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JACK COLE's Angles O'Day, Private Eye is "Down in the Dumps" (1951)
Angles is back. (We first met him HERE.) From Ken Shannon #2, Dec. 1951. Thanks to doc orion and comicbookplus.
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HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: Satan Met a Lady, Part 1 (1936)
Detroit Free Press, Feb. 21, 1936Shreveport Journal, Mar. 27, 1936Montclair Times, July 2, 1936New York Daily News, July 22, 1936Arizona Republic, July 26, 1936Arizona Republic, July 26, 1936Shamokin...
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BOGART, COOPER, STEWART & RUTH: My Most Interesting TRUE Experience (1948-49)
This one-page feature ran in issues of True Comics in 1948 and '49. I found 'em on comicbookplus.
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Forgotten Stories: INTERLUDE'S END by Robert Leslie Bellem (1935)
This oh-so-snappy story by the esteemed raconteur of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, was originally composed for the oh-so-sophisticated readers of La Paree (Nov. 1935). It comes to us via Pulpmags.org.
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NERO WOLFE Comic Strip: The FINAL Sunday Adventure - YOU WRITE THE ENDING!...
When I started posting this strip some six months ago, I thought I had the complete 15-month run. The Sunday strips I had amassed ended in mid-January, 1958, while the dailies continued until the first...
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Severin, Elder & KURTZMAN present "Prairie Schooner Ahoy!" (1949)
There are a LOT of great Severin/Elder collaborations out there. You've seen quite a few right here on the Almanack. And you've no doubt seen a lot of Kurtzman/Elder Annie Fannie's while perusing those...
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HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: "Girl Hunt" Part 2 (1936-39-42)
More clips from the retitled Op story "Fly Paper." These hail from The Vancouver Sun of Dec. 1936, The Camden Morning Post of Dec. 1938 and The Deseret News of May 1942.
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SHADOW COMICS 97, 98, 99 & 100 (1949) THE END!
Yep, these are the final issues of the first run of Shadow Comics. Sad, ain't it?
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Forgotten Stories: MEET BUCK ROGERS in "Armageddon - 2419 A.D." by Philip...
Well . . . technically, he isn't "Buck" yet. His given name here is Anthony. But after two appearances in Amazing Stories (this first is from August 1928), he got his own comic strip, and changed his...
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NERO WOLFE Comic Strip: The FINAL Sunday Adventure Solved by YOU!
Last week, I posted these first seven weeks of Wolfe's last comic strip adventure. The story is unfinished, and there was presumably ran at least one more week, but that final strip still eludes me. So...
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LADY LUCK vs. the Electric Chair! (1940)
When Will Eisner's Spirit Section debuted in newspapers back on June 2, 1940, it included two other strips - Lady Luck, drawn by Chuck Mazoujian, and Mr. Mystic, drawn by Bob Powell. This entry from...
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HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: Satan Met a Lady, Part 2 (1936)
Unknown, Aug. 5, 1936Oklahoma News, Aug. 9, 1936Oklahoma News, Aug. 9, 1936Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Aug. 12, 1936Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Aug. 12, 1936Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 13, 1936Austin...
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Statues of the DOC SAVAGE Museum!
I came across a Doc statue the other day, and did a little googling to see what else was out there. I didn't try to keep track of who made them, or when, or what they're worth now. All I know for sure...
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Forgotten Stories: MOTHER OF TOADS by Clark Ashton Smith (1938)
This charming little tale from the July 1938 issue of Weird Tales is an oddity. It's one of those rare Clark Ashton Smith works that won't send you repeatedly to the dictionary to figure out what the...
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THE LEGENDS OF DAVY CROCKETT Comic Strip - Part 1 (1955)
This strip ran in the Sunday comics section of various newspapers during the Crockett Craze, beginning July 17. 1955. The story lasted about six months. Stick around and see it all. (If you don't see...
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