Friday, August 1, 2025

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  The Shadow : "Death Triangle" 12/12/37 Three men are threatened with death by an escapee from Devil's Island. But the situat...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Six Men of Evil

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  cover art by George Rozen Six Men of Evil  (from Feb. 15th, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine) This is a weird one, even in the context of...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Borrowed Villains and New Heroes

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  cover art by Dan Heck Avengers #47 (December 1967), written by Roy Thomas and drawn by John Buscema, borrows an X-Men villain and begins t...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Cover Cavalcade

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   JULY IS J. ALLEN St. JOHN VISITS BARSOOM MONTH!!! St. John finished his 1941 visit to Barsoom with this October issue. 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Gunsmoke : "The Gypsum Hills Feud" 4/16/55 While Dillon and Chester are on the way back to Dodge City, someone takes a shot at D...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

He Killed a Man in His Dream!

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  Stan Grayson has a nightmare in which he kills a guy and locks the body in a cubbyhole in a room with lots of mirrors. He wakes up to disc...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Time Travel, Jesse James and a lot of Accidental Deaths (maybe).

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  cover art by Curt Swan I'm okay with the rules about Time Travel--DC was reasonably consistent about that even during the often-incons...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Cover Cavalcade

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   JULY IS J. ALLEN St. JOHN VISITS BARSOOM MONTH!!! St. John's journey to Barsoom leads him to the North Pole for this August 1941 issu...
Friday, July 18, 2025

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  American Portraits : "The Sword of Kentucky" 8/14/51 The story of George Rogers Clark's Revolutionary War campaign against t...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Super News!

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 Is it right for me to take up an entire Thursday post just to brag about something fairly minor? That would be wrong. That would be mind-nu...