Comics, old time radio and other cool stuff

COMICS, OLD-TIME RADIO and OTHER COOL STUFF: Random Thoughts about pre-digital Pop Culture, covering subjects such as pulp fiction, B-movies, comic strips, comic books and old-time radio. WRITTEN BY TIM DEFOREST. EDITED BY MELVIN THE VELOCIRAPTOR. New content published every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.

Monday, January 26, 2026

Cover Cavalcade

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  JANUARY IS HERCULES MONTH! Gold Key's Hercules was an adaptation of the Saturday morning cartoon. The artist of this 1963 cover is unk...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Booktube: My Doctor Who Books

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Friday, January 23, 2026

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Gunsmoke : "Bloody Hands" 4/2/52 Sick of having to kill people, Matt Dillon resigns as marshal. But he might not be able to esca...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Lovecraftian Horror

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  cover art by Lee Brown Coye Of the many authors who dipped their pens into the universe of H.P. Lovecraft, one of the best is the short st...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Same Bat-Time, Same Bat-Comic

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  cover art by Mike Grell Batman  #288 (June 1977) picks up where the last issue left off--with Penguin now aware that Batman is aware of hi...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Cover Cavalcade

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  JANUARY IS HERCULES MONTH! DC Comics tossed Hercules into a post-apocalyptic future in the mid-1970s. This Walter Simonson cover is from 1...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Rocky Jordan : "The Beggar of Farar" 5/21/50 A beggar who works outside the Cafe Tambourine is accused of murder. Rocky thinks h...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Cormac Mac Art

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  cover art by Jeff Jones It's interesting to read the Robert E. Howard tales that were unsold during his lifetime and wonder why the he...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Robot Birds and Adam Westian Logic

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  cover art by Mike Grell Batman #287 (May 1977) accomplishes something notable. Writer David Vern (using the pen name David V. Reed) and ar...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Cover Cavalcade

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  JANUARY IS HERCULES MONTH! A 1968 Sam Glanzman cover from Charlton Comics' version of the demi-god.
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