Moon Matinee. The guy who runs the channel posts Film Noir ...
16.01.2025
cover art by Rick Hoberg JLA Annual #1 (1983): Plot by Paul Levitz, script by Len Wein, art by Rick Hoberg Chapter 5 is pretty short, exis...
14.01.2025
JANUARY IS SINGING COWBOYS MONTH!! Here's a Gene Autry cover from 1955.
11.01.2025
Gunsmoke : "Sutler" 9/5/53 Dillon goes up against a man selling rifles to the Indians. Click HERE to listen or download.
10.01.2025
cover art by Howard V. Brown The December 1936 issue of Astounding Stories features an atmospheric and bizarre time travel tale written by...
09.01.2025
cover art by Rick Hoberg JLA Annual #1 (1983): Plot by Paul Levitz, script by Len Wein, art by Rick Hoberg. Chapter 4 takes us to Gotham...
07.01.2025
JANUARY IS SINGING COWBOYS MONTH!! A Roy Rogers cover from 1957.
05.01.2025
cover art by Whitney Ellsworth Happy New Year. Wednesday and Thursday posts will return next week.
Cloak and Dagger : "Eyes of Buddha" 7/2/50 An OSS agent is in Siam to rescue a downed American flyer. His plan involves allowing himself t...
Tarzan : "All Presumed Dead" 10/11/51 Tarzan is asked to investigate a plane crash in the jungle. All who were on board are presumed to be...
DECEMBER IS DICK TRACY MONTH! This 1976 paperback was part of a three-book series that taught me just how awesome Dick Tracy's comic strip...
DECEMBER IS DICK TRACY MONTH! This 1952 cover is by Joe Simon, ghosting for Chester Gould.
cover art by Mel Crawford No new Wednesday and Thursday posts this week or next, as hits on my blog (and most blogs, as I understand it) o...
21.12.2024
Dangerous Assignment : "Missing Civil War Map" 12/16/50 Why would an international spy steal a Civil War-era map that has no monetary valu...
20.12.2024
When Thunderbirds were king--when the original "Supermarionation" show was on TV in 1965 and 1966--there was a slew of paperback novels fe...
19.12.2024
cover art by Rick Hoberg JlA Annual #1 (1983): Plot by Paul Levitz, script by Len Wein, art by Rick Hoberg. Today, we get to Chapter 3, i...
17.12.2024
DECEMBER IS DICK TRACY MONTH!!! This very cool cover from 1957 is by Joe Simon, ghosting for Chester Gould.
14.12.2024
Escape : "The Footprint" 8/18/50 A group of men search for a fortune in rubies, supposedly guarded by a fanatical Chinese cult living in t...
13.12.2024
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. had quite an expanded universe (though, of course, that term didn't exist in the 1960s and there was a lot less w...
12.12.2024
cover art by Rick Hoberg Chapter two of JLA Annual #1(plot by Paul Levitz, script by Len Wein, art by Rick Hoberg) picks up with the JLA's...
10.12.2024
DECEMBER IS DICK TRACY MONTH!!! This high-impact cover from 1948 is uncredited.