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Black Friday's Forgotten Books: THE LINKS - plus - DIG ME A GRAVE by John...
This Friday is blacker than most. Mr. Bill Crider has been a stalwart contributor to FFBs, and the recent loss of his wife Judy makes all this posting and reviewing seem trivial. I only met Judy once,...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: Cherilea Spacemen
Unable to place these little buggers, I consulted sees-all, knows-all toy solider collector Cap'n Bob Napier, and he delivered the poop. They belong to the line of Cherilea swoppets, made in Great...
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Knights of the Metropolitan Museum (Part 3)
Here's another collection of life-size toy soldiers from the Arms & Armor room of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ain't you glad these suits are no longer in style?More Museum Knights HERE.
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Cap Gun Monday: Leslie-Henry DAVY CROCKETT (Jr.)
I posted Leslie-Henry's nine-inch Davy Crockett pistol a few months back, HERE. This is the smaller version, measuring about 7 1/2 inches. It's said to be slightly harder to come by. Wasn't so hard for...
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Overlooked Films: CAPTAIN AMERICA - the Serial (1944)
I posted these posters a few years back, but that was before the film turned up on YouTube. So here there are again, along with the whole dang serial. Interesting that in the posters, Cap wears white...
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Pulp Gallery: AMAZING STORIES 28, 29 & 30 (1928)
First appearance of Buck Rogers E.E. Smith's middle name was Elmer? All the earlier Amazings are HERE.
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Forgotten (AND FREE) Stories: Race Williams in TOO DEAD TO PAY by Carroll...
Race Williams is at it again, practicing his brand of two-gun justice on the streets of New York. This one is a "novel" only in pulp magazine terms, but at 39 pages, it's still a good chunk of...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: Marx Round-Hat (Zorro) Mexicans (Part 2)
Here are more of the guys the Fox so cunning and free used to run ragged every week on his TV show. The first batch is HERE. Coming soon: We'll meet the Fox himself, along with his friend, enemy,...
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Cap Gun Monday: Leslie-Henry Davy Crockett holster & knife
Last week week we looked at the pistol from this set (HERE). Or at least what I assume is a set, because I acquired it all together at a collectible show, and all the pieces fit. There's no doubt the...
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Overlooked Films: PHILIP MARLOWE returns in "Smart-Aleck Kill"
It's time once again for Philip Marlowe Theater, with the May 14 1983 production of "Smart-Aleck Kill." This tale, from the July 1934 issue of Black Mask, originally featured a private dick named...
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Comic Gallery: TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Returns! (1952-53)
Thrill to the first three Tom covers HERE.
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My story "Too Many Crocketts," about the grandson of Davy Crockett and his inner voice/ancestral hitchhiker Old Davy, has a twisty history. It was written for the magazine Great Western Fiction back in...
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Forgotten Books: SCARAMOUCHE by Rafael Sabatini (1921)
I'm a big fan of Mr. Sabatini. I've read Captain Blood several times and rank it as my second favorite book of all time, right after Red Harvest. So I figured Scaramouche, his most famous novel, should...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX Presidents (Part 3)
If this doesn't satisfy your patriotic appetite, our first batch of dead Presidents is HERE and the second HERE. I could have titled this post Forgotten Presidents if not for old Teddy down at the...
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Cap Gun Monday: Hubley TEXAN JR.
This is one of many incarnations of Hubley's ever-popular Texan Jr. You might think of it as the cap gun equivalent of an automobile. The model changed over the years, while the name remained the same....
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