Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Closing in on the Sixth Month

166th Day (March 14 – happy birthday to me!)

Six Million Dollar Man, “Last of the Fourth of Julys”; “Eyewitness to Murder”

Gilligan. “Quick, Before it Sinks”

The Night Strangler (1973 horror) – more of this Kolchak person


169th Day (March 17 – St. Paddy’s Day)

Marvel Tales no. 153 (July 1983) – reprint of Amazing Spider-Man #15. First appearance of Kraven the Hunter. No. 166 (Aug. 1984) – reprint of ASM #28.

“A Matter of Form,” Horace L. Gold (sf novelette); “The Knife,” Robert Arthur (horror ss); “The Real Thing,” Robert Specht (horror ss)

Cyborg, Martin Caidin (sf novel; Steve Austin #1)

Thistle & Shamrock #679, “The Land”

War of the Worlds extras, including the Orson Welles radio broadcast (Oct. 30, 1938)

Village of the Damned (1961 sf)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935 horror)


171st Day (March 19)

Muppets Magic – a video of all the Muppets’ appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1966-1971.

Gilligan, “Castaways Pictures Presents,” “Agonized Labor”

Six Million Dollar Man, “The Coward” and “Run, Steve, Run” end Season One


174th Day (March 22)

Marvel Masterpieces: The Mighty Thor Vol. 1, Stan Lee, et. al – The first comic stories of the Thunder God

Mazeppa, “Toby the Toe-Headed Boy;” “Why Can’t This Night Go on Forever?” – ends Mazeppa Vol. 1. Superman, “The Eleventh Hour”; Zorro’s Fighting Legion: “Last Chapter: Unmasked!”

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

. . . And into March

152nd Day (Feb. 29)

Footrot Flats 21, Murray Ball (comic strips)

Superboy 80-Page Giant, No. 147 (2006 reprint of June, 1968 issue)

Gilligan Season Two: “Gilligan’s Mother-in-Law,” “Beauty is as Beauty Does”

The Monkees, “Hitting the High Seas,” “The Frodis Caper,” – in memory of Davy Jones


156th Day (March 4)

Star Trek, “Charlie X”

The Man from Planet X (1951 sf)

Mazeppa, “What Do You Get?”, “Airplane Noise School”; Superman, “The Japoteurs”; Zorro’s Fighting Legion, “Chapter Ten: Mystery Wagon”; The Invisible Man (1933 sf)

The Monkees, “Monkee Vs. Machine,” “Fairy Tale”

Thistle & Shamrock #802, “Island Cruise”; Pink Floyd, “Works”


158th Day (March 6)

Excerpts from Ozark Tales and Superstitions by Phillip W. Steele (1985)

Golden Nature Guide to Trees, Herbert S. Zim and Alexander C. Martin

The Invincible Iron Man Vol. 1, Stan Lee, et. al (comic collection)

“Spectre-Dogs”, an excerpt from The Book of Days, Vol. 2, by Robert Chambers (1885)


162nd Day (March 10)

Cops, Mark Baker (true crime) – hard-hitting book on crime and those who combat it, told by real policemen in their own words

“The Beast in the Cave,” “Dagon”, early tales by H. P. Lovecraft

“ALPHAs”, Gregory Benford (sf ss)

Gilligan, “The Little Dictator”, “Smile, You’re on Mars Camera”

Six Million Dollar Man, “Dr. Wells is Missing”

The Lone Ranger, “Cannonball McCade”; Jonny Quest, “The Fraudulent Volcano”

Mazeppa, “The New Contender”; Superman, “Showdown”; Zorro’s Fighting Legion, “Chapter Eleven: Face to Face”

War of the Worlds (1953 sf)

Seventy-Two books = 1/67 of the total!