Nov. 27 -- Dec. 4

FIFTY-EIGHTH DAY (Nov. 27)

What’s New, B.C.?, Johnny Hart – comic strips with funny versions of cavemen, dinosaurs, ants, etc.

“Frost and Fire,” Ray Bradbury -- Really long and strange sf story about people on a planet where you are born, live, and die in eight days

“The Choccolocco Monster: Jokester Reveals 32-Year-Old Prank,” Matthew Creamer, article from the Anniston (AL) Star, Oct. 31, 2001 – Amusing hoax from 1969; bored fifteen-year-old plus fur coat plus cow skull = monster.

Fantastic Four no. 1 (Nov. 1961) – 2005 reprint of Silver Age comic. New superheroes to stand beside Superman, Batman, and Captain America

Doc Savage: Curse of the Fire God no. 3 (Nov. 1995)

“Peril in Paris,” from Detective Comics no. 24 (Dec. 1939)

The Lone Ranger, “Tenderfeet”; Jonny Quest, “Double Danger” introduces Jade

Gilligan, “President Gilligan”; Scooby-Doo, “What the Hex Going on?”

Victory at Sea, “Guadalcanal”; NASA, “Houston, We’ve Got a Problem”

Mazeppa, “The Reverend Dr. Menleaux Park;” Superman, “The Bulleteers,” Zorro’s Fighting Legion, “Chapter Five: The Decoy”


SIXTY-FIRST DAY (Nov. 30)

Gilligan, “The Sound of Quacking;” Scooby-Doo, “Never Ape an Ape-Man”

The Six Million Dollar Man (1973 TV movie) – the pilot for the series. Oddly, we’re about 2/3 through the novel Cyborg, but Cubby couldn’t resist. The stock footage at the beginning reminds him of the NASA films.

Thistle & Shamrock #703, “Rising Scots” and #705, “Same Tune, Different Planet”

“The Case of the Ruby Idol,” from Detective no. 35 (Jan. 1940)

Doc Savage, Curse of the Fire God no. 4 (Dec. 1995) finishes this mini-series

“Here There Be Tigers,” “Uncle Einar,” “The Gift,” “The Time Machine,” “The Strawberry Window,” “The Dragon,” “The Exiles” finished R Is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury

Notes on the Second Month: Cubby has finished 43 books, including a second Bradbury. So many to go! His TV viewing has strayed to Gilligan’s Island, Scooby-Doo, and the Three Stooges, but a little kid likes such things. Cubby now thinks of Dr. Seuss and similar books as being for “little kids,” even though he only started reading two months ago. So we’ll have to feed him more informational items in the future.


SIXTY-FOURTH DAY (Dec. 3)

“Professor Hugo Strange,” Detective Comics no. 36 (Feb. 1940); “The Spies,” no. 37 (March 1940); “Introducing Robin, the Boy Wonder,” no.38 (April 1940)

Dogbert’s Clues for the Clueless, Scott Adams (comic strips)

Gilligan, “Good-Bye, Island”; Scooby-Doo, “Foul Play in Funland”

When Worlds Collide (1951 sf) – another science fiction epic!


SIXTY-FIFTH DAY (Dec. 4)

Amazing Fantasy no. 15 (Aug 1962) – 2002 reprint of the first Spider-Man story. Another costumed hero in the comics! Spidey’s was only one of several stories in that issue. Comics books used to be a lot longer – and cheaper!

“Restless Knights,” Three Stooges short

Wine, Women, and War (1973 TV movie) – second Six Million Dollar Man movie. They were trying to make Steve Austin look like James Bond. (Reminding me: Cubby needs to see the first Bond movies, if he’s watched this and The Avengers episodes.)