I Am a Fugitive from the FBI
Got this OFFICIAL NOTICE via email yesterday. Yikes! Since I've apparently already been found guilty, I'm taking it on the lam. I'll do my best to continuing posting here - from an undisclosed location...
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Forgotten Femme Fatales: Cleve F. Adams' VIOLET McDADE in "The Voice" (Read...
Circus fat-lady turned private detective Violet McDade is not your typical femme fatale, but she's a definitely a femme, and there are few more fatal. With her partner (and narrator), the slim, trim...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MPC SPACEMEN
Toy soldiers made by the Multiple Plastics Corporation were always inferior to those of Marx, but while Marx merely toyed around with the use of separate accessories, MPC went for it in a big way. This...
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Cap Gun Monday: HUBLEY RIC-O-SHAY .45
At twelve inches long and nearly six inches tall, the Hubley Ric-O-Shay is second largest western cap pistol I own. (I posted of video of the biggest, the sublime Hubley Colt .45, HERE.) This one is...
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Overlooked TV: JOHNNY RINGO (1959)
The real John Ringo, as you may know, was a cow thief. Films like Tombstone have portrayed him as a particular rival of Doc Holliday, because someone once said he was better educated than the average...
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Forgotten Books: DAY OF THE RAM by William Campbell Gault (1956)
A couple of weeks ago I re-read Ring Around Rosa (aka Murder in the Raw), the first appearance of private investigator Brock Callahan, and complained because he was grabbing his ankles and taking too...
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Toy Solder Saturday: MARX 54mm FRONTIERSMEN
If you were commanding the defense of the Alamo against Santa Anna's conscripts, or battling to save Fort Apache from rampaging Native Americans, these are the guys you'd want by your side. Marx used...
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Cap Gun Monday: MARX MINIATURE KENTUCKY RIFLE
I posted a Marx Miniature Tommy-Gun a while back (HERE), and there will be quite a few more Miniatures in the months to come. This flintlock rifle is 9 1/2 inches long, and, as is fitting for a...
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Overlooked Films: I LOVE TROUBLE (The Double Take) by Roy Huggins
I reviewed Roy Huggins' private eye novel The Double Take a couple of years ago (HERE). The novel introduced Stu Bailey, who went on to become my favorite TV detective in 77 Sunset Strip. At the time,...
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Forgotten Books: THE CONVERTIBLE HEARSE by William Campbell Gault (1957)
This is the third book in the Brock Callahan series, and the third Brock Callahan I've read within the last thirty days. As I hope I conveyed last week, I enjoyed Day of the Ram quite a bit, so dived...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MPC RINGHAND GIs
I mentioned these GIs when I posted the MPC Spacemen a couple of weeks ago (HERE). Those spacemen figures were made from these same molds. They were just cast in different colors and given different...
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Cap Gun Monday: WYANDOTTE RED RANGER
The engraving on this gun (from Wyandotte, PA, natch) is identical to that on the Hopalong Cassidy pistol posted HERE. But the cool things about the Red Ranger are the two different grips. There's also...
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