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SAM HILL, PRIVATE EYE in "The Cutie Killer Caper" (1950)
We met Sam a few month back in "The Double Trouble Caper" (HERE). Well, here we go again, with another adventure from Sam Hill, Private Detective #1. Thanks again to "darkmark" for sharing this on...
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I Go To A Model Show (Part 1)
Misters D. Goble and B. Napier visited our fair city recently to attend a model show, so Mister T.J. Gaston and I dropped in to visit the visitors. And thereby saw a passle of models. The vast majority...
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Forgotten Autobiographies: ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM (1941)
This piece appeared in the July 1941 issue of Fantastic Adventures, along with the story "Robots Can't Lie," featured last week in this space (read it HERE).Â
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TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 15 (1951)
Thanks again to Larry Paschelke, the real life Space Cadet.
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"Fighting Daniel Boone" by EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER (1953)
As you may have noticed, I'm a great admirer of the work of Everett Raymond Kinstler. After some fine interior illo work in the pulps, he produced a ton of great comic book covers. He also illustrated...
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I Go To A Model Show (Part 2)
I built monster models when I was a kid. Didn't everybody? But I gotta admit - they weren't this cool. Does it make me want to try again. No. Hell no.
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Forgotten Stories: "Alone" by FREDERICK NEBEL (1926)
Before becoming "the backbone of Black Mask" (as someone once called him), Frederick Nebel was writing mainly adventure and western stories. The first of these appeared in 1925 in Action Stories,...
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TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 16 (1951)
Larry Paschelke is my hero (and yours, too).Â
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STEVE DITKO Meets ROBIN HOOD in "The Lure of the Maiden" (1958)
Mr. Ditko does a nice job in this shorty from Robin Hood & His Merry Men #38, dated August 1958. Thanx to Aussie500 for sticking it up on comicbookplus.
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Lawrence Welk plays more TV WESTERN THEME SONGS (1958)
More classic tunes from Champagne Larry's best ever LP. I posted the first four HERE.Â
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SURE AS SHOOTIN' (1949ish)
Sorry gang! I know you don't tune in to a lamebrained blog like this to actually learn stuff, but sometimes this weird mood comes upon me and I can't resist slapping up a factoid or two. I'll have...
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Forgotten Stories: NERO WOLFE TAKES A GHOSTLY CLIENT (1956)
While googling around in search of the Nero Wolfe comic strip that ran in newspapers in 1956 and 57 (watch for it soon!), I came across this press release touting "The Stevenson-Kefauver Bandwagon." It...
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TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 17 (THE END)
Thus ends the first comic strip story of Tom and his pals, and there's peace in the solar system. Ain't that swell? Next week back in 1952, the cadets were off on another adventure. Next week here in...
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