Friday, July 31, 2020

Friday Fun TALES CALCULATED TO DRIVE YOU BATS "Tin Pan Folly"

"Tin Pan Alley" was the name for a group of influential music publishers/licensors...
...mostly located on West 28th Street between 5th and 7th Avenues in NYC due to the cheap rents at the time.

This Joe Edwards-written and illustrated story from Archie's Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats #5 (1962) points out many in the music industry thought rock-and-roll was just a fad.
Yet here we are in 2020 and rock-and-roll, though altered and enhanced, is still the predominant form of popular music!
It also shows that music companies thought (and still think) performers are interchangeable!
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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Trump Reading Room: YOUR VOTE IS VITAL!

I was planning to run something different today...
...but after seeing this headline...
TRUMP RAISES IDEA OF DELAYING ELECTION
...I felt compelled to re-run this tale!
Here's a handy (very) basic guide...
Illustrated by Warren Kremer and Al Avision, this one-shot published by Harvey Comics in 1952 (68 years ago) was offered for only a couple of pennies a copy to anyone who wanted to utilize it to get out the vote!
Amazing how it's both generic and pertinent even decades later!
Note: Our gratitude to the ever-amazing Kracalactaka for the scans of this ultra-rare comic!
Now, unless you want things to stay as they are...or get worse...if you're over 18 and under 110...

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HARSH REALM "Hazards" Conclusion

Hard-boiled gumshoe Dexter Green is hired to find Dan Crawford, who's immersed in the VR world of Harsh Realm!
Dexter is projected into the electronic wonderland after being warned that if his avatar is killed, his body will also die!
He meets Moira, the avatar of another gamer who's been in the environment for awhile and has survived to attain "mage" status!
The two go in search of Crawford and are almost killed in an ambush but for the help of the winged Kyrn!
Thr trio proceed to a nearby war-ravaged city where survivors identify a photo of Dan as the "troublemaker" who caused the devastation...
To quote a certain Corellian smuggler and rogue:
"I have a bad feeling about this..."
The Quest Continues in Two Weeks!
Next Week
Return to the Lost World with Hunt Bowman!
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