You know, it's amazing how easily some people, sometimes, will take something as believable, when it's really not. I'm not talki...

As you may deduce, this is a flyer handed out to announce to the world the arrival of Earth Shoes in Stillwater, Oklahoma. I'd bet the ...

As you can see, this puzzle features Superman standing off against three Phantom Zone baddies. Obviously they are NOT intended to be the thr...

This right hyar (that's Okie-talk for "here") piece of Supermanica is a 1983 frame-tray puzzle. Also known as jigsaw puzzle. ...

In the November 1964 issue of Superman , number 173, was a story that began an occasional series, "Tales of Kryptonite." Art was ...

From the back cover of Superman 173 (November 1964), we have an ad for Aurora's second line of monster models. The first wave is featu...

Here we have some of the Superman Vitamins promised yesterday. We have boxes and bottles, that is. Not the vitamins themselves. If you s...

This is a fancy term for things that were designed to be of transient interest, and then discarded. Used to be, this applied to comics boo...

Well, figuratively! One of the trademarks of this great Super-Artist’s work was his occasionally quirky method of drawing characters’ ha...

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...