AT LAST IT CAME. The gang had been waiting since the first of September, as the air turned chill for the first time, and mothers had joked t...

Have I got a long-suffering, wonderful family, or what!

Ah, yes. Carl Kolchak, iconoclast supreme. I first met him on ABC-TV, on January 11, 1972. The Night Stalker was an ABC Movie of the Week...

Anybody remember having to read Beowulf in English class? For some of us, it wasn't a *groan* chore. We saw behind the forced readin...

And no, I'm not talking about the short story "The Dark Carnival." This is from Guideposts magazine, June 1991. See you late...

Welcome back, my little fiends … We continue our Halloween peek at Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, which not only is deli...

If you love Halloween... If you had a best friend as a kid but you grew apart... If your relationship with your father was ever "...

Well, only one today, kiddies. Some of you may not have heard of how horror comics from EC "borrowed" some of Ray Bradbury'...

Ooh, very scary kiddies! Our first image of Halloween madness is the world's first "instant paperback," produced in 1969 ...

Compare this slick concoction with the Lincoln Enterprises photocopied/mimeo'd cataolg in a previous post. Evidently Paramount learned w...

Yes, before instant publishing and home computers, before cable TV and video recording, there was a world where you had to actually be home...

That title is taken from the great Betty Boop cartoon, "Bimbo's Initiation." But we're not here to talk about sweet Betty...

Back when there was only ONE "Star Trek" (was there ever another one?), you could buy this nifty letterhead paper & envelope. ...

For all of the silly-minded out there (like me), NO! "Shrinky Dinks" are NOT what the male members of the Polar Bear Club have ...

Here are a couple of more relics from the distant past when eating places were fun, but did not cost the equivalent of a car downpayment (a...

In 1956, Republicans wore this button, "I Like Ike and Dick." Note that the back of the button has some kind of union logo. Cou...

When we came to Oklahoma City in the mid 1970s, there were lots of fun places that no longer exist. I didn't even get to visit some of t...

Well, if you're like me and can't figure out women, at least here's one that may be easier to figure out.

The Gospel According to Superman is by John T Galloway and came out in 1973, published by A.J. Holman Company, a division of J.B. Lippinco...

If you’re a reader of Dial B for Blog -- http://www.dialbforblog.com/ -- then you might remember Robby’s “Month of Superman,” wherein he s...