Tenth and Eleventh Days

THE TENTH DAY (Oct. 10, 2011)

Stars, Herbert S. Zim and Robert Baker – This Golden Nature Guide really opens up the Universe! Now we know of stars, galaxies, comets, and other planets; we know the Main Sequence of stars, and that Antares, if placed where the Sun is now, would reach past Mars, and that the Great Comet of 1843 had a tail three hundred million miles long. One page tells us of men landing on the Moon!

Detective Comics No. 28 (June 1939), “Frenchie Blake’s Jewel Gang,” another Bat-Man adventure.

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, Dr. Seuss (jv).

The Lone Ranger, “The Lone Ranger Fights On” – Will the Ranger and Tonto triumph?

Jonny Quest, “Arctic Splashdown” – The Quest group has been joined by a character named Hadji.

Twilight Zone, “Where Is Everybody?” – A mysterious tale that ends up, again, with men heading into space.

“Chinchilla Attack #1,” “Dialing for Dullards,” from the local show Mazeppa Pompazoidie’s Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting, starring Gailard Sartain, circa 1971. Fleischer animated Superman, “The Mad Scientist;” Zorro’s Fighting Legion Chapter One, “The Golden God.” Creating my own Saturday matinee-type show, with a funny skit, a cartoon, a serial chapter, and an old movie. Cubby recognizes Superman, at least.


THE ELEVENTH DAY

Victory at Sea, “Sealing the Breach” – those Nazi U-Boats are nasty.

NASA, “The Four Days of Gemini IV” – The world learns a new word: EVA. Although technically that’s not a word, but an acronym for Extra-Vehicular Activity.

The Avengers, “Town of No Return” – British action and intrigue with John Steed and Emma Peel.

“Why They’re Called That,” “One Other,” Manly Wade Wellman (horror ss) – more Silver John.

Strangely Enough!, Carroll B. Colby – The one true introduction to ghosts, flying saucers, mysterious disappearances, and other fortean phenomena, plus lost treasures, historical oddities, and amazing adventures!