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I can't believe it---here I made it through the first week of 2018 and nothing even remotely catastrophic has happened to me or to any of my precious possessions for that matter! Not that I'd expect...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! ORDER TO ASSASSINATE STARRING HELMUT BERGER!Atmosphere is essential in a crime film....you can forgive a number of flaws if you can feel and taste the atmosphere, and...
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DEE-VEE-DEE REVIEW! THE OUR GANG STORY---A HISTORY OF THE LITTLE RASCALS (Legend Films)As a rule I hate documentaries, but when they ain't bein' preachy and trying to cram alien arguments into your...
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Oh well...another week anotherBLOG TO COMM post! Gotta admit that it ain't easy thinkin' these things up 'specially in the just post-Christmas holidaze days---I almost feels like I'm back in High Stool...
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CEE-DEE REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! WILLIE & THE WALKERS---NORMAN PETTY MASTERS! (Super Oldies Records)The Norman Petty Studios in Clovis, New Mexico attracted not only many bands from the US Midwest and...
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BLACK TO COMM BACK ISSUES FOR SALE! I kinda gave up tryin' to hard-sell these things awhile back but hey, I not only need to get rid of these fanzines (especially considering the treacherous turncoats...
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BOOK REVIEW! WINSOR McCAY EARLY WORKS (Checker Book Publishing Group, 2003) Jes' because it's old doesn't necessarily mean it's good! Like---I can give you many examples of old television programs...
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So, how are you holding out against the January blahs anyway? Me, I've been around the block so many times that seasonal mood changes don't even matter anymore, but even if they did I'd be getting by...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! TALES OF ROBIN HOOD STARRING ROBERT CLARKE (1951)TALES OF ROBIN HOOD was a collaboration between two budget-minded producers, Robert Lippert (best known for Lippert...
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BOOK REVIEW! THE COMPLETE DICK TRACY VOLUME 23 BY CHESTER GOULD (IDW 2017)I thought that this strip would have been petering out into late-sixties "War on Crime" jingoism and duller-than-you storylines...
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Nothin' much to report on this week, that is unless you want me to spew reams of intricate details regarding my typical winter sniffles or various underwear surprises. Which I suspect you don't, so...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! MR. RICCO (1975) STARRING DEAN MARTIN!MR. RICCO was Dean Martin’s final starring role (he had only guest star roles after this) in a feature film, and it came and...
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COMIC BOOK REVIEW! AIR-SUB DX BY CARL BURGOS (Gawandaland Comics, available here) Eh, whaz zo special about an air sub anyway? I mean, when I was a kid I thrilled to the adventures of SUPERCAR which...
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Sorry it took longer for me to get this weekend edition of BLOG TO COMM out than it took John Holmes to pee, but as usual "things" got in the way of me producing my doody in a nice 'n timely fashion....
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BOOK REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! WAR ON CRIME by Rex Collier (Comic Ventures)Say what you will about longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover....the man certainly knew the importance of popular culture (movies,...
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COMIC BOOK REVIEW! LI'L RASCAL TWINS #16 (August 1959) (available viaGolden Age Reprints)DOGGONE THAT BILL SHUTE! An' I mean it too! Y'see, here I am tryin' to scrimp and save for that big day when...
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Sheesh, here we are well into the firstsecond month of 2018 and I didn't even post my yearly writeup of albums that were maybe too obvious and conspicuous to write about on the every day blog during...
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COMIC BOOK REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #76 (Prize Comics, July, 1955)The 1940’s and 1950’s were a Golden Age of crime comics, and with the many crime-oriented B-movies and later TV...
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BOOK REVIEW! BEYOND MARS BY JACK WILLIAMSON AND LEE ELIAS (IDW, 2015) I dunno about you, but over the years I've developed a pretty good hankerin' for classic postwar Science Fiction comic strips....
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After last week's belated "year end" roundup it's sure great to get back into the reg'lar swing of things! Hope ya like the bright, bouncy and bountiful batch that I have served up for you today...got...
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