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YouTube Theater: The Weird, Weird World of TIN-TAN
I've never seen a Tin-Tan movie, and wouldn't understand it if I did. But I know weirdness when I see it. Wikipedia tells me Tin-Tan was a Mexican actor, singer and comedian whose real name was Germán...
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Jungle Queens and Space Rangers 1: FIGHT COMICS
A few months back we featured scans from Todd Frye's book AMAZING! ASTONISHING! WEIRD! (that's HERE), featuring oodles of great pulp covers. Well, Todd's at it again, this time bringing us about a...
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Jungle Queens and Space Rangers 2: JUMBO COMICS
Jumbo Comics was the first and longest running title in the Fiction House line, and you'll find all 167 good-lookin' covers in Todd Frye's new Jungle Queens and Space Rangers. Though Sheena the Jungle...
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Jungle Queens and Space Rangers 3: JUNGLE COMICS
Jungle Comics, inspired by Fiction House's first pulp mag Jungle Stories, began in 1940 and ran 163 issues. Every one of them starred a jungle lord named Kaänga, backed by a variety of other strips,...
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Jungle Queens and Space Rangers 4: PLANET COMICS
Planet Comics ran for 73 issues between 1940 and 1954, and sported consistently amazing covers. You can read all 73 for free online at comicbookplus.com (right HERE) (Thanks to Mike Britt for the tip),...
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Jungle Queens and Space Rangers 5: WINGS COMICS
Here's our final preview of Todd Frye's Jungle Queens and Space Rangers. Like Fight, Jungle and Planet, Wings Comics was sort of a spin-off from the Fiction House pulps of the same titles. It ran 124...
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Forgotten Stories: The one and only SPENSER short by Robert B. Parker (1982)
I've been reading the Spenser series since the early '80s. I've been through the whole run several times, in both in print and audio, and I'm still enjoying the Ace Atkins efforts of the past few...
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JAMES BOND covers by Michael Gillette (2008) - Part 2
Here are the rest of the Penguin's Michael Gillette 007 covers. They appeared on limited edition hardcovers in 2008. You may admire the first seven HERE.Â
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Forgotten Books: THE LONG RIFLE (introducing Andy Burnett) by Stewart Edward...
Back in the Olden Days I couldn’t get enough of those Disney heroes. My mania started with Davy Crockett, of course, but soon led to Zorro, The Swamp Fox, Texas John Slaughter, Elfego Baca and Andy...
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The Saga of Andy Burnett (Disney edition)
Disney's follow-up to the surprise hit Davy Crockett was the 6-part Saga of mountain man Andy Burnett, first airing between October 1957 and March 1958. The series was based on Stewart Edward White's...
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Marx Brothers 2: ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930)
As Todd Mason noted when I posted stuff from Cocoanuts (1929), the Brothers made a silent short made way back in 1921. But Humor Risk (a send-up of a popular film of the time called Humoresque) was...
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Tarzan of the Movies 5: THE ADVENTURES OF TARZAN (1921)
The first screen Tarzan returned in 1921 for this third and final appearance. Original a 15-chapter silent serial, it was later edited and rereleased in ten chapters with added sound effects. The...
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DAVY CROCKETT and the Creek Rebellion (from Avon comics 1951)
Davy and I are indebted to Mr. Mike Britt for pointing us to this great website, comicbookplus.com. Dedicated fans have uploaded thousands of public domain comics (and a lot of other cool stuff) for...
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