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Art Gallery: Mickey Mouse, Adventure Hero
Three paintings by the amazing Floyd Gottfredson.
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Films I've Overlooked: DICK TRACY (1937)
This 1937 cliffhanger serial (not to be confused with the 1945 feature film of the same name) was the first of four serial featuring our man Dick, and was followed by four feature films. And dang, I've...
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A New Western Saga Begins: BRANHAM'S DUE by Richard Prosch
Richard Prosch has a new Western series going, and it looks like a winner."Branham's Due" takes us to wild and wooly Holt County, Nebraska, where Deputy Sheriff Whit Branham is hunting Johann Kramer, a...
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Art Gallery: The REAL James Bond
Okay, I like Daniel Craig as an actor, and his latest films have delivered some amazing action, but I just ain't never going to accept him as James Bond. The guy below is IT, and I'd rank Pierce...
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A Fistful of LESTER DENT!
Here's a package of great reading from Black Dog Books - at 30% off cover price. Lester Dent rocks! Click HERE to order.Check out the rest of the amazing Black Dog line-up, including other SALE...
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Films I've Overlooked: Kid Galahad (1937)
I was always thought Kid Galahad was just an Elvis movie (albeit an above-average Elvis movie, because it had fighting built into the storyline and supporting cast members who could actually act). Boy,...
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Forgotten Books: The Return of the Continental Op (1945) by Dashiell Hammett
I've been rereading ALL of the Continental Op (short for Continental operator) stories, and as I mentioned earlier this month in a review of the first paperback collection, The Continental Op (that's...
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Spicy Western 3-pack from Black Dog: Robert Leslie Bellem, E. Hoffman Price...
This Black Dog Holiday Sale Package brings you $37 worth of Spicy Western adventure for $27. And this is a great line-up. You know Robert Leslie Bellem from his Dan Turner - Hollywood Detective stories...
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Overlooked Films: The Shadow Strikes (1937)
Here’s the good news: This first film version of The Shadow was based on the pulp magazine rather than on the radio show. (The pulp character, by my reckoning, is the real Shadow, and the other guy an...
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40% off! Shock Troops of Justice & Bring 'em Back Dead
OK, I told you about the Lester Dent 4-pack (HERE) and the Spicy Western 3-pack (HERE). Now here's the Fighting G-Men 2-pack - a $50 Black Dog value, offered for a limited time for just thirty bucks....
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Forgotten Books: Hammett Homicides (1946, 1948)
Hammett Homicides, edited by "Ellery Queen," appeared in digest in 1946 and Dell Mapback in 1948.The stars of this collection are the two related novelettes “The House on Turk Street” and “The Girl...
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TALBOT MUNDY 4-Pack: A Holiday Special from Black Dog Books
Talbot Mundy's pulp stories (mostly from Adventure magazine) are as fresh and sharp today as they were a hundred years ago. He's better known for his novels, of course, and I like those just fine, but...
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Overlooked Films: Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Many of the films I review here don't live up to expectations, and I'm compelled to make snide remarks about them. Not so this time. Maybe it's because I expected this one to be bad, and it wasn't....
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Death's Dark Domain: The WILDest Doc Savage Adventure yet!
Our hero has had some truly wild rides here in the All-New WILD Adventures of Doc Savage, but none wilder than Death’s Dark Domain.In the Lester Dent novel Fortress of Solitude (reviewed HERE), you may...
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Dreaming of a NOIR CHRISTMAS? Check out the STARK HOUSE PRESS Sale!
Stark House Press, purveyors of fine vintage (and new) noir, just announced a special Holiday Sale. From now through the stroke of midnight on Dec. 25, they're offering a Buy 2, Get 1 Free deal - and...
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Forgotten (and FREE) Stories: Lost Adventures of The CONTINENTAL OP
When I reviewed The Return of the Continental Op a couple of weeks ago (that's HERE), I noted that one of the stories, "Death & Company" (from the November 1930 Black Mask), had been out of print...
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The Best of the Best: Best of Adventure 2-Pack
Many folks consider Adventure magazine to be best pulp ever published. And these two volumes from Black Dog Books collect the very best stories from the mag's first five years. These guys were great...
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Films I've Overlooked: The Stranger (1946)
I haven't seen many Orson Welles films, but I've seen Citizen Kane a few times, and felt right at home here, because there were plenty of Kane-ey moments. By that I mean unexpected (but effective)...
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NEBEL, MILLER & WORTS: Black Dog's South Seas 3-Pack
Those Holiday Sale Packages from Black Dog Books just keep on a'comin'. This one strikes a special chord for me, because it features one of my all-time favorite pulp writers, Mr. Fred Nebel.South Seas...
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Forgotten Books: Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett (1948, 1950)
The four-story collection Nightmare Town first appeared in digest in 1948, with stories edited by Frederic Dannay, and was repackaged in this nice Dell Mapback in 1950. As a bonus, the Mapback included...
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