This time, it's EASY to tell the picture in the Rorschach blot.  Even someone who doesn't read comic books will recognize a bat, hu...

OK, this is going to be longer than a week, until we share all the workings of my benighted little brain, at least in regards to the infamou...

Well, by now you should not have expected profundity. If you knew we had a seven-year-old kid in the house, then you might have expected ...

I'm happy to share the news that  the 1994 FOX series M.A.N.T.I.S. , which died after one season in the Friday-night "death slot,...

Henh-henh. You thought this would be about Watchmen 's Rorschach! Actually, a recent thrift-store find was a book on how to show-and...

Some of you, my friends, hang about because you know me. Some have droppeth as the manna rains from Heaven. Anyway, a few of you guys mi...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/2010%20August/Shakerset01.jpg In about 1975, you could pop into your local...

If you are "of a certain age," you will remember when it was a luxury to have an icemaker in your refrigerator. If you are MORE of...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Comic%20Ads/WristradioSboy86.jpg From Superboy #86 and January 1961, we have an ...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Superman%20171/S171M.jpg I did, because I'd read The Adventures of Bob Hope...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Superman%20171/S171L.jpg You know, this is the first time after reading a million co...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Superman%20171/S171K.jpg I never sent off for anything by mail from a comic-book a...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Superman%20171/S171J.jpg Here is the "Metropolis Mailbag" for Superman 17...

In the first panel of this, the last page of "The Nightmare Ordeal of Superman" from Superman 171, a bearded, unkempt Superman ...

When last we visited the Man from Krypton, he was marooned on a red-sun world and falling into a delerium from a strange infection or flu. ...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Superman%20171/S171G.jpg Alanis Morissette would have had a field day by now. S...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Superman%20171/S171F.jpg Well, those cave guys beat Superman up after stealing his...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Superman%20171/S171E.jpg If you stop to think about it, it's kind of amazing how...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Superman%20171/S171D.jpg Well, Superman never suspected that amongst the strange pro...

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo152/MarkAAlfred/Superman%20171/S171C.jpg To save the scientists some time (and fuel costs for the...