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21.11.2024
cover art by John Buscema (with alterations by John Romita) We come to the last chapter of Avengers Annual #1 (1967), written by Roy Thoma...
19.11.2024
NOVEMBER IS CHARLTON WAR COMICS MONTH! This 1961 cover is tentatively credited to Jack Abel.
16.11.2024
Suspense : "Cricket" 3/15/45 A dog can be heard moving around a house and occasionally howling. The odd thing about this is that the dog i...
15.11.2024
The Thrilling Detective website refers to the short story "Prognosis Negative," by Floyd Mahannah, as a "quick mean blast of nastiness." ...
14.11.2024
cover art by John Buscema (with alterations by John Romita) Avengers Annual #1 (1967), written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Don Heck, was ep...
12.11.2024
NOVEMBER IS CHARLTON WAR COMICS MONTH!!! From 1960, here's a Sam Glanzman cover.
09.11.2024
Mysterious Traveler: "The Accusing Corpse" 4/16/44 A supposedly perfect blackmail plot gradually begins to unravel. Click HERE to listen ...
08.11.2024
Read/Watch 'em In Order #173 A year after we were introduced to rare book dealer Joel Sloan and his wife Gerda in Fast Company , the two ...
07.11.2024
cover art by John Buscema (with alterations by John Romita) Chapter 3 of Avengers Annual #1 (1967--writer: Roy Thomas; artist: Don Heck) ...
05.11.2024
NOVEMBER IS CHARLTON WAR COMICS MONTH!!! A Jack Keller cover from 1970.
02.11.2024
Escape : "She" 7/11/48 Despite the half-hour run time, this episode gives us an effective and atmospheric adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's...
01.11.2024
With World War 2 approaching its end, one-eyed commando Owen Morgan is tasked with a mission. He's to scout out one of the Nazi-occupied C...
31.10.2024
cover art by John Buscema (with alterations by John Romita) Last week, we looked at the first chapter of Avengers Annual #1 (1967), writt...
30.10.2024
Edgar Rice Burroughs Podcast: Episode #39: Tarzan the Untamed : Jess, Scott and Tim discuss the 1920 novel "Tarzan the Untamed," in which ...
29.10.2024
OCTOBER IS HAWKEYE & GREEN ARROW MONTH!!! A 1961 cover by Murphy Anderson.
26.10.2024
Screen Directors Playhouse: "Prince of Foxes" 1/4/51 An agent of Casare Borgia is sent to help bring an independent city-state under Borgi...
25.10.2024
Read/Watch 'em In Order #172 The penultimate entry in the Tom Corbett book series is 1955's Sabotage in Space , which begins with Tom, Rog...
24.10.2024
cover art by John Buscema (with alterations by John Romita) The first Avengers Annual is cover dated September 1967 and its a doozy, with ...
22.10.2024
OCTOBER IS HAWKEYE & GREEN ARROW MONTH!!! This 1973 cover is by John Buscema.
19.10.2024
Quiet Please : "Not Responsible After 30 Years" 6/14/48 In England, the skeleton of a 5th Century Roman soldier is dug up--wearing a 20th ...
17.10.2024
OCTOBER IS HAWKEYE & GREEN ARROW MONTH!!! An awesome Jim Aparo cover from 1980.
cover art by Bill Draut (from 1970) No Wednesday or Thursday post this week, as I take a break for the one-two punch of my wedding anniv...
12.10.2024
Gunsmoke : "The Old Lady" 1/24/53 An old woman's existance on a remote ranch has left her bereft of emotion. Her son is a wayward lout who...
11.10.2024
cover by H. C. Murphy I've now written often enough about J.D. Newsom's Foriegn Legion stories, I wish I'd given these posts a clever seri...
10.10.2024
cover art by George Wilson Is it annoying when I feature an awesome cover like the one above and then DON'T review that specific story? If...
08.10.2024
OCTOBER IS HAWKEYE & GREEN ARROW MONTH!! A 1974 cover by John Romita
05.10.2024
Big Town : "Deadly Doll" 11/23/48 An unusually strong woman breaks a man's neck. And she's willing to break more necks to get what she wan...
04.10.2024
Read/Watch 'em In Order #171 We still have a Tom Corbett book to eventually look at as part of the In Order series, but I caught a movie ...
03.10.2024
cover art by Tony Strobl As I've written before , the Looney Tunes comic book universe was a little less anarchic than the cartoons. Despi...
01.10.2024
SEPTEMBER IS FLINTSTONES & JETSONS MONTH!! This Ray Dirgo cover is from 1972. Pebbles and Bam-Bam are snot-nosed little trouble-makers, are...
28.09.2024
Sam Spade : "The Death Bed Caper" 6/20/48 Before solving the case, Sam takes part in two real death bed statements and one fake death bed ...
27.09.2024
Read/Watch 'em In Order #170 A crystal discovered on Saturn's moon Titan is stronger than steel and is gradually replacing steel as a main...
26.09.2024
cover art by Paul Galucy A few years ago , we looked at an issue of Master of Kung Fu in which we learned that Shang Chi can't even have...
24.09.2024
SEPTEMBER IS FLINSTONES & JETSONS MONTH!! A 1971 cover by Ray Dirgo.
21.09.2024
Murder by Experts : "Dig Your Own Grave" 8/15/49 A woman unwittingly plots her own murder---twice! Click HERE to listen or download.
20.09.2024
Barton MacLane was a great character actor who probably played bad guys more often than good guys. He also probably holds the record for t...
19.09.2024
cover art tentatively credited to Walt Kelly Fairy Tale Parade #6 (May-July 1943) includes a charming 6-page story drawn and probably writ...
17.09.2024
SEPTEMBER IS FLINSTONES & JETSONS MONTH!! A Harvey Eisenberg cover from 1964.
14.09.2024
Suspense : "Dateline: Lisbon" 10/5/44 A photograph that accidentally captures the image of a Nazi war criminal might be enough to get two ...
13.09.2024
"Old Willie," by William P. McGivern was published in the May 1953 issue of Manhunt , a wonderful magazine that regularly published superb...