Friday, August 14, 2026

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Escape : "Train from Oebisfelde" 9/6/53 An American agent escorting a defecting scientist learns there's a bomb on the train...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

Death VERSUS a Salesman

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  "One for the Angels" (October 9, 1959) is the second episode of The Twilight Zone 's first season and it's one of my fav...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Is He a Good Guy or a Bad Guy?

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  cover art by Bob Budiansky Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #2 (1980) is hardly a perfect comic book. There are pacing issues; a page panel d...
Monday, August 10, 2026

Cover Cavalcade

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   AUGUST IS "THE HEROES OF STREET AND SMITH" MONTH!!! Here's a 1936 Doc Savage cover by Walter Baumhofer.
Friday, August 7, 2026

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Great Gildersleeve : "Gildy Repairs His Car" 4/4/43 Gildersleeve's car isn't running. Since the local mechanic has been ...
Thursday, August 6, 2026

Shout-Out to my Awesome Wife

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 I maintain this blog, my book-review blog and my BookTube channel because I enjoy geeking out about stuff. I don't make any money off t...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Snow Skates

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  Bonanza's TV run was fairly straightforward--14 seasons on NBC from 1959 through 1973. Its comic book history is a little less straigh...
Monday, August 3, 2026

Cover Cavalcade

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  AUGUST IS "THE HEROES OF STREET AND SMITH" MONTH!!! A 1932 Shadow cover by George Rozen.
Friday, July 31, 2026

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Philip Marlowe : "The Sea Horse Jockey" 5/2/50 Marlowe is initially hired to transport a valuable sea-horse shaped brooch to a b...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

A Second Time Around for Defending a Town

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  My second favorite John Wayne film is Rio Bravo (1959), directed by Howard Hawks. So for years, I was reluctant to watch El Dorado  (made ...
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