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Romance comics are full of pain and anguish, but always end with the girl getting her guy. The mid-century stories always seem to follow the exact same path: (1) we are introduced to a painfully insecure girl (2) who falls in love with the man-of-her-drams, (3) but the promise of a relationship quickly turns to existential despair, (4) which is followed by a “surprise” happy ending where the lovebirds are reunited and plan to get married. Let’s take a walk through some vintage romance comics and see this play out, step-by-step. Insecurity-Love-Anguish-Matrimony: The 4 Stages of Every Mid-Century Romance Comic I knew they existed. I’veRead More →

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Title: The Thin ManAuthor: Dashiell HammettCover artist: Harry BennettEstimated value: $15-20 (perfect, square, bright)Best things about this cover:Nick looks like I feel these days. “Fuck all this. Where’s the bar?”The color shading on this is all kinds of weird. Conventional figurative art that looks like it’s been cut out of a magazine by an 8-year-old and then glued into the white rectangle.Joey Backwards chair is explaining certain anatomical facts about himself to Millie Sweetgams, much to her amusement.ASTA! Source: Pop Sensation: Paperback 925: The Thin Man / Dashiell Hammett (Perma Books M4202)Read More →

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I had already decided I wasn’t going to comment on the topic of the Superman/Wonder Woman hook-up, because frankly I’m not all that invested in the outcome one way or another. This rather odd storyline will in no way impact the way I feel about Superman or Lois Lane no matter how long or short lived it is. As far as I’m concerned. I still have the “products” I already love to rewatch and reread and what they’re doing just doesn’t involve the characters I love but some other people I don’t know. Is that short-sighted? Maybe. But, you know, fans and consumers have thatRead More →

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I’ve been saving this picture since I went to the Superman Celebration in Metropolis in June this year because I knew Lois Lane’s “birthday” was coming up. What can I say, we spent a wonderful day there where of course I picked up some wonderful Superman swag: a Metropolis, Illinois, Superman swag bag to hold all the goodies in a small wooden jewelry box that has absolutely nothing to do with Superman but that has a gorgeous picture of woman (girl?) in period dress reading on the top three new Superman tee-shirts, all very different in style a new Superman mug The Kryptonite Companion, aRead More →

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My class is over and I’ve recovered from a case of bacterial bronchitis that hit me completely out of the blue around the first of May, so I went out last week and picked up a bunch of books from Jayne Ann Krentz‘s Arcane collection that I’d missed out on from our local used bookstore. You know, I haven’t “glommed” a favorite author like that in years. Plus I picked up a couple of odds and ends not connected to that collections, too. It was fun. At least I thought it was until I started trying to sort out what I’d picked up from whatRead More →

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A funny thing happens when one takes a break from reading for a period of time. A favorite author’s backlist can multiply like rabbits, especially when we’re talking about the romance genre. At least nowadays. Case in point, a couple of weeks ago, I go out to eat with my children and on the way home we stop do some shopping. Oddly enough, or not, we all three end up in the book aisle at about the same time and start jokingly picking out books for each other. Then things took a turn into the very funny when I pick up a new book byRead More →

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I had intended to post on another topic today but between slowly recovering from a cold, a bad elbow that’s limiting my typing and family activities over the weekend that post isn’t ready yet. However a mini-rant came to me out of the blue a couple of nights ago so you get the benefit of that. 😉 Anyway, I was in the mood for some detective shows and had sat down to watch the TIVO recording of Monday’s episode of the new Hawaii Five-O and immediately noticed that the description was only two sentences – not unusual – but one was about McGarrett’s personal life,Read More →