TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip Week 5 (1951)
Tom Corbett and "The Mercurian Invasion" continues as the Larry Paschelke Collection strikes again!
View ArticleBABE RUTH in "Babe Comes Home" (1927)
Wish I could show this one to you, because I'd sorely like to see it myself, but it's a Lost Film. Anybody have a copy in their attic?
View ArticleOrlando, Wood & Captain Science battle "The Martian Slavers" (1951)
Another nicely rendered tale of our spacefaring science geek from Joe Orlando and Wally Wood. Like "The Insidious Doctor Khartoum" (HERE), it's from Captain Science #4, June 1951, scanned for...
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View ArticleA PROMISE TO ZORRO - A 100th Anniversary Story by Evanston McLewis
NOTE: Zorro made his debut 100 years ago in the August 9, 1919 issue of ALL-STORY WEEKLY, in the first installment of the serial "The Curse of Capistrano" (later published as The Mark of Zorro). The...
View ArticleJIM HATFIELD, TEXAS RANGER stops "The Comanche Uprising" (1941)
Ranger Jim Hatfield, who starred in all 206 issues of the Texas Rangers pulp between 1936 and 1958, also crossed over into Exciting Comics. This one is from issue #7, from January 1941, and was gifted...
View ArticleForgotten Books: TALES OF WELLS FARGO by Frank Gruber (1958)
If I'd know this book would be so enjoyable, I'd have read it thirty-some years ago. It's been sitting on my shelf at least that long. But hey, it was worth the wait, and I got my money's worth, which...
View ArticleTOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip Week 7 (1951)
Cap'n Bob has been on the edge of his seat all week, and it was cruel of me to make him wait for this installment, but heck -- it was fun! Thanks once again to Larry Paschelke for the strips. You can...
View ArticleBasil Wolverton's SPACEHAWK and the Pirates of Uranus (1940)
Spacehawk marches on in this tale from Target Comics #10, November 1940. Thanks again to the comicbookplus scanner "Yoc."
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I had a Zorro watch as a kid, a Spiro Agnew watch as a hippie, and Davy Crockett and Gene Autry watches as a collector, but never one of these. I want one.
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