ABBOTT & COSTELLO in "The Case of the Idle Idol" (1948)
Coming to you direct from Abbott & Costello Comics #2, from Apr 1948, is this spinetingling detective story. Thanks to Ontology for sticking it up on ComicBookPlus.Â
View ArticleHAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: Name Dropping (1938)
Miami News, Feb. 21, 1938San Francisco Examiner, Mar. 16, 1938New York Daily News, Aug. 8, 1938New York Daily News, Nov. 8, 1938Hackensack Record, Nov. 23, 1938Benton Harbor News-Palladium, Dec. 23,...
View ArticleSelling THE BIG SLEEP - Part 1 (1946)
Here's some of the cool stuff supplied to movie theaters to promote the film. More to come!
View ArticleForgotten Books: The Sheriff Henry Series by W.C TUTTLE
And more to come, I think. Collect 'em all!
View ArticleTHE SPIDER Returns in "Fury in Steel" by Will Murray!
Will Murray’s done it again. Fresh on the heels of his triumphs with Tarzan: Conqueror of Mars and The Wild Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, comes Fury in Steel, the second entry in his series featuring...
View ArticleSKY MASTERS of the SPACE FORCE by Jack Kirby & Wally Wood - Week 4 (1958)
Continued next Saturday
View ArticleWALLY WOOD Out West with "Six-Gun Smith" (1951)
Western Crime Busters was one of the comics published by Trojan Magazines, the outfit that brought us Spicy Detective, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Mystery, Spicy Western and Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective....
View ArticleHAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: Writing & Not (1938)
Hartford Courant, Feb. 19, 1938Oklahoma News, Apr. 17, 1938Scranton Times-Tribune, May 14, 1938St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 18, 1938Minneapolis Star, June 1, 1938Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 18, 1938El Paso...
View ArticleSelling THE BIG SLEEP - Part 2 (1946)
Here's more stuff from the pressbook, including a list of suggested short subjects to accompany the film. Wish I had all of the pages. This is everything I could find online.Â
View ArticleForgotten Stories: "Two Devils for Devlin" - a Spicy Tale by Robert Leslie...
It's "Piquant, Pungent, Peppery and Pleasing!" From Ginger Stories Vol. 2 No, 4, Feb. 1930. Thanks to The Pulp Magazines Project. Attn Art Scott: Do not fail to take advantage of the STRANGE BOOKS...
View ArticlePrivate Eye VIC FLINT Solves "The Jerce Murder" (1946)
Vic Flint was one of very few pulpy hardboiled dicks to do business in the funny papers. His daily strip ran from 1946-56, and the Sunday from 1946-65. According to Ron Goulart, his first adventure...
View ArticleTOR in 3-D "Illustereo" (1953)
I'm a big fan of 3-D comics. Sadly, the ink in most of my '50s 3-D comics has faded to dampen the effect. That's also true of some of the 3-D books found on ComicBookPlus. But not all. And this classic...
View ArticleHAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: The Thin Man that Never Was (1937)
L.A. Times, June 8, 1936After this Lux Radio Theatre version aired in 1936, there were rumors that a weekly series - starring everyone's favorite Nick and Nora - would soon begin. Too bad it never...
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