MAY IS "WORST DATE EVER" MONTH! This 1940 cover is by Rafael De Soto ..read more

 I Was a Communist for the FBI: "Card Game in the Clouds" 6/4/52 Matt thinks the communists might suspect him of being a double agent and that they have sent him on a mission designed to force him to reveal himself.  Click HERE to listen or download ..read more

  SPOILER ALERT! if you haven't seen it. Toss Richard Widmark into a Film Noir and it will be good. Especially if he's the villain. In Road House (1948), Widmark plays "Jefty" Robbins, the owner of a place called... well, "Road House." It's a bar/bowling alley establishment, which Jefty's friend Pete Morgan (Cornell Wilde) runs efficiently as manager. Things get complicated when Jefty brings a singer back with him from a trip to Chicago. This is Lily Stevens, played by Ida Lupina. Pete doesn't like this--Jefty often gets crushes on girls like Lily, then gets tired of them. Pete is ..read more

  cover art by Ron Wilson Marvel Two-in-One #21 ended with the villain Black Sun either dead or near-dead. The next issue (December 1976) begins by telling us that maybe there's a chance to save him, with Johnny technobabbling a way to use his heat to freeze Black Sun's body until they can rush him to the best doctor they know. That doctor happens to be Donald Blake. Writer Bill Mantlo is stuck with a lot of exposition in this issue, but he still moves the story along relatively quickly, while Ron Wilson's art looks (as always) great. While Ben and Johnny are bringing Black Sun to ..read more

 APRIL IS MARVEL MONSTER MONTH!! A 1975 cover by Gil Kane (with some alterations by John Romita ..read more

 Richard Diamond: "The Barton Case" (aka "Diamond in the Rough")--5/1/49 The series got off to a strong start with this premiere episode--it establishes Diamond's smart aleck character while thrusting him into the middle of a dangerous case. Click HERE to listen or download.  ..read more

  I stumbled upon a four book series written in the late 1960s pretty much by accident about a year ago. And, by golly, it was a really fun series. The Glasshouse Gang (1967), by Gordon Landsborough, kicked off a four-book series with an interesting premise. The main characters begin as inmates in the Glasshouse, a British military prison located in Egypt during World War 2. The prison is a brutal place, with the inmates treated in a violently sadistic manner. When former officer John Offer gets out after a term for theft, he wants revenge.   With other former inmates, he forms w ..read more

  cover art by Dick Giordano Gee whiz, Sinestro is a big meanie! Over the past two issues, he's been responsible for knocking Guy Gardner into an apparently permanent coma. Now he's using his own dad to set another death trap for Hal Jordan! Green Lantern #124 (January 1980) has writer Denny O'Neil and artist Joe Staton & Frank McLauglin continues Hal's feud with Sinestro. Hal had already stated his intention to track down his arch enemy, but Sinestro attacks first, destroying a museum of space exploration that was just opening. Hal manages to save all the civilians, but the buildi ..read more

 APRIL IS MARVEL MONSTER MONTH! This Tom Sutton cover is from 1973 ..read more

 Bold Venture: "Murder in the Yucatan Peninsula" 9/24/51 Shannon and Sailor agree to help a man find his missing wife. But there are those willing to kill to make sure the woman is never found. Click HERE to listen or download.  ..read more