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Toy Soldier Saturday: IDEAL 7TH CAVALRY
These Ideal 7th Cav guys are peculiar in that they don't look like Ideal figures. Most Ideal soldiers were sculpted as finely as those of Marx. If anything, Ideal figures were even more finely...
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Cap Gun Monday: Leslie-Henry WILD BILL HICKOK
Most cap guns had plastic grips, meant to resemble the wood, ivory or pearl of real weapons. But a special few—like this one from the Leslie-Henry Company—had grips made of metal. These are especially...
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Overlooked Films: THE GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE (1939)
I read and reviewed the S.S. Van Dine novel The Gracie Allen Murder Case a couple of years ago, but I had never seen the film - until it turned up recently on YouTube.As I noted way back when, the...
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Doc Savage is Back! THE WAR MAKERS by Will Murray and Ryerson Johnson
Will Murray has given us several fine posthumous collaborations with Doc Savage author Lester Dent, but The War Makers is something new. This one’s a collaboration with one of the other Kenneth...
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Forgotten Stories: OVER THE WALL by John K. Butler (read it here!)
When I posted the Cleve F. Adams story "Smart Guy" a while back (HERE), Cary Jennings suggested I devote some attention to another neglected pulp writer, John K. Butler. Well, I think that's a fine...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX PRESIDENTS (Part 2)
The Marx parade of Presidents marches on . . .More Toy Soldiers (including our first nine Chief Execs) HERE.
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ONE AGAINST A GUN HORDE: New Western Stories by Richard Prosch
A pattern has emerged in the western fiction of Mr. Richard Prosch. 1. His characters are not fictional constructs, but real people leading real lives. They have genuine human emotions and converse in...
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Cap Gun Monday: Halco MAVERICK (#1)
I'm calling this one Maverick #1 because I have a larger, entirely different Halco "Maverick" with a bronze finish. This gun's on the smallish side - 8 1/2 inches with a 3 3/4 inch barrel. I assume...
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Overlooked Films: TARZAN OF THE APES (1918)
Here's the very FIRST Tarzan movie, released just six years after the novel appeared in All-Story Magazine. This film, which portrays the first half of the novel (concluded in the 1918 movie The...
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Steve Mertz has the Blues (and they have to come out!)
Mr. Stephen Mertz, author of sixtty-some thrillers and adventure novels (including my personal favorite, Hank & Muddy) rocked Tuscon recently with his new roadhouse band, the Outsiderz. This is...
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Forgotten Books: DEALING OUT DEATH by W.T.Ballard (1948)
I’m curious to know many Black Mask characters graduated into original novels after (or during) their time with the magazine. I can name only two from the Shaw years, and W.T. Ballard’s Bill Lennox is...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: IDEAL Pirates
These pirates were made to scale for a plastic Ideal pirate ship. I once had a chance to pick one up at a reasonable price, but was too cheap. One of my great regrets. I found a pic online that I...
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Cap Gun Monday: Hubley DEPUTY
Here's another of those not-too-usual guns with metal grips. These grips are particularly unusual in that they feature all this fancy scrollwork. And I can't think of another gun with this train...
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Overlooked Films: THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN (1938)
The first and only all-midget western. What more's to be said?
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