Charlton’s Space 1999: The Comic Book
With the spectacular failure of U. F. O., Gerry Anderson tried to pull a gem from the ashes with Space 1999. Charlton Comics got the Read More
Category: Television
Link: The Junk Box: MIMP Comics
You’re a grown-ass man and you’re not supposed to play with toys. But like any good fanboy I have my favorites. My thark from Trendmasters Read More
The Land Unknown (1957)
The Land Unknown Trailer Director: Virgil W. VogelCast: Jock Mahoney and Shirley PattersonShawn SmithWilliam ReynoldsHenry BrandonDouglas KennedyPhil Harvey An expedition to the Antarctic discovers a Read More
Murder in Mesopotamia
Murder in Mesopotamia is as close as Agatha Christie ever came to writing an autobiographical mystery. Her unpublished novel Unfinished Portrait (1934) as Mary Westmacott, Read More
The Barely-There Monsters of Thomas Malory
The Arthurian legends have a long and complicated history. Originally Celtic tales, as we can still glean from The Mabinogion, the stories in Medieval times Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Gold Key Style
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a successful television show by producer Irwin Allen (1916-1991). The show was based on a film of Read More
The Thriller: Not Quite the Saint
Some writers become so identified with one character you don’t often think of other characters they created. Erle Stanley Gardner is a perfect example. Perry Read More
Link: Skull the Slayer: Polemic or Pulp?
1975 saw two things happen almost simultaneously. Marv Wolfman came to Marvel comics and he created Skull the Slayer. Who? Yes, Skull was not the Read More
Link: Locked in Time: Time Machine Classics
The fourteenth episode of the popular sit-com The Big Bang Theory, “The Nerdmabelia Scattering,” featured a prop from George Pal’s 1960 film The Time Machine. Read More
Link: Why I Watched Under the Dome
Damon Knight once reviewed a book thusly: “a plot that is kept in motion solely by the fact that everyone involved is an idiot.” That Read More