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Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Reading Room BLACK CAT MYSTIC "MysteryVision!"

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Here's a tale that could've inspired the movie  They Live!  as well as several  Twilight Zone  eps... ...plus it has a rather unique...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Baker Reading Room OUT OF THIS WORLD "Return of the Pied Piper"

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A Corrupt Politician Who Steals Public Funds! As common back in 1959, when this never-reprinted story was published, as today, 65 years late...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Monday Madness STUART TAYLOR IN WEIRD STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL "Faustus"

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Despite the title, the series is actually sci-fi about a time traveler and his machine... ...who occasionally run into mystical menaces. I...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Reading Room BLACK CAT MYSTIC "A Weemer is the Best of All!"

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"Whimsical" is not a word you usually associate with Jack (King) Kirby... ...but in this case, it's perfectly appropriate! Tho...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Reading Room JUNGLE JIM "Wizard of Dark Mountain"

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When Jungle Jim returned to comic books in the 1960s in new stories... ...the usually "realistic" high adventure strip jumped hea...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Reading Room WORLD OF SUSPENSE "Very Old Man"

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Despite Marvel Entertainment's extensive reprinting program... ...there's an incredible amount of Timely / Atlas material that has...
Monday, February 7, 2022

Monday Madness MYSTERIES OF UNEXPLORED WORLDS "World Where I was King!"

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We could call this "The Challenge that Made a Man Out of Bill Jones..." ...since it's a plotline out of the  Charles Atlas  ad...
Friday, January 7, 2022

Friday Fun FAIRY TALES "Gingerbread Boy"

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Finishing off the last of my delicious Christmas gingerbread cookies while sitting at the computer... ...inspired me to run this never-repri...