Overlooked Films: Flynn, Rathbone & Niven in THE DAWN PATROL (1938)
How’s this sound? A movie starring Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and David Niven - and all of them are good guys. A movie that’s all action and drama - wasting not a single second on romance. A movie...
View ArticleForgotten Books: GANGLAND'S DOOM (The Shadow of the Pulps) by Frank...
Gangland’s Doom, published by Robert Weinberg way back in 1974, was the first non-fiction book devoted entirely to The Shadow. And, I’m pleased to say, it dealt exclusively with the real Shadow - the...
View ArticleComic Gallery: GHOST Comics (1952-53)
See the first three good-lookin' GHOST covers HERE.
View ArticleComic Gallery: CRIMES BY WOMEN (1948-49)
See the first three CRIMES BY WOMEN covers HERE.
View ArticleOverlooked Cartoon (See it HERE): Thugs with Dirty Mugs (1939)
I love all the Warner's Brothers cartoons lampooning movie stars of the day. They did a lot of those, and Edward G. Robinson was included in most. But in this one, whose title was obviously inspired by...
View ArticleTARZAN of the Pulps
191619241930 (later published as Tarzan the Invincible)See more Tarzan pulps HERE.
View ArticleForgotten Books: SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES (1989)
Robert Leslie Bellem's Dan Turner, the undisputed King of Spicy Detectives, has been reprinted by so many different publishers - and in so many different formats - that I've lost track of them. And...
View ArticleOverlooked Film: THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE (1930) Watch it HERE!
More Overlooked Films at SWEET FREEDOM
View ArticleComic Gallery: THE LONE RANGER - More Painted Covers (1952)
More painted Ranger covers HERE.
View ArticleForgotten Books: The Shadow in TRAIL OF VENGEANCE by Walter Gibson
For this week's selection I am indebted to Almanack reader Frank Spremulli. Noting that I was admirer of the Master of Darkness, he kindly took this and three other Shadow mags to the post office and...
View ArticleComic Gallery: CRIME DOES NOT PAY (1943)
See the first three CRIME DOES NOT PAY covers HERE.
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