Here's the splash page for Adventures of Bob Hope #89.  Its issue-length story would have been called "a great three-part nov...

We're going to start out this new year of 2012 by reading through issue #89 of DC's The Adventures of Bob Hope , cover-dated Novembe...

More musical memories of a tail-end Baby Boomer. Here are the songs: 1969 1 Give Peace A Chance John ...

Taking a week and a bit off.  See you the first week of January! Merry Christmas.

This is a guy I remember seeing on Captain Kangaroo .   Talk about Dare to Be Silly! Isn’t this a GREAT piece of fun and entertainment...

Here is a collection I’ve made of Christmas music from many different sources, from lounge to very traditional, from instrumentals to...

When I was sorting out some books to get rid of, I found this clipping from April 20, 1984, in one of my "Kennedy killer" books.  ...

Also known as TAB, this was a service of Scholastic Book Services, and it got a lot of folks into reading (I hope).  Me, I was already there...

While watching the 1940 WC Fields film The Bank Dick on TMC the other day, I was astounded to recognize some of the music.   It’s an a...

Along with the rising of mass media and a united pop culture in the twentieth century came a realization that folks might have shared the sa...

Here’s what the Daily Oklahoman ’s obit read March 22, 1959 - October 28, 2011 MOORE Mark Lynn Barragar left this life to be with t...

We end this Halloween season with a bit of gentle fun, John Debney's enchanting soundtrack to the 1994 telefilm The Halloween Tree .  ...

In the early 1970s, late-night Saturday TV, in the Tulsa, OK broadcasting area, didn't get any cooler (or sillier) than Mazeppa Pompazoi...

From my copy of the October, 1964 Jack and Jill :

The rest of the Bride's tale from the coloring book.

more of my eight-year-old Halloween reading. Except for the skin color, the witch on the bottom right kind of resembles a couple of Jr H...

Not only did Victor Frankenstein survive being tossed from the windmill in Frankenstein , his critter survived in the basment, as told in mo...