Odd Things Are Reported

While fun to read, these compilation of gosh-wow things should be read with a jaundiced eye -- or at least a skeptical one.

Oftentimes the stories are embellished and expanded.

And many times, the strange incidents are passed around from book to book, cited by one guy from a previous fellow's book, while an original source may be indetectable!

But hey, they're fun to read.  I think a big part of their popularity lies in their ability to kind of broaden somebody's conceptual horizons.  That's probably why I have several hundred books on souch outre topics!

Super Cups (5)

These are more of the 7-11 DC Super-Cups that I bought from a dealer a few years ago at SoonerCon.

 Here we have Curt Swan art, an edit from the wonderful Superman Family portrait that glorified the back of a Superman Annual.  Here's a Dial B for Blog linkthat shows the art.

Ma and Pa Kent, featured below, are as drawn by regular Superboy artist George Papp.  Here's some of Papp's art for the momentous tale in Superboy 90 where Pete Ross learned Clark's identity as Superboy.

See you next week!

MA-18 - Goin' Fission!: Pop & Rock with a Long Half-Life

Here we are with another collection of radioactive songs.

From the earnest (track 1 or track 21) to the humorous (tracks 8 or 14) to the satirical (tracks 6 or 22), the idea ofatomic power has been 'spodin' (to quote Ricky Ricardo) for years.

Here are a few of the more interesting aural experiences:

1 Jesus Is the First Line of Defense Pilgrim Travellers 1951

2 Atomic Kisses Earney Vandagriff 1955

3 Hydrogen Bomb The Laurels 1961

4 The War Drags On Mick Softley 1965

5 Atom and Evil General Electric 1966

6 Please Don't Drop That H- Bomb on Me Country Joe & The Fish 1967

7 Wooden Ships Jefferson Airplane 1969

8 Political Science Randy Newman 1972

9 Nuclear Babies Oingo Boingo 1980

10 Let's All Make a Bomb Heaven 17 1981

11 Run Like a Villain Iggy Pop 1982

12 World Suicide Defuser 1983

13 Uranium Rock The Cramps 1983

14 Surfin' USSR Ray Stevens 1988

15 The Bomb Lifesavers Underground 1992

16 Atomic Power Uncle Tupelo 1994

17 The Bomb Inside the Bomb We Are Scientists 2002

18 Nuclear Blues Frances Plante-Scott 2004

19 Bomb.Repeat.Bomb.1954 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists 2007

20 Atomic Bomb Brian Butler 2008

21 Atom and Evil Heaven and Hell 2009

22 Atom Bomb Blues The Naptown Jug Busters 2009

And here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/?3y5up1b4hbvqba1

See you next time!

Gerald Fried, Composer of Miracles

In my view, Gerald Fried is a genius of TV composion.  He produced great scores for Star Trek and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as well as many other "low-budget" films and other TV shows.  His score for The Return of Dracula is the best part of that film, as he wrenches around the "Dies Irae" theme to make the orchestra wail and moan.

Here is an article on Fried from Starlog #169, August 1991.

Two Brads in Starlog

Another Starlog article from fellow Oklahoman Brad Sinor (who says hello from SoonerCon 21).  It's from Starlog #124, November 1987, about Brad Denton.

You DO know that the book Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede  is in movie production?  Here is the site.

See you next Monday!

STAR TREK Animated Author Interview

This is from Starlog #159, October 1990.  Oklahoma SF writer Brad Sinor interviews Russell Bates, who wrote the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode, "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth."

See you next time.

Inspector Henderson Article from STARLOG

Here is another of the interesting articles I found while browsing through my semi-old Starlogs.  This is from Starlog #129, April 1988.

TTFN!

Lily-Livered Conspiracy!

Today I came across this thing...

And it intrigues me because it is a TRANSPARENT ATTEMPT to pre-empt a desired dialog over our masked vigilante defenders.  Here is an actual copy of The New Frontiersman of the times in question:

One way in which you can tell that the first example is a modern fabrication is simply its prose style.  An actual newpaper, expecially from the 1980s, would have a paragraph indent (typically five spaces) at the beginning ov each paragraph.  Instead, the pretender adds a blank line in between graphs, and starts the new paragraph flush left, in the new "internewt" style.

This stylistic bungle PROVES the modern provenance of this "back-dated" slander.

So, beware of plagiarisms.  Our esteemed president Nixon has at times dropped hints about various "dirty tricks" undertaken by his opponents, the shady left-leaners of the lavender persuasion.

Well, the dirty tricks are upon us!  I implore you to stay true to the PURITY OF PURPOSE expressed by our hooded heroes.

Here is a more accurate depiction of our hero, Rohrschach:



Beware the insidious attempts of the spineless wheedlers who try to sneak their protestations of moderation into the life-and-death issues of ORDER and CONTROL!

MA-55 - Adventures of Superman - More Library Recordings

This is a NEW collection of the library music featured on the legendary George Reeves Adventures of Superman TV series.

When I shared my first collection of music, ripped from cassettes I had bought back in the 1990s, I got a comment from a great guy, Craig Wichman, of Quicksilver Radio Theatre, saying he too had bought some of these tapes. I got in contact with Craig, and after some dubbing and research and help from another devotee of Superman music, we have yer basic finished product.

These are the tracks. In most cases, we have a composer also.

01. Eerie Night - F G Charrosin (3:10)

02. Tragedy - Unknown Artist (1:26)

03. Lost in a Fog - Ronald Hanmer (1:25)

04. Dismal Swamp - King Palmer (1:37)

05. Mists - Unknown Artist (1:18)

06. The Tell-Tale Heart - Jack Foulds (2:48)

07. The Ghost Walks - F G Charrosin (1:41)

08. Stealthy Footsteps - F G Charrosin (1:49)

09. Confusion - F G Charrosin (1:17)

10. Rebellion & General Havoc - Edward Carmer (1:34)

11. Disorder - Edward Carmer (1:20)

12. Desert Caravan - Granville Bantock (3:02)

13. Storm at Sea - Unknown Artist (2:52)

14. Tenebrae - Unknown Artist (3:05)

15. Condemned - Unknown Artist (3:02)

16. Dramatique - Unknown Artist (1:03)

17. Tumult & Commotion - Miklós Rózsa (1:20)

18. Mechanical Monster - Unknown Artist (1:50)

19. Danger Ahead - Unknown Artist (1:45)

20. Men of Steel - Miklós Rózsa (1:39)

21. Informal Interview - Ronald Hanmer (2:38)

22. Bits and Pieces - Ronald Hanmer (0:58)

23. Just Whimsical - Ronald Hanmer (1:40)

24. Way Out East - Ronald Hanmer (2:59)

25. Dagger in the Dark - Ronald Hanmer (3:06)

26. Magic Necklace Cue - Modest Mussorgsky (2:00)

27. Seven Souvenirs Cue - Modest Mussorgsky (1:44)

28. Catacombs - With the Dead in a Dead Language - Modest Mussorgsky (3:58)

In the liner notes for the CD is some more information on what music appeared in which episodes.

NEW LINK: http://www.mediafire.com/?ddr37mf2y1bwtyb

password sd9g7

I hope you enjoy this terrific, time-travelling music!

PS if you bought some of those tapes too and want to share, let me know!

The Flash TV -- Starlog

Here is more from Starlog magazine, this time about the great one-season wonder, CBS's The Flash.

This article is from the November, 1990 issue, # 190.

Finally, here is a cartoon by Mike Fisher from  Starlog #165, April 1991.

See you next week!