Read it Here: WYATT EARP in "One Way to the Grave" (1949)
This tale, found on comicbookplus, is from Bruce Gentry #3, from Jan. 1949. Who drew it? Beats me.Â
View ArticleThe Enduring Mystery of LANCECON '84
If you've been following our LanceCon pictorials (HERE), you may have noticed a gap of two years between 1982 and 1985. In 1983, photographer Art Scott must have stayed home in California. But in '84,...
View ArticleUnForgettable Books: The Spider, G-8 and Operator 5 in Will Murray's THE DOOM...
This is the kind of book pulp fans dream about: A team-up starring three front-rank heroes – The Spider, Operator 5 and G-8. Will Murray, as I’m sure you know, has already brought us two meetings...
View ArticleTEXAS LEADS THE WAY / GET OFF HER LAWN! Grandma Kills Alligator for Eating...
Art Scott sent this bit of news, wishing Bill Crider was still around to see it. Me too.Â
View ArticleMajor League Baseball in Portland? Bring it On!
I've had baseballmania for the past few months - not because of what's going on with my team (the Twins) or the league, but because Portland has been gearing up to bid for an expansion or relocated...
View ArticleIt Really Happened: ROY ROGERS, KING OF THE COWBOYS
Thanks once again to comicbookplus, via this April 1947 issue of It Really Happened (scanned by freddyfly - thanks Fred!), we now have the real (sort of) skinny on how Leonard Franklin Slye became Roy...
View ArticleForgotten Stories: "Trouble . . . Come and Get It!" by MICKEY SPILLANE (1942)
This Forgotten detective tale appeared in the Spring 1942 issue of 4Most Comics, kindly uploaded to comicbookplus by "OtherEric."
View ArticleBill Ward's TORCHY returns! (1946)
Yeah, it's another Torchy adventure made possible by our friends at comicbookplus. The September 1946 issue of Modern Comics was uploaded to that site by a guy known as freddyfly.Â
View ArticleMICKEY SPILLANE's "Meet Mike Danger" (1954)
A few weeks back I posted Spillane's first Mike Hammer wannabe - Mike Lancer - from a 1942 issue of Green Hornet comics (that's HERE). We now behold the first of two Mike Danger stories, written in...
View ArticleForgotten Books: SGT. FURY and his HOWLING COMMANDOS Volume 1 (2006)
Though Stan Lee is and will always be best remembered for breathing life into long-underwear heroes, I've always thought his finest hour was his scripting for Sgt. Nick Fury and his Howlers. Good as...
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