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January 2021
R.I.P. Abby Dalton
The other day I discovered that Abby Dalton had passed away in November of last year. She was the last of the regular cast members of the television series Hennesey to go. The star, Jackie Cooper,…
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R.I.P. Abby Dalton
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November 2020
Deck Log Entry # 229 Happy Thanksgiving 202…
Even now, Maria would be considered a firebrand.
She was born in Massachusetts, to a sickly and emotionally distant mother and a stern, religiously devout father named Francis. Mr. Francis was a s…
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Deck Log Entry # 229 Happy Thanksgiving 202…
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October 2020
From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 90 Dea…
If you lived in the DC universe in the 1950’s and were a greedy relative or unscrupulous lawyer trying to swindle someone out of his fortune by posing as a ghost or a space alien or a time-traveller,…
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From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 90 Dea…
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The Comics Round Table: "This website has a…
I was doing a Google search to find some point I made in a thread many moons ago so I could link to it in a thread today (as I often tend to do), and came across this review of our humble corner of c…
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The Comics Round Table: "This website has a…
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June 2020
The Earth-44 Timeline Appendix Sixteen: Vign…
Vignette #1: "Finally, tonight, the solution of a sixteen year-old mystery. As our viewers may recall, two months ago, the mummified body of an eighty year-old woman was found in a peat bog outside…
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The Earth-44 Timeline Appendix Sixteen: Vign…
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Timeline
At some point in the late 1980’s, Drs. Clayton Forrester and Laurence Erhardt, two scientists attached to the Gizmonic Institute, conceived of a plan to determine whether it was possible to break a m…
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Timeline
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May 2020
Deck Log Entry # 225 Dueling Scars
The first time we heard the story, it was put straightforward enough.
"Years ago, in my college days, there was a student named Victor von Doom, who was fascinated by sorcery and black magic. He w…
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Deck Log Entry # 225 Dueling Scars
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April 2020
Deck Log Entry # 224 Mort Weisinger and the…
If you knew nothing about the Silver Age of Comics except for what you read in my Deck Log, you'd still be aware of the big change in Batman that Julius Schwartz wrought when he became editor of the…
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Deck Log Entry # 224 Mort Weisinger and the…
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March 2020
King Kong (1933) presented by TCM
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King Kong (1933) presented by TCM
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February 2020
Deck Log Entry # 222 Passing the Bat-Torch-…
The Silver-Age Alfred was a real Renaissance man: butler, chef, actor, medic . . . and author!
Actually, he was more of a frustrated writer---because his work could never be published, nor even re…
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Deck Log Entry # 222 Passing the Bat-Torch-…
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January 2020
Smilies 2: The Wrath of the Golden Army Revo…
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Smilies 2: The Wrath of the Golden Army Revo…
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December 2019
Deck Log Entry # 221 Merry Christmas 2019!
Holidays are marked by traditions, and any given tradition has many fathers. Nearly all of the time, it's impossible to trace a tradition's beginning to one specific instance. Still, if you happen…
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Deck Log Entry # 221 Merry Christmas 2019!
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June 2019
From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 52 Tim…
Over at Marvel, editor Stan Lee was, apparently, able to resist the temptation to use time-travel plots for stories. At least, on a regular basis.
Nearly all of DC’s title heroes had a regular met…
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From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 52 Tim…
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December 2018
Deck Log Entry # 212 Merry Christmas 2018!
I have a particular group in mind for this year’s Christmas entry to my Deck Log. Come to think of it, though, it’s probably a pretty large group. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if this one touch…
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Deck Log Entry # 212 Merry Christmas 2018!
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October 2018
From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 26 Her…
The holidays must have been a lonely time for most Silver-Age super-heroes. The adult ones, anyway. For few of them had family to be with. Still-living parents were almost never in evidence. Ther…
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From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 26 Her…
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July 2018
Bugs Bunny's square dance in 'Hillbilly Hare'
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Bugs Bunny's square dance in 'Hillbilly Hare'
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June 2018
Happy Fathers Day 2018
Little Things Make Me Happy!
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Happy Fathers Day 2018
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January 2018
Trailer - "Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay"
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Trailer - "Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay"
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Teen Titans GO! To The Movies - Official Tea…
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Teen Titans GO! To The Movies - Official Tea…
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October 2017
From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 62 Sat…
They can’t all be gems.
Between the vast imagination of Hanna-Barbera and the twin super-hero mines of DC and Marvel, there were hit shows enough to go around. CBS, thanks to Fred Silverman’s inst…
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From the Archives: Deck Log Entry # 62 Sat…
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September 2017
Airplanes
Flew in an airplane for the first time last Tuesday morning, and the second time last night. (There are flights between Earth-44 and Earth-J now!). The take-offs and landings were exhilarating (the l…
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Airplanes
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