Friday, July 27, 2007

HARRY POTTER, LORD OF THE RINGS, AND ALL THIS PRECIOUS BRITISH NONSENSE

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My lovely wife, like so many others around the world, became obsessed last weekend with reading all 759 pages of Harry Potter and The Deathl...
Friday, July 20, 2007

HAWAII FIVE-O

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DVDs have become a wonderful way to relive childhood memories. As my lovely wife and I work our way through season one of Hawaii Five-O , it...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OATERS?

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I was born right when Hollywood ’s western fetish was reaching its orgiastic climax. Most of the westerns which dominated television during ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

JOHN CARTER OF MARS - THE ACTION FIGURE

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A few weeks back, I blogged about how the books of Edgar Rice Burroughs (and the related movies and comic books) had a great influence on my...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

DICK TRACY - PART TWO

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During the 80s, Dick Tracy faded from my consciousness like so many heroes of my youth. As a child, I wanted to be a cartoonist like Chester...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007

DICK TRACY PART ONE

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A s someone born in the 1960s, I often feel like I lived the first half of my 40-odd years in one era and the other half in a different era....
Thursday, May 31, 2007

JOHN CARTER OF MARS

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Although Tarzan is by far Edgar Rice Burroughs’s most famous creation, John Carter of Mars was his first and, for my money, his most interes...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

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I recently read that Gordon Scott , the actor who portrayed Tarzan through the second half of the 50s, died in my hometown of Baltimore whi...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

JSA SERIES - HAWKMAN

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As a child, I never liked Hawkman. I think it was because of the hawk mask and the ultra-realistic wings. I couldn’t tell whether he was man...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007

JSA SERIES - GOLDEN AGE FLASH

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When I first laid eyes on the Golden Age version of the Flash, I could understand why DC Comics made such a radical upgrade for the Silver A...
Monday, April 23, 2007

JSA SERIES - THE SPECTRE

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Now this was a super hero with a difference! Here was a crime fighter who was a ghostly spirit sent down by The Almighty to thwart evil. Act...
Monday, April 16, 2007

DOC SAVAGE

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While wandering through a book store the other day, I was pleased to find that a small publishing company was reprinting old Doc Savage nove...
Thursday, April 12, 2007

R.I.P. KURT VONNEGUT

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This is really too much. No sooner do I find out that my favorite spy novelist, Donald Hamilton, has died, and now I learn this morning that...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

JSA SERIES - HOURMAN

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Hourman was one of DC’s earliest super heroes, rushed into duty shortly after Superman made a big splash with the reading public. His gimmic...