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Thursday, February 10, 2022

Fallin' in the First Grade!

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I received all of these for Valentines', 1963. Maybe the sailor boy was on a rolling deck. Ice skates can be tricky too. But roller skat...
Monday, February 07, 2022

Kindergarten Kapers

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Above is the pouch I made in Mrs Pickell's Kindergarten class, for my democratically distributed valentines. For the life of me, I can...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

Welcome to a Month of Paper Love!

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That's right, February will feature scans of Valentines I received in 1962 and 1963 -- that's Kindergarten and First Grade. In those...
Monday, January 31, 2022

To the Bat-TV! Quick!

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This is from the July 1992 issue of Amazing Heroes . That's issue #203. See you on Thursday for the beginning of a month-long feature I...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Time and Tech Stumble Onward!

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All of these ads are from the April 27, 1981 issue of Time mag. The company Compucorp still exists as  Compuco Kodak exists and wants you to...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Maybe These Folks Gave Up on New Comics, Too

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This is from the January 1, 1993 Oklahoman . It took a few decades, but several years ago I gave up on new comics. I was a DC fan, and I wa...
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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Is It a Silly Place?

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Camelot 3000 was DC's first maxiseries. I bought its original run. Written by Mike Barr and drawn by Brian Bolland, IT WAS EPIC! This...
Monday, January 17, 2022

The New Yorker Surveys Tolkien Fever

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This is from the January 15, 1966 issue of The New Yorker .  Fifty-six years ago, they were on the pulse of fantastical delights.  You are f...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Tales of the Hollow Earth!

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This is the text of an article from the zine Bizarrism , issue 6. I also inserted the illos from the article into the text. Tales of the H...
Monday, January 10, 2022

The Adventures of ... Ampersandman!

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Direct from the May, June, and September 1991 issues of National Lampoon , here are his B&W one-page adventures. If you're like me, ...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Library -- Lifeblood!

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If you're a thinking person, access to a library is the lifeblood of your  world, too! Above is my childhood library card, from good ol...
Monday, January 03, 2022

Comics? Crash? Pish-tush! Perish the Thought!

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Let's hope they don't, because they ain't got seatbelts! Anyway, this media meditation is from the January 1 1993 Oklahoman .  S...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Advances for the Year 2000! I Can't Wait!

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In this article from the December 31, 1967 Tulsa World , we'll learn what "the experts" say will have come about in that fable...
Monday, December 27, 2021

A Tyrannosaurus for Christmas!

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From the February 1984 issue of the magazine Working Mother : Beats a hippo any day!  But I imagine either one would necessitate a snowshove...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Over-Completing Songs

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            I suppose I’m the only person who has heard a song and thought that the lyrics were too short.   That is, the song has only one ...
Monday, December 20, 2021

I Want King Arthur for Christmas!

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And you can have him too, if you believe Geoffrey Ashe. This is from the December 28, 1982  Oklahoman . I think Riothamus is a good candidat...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Ah, for the Olden Days of Only a Handful of Earths!

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These two pages are from Amazing Heroes  #36, cover-dated December 1, 1983. Eight Earths ... not a hundred, not fifty-two, but eight.  Ain...
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Mark Alfred
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
I was born at a very early age, in a hospital to be near my mother. After appearing in productions of both GODSPELL and JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in the 1970s, I found a wonderful wife and wrote many love songs to her, but not as many love songs as I write to God my Savior and Redeemer. We have three kids (one of each) -- wait for it -- blonde, brunette, and redhead.
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