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EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER Fights Crime! (1951-52)
More spectacular inside front covers from Avon comics, previewing the issue's contents, as found on comicbookplus. Find these addictive? No worries. There are many more to come.
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Forgotten Books: DARK VALLEY DESTINY, The Life of Robert E. Howard, by L....
L. Sprague de Camp has long been a controversial fellow in Robert E. Howard circles. On the one hand, it was likely his pioneering efforts with Gnome Press and Lancer books that brought REH into the...
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Dan Turner, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE in Color! "The Corpse in Lower 9" (1952)
From Crime Smashers #9, dated March 1952, comes this thrilling tale of bumpery in Tinseltown. Once again, this one was scanned for comicbookplus by "freddyfly." And once again, it's art by Max...
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3D Without Glasses? Read "Nightmare" in TRUEVISION (1954)
In repsonse to the 3D craze, ACG Comics rolled out this Truevision gimmick to simulate 3D without glasses. Did it work? Not really, but it's still sort of cool. See for yourself, in this example from...
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Your Excuse to Collect PLAYBOY MAGAZINE
When Hugh Hefner fired up his first issue way back in 1953, he didn't have much dough to waste on original fiction. So, for the first three issues, he snatched Sherlock Holmes stuff out of the public...
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Forgotten Books: FLAME WINDS by Norvell Page (1939/1969)
I first heard of Norvell Page in the mid-seventies, when I was into all things sword & sorcery. His two novels, Flame Winds and Sons of the Bear God, were widely recommended, so I picked them up,...
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Dan Turner, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE in Color! "Death Trumps the Joker" (1952)
From Crime Smashers #10, May 1952. "freddyfly" strikes again on comicbookplus. Cool. This one, for the first time in this comic, does not say "by Robert Leslie Bellem," though it seems likely it was....
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Your FURTHER Excuse to Collect Playboy (Hint: It's "Elementary")
December 1953As you may or may not recall, last Thursday I did a post about Hugh Hefner pinching pennies by running public domain Sherlock Holmes stories in the first three issues of Playboy. Online,...
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Blackhawk, Reed Crandall and the Three Witches (1943)
There are a lot of great Blackhawk stories by Reed Crandall on comicbookplus, but this one caught my eye because it reminded me of the Old Witch from The Haunt of Fear. And this, you will note, was...
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FRANK FRAZETTA Meets Leif Ericsson (1950)
This little taste of American History comes to us from Real Life Comics #52, from April 1950. Dave Hayward scanned it for comicbookplus, for which the blogoshere should be eternally grateful.
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Forgotten Books: THE KING'S COAT by Dewey Lambdin (1989)
You're probably somewhat acquainted with C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower, who starred in 10+ novels, a few shorts, a movie and a TV mini-series. He's honest, brave, honorable and pure of heart. (If...
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Dan Turner, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE in Color! "Trap for a Booby" (1952)
This shorty appeared in Crime Smashers #11, from July 1952. "freddyfly", whose collection I envy, scanned it for comicbookplus. Written by Robert Leslie Bellem? Probably.
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