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The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 2)
Marksman, published by Crippen & Landru back in 2002, appears this week thanks to last week's comment by John Hocking. Quite coincidentally, it was George Kelley's Forgotten Book on Friday. His...
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Whatever Happened to No Toes McInnes? Cap Gun Monday: MAVERICK
I don't remember where I got this holster, but I know the name of the original owner. Makes me wonder whatever happened to him - and more to the point - what happened to his toes? If you happened to be...
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Overlooked Audio: A NEW Adventure of THE SHADOW
Since last June, when I called your attention to Pulp-Pourri Theatre's adaptation of the W.C. Tuttle story "By Order of Buck Brady" (HERE), Pete Lutz and the Narado Radio Company gang have been mighty...
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FFB: Three Books Reviewed by *Guest Blogger* DASHIELL HAMMETT
This article is from the April 16, 1927 issue of The Saturday Review of LiteratureGuessers and Deducers THE AFFAIR IN DUPLEX 9B. By WILLIAM JOHNSON. New York: George H. Doran. 1927. $2. THE KINK. By...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX 54mm Indians (Part 2)
Part 1 of this tribal pictorial is HERE. More Toy Soldiers HERE.
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The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 3)
A fine Crippen & Landru cover from 2002. My thanks to Richard (Tip the Wink) Robinson for the scan.Here's Jo Gar. If this painting has any surprises hidden in the details, I failed to discover...
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Cap Gun Monday: Halco MAVERICK 45
This Maverick 45 is 10 1/2 inches of solid copper-toned metal, and a fine example of capgunsmithing. The 'H' brand stands for Halco, a toy distributor that farmed out the manufacturing to other cap gun...
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This was episode 23 of the TV series Phlip Marlowe, from March 8, 1960.This week's Overlooked Film collection is at Sweet Freedom.
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Secrets of BILL CRIDER's Bookshelf (circa 1990)
We all know what kind of books Bill Crider reads these days (nudge nudge, wink wink), but what was he reading twenty-five years ago? For the straight skinny, we take a squint at this official author...
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Forgotten Books: MEDICINE SHOW by Bill Crider (1990)
The first character we meet in Medicine Show claims to be Kit Carson, but he isn't. His boss, the Colonel, isn't really a colonel. The Colonel's wife, the Indian squaw Ro-Shanna, and his daughter, the...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: Tim-Mee AIR FORCE (Part 2)
Part 1 of this patriotic pictorial is HERE. More Toy Soldiers HERE.
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The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 4)
A Crippen & Landru book from 2005. I'm curious to know who these faces belong to. (Scan courtesy of the Richard Robinson Collection)What's the story on this cool Green Lantern painting? I wish I...
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Cap Gun Monday: HUBLEY White Scout Rifle
Dang near all the cap guns manufactured in the '50s and '60s (and before and since) were marketed to boys. But there were exceptions, and this is one of them. The boy's version of this 32' rifle was...
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Overlooked Audio: THE PIN-UP MURDER MYSTERY on Pulp-Pourri Theatre
The folks who brought us The Shadow: A Trip to Eternity (HERE) and W.C. Tuttle's By Order of Buck Brady (HERE) have a lot of great shows on tap, and one I can particularly recommend is this tribute to...
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Forgotten Cowboys: W.C. Tuttle's Sheriff Henry Conroy
I've been enjoying W.C. Tuttle's Hashknife Hartley books for a a long time, and extolled the virtues of five of them HERE as Forgotten Books. But I hadn't gotten around to meeting Tuttle's number two...
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