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Forgotten Books: LITTLE CAESAR by W.R. Burnett (1929)
I've had a dozen or so W.R. Burnett books kicking around for thirty-odd years, but never got around to reading one. Well, thanks to Mr. David Laurence Wilson, I finally did. And whaddaya know? It was...
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Western Round-up: John Wayne as "Singing Sandy"
Bust out the popcorn, folks, because by special request of rootin' tootin' Cap'n Bob Napier, we are proud to present the one and only adventure of John Wayne as "Singing Sandy." The Cap'n is sure to be...
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Back Cover adventures of POPEYE (1943-44)
These strips appeared on the back covers of Popeye issues of Dell's Four Color comics. Two of the pages are signed BZ (with a bee), the work of Bela Zaboly, who handled most of the daily and Sunday...
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Forgotten Stories: CHARLIE CHAN in "The Land of the Leopard Men" (1948)
What? You've never heard of "The Land of the Leopard Men"? Then you must have missed Charlie Chan #1, published by Prize comics back in 1948. I did, too, until I saw it on comicbookplus, the amazing...
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Hear it here: ROY ROGERS and DALE EVANS - 16 Great Songs of The Old West (1958)
I'm pretty sure that most, if not all, of the songs on this album first appeared on Golden Records singles. In their next incarnation, all eight singles were collected in a cool boxed set called "Song...
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Forgotten Books: THE DESPERADO by Clifton Adams (1950)
Fourteen years ago I joined the Old West APA OWLHOOT (more on that anon), and started hearing about Clifton Adams. My fellow ‘hoots always touted him as a hardboiled western writer. Jeez, I’d think,...
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Hear it here: DAVY CROCKETT IN CONGRESS by the Plymouth Players (1956)
Since Disney couldn't slap a copyright on old Davy (except for ©Walt Disney's Official Davy Crockett), Davymania marketing was a free-for-all back in the '50s. One of the outfits joining in was...
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Your Last-Minute One-Stop Source for HALLOWEEN MASKS
The Fox So Cunning and FreeEASY-PEASY INSTRUCTIONS:1. Select mask of your choice2. Copy file to disk3. Insert image in Word document4. Size to fit your face5. Print6. Paste to lightweight cardboard...
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Gouged Eyes and Chawed Ears: The Rough and Tumble World of Breckenridge Elkins
Have you read A Gent from Bear Creek and the rest of the Breckenridge Elkins saga? If not, you oughta! I like everything Howard wrote (except maybe the detective stories), but this series is my...
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Forgotten Books: TAI-PAN by James Clavell (1966)
I've long considered Tai-Pan (along with Shogun) one of the two best books I've ever read. (My favorite book is Red Harvest, of course, but that doesn't make it the best). On this return trip, I read...
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