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Forgotten Books: FFB Hijacked by WWC!
Sad but true. I had a forgotten book read and was set to yap about it, but preparations for tomorrow's Willamette Writers Conference got in the way. Along with the infamous Cap'n Bob Napier and many of...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX 54mm Cowboys (Part 1)
In the late '50s and early '60s, these 54mm guys (about 2 1/4") typically populated western town playsets like Wyatt Earp's Dodge City, Tales of Wells Fargo and Gunsmoke. Part 2 of this feature (coming...
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Cap Gun Monday: MARX THUNDERGUN
Marx didn't make a heck of a lot of cap guns, and most of those were about 90% plastic, making them fragile, insubstantial and unrealistic. So, as a gun-toting kid, they didn't impress me much. The...
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Overlooked Films: THE KENNEL MURDER CASE (1933)
Sure, it's only a Philo Vance movie, but with William (The Thin Man) Powell, Mary (The Maltese Falcon) Astor and a whole mess of dogs, how bad can it be?Ā Find out for yourself, right here:More...
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Pitch Practice in Action
Yeah, as I mentioned, the annual Willamette Writers Conference was last weekend, and for the sixth or seventh year in a row I spent most of all three days hanging around the Pitch Practice room,...
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Charlie Chan Meets Simon and Kirby (1949)
S & K only did five issues. See the first three HERE.
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Forgotten Books: THE MEDICINE-MAN by W.C. Tuttle
(Note! For this book, I am indebted to Mr. Mike Britt, in whose collection it once resided. Thanks Mike!)Near as I can tell, W.C. Tuttle wrote at least two dozen novels starring Hashknife Hartley and...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: IDEAL NAVY
These 60mm (2 3/4") sailors were no doubt designed by the same sculptor who did the Ideal pirates (HERE). Dang, that guy was good. The figures shown here, like the pirates, are made of rubbery, pliable...
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Cap Gun Monday: HUBLEY CHAMP
Anybody have one of these? The Champ, I'm told, was modeled after the 1911 Colt .45 semi-automatic designed by John Browning. It's a mice little handful of non-lethal steel.Ā Click HERE for more Cap Guns.
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Overlooked Films: PHILIP MARLOWE, PRIVATE EYE meets "The King in Yellow"
A few weeks back we looked at "The Pencil," the premiere episode of the HBO series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (HERE). We now present episode 2, coming to you direct from April 23, 1983."The King in...
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Forgotten Books: SHARPE'S WATERLOO by Bernard Cornwell (1990)
It's been a long, bloody, and bloody marvelous journey following Richard Sharpe from Sharpe's Tiger in 1799 India to this butt-kicking battle sixteen years laterĀ at Waterloo, and I enjoyed every second...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: ANDYGUARD CIVIL WAR (Part 2)
Today, for your toy soldiering pleasure, we present the rest of the Andyguard Civil Warriors (the first batch is HERE). Somebody sculpted a lot of attitude into these guys.More miniature warriors HERE.
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