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Forgotten Books: HOMBRE by Elmore Leonard (1961)
WARNING! There will be a SPOILER or two later in this review, so if you haven't read this book and intend to, you'd best click off to another blog!One of the gents in the Western apa Owlhoot, whose...
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TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip Week 8 (1951)
Here we are at Week 8, meaning we're on the downhill roll toward the end of the 14-week saga of "The Mercurian Invasion." Thanks to good old Larry Paschelke for providing the strips. You can find the...
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Alex Schomburg, Jerry Siegel, JON JUAN and "The Lady in the Dark"
Another adventure from the one and only issue of Jon Juan Comics, from Spring 1950. You can read "Jon Juan and the Sleeping Beauty"HERE.Â
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A Word from Our Sponsor: HOPALONG CASSIDY 5-PIECE GYM
Here's an extremely swell item, as employed and heartily endorsed by Almanack reader Charly Gordon (you should see the muscles on that guy!). I'd sure like to my grubby mitts on that brace of rubber...
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Forgotten Books: THE MARK OF ZORRO by Johnston McCulley (1919)
Zorro is 100. He made his debut in the first installment of Johnston McCulley's "The Curse of Capistrano" in the August 9, 1919 issue of All-Story Weekly. That serial, good as it is, might have been...
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TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 9 (1951)
All Hail Space Cadet Larry Paschelke, without whom this presentation would not be possible. See the first eight weeks HERE.
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L.B. COLE flies with Black Venus (1944)
L.B. Cole is known for doing some of the coolest covers of the Golden Age, but he occasionally took time out to do an interior story too. This is one of them, from Contact Comics #3, dated Nov. 1944....
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A Word from Our Sponsor: POLARIS NUCLEAR SUB
Did you ever see this ad and fear it looked to good to be true? Silly you. Here's proof those fears were unfounded, and it looked exactly as advertised.
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TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 10 (1951)
Tom Corbett marches on. Thanks again to the real hero, strip-clippin' Larry Paschelke.
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Alex Toth's ZORRO and the "Ghost of the Mission" Part 1 (1958)
This swell comic book was gifted me recently by Mr. Marty Nelson. Thanks Marty! Now I'm gifting it (sort of) to you. Come back tomorrow for the thrilling conclusion in Part 2.
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