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Forgotten Books: WILDERNESS by Robert B. Parker
If all Robert B. Parker books were like Wilderness, he would never have become my favorite writer. It's actually an OK book, and if it had been written by anyone I else I might deem it worthy of four...
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The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 8)
This is one of favorite TR covers, from 2006. The mystery. The menace. The subtlety. Damn.Here's a nice action scene from the Black Dog chapbook days of 2000. And this one had a bonus - another illo on...
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Cap Gun Monday: NICHOLS Stallion 41-40
You've met the Nichols Stallion 22 (HERE) and the Stallion 38 (HERE). Now here's the bigger, beefier version, capable of killing imaginary owlhoots deader than those that came before. This one is 10"...
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Overlooked Films: LIGHTNIN' BILL CARSON (1936)
For my money, Colonel Tim McCoy was the coolest cowboy start of the '30s. Can't say this one of his best, but with his long tall nose and black outfit, he even looks a bit like The Shadow. More...
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Paperback Gallery: THE MARS TRILOGY by Edward (Michael) P. (Moorcock) Bradbury
This trilogy by Michael Moorcock was first published in England in 1965, and appeared in the U.S. with these fine Gray Morrow covers in 1966. I still have the books. Did I ever read them? Jeez, I can't...
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TARZAN'S BACK! Return to Pal-ul-Don by Will Murray!
When I heard this book was coming out, I immediately set to re-reading Tarzan the Terrible, the Burroughs novel recounting Tarzan’s previous visit to Pal-ul-Don. Though I’m glad I did, as an ERB...
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X-Rated Forgotten Books: The Trailsman 260 - BLOOD WEDDING by "Jon Sharpe"...
(Editor's Note: An always-popular feature of Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine is the "No Comment Department." Following that noble tradition, I'm going to kick back and let Mr. "Sharpe" speak for...
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The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 9)
Pulpy goodnes from Black Dog Books, 2008. A Black Dog classic - from 2000. From Crippen & Landru, 2002. (Thx to R. Robinson)Parts 1 thru 8 of The Art of TOM ROBERTS are HERE.Next week: Nooses galore.
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Stephen Mertz strikes again! Blaze! #6: ZOMBIES OVER YONDER!
When Steve Mertz pitched this entry in the Blaze series to Rough Edges Press publisher James Reasoner, James told him: If you're going over the top, go WAY over. And that's what he did!Zombies Over...
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Overlooked Films: JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER
I suspect this movie is no more Overlooked than it deserves to be, but I'm not curious enough to find out. I'm hoping you'll watch it so I don't have to. More Overlooked Turkeys at Sweet Freedom.
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FREE TODAY: John Hegenberger's CROSS EXAMINATIONS
Headache. Heartache. Neckache. Backache.Those are the titles of the four novelettes in Cross Examinations, and are fair descriptions of the sort of trouble each case brings to Private Investigator...
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Prince Valiant Vol. 6: 1947-1948
I've reached Volume 6 (1947-1948) of Fantagraphics' best yet reproduction of Prince Valiant. This one starts in Thule (Val's home), where a rogue Viking snatches Aleta and spirits her off to the west....
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Forgotten Books: TARZAN THE TERRIBLE by Edgar Rice Burroughs
When I heard that Will Murray's new Tarzan novel was called Return to Pal-Ul-Don (reviewed HERE), I busted out an old copy of this novel (not the edition above, unfortunatlely) recounting the Ape Man's...
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The Art of TOM ROBERTS (Part 10): Nooses Galore!
When Richard "Tip the Wink" Robinson scanned these Tom Roberts paintings for me, he mentioned that the publisher, Crippen & Landru, likes to have a noose somewhere on each cover. It took me a while...
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Zombies Over Yonder and The Phantom Empire: A few words from Stephen Mertz
Steve offers these thoughts on writing Zombies Over Yonder:When I decided to have some fun and shake up the Blaze western series a little with the new one, Zombies Over Yonder, I returned for...
View ArticleOverlooked Films: RAYMOND CHANDLER on "Mysteries & Scandals"
Originally broadcast on March 27, 2000.More O.F. at S.F.
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Comic Gallery: The Birth of S.H.I.E.L.D. Part 6 (1967)
Earlier S.H.I.E.L.D. covers HERE.
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