The Lone Ranger: Complete Series Box Set at an Incredibly-LOW Price, plus Classic Lone Ranger Movie Blogathon Posts!

See this kool Brand-New box set with every 1950s episode (even the John Hart ones)?

If you look on the net, the cheapest you'll see it for is $129.99!
Want to get it, still in shrink-wrap, for...hold your breath...

...$79.99?

Yes!

$79.99!

Go to Costco!

It's supposed to be $99.99 (which is still a great deal).
But, apparently due to the collapse of the new movie, they're taking an additional $20 off to move it off the shelves!
(I found this out yesterday, when I went shopping at Costco...)
BTW, it's not available through Costco's website, only at the warehouses!
Who would've thought a movie about one of our favorite heroes doing badly at the box office would work to our benefit?

Art by Leroy Neiman

Our contributions to the Dynamic Duos in Classic Film Blogathon are now up, including...

A look at the Republic Film serials at Hero Histories.

The two feature films starring the TV Ranger and Tonto at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video.
and
The previous cinema flop, 1981's Legend of the Lone Ranger at Western Comics Adventures.

Reading Room: CAPTAIN ATOM I "Cat with the Emerald Eyes" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Hero...

Trapped in an ancient Egyptian tomb by criminals disguised as government officials, scientific adventurer Captain Atom and his team look for an escape route before the air runs out...

One of the aspects of the first Captain Atom series was that the science shown in the comic was extrapolated from "present-day" (1950s) scientific knowledge, so it was "educational".
Sadly, both the writer and artist of the series are unknown.

And, yes, the shorts and bare legs were Captain Atom's standard garb, not just desert-wear...

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Reading Room: CAPTAIN ATOM I "Cat with the Emerald Eyes" Part 1

Not the Charlton/DC Super-Hero...

...but a scientific adventurer in the the vein of Doc Savage or Captain Video!

Can Captain Atom and his entourage escape?

Will they become a permanent part of the tomb, to be found centuries later by future archeologists?

Be here tomorrow for the thrilling answer!

The reason the panels in this never-reprinted comic from the short-lived Nation-Wide Publishing are so large is that the book itself was only 5 inches wide x 7 1/4 inches tall.

These 52-page digest-sized comics were only 5 cents (half-price) compared to normal-sized 10-cent comic books.

And, yes, the shorts and bare legs were Captain Atom's standard garb, not just desert-wear...

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Reading Room: BRANT CRAIG "Case of the Racing Grellama"

Some things never change...

...including cliched mysteries featuring private eyes, whether set in the 1930s/40s or the far future...

This never-reprinted "hard-boiled dick in space" story from Youthful's Fantastic #8 (1951) was probably illustrated by Bill Molno.

The writer is unknown.
BTW, Fantastic's first issue was #8.
The book is actually Captain Science retitled!
This is the final published tale of Brant Craig, but it's not the last one you'll see here!
There's one more, horror-themed, story we're saving for Halloween week.
Don't miss it!

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What I'm looking forward to at SDCC...

...with all the new merchandise from the 1960s Batman tv series...

...coming out, there's really only one thing left, an annoucement about a long-awaited DVD release, either as season boxes or a complete series set!

(And a simultaneous release of it's "brother" tv series...

...The Green Hornet, would be the icing on the cake!)