Severin, Elder and BAT MASTERSON (1950)
John and Will did this one for Real Life Comics #54, dated October 1950. Scanned for comicbookplus by Dave Hayward. The cover for this ish was by Alex Schomburg.
View ArticleForgotten Stories: Dan Turner in BULLET FROM NOWHERE by Robert Leslie Bellem...
A few days back I found a great surprise in my mailbox (and by this I mean the old-fashioned, nearly-defunct kind that hangs on the front of my house): This premier issue of Dan Turner, Hollywood...
View ArticleDan Turner, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE in Color! "The Poisoned Puppet" (1953)
Sadly, this is likely the last in our Dan Turner in Color series. This one appeared in Crime Smashers #15, from March 1953, which was the final issue of that mag (uploaded to comicbookplus, I should...
View ArticleAL WILLIAMSON draws the "Demon of Destruction" (1951)
From the very first issue of the ACG comic Forbidden Worlds (Jul-Aug 1951), comes this tale from EC/Flash Gordon great Al Williamson. As for the story . . . eh! You don't care. It's Al Williamson....
View ArticleFRAZETTA Goes Coo-Coo (1947-48)
Here's another batch of FF's text stories illos, this time from Coo-Coo Comics. These appeared in 1947 and '48. Stay tuned for more.
View ArticleForgotten Books: POST OAKS AND SAND ROUGHS by Robert E. Howard (1990)
My Howardiana saga continues.As Forgotten Bookers may recall, this journey began with Don Herron's Famous Someday (HERE), which I enjoyed, prompting me to read the L. Sprague de Camp-led biography Dark...
View ArticleMICKEY SPILLANE'S Mike Danger in "Murder at the Burlesque" (1954)
Some time back I posted Mickey Spillane's first Mike Danger story (HERE), preceded by the earlier Mike Lancer adventre (HERE). Legend has it that Spillane wrote the two Danger stories back in 1946, and...
View ArticleMickey Spillane's Second MIKE DANGER Story -FIXED- !!!
OK, this is embarrassing. I screwed up yesterday, posting the tenth page of this story twice and missing the eleventh. And I had no clue until Kenneth Fuchs spotted the mistake and alerted me on...
View ArticleSTEVE DITKO on "The Enchanted Planet" (1959)
Back in 1959, with Spider-Man and Doctor Strange three and four years in the future, Steve Ditko was doing a lot of work for Charleton comics. Some of it was very good, and I've seen no better than...
View ArticleForgotten Books: ONE WHO WALKS ALONE: Robert E. Howard, the Final Years by...
If you really want to know Robert E. Howard, you're out of luck. But the closest you'll ever get (barring the invention of a time machine) is this lengthy memoir by his almost-girlfriend Novalyne...
View ArticleRead it here: BORIS KARLOFF in "Mr. Wong, Detective" (1939)
This 3-part adaptation appeared in issues 41-43 of Popular Comics back in 1939, the year after the movie came out. It was scanned for comicbookplus by clarkkent54321, dsdaboss and tilliban, in that...
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