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REED CRANDALL Meets "The Old Witch" (1941)
Comicbookplus identifies this tale, from Hit Comics #10 (April 1941) as Reed Crandall's first story. That may be. The Grand Comics Database lists three other stories published that same month, and one...
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HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: The First Glass Key Movie - Part 2 (1935)
Oakland Tribune, July 15, 1935Wilkes-Barre Evening News, July 20, 1935Knoxville Journal, July 25, 1935Shamokin News-Dispatch, July 25, 1935Shamokin News-Dispatch, July 26, 1935Knoxville News-Sentinel,...
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WATCH IT HERE! Forgotten Books on Film: THE LAST WARNING / THE DEAD DON'T...
The Dead Don't Care is the wildest - and most inebriated - entry in the Bill Crane series, and therefore my favorite. I raved about the book HERE.The Last Warning, the one and only film adaptation of...
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WILL EISNER Presents "The Black X" in ESPIONAGE (1938)
This early effort by the soon-to-be-great Will Eisner appeared in Feature Funnies #13, from Oct. 1938. It introduced the "Black X," who would hang around for a good number of issues. Stay tuned. He's...
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HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: The Smiling Corpse (1935-37)
Chillicothe Gazette, Feb. 26, 1935Chicago Tribune, Mar. 18, 1935Lancaster New Era, Apr. 1935Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 13, 1937Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 24, 1937Sadly, it appears this film was...
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Forgotten Stories: BY ORDER OF BUCK BRADY by W.C. Tuttle (1928)
From the author of the Hashknife Hartley novels and the Sheriff Henry stories. This one appeared in the July 1, 1928 of Adventure, as found on Pulpmags.org!
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NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - The Final Dailies, Weeks 63 & 64 (1958)
So Wolfe and Archie drive off into the sunset, and the daily strip is over (sob!). But next Saturday, we'll have another complete Sunday adventure.
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Paul Gustavson's ARIZONA RAINES Battles "The Outlaws of Satan's Roost" (1951)
I've come across a lot of fine, stylized work from Paul Gustavson, but most of the subject matter has been too annoyingly juvenile to post here. This Arizona Raines story, which is one of many, has an...
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HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: "Girl Hunt" Part 1 (1936)
Beginning in 1936, many of Hammett's novelettes and stories began to appear in serialized form in various newspapers. Sometimes the stories were given new titles, sometimes not. "Girl Hunt" is a...
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Watch it Free: SPENSER FOR HIRE (1985-88)
I watched this show (most likely all of it) when it ran for three season between 1985 and 1988. Memory tells me it was fairly high-quality TV private eye fare, up there with The Rockford Files and...
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Forgotten Books: SWORDS AGAINST DEVILTRY by Fritz Leiber (1970)
I first came across the adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser sometime in the early '70s, when in the throes of Howardmania. There were five volumes available back then, four story collections and...
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NERO WOLFE Comic Strip: The SEVENTH Sunday Adventure (1958)
Oct. 27, 1957 Nov. 3, 1957 Nov. 10, 1957 Nov. 17, 1957Nov. 24, 1957 Dec. 1, 1957Dec. 8, 1957Dec. 15, 1957Dec. 22, 1957Dec. 29, 1957Next Saturday: Put on your yellow pajamas and help Wolfe solve a case!
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