ROY ROGERS in a March of Comics adventure: "A Test of Courage" (1952)
Another cool story from comicbookplus.com (check it out!). This one is thanks to milwaukee50.
View ArticleHear it Here: CHRISTMAS ON THE PONDEROSA (1963)
Here's the complete album from 1963, a follow-up to PONDEROSA PARTY TIME! (you can hear that HERE). I like this one a lot less than the first, but it is a Christmas album, so I guess that's to be...
View ArticleForgotten Books: DEAD SOLDIERS by Bill Crider (2004)
The best thing about the Carl Burns series is that the hero is really Bill Crider himself. In "Professor Carl Burns" (note that the initials CB are the inverse of BC), we see Bill in an alternate...
View ArticleSCOOP Gum Cards: OUT WEST (1954)
(sorry, no back for this one)Thanks to Mr. Mike Britt for tipping me to these.
View ArticleHAPPY HOLIDAY BOWL (I hope)
My alma mater meets Michigan State tonight in the Holiday Bowl, and if Luke Falk and the gang don't stomp the Spartans I'm going to be a mighty unhappy Cougar.
View ArticleForgotten Books: D'ARTAGNAN by H. Bedford-Jones (1928)
I’m a longtime Musketeers fan. I read The Three in junior high, discovered in Twenty Years After high school, and liked every movie I’ve seen since, including the ones starring the Ritz Brothers and...
View ArticleHappy New Year from Myrna, Bette, Dorothy, Donna, Barbara, Betty, Jayne,...
Myrna LoyBette DavisDorothy Lamour Donna ReedBarbara EdenBetty GrableJayne MansfieldElke SommerJoan CrawfordJudy GarlandLoretta YoungMae WestMamie van DorenRhonda FlemingMarilyn
View ArticleTarzan of the Movies 6: TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION (1927)
James Pierce, the screen's fourth Lord of the Jungle, was chosen for the role by ERB himself, who met him at a party. The following year, Pierce married Burrough's daughter Joan, and the couple went on...
View ArticleThe Battle of DAVY CROCKETT: Patti Page vs. Gisele MacKenzie
I don't know if these ladies ever released the song on vinyl, but they sure made a meal of it on TV.
View ArticleFORGOTTEN BOOKS (and stories) OF 2017
March 10Yeah, I was slacking and got off to a late start, for which I am suitably embarrassed. Maybe I'll do better this year. Maybe. March 17March 24March 31April 7April 14April 21April 28May 5May...
View ArticleYouTube Theater: THE FAT MAN (1951)
According to Hammett's agent, the Fat Man radio show was based on Caspar Gutman. Do I buy that? Maybe, if it was strictly the creation of that agent, who was clueless about the Continental Op. Hard to...
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