To Day 108

ONE HUNDREDTH DAY (Jan. 8, 2012)

Lone Ranger, “Return of the Convict;” Jonny Quest, “”The Deadly Dolls”

Victory at Sea, “Sea and Sand;” NASA, “On the Shoulders of Giants”

Gilligan. “Big Man on a Little Stick;” Scooby-Doo, “A Tiki Scare is No Fair”


ONE HUNDRED-FOURTH DAY (Jan. 12, 2012)

“Monster-God of Mamurth,” Edmond Hamilton (SF/horror ss) – 1927 story to start on early science fiction

It Happened to Me! Vol. 2, ed. Paul Sieveking – another collection of fortean anecdotes

“An Historical Study of the Werewolf in Literature,” Kirby F. Smith – folklore article from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (Vol. IX, New Series, Vol. II), 1894. An important early article on lycanthropic legends.

Writer’s Digest Vol. 91, No. 7 (Oct. 2011) – an entire magazine that will help us in our writing career

The X-Men no. 1 – 1991 reprint of a September 1963 comic. The General promised that everyone would honor the name of – the X-Men! I’m sure.

Secret Origins no. 6 (Feb 1974) – the origin of a WW II hero, “Blackhawk”, and of a whole Legion of Super-Heroes

Gilligan, “How to Be a Hero”; Scooby-Doo, “Haunted House Hang-Up,” “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?”, “Don’t Fool with a Phantom” ends Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Seasons 1 & 2

“The Solid Gold Kidnapping” – third Six Million Dollar Man TV movie


ONE HUNDRED SIXTH DAY (Jan. 14)

Map of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas, from National Geographic Magazine (Oct. 1974) – Cubby wants more visuals. Now he has seen beyond Oklahoma. Soon, the world!

Gilligan, “Return of Wrong-Way Feldman;” Scooby-Doo: Mystery Inc., “Battle of the Humongonauts,” “Howl of the Fright Hound”

It Came from Outer Space (1953 sf) plus extras

Frankenstein (1931 horror) – another basic movie monster seen.


ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH DAY (Jan. 16)

“Duck Dodgers in the Twenty-Fourth and a Half Century,” “Jumping Jupiter,” “Rocket-Bye Baby,” Warner cartoons

Scooby-Doo: Mystery Inc., “The Secret Serum,” “The Shrieking Madness”

Gilligan, “New Neighbor Sam”

Victory at Sea, “Beneath the Southern Cross”

Unsolved Mysteries, “Houie Long,” “John Wilkes Booth”

Gojira extras

Thistle & Shamrock #689, “Duos”

“Life-Line,” Robert Heinlein (sf ss) – first Hamilton’s first published story, now Heinlein. We’re into the Golden Age of SF!

It Happened to Me! Vol. 3, ed. David Sutton and Paul Sieveking – more fortean anecdotes

Sixty-two books read = 1/79th of all books!