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DC TRIP: Booth did NOT act alone . . .
. . . or so the Military Court ruled, and had these other four people hanged. It's pretty certain Payne and Atzerodt knew what Booth was up to. David Herold was just a fan who did his best to help...
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Forgotten Stories: Captain Blood in "THE PRIZE" by Rafael Sabatini (1921)
You may have noticed that Captain Blood in one of my favorite books. (If you haven't, look HERE.) So . . . while perusing comicbookplus, I was mighty pleased to come across this fine sample from the...
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DC TRIP: The Last of the Gettysburg Dioramas
Yep, here are more dioramas,with closer looks at each. This first scene shows the Iron Brigade capturing the Rebs in the Railroad Cut.Here's General Meade's HQ on Cemetary Hill.This one recreates a...
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Give Me Liberty!: A Revised History of the American Revolution (1976)
From Rip Off Press, 1976, by Gilbert Shelton & others.Dang! Why don't I have a copy of this?Here are some sample pages:
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Read it Here: BASIL WOLVERTON'S "Brain-Bats of Venus" (1952)
This cerebral tale by the great Mr. Wolverton comes to us from Mister Mystery #7 (Sept. 1952), as uploaded to comicbookplus by a rockstar called Ontology. Did Mr. W script the story, too? I don't know.
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A VISIT WITH JOHN WAYNE (1976) thanks to David Laurence Wilson
The INSP Network is now a week into its month-long John Wayne celebration, THE DUKE DAYS OF SUMMER, and one of tonight's offerings (at 10pm Eastern) is The Shootist. That film is one of many subjects...
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Introducing FRANK FRAZETTA'S Dan Brand & Tipi (1949)
This debut adventure of Frazetta's Dan Brand and Tipi appeared first in 1949 in The Durango Kid #1. It was reprinted in 1953 in White Indian #11, and eventually found its way onto the Golden Age blog...
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Forgotten Books: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE by Ian Fleming (1964)
I’m amazed, and maybe a bit alarmed, at how much I’d forgotten about this 11th Fleming Bond novel. Sure, I remembered from the movie that Bond must become as Japanese as possible to complete his...
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The Crimson Stain Mystery (1916)
Coming 102 years ago to your neighborhood theater . ..
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The First Appearance of ARCHIE and JUGHEAD (1941)
Mr. Mike Britt recently directed me to some interesting finds on comicbookplus, and one of them was the second appearance of Archie, in Jackpot Comics #4. That got me curious about Archie's first...
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