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VALENTINE SPECIAL: Modern Love -- and -- a Moon, a Girl... Romance (1949-50)
You E.C. Fan-Addicts already know this, but for the rest . . . Before the appearance of such classic titles as Tales from The Crypt, Weird Science and The Vault of Horror, E.C. comics creators...
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Friday's Forgotten Books: THE LINKS - and - The Son of Tarzan
Once again, I have the honor of hosting Patti Abbott's weekly Forgotten Bookapalooza. Next week, you'll find the links back at pattinase!The following reviews are up now. I'll update the list...
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THE LONE RANGER: The Painted Covers continue! (1951)
No. 35No. 36No. 37, a landmark issue. For the first thirty-four issues of this title, and the three preceding Ranger issues of Four Color Comics, our hero wore his uniform of red shirt, white hat, blue...
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Overlooked Films: Jack Webb in PETE KELLY'S BLUES (1955)
I started Pete's Kelly's Blues knowing absolutely nothing about it. From a glance at the movie posters, I figured it was a bluesy, noirsy mystery set in the contemporary world of 1955. Wrong. There's a...
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SHEENA, Queen of the Jungle - and WILL EISNER, too!
Sheena, a British import, made her U.S. comic book debut in Jumbo Comics 1 in 1938, but didn't make the cover until the following year, in no. 9, as depicted by Lou Fine. No, that ain't her with the...
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Forgotten Books: UNSEEN SHADOWS by Jim Steranko (1978)
Painting for Shadow paperback 22, The Silent DeathPencil rough for The Silent DeathIf you're a Steranko fan OR a Shadow fan (and especially if you're both, like me), this is a nice little book to...
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Art Gallery: AMAZING STORIES 4, 5 & 6 (1926)
Miss the first three issues? They're on display HERE.
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Overlooked Films: The Son of Tarzan (1920)
After rereading and reviewing this fourth novel in the Tarzan series (that's HERE), I decided to poke around and see what Hollywood had done with the book. This is it - a 15-chapter serial made way...
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Books Best Forgotten: The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen
Like (I suspect) many other mystery bloggers, I got an email recently announcing republication of many Ellery Queen adventures as eBooks. Well, hey, I’d never read an actual Ellery Queen novel (the...
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Art Gallery: THE SPIDER 4, 5 & 6 (1934)
To be continued!See the first three Spider covers HERE.
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2012 EQMM Readers Awards: Skyler Hobbs takes Fourth
Congratulations are due my friend Doug Allyn (that's us above in 2011) for snagging EQMM's 2012 Readers Award. His winning story, "Wood-Smoke Boys," appeared in the March/April 2012 issue. He also...
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Overlooked Films: Bakshi and Frazetta's FIRE AND ICE (1983)
Ever wish you could see Frank Frazetta’s sword & sorcery paintings come to life in an animated motion picture? Me, too. Fire and Ice does not do that, but it’s the closest thing we have so far. As...
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