May 12, 2004

Woman From Another Planet

The cover copy says that the Woman From Another Planet had the body and passion of a woman but &

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May 05, 2004

Batman vs. Richard Lee Evans

Did you know that my criminal past once brought me up against Batman? Though DC Comics legalistic paranoia made them &

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April 18, 2004

Batman and Robin fight crime in the UK

The thrice-awful photos of these two characters would?ve dissuaded Frederic Wertham from claiming that Batman and Robin had a covertly &

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April 09, 2004

Not my Doctor Who you don't!

A look at the evolution of fanboy from addicted consumer to influence broker and auteur with a special focus on &

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March 25, 2004

Who the hell was Pel Torro?

Shirtless male was the closest I can come to queer content for this entry. Cover in classic golden age science &

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March 23, 2004

The Burns & Allen Show

Burns & Allen What are the earliest TV shows that you remember? For me it is The Third Man &

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March 21, 2004

Bayou Babe

In comics Bill Ward was best known for drawing Torchy who was an exaggerated example of what is nowadays called &

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March 19, 2004

Boys who make money

Dime novel magazine Fame and Fortune Weekly presents the story of the boy who became "Boss of the Market." Given &

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March 17, 2004

Street & Smith: A Trip to Mars

In this gallery of cover images we have selected what we feel is a representative sampling of the great variety &

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March 08, 2004

Godzilla RIP

Destroy All Monsters The call goes out, Destroy All Monsters!, at least that is how I recollect the advertising &

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March 02, 2004

Childhood passion for comic books

(I've long intended to rewrite this but never have.) I think I started buying comic books as soon as I &

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February 18, 2004

Perverted magazine in public schools

Some schools raise money by promoting magazine subscriptions among their students. Imagine a Grandville Michigan mom?s surprise when the magazine &

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February 10, 2004

Julius Schwartz, Architect of Comics' Silver Age, Dead at 88

I?ve just arrived at work and don?t have time to do more than note his passing. Julius Schwartz?s guiding hand &

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January 29, 2004

Early Mutt and Jeff

A (greatly reduced) image from the Caricatures and Cartoons from the American Art. &

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January 21, 2004

The Shadow as etext

"Your life," said the stranger's voice slowly, "is no longer your own. It belongs to me now. But you &

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December 25, 2003

Lester Dent's Master Fiction Plot

Lester Dent wrote over a hundred Doc Savage pulp stories. When I first encountered the paperback reprints of the &

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December 24, 2003

Little Nemo Sunday page

Over a period of a couple of months I've been buying books from a guy as he clears out &

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December 15, 2003

Dr Fu Manchu meets Hitler

I'm a fan of Sax Rohmer's old Fu Manchu novels. Wouldn't claim they are very good. The novels of &

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December 13, 2003

Winsor McCay Early Works: Volume 1

It isn't that often that something arrives for the comics shop side of Books Do Furnish A Room that &

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December 08, 2003

Everybody in the world goes to Hell

I dimly remember reading about this collection of a planned but aborted TV show called No. 13 Demon Street. Herbert &

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Jack Chick meets H.P. Lovecraft

You've probably never asked yourself what would Jack Chick do if he thought Lovecraft's Cthulu Mythos was true:Who will be &

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