Well, I've chatted a bit online with Chuck Helppie, author of the book just reviewd in the previous post.  Here are my notes, then his, ...

Boy howdy, this is an interesting book. In 1976, a book by Carl Oglesby, The Yankee and Cowboy War , posited that the "old money...

When last we left our hero, he was having trouble lifting a fellow who weighed "only" 500 pounds. On this world zig-zagging thro...

Wow!  Check out the cool cover of Superman 184.  Not only are these people downright murderous, they have bad dental hygiene!  At least, the...

There's a folk song from the British Isles, called "Lord Randall."  Here are the words of one version: Lord Randall ...

This is an anthology of stories about varying aspects of the superhero life.  Some stories are silly, some are serious, some are more ...

The complete title of this fun book is The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines . With chapter ...

This was the cover story of Superman 186, cover-dated May, 1966.  The art was by Al Plastino (with touches by others), and the story was...

Has anybody noticed CBS's penchant last week for referring to Alfred Hitchock's Psycho film? On Wednesday night's Criminal...

Here we have a book by Michel Flynn, In the Country of the Blind , about conspiracy theories and secret societies and attempts to influenc...

This is a delightful read. It's told in two first-person POVs.  The first is the tale of the greatest criminal genius of all...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Disassociated Press) -- Once a fine polystyrene character from Ben Cooper, a once-proud Mr Spock mask disappeared into the ga...

This is a fine book with some rough edges. It’s modeled on Michael Fleischer’s The Great Superman Book , first published in 1978. Here ...

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When I was a kid there was an area a few blocks west of a friend's house that was overgrown, muddy, and full of twisting trails made by ...