On into February

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY (Feb. 4)

Footrot Flats 6, Murray Ball – New Zealand comic strips about farmer Wallace Footrot and Dog. Surprisingly frank looks at life on a farm – calf-births, geldings, muck, and all. But funny.

Japanese Fantasy Film Journal No. 6, circa Spring 1970 – Old, crude, but fun fanzine. Special issue on The Mysterians; we’ll reach that movie eventually.

“If I Forget Thee, O Earth,” “Call of the Stars,” Arthur C. Clarke (sf ss)

Godzilla Raids Again (1955 sf) – second Godzilla film introduces Anguirus and the ever-popular monster battle.

Mazeppa, “Coach Chuck (‘On your belly, on your back’);” Superman, “Terror on the Midway,” Zorro’s Fighting Legion, “Chapter Nine: The Golden Arrow”

The Grand Illusion, Styx (cd)


130th DAY (Feb. 7)

Gilligan, “Three to Get Ready”; Jonny Quest, “A Small Matter of Pigmies”

Six Million Dollar Man, “Doomsday and Counting”

Louie Anderson, “MOM! Louie’s Looking at Me Again!” Stand-up routines that became “Life with Louie”

The Green Hornet, “Axton Makes a Deal”

“Trouble with Time,” “Out of the Sun,” “The Wall of Darkness,” “Dog Star,” Arthur C. Clarke (sf ss)


134th DAY (Feb. 11)

The Andromeda Strain (1971 sf)

Connections, “Distant Voices;” Gilligan, “Forget-Me-Not”

The Lone Ranger, “The Masked Rider”; Jonny Quest, “Dragons of Ashida”

“The Nine Billion Names of God,” “A Walk in the Dark,” “No Morning After,” A. C. Clarke (sf ss)

Vermont Monster Guide, Joseph Citro – folklore, fakelore, and forteana about Vermont

“The Ingleby Monster and the Penn Valley Legend Complex,” Norma Bishop, from Keystone Folklore Vol. 3, no. 1, 1984


137th Day (Feb. 14)

Godzilla cartoon, “The Firebird” – a bit different from the Godzilla of the movies we’ve seen

Six Million Dollar Man, “Little Orphan Airplane”

Gilligan, “Diogenes, Won’t You Please Go Home?”; “Physical Fatness”

And Then There Were None (1945 mystery)

“Dancing Cows,” “Green Meanie,” “Water Tower,” “Invisible Creature,” “The Beast”, and emails concerning “The Beast”, from Obi-Wan’s Ghost site

Marvel Tales no. 149 (March 1982), reprinting Spider-Man no. 15 (1963)

Batman No. 253 (Nov. 1973) – with the Shadow!


141st Day (Feb. 18)

“I Remember Babylon,” “Who’s There?”, “The Possessed,” Arthur C. Clarke

Scooby-Doo, Mystery Inc., Vol. 2

Danger Man, “View from the Villa”

The Mummy (1933 horror) plus “Mummy Dearest” extra

Silver Age Classics 1992 reprint of Adventure Comics no. 247 (Apr. 1959) – first appearance of Legion of Super-Heroes

“Mystery Meadow,” “Muppet Dream,” from Obi-Wan’s Ghost site