Friday, August 30, 2024

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Gangbusters : "The Case of the Mound City Safecracker." 3/13/48 The story of a "safecracker who found that a flask of lique...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Solving Crimes While Drunk

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  Craig Rice's real name was Georgiana Ann Randolph Walker Craig. When she began publishing prose fiction in 1939 (after working as a wr...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Dirigible of Doom!

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  cover art by Bob Kane Detective Comics #33 (November 1939) is significant in that it includes a two-page origin for Batman, written by Bi...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Cover Cavalcade

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  August is Trains and Railroads Month!!! A 1965 cover by Jack Kirby.
Friday, August 23, 2024

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  Our Miss Brooks : "The Burglar" 3/12/50 Miss Brooks discovers she may have misjudged the honesty of the man she recommended for ...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Grenades for the Colonel

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  cover art by Paul Stahr This might be my favorite J.D. Newsom Foreign Legion story. "Grenades for the Colonel" was published in ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

A Movie-Sabotaging Monster

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  cover art by Sheldon Moldoff Detective Comics #252 (February 1958) gives us the story "The Creature from the Green Lagoon"--a pr...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Cover Cavalcade

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  AUGUST IS TRAINS AND RAILROADS MONTH!!! This nifty Civil War-themed cover was painted by Emmett Watson.
Friday, August 16, 2024

Friday's Favorite OTR

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  The Lone Ranger : "King of the County" 4/18/38 Zeke Parsons is the largest ranch owner in the county--as well as owner of the ge...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Ice, Whales and Ghosts

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 Two fun facts about Arthur Conan Doyle: 1. In 1880, not long after finishing his medical training, Conan Doyle served as surgeon on the wha...