I didn’t have room to explain what the acronym NSC in the final panel stood for. It’s National Safety Council. Sorry about the three straight comics about Richard Matheson’s book “Shock 1”, I just had too many comments to make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I originally saw that Family Guy episode back in 2010, and the subsequent viewings in reruns, thinking that it might have been based on a short story written by Richard Matheson was the furthest thing from my mind. Now,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The story I read tonight, “Long Distance Call” is about an old, bedridden woman (Miss Elva) who starts getting phone calls in the middle of the night from a weak sounding man. She eventually discovers that her phone line had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not that I don’t like to spend time with my cats, I do, but I’d also like to get some reading in. Some nights I’ll pet one cat and read a little then pet the other and read a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I believe that Pocket Novels published 11 Marvel Comics characters novels. I own 7 of them and am rereading them, probably for the first time, in over 40 years. Here are the ones I own:
I can’t stress strongly enough how much reading has been a part of my life. I can’t remember how old I was when I learned to read, but I do remember during my childhood how much I read. I read[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are a couple of the type of illustrations that are featured in this book. Many of them. like these, are by Sidney Paget.
Since Doc Savage was created before Action Comics #1 hit the stands one could say that he was the “original” Superman (though there are some who feel that Popeye was the original Superman). The main writer of these pulp adventures,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are the nine Doc Savage Paperbacks that I bought long ago when I was a kid and still own today. Over the next few weeks I’ll be rereading all of them.
While it’s true that Roberto Clemente was a great Major League Baseball Player and he may have even been a greater person one thing I’ve noticed because he died so young and so tragically and by doing something so humane[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…