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The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 5)
Here's a cool Crippen & Landru cover from way back in 2000. The painting was later repurposed for EQMM. We'll see that some Sunday soon.Long Live the Dead appears courtesy of the Richard Robinson...
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Cap Gun Monday: Hubley TEXAN 38
Dang near all Hubley guns are great, but this is one of the best. It's big - 10 1/2 inches long - solid, and heavy, with a brilliant nickel finish, plenty of engraving and a revolving cylinder. And...
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Overlooked Films: THE MARK OF ZORRO (1920)
I posted this movie a few years ago, but the Gods of YouTube have since yanked it down, and the quality was inferior. Besides, this is a film that bears watching again, again and again. Doug Fairbanks...
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Pulp Gallery: AMAZING STORIES 31, 32 & 33 (1928)
CORRECTION! As Mr. Joe Koomen pointed out in the comments, the December cover I posted earlier was actually from 1929. Alas, I don't have a really shrap image of the Dec '28 ish, so I borrowed this one...
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FFB: Four Books Reviewed by DASHIELL HAMMETT
This column appeared in the April 12, 1930 issue of the New York Evening Post.THE CRIME WAVEBy Dashiell HammettTHE NOOSE. By Philip MacDonald. Dial. $2. BLUE RUM, By Ernest Souza. Cape & Smith....
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX 45mm Cowboys
Here are some of Louis Marx's smallest cowboys, averaging only about an inch and a half tall. Sadly, this set contained about a half dozen poses I do not possess. Many more Toy Soldiers HERE.
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The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 6)
Our tribute to Mr. Roberts rolls on, with this Crippen & Landru cover from 2007. This time all three scans come to us courtesy of the Richard Robinson University Library. This one's from Black...
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A Fistful of Will Murray: TARZAN, THE SHADOW and DOC SAVAGE
These two brand-spanking new Altus Press books sit atop my To-Be-Read pile, presenting me with a very cool problem: Which to read first? Yikes. I may have to flip a coin.
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Overlooked Films: DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME (1947)
This 1947 brought out the big guns. The Dick Tracy most folks deem the best, and a co-star so famous he dumped "Dick" out of top billing. Got your popcorn? On with the show. More Overlooked Media at...
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Forgotten Boks: Andrew J. Offutt's CONAN TRILOGY
I've had these three books for more than thirty years, and I'm sure I read at least one of them. But I'm pretty dang sure I never got around to reading all three, and had no idea they constituted a...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX Presidents (Part 5 - The End)
This concludes our presentation of pint-sized plastic Chief Executives. The painted JFK marks the end of my collection, but Marx kept making them right up until Tricky Dick, around the time the company...
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Patti Abbott's CONCRETE ANGEL
Concrete Angel is a thoughtful, complex and exquisitely written novel that defies simple classification. There are elements of crime, memoir, coming of age and psychoanalysis all chugging along side by...
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The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 7)
Here's Tom's salute to EQMM's distinguished book reviewers. From left to right we have John Dickson Carr, Allen J. Hubin, Anthony Boucher and Jon L. Breen, with conductor Howard Haycraft. This insignia...
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Overlooked Radio: THE WHISTLER
Here's good timing. Just as I was fumbling around for something to slap up here on Overlooked Tuesday, my new Facebook pal Patrick Carrico posted this link to five hundred and two (!) Whistler radio...
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