Friday, December 31, 2021

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Broadway is my Beat : "The Sherman Gates Murder Case" 12/3/49 A man is poisoned in a movie theater. Soon, the case involves a se...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Bretwalda, Part 1

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  cover art by G.J. Rozen Read/Watch 'em In Order #134 Beginning in the February 25, 1939 issue of Argosy Weekly, writer Philip Ketchum...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Wendy and Marvin CAN be Useful, part 1

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  cover art by Ernie Chan The first season of the Saturday morning Super Friends cartoon featured the sidekicks Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Do...
Monday, December 27, 2021

Cover Cavalcade

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  An effectively creepy cover from 1934.
Friday, December 24, 2021

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Life of Riley : "Comic Books" 11/5/48 Six years before a real-life panic over the influence of comic books, Riley goes on a rabi...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Submarines and Stock Footage

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  A few weeks ago, I reviewed the 1959 film Paratroop Command. That was released as a double-feature with Submarine Seahawk . I promised to ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

The Great Darkness Saga, Part 4

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  Legion of Super-Heroes #293 (November 1982, w: Paul Levitz; a: Keith Giffen) brings us to the fourth part of The Great Darkness Saga and,...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Cover Cavalcade

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 A 1934 cover by Rafael DeSoto. Looking at this one makes my ear hurt!
Friday, December 17, 2021

Friday's Favorite OTR

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 Suspense : "Sell Me Your Life" 2/15/45 A man gets framed for embezzlement, then decides to commit suicide, then gets framed for m...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

A Haunted Spaceship--Maybe

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  cover artist unidentified The Spring 1940 issue of Planet Stories includes a short but effective tale called "The Space Flame," ...