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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

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

Abbott and Costello : "Bank Robbery with Marlene Dietrich" 10/15/42 Why is storing your money in Marlene Dietrich's stocking preferable to...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Kings of Crime

cover art by George Rozen Kings of Crime was originally published in the December 1932 issue of The Shadow Magazine.  This one takes the S...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Bugs, Elmer and Sam.

cover art by Ralph Heimdahl Anytime I write about one of the Dell/Gold Key comic books based on the Looney Tunes characters, I'm struck by...

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

JUNE IS DC WAR COMICS FIRST ISSUE MONTH! A Jerry Grandenetti cover from 1957. DC acquired G.I. Combat from Quality Comics and kept the sam...

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

Nick Carter : "The Case of the Devil's Left Eye" 1/4/48 It's not that unusual for Nick to have to solve a locked room mystery. That the mu...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Boy, Does This Guy Know How to HATE!

cover art by J. Allen St. John "In those cold terrible eyes the Turk read hate beyond common conception-a monstrous, burning, almost tangi...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Gee whiz, Aliens ARE jerks!

cover art by George Wilson Space Family Robinson #21 (April 1967) brings the "medieval" story arc to an end. The issue, though, starts ou...

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

JUNE IS DC WAR COMICS FIRST ISSUE MONTH!! This Curt Swan cover is from 1952. It's issue #131 because it was re-titled from Star Spangled Com...

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

Mr District Attorney : "The Case of the Murderous Good Samaritans" 4/19/54 Two men in a tow truck stop to help a stranded motorist. But th...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: A Ghostly? Killer and a Fun Saloon Brawl

Rimfire  (1949) is a noir Western directed by B. Reeves Easton. Easton is not exactly a famous figure in movie history--he was best known ...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: I Didn't Know It Was a Time Machine!

cover art by George Wilson Space Family Robinson  #20 (February 1967) is the penultimate chapter in the "medieval" story arc--with writer ...

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

JUNE IS DC WAR COMICS FIRST ISSUE MONTH! Carmine Infantino drew this cover in 1952.

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: My Current Reading Projects

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

Night Beat : "The Man Who Claimed to Be Dead" 3/20/50 Randy meets a man who claims to be dead, though he is still walking and talking. A d...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: What I Read in May

For various reasons, the Edgar Rice Burroughs podcast I co-host will be on a bit of a hiatus. Of course, we usually only manage an episode ...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Never Bring a Sword to a Laser Fight

cover art by George Wilson Space Family Robinson  #19 (December 1966) picks up right where the previous issue left off, with Gaylord Du Bo...

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

JUNE IS DC WAR COMICS FIRST ISSUE MONTH! This Jerry Grandenetti cover is from 1954.

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

Suspense : "Tell You Why I Shouldn't Die" 6/7/51 Richard Widmark plays a Coney Island pitch-man who has to make the greatest pitch of his ...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: The Last Adventure

cover art by A.L. Ripley Read/Watch 'em In Order #181 We come to the last work of prose fiction in the January 10, 1926 issue of Adventure...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Medieval Times Meets the Space Age

cover art by George Wilson Space Family Robinson: Lost in Space  #18 (October 1966) begins a four-issue story arc in which the Robinson fa...

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

MAY IS ADORABLE HARVEY COMICS COVERS MONTH! From 1978. No artist is credited.

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

Fort Laramie : "The Woman at Horse Creek" 2/12/56 Quince and a patrol find an isolated cabin. The woman living there is alone--her husband...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: 52 Weeks 52 Sherlock Holmes Novels

I should preface my review by saying that I have four essays in this volume, discussing the books  The Seven-Percent Solution, The Daughte...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Black Panther has a Sherlock Holmes Moment!

cover art by Ron Wilson Avengers #126 (August 1974), written by Steve Englehart and drawn by Bob Brown, has moments throughout that deal w...

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

MAY IS ADORABLE HARVEY COMICS COVERS MONTH! From 1965. Once again, the artist is not credited.

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

X Minus One : "Hallucination Orbit" 5/15/56 A man stranded alone on a planet begins to hallucinate beautiful women. He realizes they are h...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Hoss and his Pet... Mountain Lion?

The Whitman TV-tie in books from the 1960s are nearly always worth reading. The publisher hired excellent authors who faithfully captured ...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Dakota Kid the Second

cover art by Larry Lieber Last week, we looked at the one and only appearance of a character called The Dakota Kid. And that was indeed hi...

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

MAY IS ADORABLE HARVEY COMICS COVERS MONTH! From 1964, with the artist uncredited.

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

Jeff Regan, Investigator : "Too Many Mrs. Rogers" 10/9/48 Regan is hired to guard a corpse and the valuable ring the dead guy is wearing. ...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: The Game

cover art by A.L. Ripley Read/Watch 'em In Order #180 Tom Gill was a forester and aviator, which sounds pretty cool. Though it's not, of c...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Dakota Kid #1

cover art by Joe Maneely Last week, I said I would cover the only issue of Marvel's Western Team-Up , from 1973. But that book features th...

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

MAY IS ADORABLE HARVEY COMICS COVERS MONTH! The artist who did this 1968 cover is uncredited.

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

Gunsmoke : "Born to Hang" 4/23/55 A lynching leads to a vow to exact vengeance, which in turn leads to Dillon having a really busy day. Cl...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: If You're a Bad Guy, DO NOT Play Poker in the Marvel Universe

I can't help it. I notice some obscure bit of pop culture trivia and I just gotta share it. I literally can't help myself. In the 1979 prose...

Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff: Yet Another One and Done Character

cover art by Pierce Rice All-New Short Story Comics , published by Harvey Comics, ran for three issues in 1943. It then shortened its titl...

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

APRIL IS KILLER ROBOT MONTH! A 1931 cover by H.W. Wesso.