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Read/Watch 'em in order #13 The main job of any Edgar Rice Burroughs heroine is to get kidnapped on a regular basis. Thatâs pretty much a given. But I think Dian the Beautiful might have broken an ERB getting-kidnapped record in Pellicidar (1915), the second novel in the series about the titular underground world. Seriously--poor David Innes canâ...
There's no escaping videos from me this week. Here's one I made at work. My idea was that staff members at the library could make videos about art-related subjects about which they are knowledgeable, then post them at the library's website so that they are available for students doing research. Since it was my idea, I got to do the first one. I pic...
In 1951, Jack Davis was working for EC Comics. In the March/April issue of Two-Fisted Tales (issue number 20) that year, Jack penciled a fun Western called âArmy Revolver.â Itâs a story that centered on the titular pistol rather than any one character. A prospector uses the gun to back-shoot his partner. Later, he loses it to a saloon gamble...
This is a video version of a past post. Since I'm apparently unable to do narration without stumbling over a sentence or two no matter how many takes I do, I'm not certain this is a successful enough experiment to repeat. But if I'm gonna go to all the effort to make the darn thing, SOMEONE is going to have to suffer through it.
This Sci-Fi comedy was more than a decade ahead of its time. In the years just before the Sci-Fi Channel, this show lasted only 8 episodes and while it had a loyal following, myself among them, that following was small and there just wasn't the room in three hours prime-time with most markets offering around six channels.
From the era of complicated hair, cheaply built but design conscious sets, and slightly computerized special effects, a saga of Dracula foiled by those damn kids - the Van Helsing nephews. The show was a Canadian production (the country that brought the world The Starlost), and was possibly the only English language show shot entirely in&nbs...
The Green Hornet : âA Question of Timeâ 3/5/46 Spies commit a murder, steal a secret formula and frame the Green Hornet for the crimes. But the Hornet picks up on a subtle clue pointing to the real killer. As Britt Reid, he uses his position as a newspaperman to set up a trap that forces the villains to give themselves away. Thatâs one thing...
Science Fiction writer Tom Godwin is best remembered today for his emotional short story âCold Equation,â in which a young girl stows away on a space ship, causing her extra weight to endanger a rescue mission. But he turned out a lot of quality stuff during his career. And if I had to pick a best Tom Godwin story, it would probably be his sho...
Here's a new interview with Ron Ely , who played Tarzan in a really fun 1960s TV series. They use a question I submitted (and even mention me by name, by golly) about whether Ely had read the original novels and if that influenced his performance. He had a very interesting answer in which his familiarity with the original novel makes him think, in...
FANTASTIC FOUR #84 First of all, it MUST be noted that the flying vehicle that the FF are flying home in (given to them by Black Bolt) is quite possibly the single coolest thing Jack Kirby ever designed. And thatâs saying a lot. But itâs a short trip. While still over Europe , they are intercepted by Nick Fury and a squadron of SHIELD planes. ...
Frontier Gentleman : âThe Cat Manâ 8/10/58 An urge to help an outnumbered man in a saloon brawl leads to J.B. Kendall travelling with an Irishman whose mouth is full of blarney and whose wagon is full of⦠cats? Click HERE to listen or download.
A cliched method of describing how great book is "you can't put it down." That cliche quite possibly fits C.S. Forester's The Good Shepherd (1955) more perfectly than any other book. Seriously. You literally can't put the thing down simply because there's no good place to pause before you get to the end. The Good Shepherd is told entirely fro...
FANTASTIC FOUR #83 The wrap-up of the Inhuman story line is so simple that it can be summed up in a few sentences: The Inhuman royals and the Fantastic Four are being held in separate cages, but each group manages to escape on its own. The FF takes down the robot that beat them last issue (Reed has figured out it contained a hypno-ray that had bee...
