The Cubby Experiment Goes on

The Cubby Experiment continues, with the imaginary "Cubster" gathering information every day. What's that? Input like "Gilligan's Island" and "Scooby-Doo" doesn't sound very edifying? Well, they were always on in the afternoon when I came home from school, so -- why not?


FORTY-FOURTH DAY (Nov. 13)

“Royal Death Plot” (7/24 – 11/11, 1939), Superman comic.

Lone Ranger, “Pete and Pedro”; Jonny Quest, “Calcutta Adventure” – origin of Hadji.

Scooby-Doo, “Hassle in the Castle”; Gilligan, “Home Sweet Hut.” I haven't mentioned that, due to Gilligan, Cubby now knows who Jim Backus is, who was mentioned in a newspaper clipping way back on the second day.

Mazeppa, “Chinchilla Attack #3”; Superman, “Billion Dollar Limited”; Zorro’s Fighting Legion, “Chapter Three: Descending Doom”; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 historical).

Thistle & Shamrock #694, “A Robust Tradition” – harp music.

Captain America no. 109 (Jan. 1968) – “The Origin of Captain America!” A 2002 reprint of a 1968 issue retelling events from a 1942 comic – all drawn by Jack “King” Kirby! A direct sequel to the Doc Savage/Shadow comic (retroactively), with “Dr. Reinstein” perfecting his Super-Soldier serum.

Excerpt from Furred Animals of Australia by Ellis Troughton – the mysterious Marsupial Tiger-Cat!

“Close Encounter of the Third Kind at Kelly Re-Examined,” from The International UFO Reporter Vol. 3, no. 5 (May 1978) – article on the Kelly/Hopkinsville case.


FORTY-SIXTH DAY (Nov. 15)

“Underworld Politics” (11/13 – 12/16, 1939) and “Unnatural Disasters” (12/18/39 – 1/6/40) finishes off Superman: The Dailies 1939-1940 Vol. 1.

“West Virginia’s ‘Mothman’”, article/chapter from John Keel’s Strange Creatures from Time & Space.

Unsolved Mysteries, “Agatha Christie,” “Skunk Ape,” “Mothman” – because Nov. 15 was the 45th anniversary of the appearance of Mothman, more-or-less. Cubby recognizes Agatha Christie as the creator of Miss Marple (though the film Murder She Said was not a very close adaptation).