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"Fast Thinking" by MICKEY SPILLANE (1942)
This lost Mickey tale comes to us from the July 1942 issue of Blue Bolt, five years before his first novel. This ish was kindly uploaded to comicbookplus by bhcomics.Â
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Forgotten Books: FLYING SAUCERS: A 21-page epic by Wally Wood (1950)
This tale, pencilled and inked by Wood, first appeared in the Avon one-shot Flying Saucers in 1950. That's the original cover, by Gene Fawcette, above. The issue was reprinted in 1952, with the cover...
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Dan Turner, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE in Color! "Mysto-Magic Murder" (1952)
It was September 1952, and Dan was starring in Crime Smashers #12. "movielover" provided this one to comicbookplus, and thence to us.Â
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Comic Book Stories posted in 2017-18
May 11 2017In case you missed any, here are the stories I've posted so far, with the dates they went up. Sorry I was too lazy to provide links, but you can ferret them out using the Search box below on...
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FRAZETTA in the Barnyard
These are some of the many of the text story illos Frank Frazetta did for Barnyard Comics between 1947 and 1950. They may all not be great, but there sure are a lot of them. If you want to read the...
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Forgotten Books of 2018
Jan 12Here's the lineup for the past year. As with the year's collection of Comic Book Stories (HERE), I was too lazy to provide links. Your best bet, should you care to peruse one, is the Search box...
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Dan Turner, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE in Color! "Strangler's Ballet" (1952)
Steve Mertz will be happy this week, with a double dose of Adolphe Barreaux.In November, 1952, Crime Smashers #13 presented this swell DT adventure. In 2009, "freddyfly" uploaded it to comicbookplus....
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AL FELDSTEIN documents "The Creekmore Curse" (1949)
Here's a jolly little tale from EC great Al Feldstein, as seen in Adventures Into the Unknown #3, from Feb-Mar 1949. Did he write it, too? Don't know. It was scanned for comicbookplus by "aratak".Â
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Still More WILD WEST Picture Puzzle Gum Cards (1937)
No dime novel heroes here, just everyday folk facing the challenges of the Old West. And praying some dopey kid doesn't cut them into puzzles.
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Best-Forgotten Books: THE EYE OF THE WORLD by Robert Jordan (1990)
The good news first: Half of The Eye of the World is a pretty good book.Now the bad news: The other half is mindless blather, and the only way to separate the good from bad would be to take a red...
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Dan Turner, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE in Color! "The Slain Gorilla" (1953)
Steve Mertz is going to hate this one. Don't know who did the art here (and don't really want to), but I know it's uglier than the work of Max Plaisted. This is week 14 of our series, from Crime...
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