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Forgotten Books: AMERICAN FRONTIERSMEN ON FILM and TELEVISION (2005)
This Ring-Tailed Roarer of a book is divided into six parts, one devoted to each of guys mentioned on the cover. Each part then gives you a short biography and an in-depth filmography. That's one hell...
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"Surprise Attack" an American Eagle adventure by JOHN SEVERIN (1954)
John Severin, one of my all-time favorite comic artists, contributed dozens of adventures of Crow Indian chief American Eagle to Prize Comics Western between 1951 and 1955. Most were very ably inked by...
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Doc Savage Out West! in MR. CALAMITY by Will Murray
Can you picture Doc Savage wearing a cowboy hat and riding a horse?That’s what you get in Will Murray’s new WILD adventure, Mr. Calamity. Yep, this one is an honest-to-gawd Western, with the sci-fi...
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YouTube Theater: TIME TO KILL (The High Window) (1942)
This 1942 entry in the Mike Shayne series was based on Raymond Chandler's The High Window. The book wasn't made into a Philip Marlowe film until 1947, as The Brasher Doubloon.
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Moments in Paperback History: LanceCon '86 (Part 2)
Some of the usual suspects, featuring Bob Stuart in the muscle t-shirtIn our last thrilling episode (HERE) we viewed of few of the too many photos snapped by Art Scott at the 1986 paperbackpalooza in...
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STEPHEN MERTZ returns to detective fiction with SAY IT WAS MURDER
Steve Mertz’s first book, way back in 1979, was a detective novel called Some Die Hard (reviewed HERE). Since then, over the course of his wild and woolly career, he’s pumped out more than, sixty more...
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Comic Book Story: "The Spawn of Venus" by WALLY WOOD
The story "The Spawn of Venus," as drawn by Al Feldstein, appeared in Weird Science #6. Legend has it that this version, redrawn by Wally Wood, was intended for a 3-D comic that was never published....
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Forgotten Books: AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT by John K. Butler (1998)
I've told this story before. My hardboiled mania began back in 1976 with the release of Jim Steranko's graphic novel Chandler. After burning through Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, I cast a...
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