HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: Political Mania (1939)
San Bernadino County Sun, Jan. 18, 1939Brooklyn Citizen, June 9, 1939St. Louis Star and Times, Aug. 14, 1939Rushville Republican, Aug 31, 1939
View ArticleWill Murray's DOC SAVAGE - Part 3
Beginning in 2011, after a hiatus of eighteen years, Will got back into his Kenneth Robeson pants and started churning out new adventures. These first four (and the five you'll see next week) were also...
View ArticleForgotten Stories: "Tied Up For Tombstone" by W.C. Tuttle (1925)
Tuttle did a series of these tales about the wacky citizens of Piperock for Adventure. This one is from the issue dated Sept. 18, 1918.
View ArticleGus Mager's HAWKSHAW THE DETECTIVE
Hawkshaw the Detective, in case you're wondering, began life back in 1910 as Sherlocko the Monk. Sherlock was a spin-off of Gus Mager's strip Knocko the Monk, which featured various characters that...
View ArticleJohn Severin, Will Elder & JIM BRIDGER, Western Trail Blazer (1950)
This true-life history lesson comes to us thanks to Real Life Comics #52, Apr. 1950, via scanner Dave Hayward on comicbookplus. Thanks, all.
View ArticleHAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: The Magazine Biz (1939)
New York Daily News, Mar. 24, 1939Lansing State Journal, Apr. 13, 1939Reading Times, May 18, 1939Wisconsin Jewish Council, Dec. 22, 1939
View ArticleWill Murray's DOC SAVAGE - Part 4
In 2013, in his series of all-new adventures from Altus Press, Doc met Kong, in one of my favorite stories of the whole dang series. And these other books were no slouches, either! Sadly these are ALL...
View ArticleForgotten Stories: NERO WOLFE solves "The Parterow Case" (1956)
Back in November 2019 I began posting the dailies and Sundays of this strip, which ran from November 26, 1956 to March 1, 1958. And I posted them ALL, except for the last one two - or maybe three...
View ArticleThe Return of HAWKSHAW THE DETECTIVE
\From the twisted mind of Ed Whelan, to the funny papers, to the pages of Tip Top Comics, to ComicBookPlus, and finally the Almanack, here he is to save the day!
View ArticleHarvey Kurtzman's POTS-SHOT PETE Rides Again! (1950)
Yep, it's another rousing adventure with the sheriff of Yucca-Pucca Gulch. This one appeared in John Wayne Adventure Comics #5, back in Oct. 1950. We first met Pete when he battled the fearsome...
View ArticleHAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: The Little Foxes (1939)
\Pittsburg Sun-Telegraph, Feb. 10, 1939St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Feb. 24, 1939St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Mar. 1, 1939St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Mar. 20, 1939
View ArticleWill Murray's DOC SAVAGE - Part 5 (The End, so far!)
In 2015, in another of my favorite adventures - ranking right up there, and maybe even eclipsing - Skull Island, Doc met The Master of Darkness, And not only did he did meet him again a few books...
View ArticleA Funnybook Biography of ALAN LADD (1950)
Here, from Famous Stars #3 (1950) is the low-down on the star of such swell films as The Blue Dahlia, The Glass Key and This Gun for Hire (and, because people won't let me forget it, that western with...
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