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Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Funerals, Remote Islands and Secret Plans

cover art by John Buscema I promise not to whine any more about how this story arc crossed from one title to another, forcing young reader...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

SEPTEMBER IS WALLY WOOD'S DAREDEVIL MONTH! Wood's first Daredevil cover was the December 1964 issue.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Friday's Favorite OTR

Lights Out : "The Author and the Thing" 9/9/36 Arch Oboler is trying to come up with one last Lights Out  script and ends up inadvertantly...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: What Tim Read This Month: August 2025

COMICS, OLD-TIME RADIO and OTHER COOL STUFF: Random Thoughts about pre-digital Pop Culture, covering subjects such as pulp fiction, B-movies, comic strips, comic books and old-time radio. WRITTEN BY TIM DEFOREST. EDITED BY MELVIN THE VELOCIRAPTOR. New content published every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: "Northwest Passage" doesn't involve the Northwest Passage!

Robert Rogers led an adventurous life. Born in Massachusetts in 1731, he joined a local militia at age 15 to fight in King George's War. H...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: How to Make a Hero into a Villain

cover art by John Buscema Avengers #49 (Feb. 1968), was written by Roy Thomas. After an issue drawn by George Tuska, John Buscema has retu...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

AUGUST IS DC 80-PAGE GIANT MONTH!!! We end the month with this 1965 Joe Kubert cover.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Heroes Meet and Have a Fight (So What Else is New?)

Cover art by George Tuska I think it must be a federal law--whenever heroes in a comic book universe meet for the first time, there pretty...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Haldeman's Star Trek novels, Part 2

World Without End (1979) is the second of the two Star Trek novels written by noted SF author Joe Haldeman. I like both novels enormously....

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

AUGUST IS DC 80-PAGE GIANT MONTH!!! This Win Mortimer cover is from 1964.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Friday's Favorite OTR

Frontier Gentleman : "Aces and Eights"  “In a card game, Aces and Eights are known throughout the West as a dead man’s hand. There’s a goo...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Friday's Favorite OTR

Dragnet : "The Big Mailman" 5/24/51 Someone is stealing checks out of people's mailboxes. Click HERE to listen or download.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Haldeman's Star Trek Novels, Part 1

Planet of Judgment  is the first of two Trek novels written by noted SF author Joe Haldeman, back when Bantam Books had the franchise lice...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Snipers, Tattoos and Secret Caves

Dell Comics' Roy Rogers #3 (March 1948) was drawn by Al Micale and written by prolific scribe Gaylord Du Bois. Du Bois not only wrote around...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

AUGUST IS DC 80-PAGE GIANT MONTH!!! A 1964 cover by Carmine Infantino.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Friday's Favorite OTR

Inner Sanctum : "Dead Freight" 5/18/41 A hobo kills another hobo aboard a boxcar, then switches identities with the dead man. This leads t...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Skip Week

At the risk of leaving Western Civilization feeling as forlorn as this poor girl obviously is, several writing assignments (including one ...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

AUGUST IS DC 80-PAGE GIANT MONTH!!! A Curt Swan cover from 1964.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: What I Read This Month

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Friday's Favorite OTR

The Shadow : "Death Triangle" 12/12/37 Three men are threatened with death by an escapee from Devil's Island. But the situation actually m...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Borrowed Villains and New Heroes

cover art by Dan Heck Avengers #47 (December 1967), written by Roy Thomas and drawn by John Buscema, borrows an X-Men villain and begins t...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Six Men of Evil

cover art by George Rozen Six Men of Evil  (from Feb. 15th, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine) This is a weird one, even in the context of...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Captain Crossbones!

cover art by Ogden Whitney Soldiers of Fortune  (published by the American Comics Group) began its twelve-issue run with the March-April 1...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Friday's Favorite OTR

American Portraits : "The Sword of Kentucky" 8/14/51 The story of George Rogers Clark's Revolutionary War campaign against the British, le...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Time Travel, Jesse James and a lot of Accidental Deaths (maybe).

cover art by Curt Swan I'm okay with the rules about Time Travel--DC was reasonably consistent about that even during the often-inconsiste...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

JULY IS J. ALLEN St. JOHN VISITS BARSOOM MONTH!!! St. John finished his 1941 visit to Barsoom with this October issue.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: He Killed a Man in His Dream!

Stan Grayson has a nightmare in which he kills a guy and locks the body in a cubbyhole in a room with lots of mirrors. He wakes up to disc...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Super News!

Is it right for me to take up an entire Thursday post just to brag about something fairly minor? That would be wrong. That would be mind-nu...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

JULY IS J. ALLEN St. JOHN VISITS BARSOOM MONTH!!! St. John's journey to Barsoom leads him to the North Pole for this August 1941 issue.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Friday's Favorite OTR

Gunsmoke : "The Gypsum Hills Feud" 4/16/55 While Dillon and Chester are on the way back to Dodge City, someone takes a shot at Dillon. Soo...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

JULY IS J. ALLEN St. JOHN VISITS BARSOOM MONTH!!! St. John's trip to Barsoom in 1941 ran into a little trouble in June of that year.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Friday's Favorite OTR

The Black Museum : "Four Small Bottles" 4/1/52 Did a young wife poison her older husband? And if so, are the four small bottles used as ev...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: The Soul of a Regiment

cover art by David Robinson I've been a big fan of Talbot Mundy all my life, so when a friend of mine recommended his 1912 story "The Soul...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: A Lunatic Saves the World!

cover art by Jack Kirby Journey Into Mystery #73 (October 1961) was still ten issues away from giving us the Mighty Thor. Like many of Ma...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

JULY IS J. ALLEN St. JOHN VISITS BARSOOM MONTH!!! St. John's 1941 trip to Barsoom began with this stop at the city of mummies in March of ...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Friday's Favorite OTR

The Lone Ranger : "Boots and a Bloodhound" 9/10/54 Two actors with a traveling troupe plan a bank robber. With the help of a mixed-up at t...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Bitterness, Lonliness, and Death

cover art by Margaret Brundage "The Lord of Samarcand," (also published as "The Lame Man") by Robert E. Howard, was published in the Sprin...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: A Medal for Marie

cover art by Jerry Grandenetti Star Spangled War Stories  #86 (October 1959) reminds us that sometimes earning medals runs in the family. ...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Cover Cavalcade

JUNE IS DC WAR COMICS FIRST ISSUE MONTH!!! A Jerry Grandenetti cover from 1952. It was re-titled from All-American Western  and kept the s...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: What Tim Read This Month: June 2025