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11.05.2024
Suspense : "This Will Kill You." 8/23/45 Dane Clark gives an excellent performance of a paranoid and narcissitic man who is convinced he's...
10.05.2024
cover art by Peter Stevens A blog worth reading (well, other than mine, of course) is Rough Edges , in which author and master storyteller...
09.05.2024
Cover art by Dick Giodano Green Lantern #125 (Feb. 1980) begins with GL blocking off a portal that leads to Qward. That won't keep either...
07.05.2024
MAY IS "WORST DATE EVER" MONTH! This 1940 cover is by Rafael De Soto.
04.05.2024
I Was a Communist for the FBI : "Card Game in the Clouds" 6/4/52 Matt thinks the communists might suspect him of being a double agent and ...
03.05.2024
SPOILER ALERT! if you haven't seen it. Toss Richard Widmark into a Film Noir and it will be good. Especially if he's the villain. In Road ...
02.05.2024
cover art by Ron Wilson Marvel Two-in-One #21 ended with the villain Black Sun either dead or near-dead. The next issue (December 1976) b...
30.04.2024
APRIL IS MARVEL MONSTER MONTH!! A 1975 cover by Gil Kane (with some alterations by John Romita).
27.04.2024
Richard Diamond : "The Barton Case" (aka "Diamond in the Rough")--5/1/49 The series got off to a strong start with this premiere episode--...
26.04.2024
I stumbled upon a four book series written in the late 1960s pretty much by accident about a year ago. And, by golly, it was a really fun ...
25.04.2024
cover art by Dick Giordano Gee whiz, Sinestro is a big meanie! Over the past two issues, he's been responsible for knocking Guy Gardner in...
23.04.2024
APRIL IS MARVEL MONSTER MONTH! This Tom Sutton cover is from 1973.
20.04.2024
Bold Venture : "Murder in the Yucatan Peninsula" 9/24/51 Shannon and Sailor agree to help a man find his missing wife. But there are those...
19.04.2024
cover art by Albert Drake "The Planet That Time Forgot," by Donald A. Wollheim appeared in the Fall 1940 issue of Planet Stories. It's set...
18.04.2024
cover art by Ron Wilson In 1975, Marvel Comics was publishing a black-and-white magazine featuring the adventures of 1930s pulp hero Doc S...
16.04.2024
APRIL IS MARVEL MONSTERS MONTH!! A Gil Kane cover from 1975.
13.04.2024
Night Beat : "The Will of Mrs. Orloff" 6/1/51 Randy gets stuck with the task of telling a man his mother has died. She was a dirt-poor cle...
12.04.2024
Read/Watch 'em In Order #168 The third Tom Corbett novel--"On the Trail of the Space Pirates," by Carey Rockwell--was published in 1953. A...
11.04.2024
cover art by Gil Kane With Green Lantern #123 (Dec. 1979), Green Arrow disappears from the book after getting a few panels in which G.L. ...
09.04.2024
APRIL IS MARVEL MONSTERS MONTH!!! A 1973 cover by Mike Ploog.
06.04.2024
The Six Shooter : "Escape from Smoke Falls" 11/15/53 Britt gets involved in tracking down an escaped prisoner. This job soon ends up invol...
05.04.2024
cover art by A. Leslie Ross I just acquired a digital reprint of the January 1938 issue of Adventure Novels and Short Stories and, being ...
04.04.2024
cover art by Dick Giordano It'll take a moment to set up the background for this issue ( Green Lantern/Green Arrow #122, November 1979). ...
02.04.2024
APRIL IS MARVEL MONSTERS MONTH! This 1973 cover is by Rich Buckler, with alterations to the woman done by John Romita.
30.03.2024
Cloak and Dagger : "Norwegian Incident" 8/20/50 Two men are smuggled into occupied Norway to contact the Resistance and blow up a bridge. ...
28.03.2024
I'm having a minor surgery on my shoulder. It's nothing serious, but it will put my arm in a sling for at least a few days. That makes typ...
26.03.2024
MARCH IS BORIS, ROD AND RIPLEY MONTH!! Another wonderful George Wilson cover, this one from 1968.
23.03.2024
Mysterious Traveler: "I Died Last Night" 4/25/50 A man obsessed with studying life after death gets an unexpected opportunity to experien...
22.03.2024
cover art by Rudolph Belarski Louis L'Amour is, of course, most famous for the many, many excellent Westerns he wrote. But he did write in...
21.03.2024
cover art by Joe Kubert Our Army at War #214 (January 1970) is a story that is pretty predictable in every story beat it hits. But it's s...
19.03.2024
MARCH IS BORIS, ROD AND RIPLEY MONTH!! This George Wilson cover is from 1970.
16.03.2024
Whistler : "Shrunken Head" 6/13/42 A woman is haunted by a dream that a shrunken head is speaking to her during the night. Or... is it a d...
15.03.2024
Read/Watch 'em In Order #167 The second Tom Corbett Space Cadet tie-in novel (written under the psuedonym Carey Rockwell by an unknown au...
14.03.2024
cover artist unknown Before he made it big with his Mike Hammer novels, Mickey Spillane's career as a writer included a stint with Marvel ...
12.03.2024
MARCH IS BORIS, ROD AND RIPLEY MONTH!! This 1967 cover is by George Wilson.
09.03.2024
Night Beat : "Jukebox Romance" 5/18/51 A drawf newspaper vender, a jukebox girl, and a ham actor mix together into a strange love triangle...
08.03.2024
The first of six paperback tie-in novels with the 1966-68 TV series, The Rat Patrol (1966) was written by Norman Daniels. Of the six novel...
07.03.2024
cover artist unknown I love discovering obscure characters that have since vanished into Comic Book Limbo. And, by golly, I've found anoth...
05.03.2024
MARCH IS BORIS, ROD AND RIPLEY MONTH!! A George Wilson cover from 1966.
03.03.2024
Edgar Rice Burroughs Podcast: Episode #36: Tarzan: Back to Mars : Tim, Scott and Jess discuss Will Murray's excellent new novel "Tarzan: B...