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I post about comic books, horror, sci-fi, old tv shows & movies. I like theater, trivia, mysteries, audio plays, writing fiction and am a Jeopardy! fan.
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Commercial Break Comic Book Cover: Classics Illustrated #32 The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne #Svengoolie

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Commercial Break Comic Book Cover: Marvel Adventures Avengers #13 (art by Leonard Kirk) #Svengoolie

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Commercial Break Comic Book Covers: Wonder Woman Nos. 122 & 136 (art by Ross Andru) #Svengoolie

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Commercial Break Comic Book Cover: Spider-Girl #90 (art by Ron Frenz) #Svengoolie

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Commercial Break Comic Book of Yore: Dell Four Color #1145 (August 1960) #Svengoolie

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Commercial Break TV Listing of Yore: CBS aired Dan Curtis' Dracula starring Jack Palance as the CBS Friday Night Movies at 9PM EST on October 12, 1973. #Svengoolie #Dracula #Detroit #DetroitTV #TVmovie #JackPalance

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

TV Listing of Yore: The primetime network lineup at 8PM EST #OTD in 1977 gave us "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" on CBS; "Emergency!" on NBC; and the debut of "Blansky's Beauties" on ABC (and yes, since it was the '70s, not to be outdone by the Fonz, Pinky Tuscadero HAD to jump over something). #spinoff

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TV Listing of Yore: No, it wasn't sophisticated as Batman: The Animated Series; but it WAS Batman. "The New Adventures of Batman," with voices done by Adam West and Burt Ward debuted at 10:30AM EST #OTD in 1977. #Batman #AdamWest #BurtWard

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TV Listing of Yore: Jim Nabors and Debbie Reynolds were guests on "Sonny and Cher" on CBS; and since "The Last Dinosaur," a Japanese/American co-production couldn't find a distributor, it was an "ABC Friday Night Movie" at 9PM EST #OTD in 1977. #TVMovie

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

TV Listing of Yore: "The Becker Connection" was the episode of "The Rockford Files" on NBC at 8:30PM EST #OTD in 1977. #TheRockfordFiles #JamesGarner

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TV Listing of Yore: "Code R" was on CBS; "Sanford and Son" was on NBC; and how in the world did "Donny and Marie" manage to book Jimmy Osmond on ABC at 8PM EST #OTD in 1977?

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Geez, William Hopper; you had ONE job! #svengoolie

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Commercial Break Digest Cover #svengoolie

submitted 98 days ago • 6 comments

Cage an unknown creature and plan to put it on display! What could possibly go wrong? Monster horror tale as old as time. They never learn. #svengoolie

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

TV Listing of Yore: Vincent Price was a guest on "The Muppet Show" (syndicated) #OTD in 1977. #muppets #VincentPrice #themuppetshow

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TV Listing of Yore: A rerun of "Helter Skelter" aired on CBS; part 2 of "Roots" aired on ABC at 9PM EST, 8PM CST #OTD in 1977. The movie "Westworld" aired on NBC at this time. #tvmovie #tvlistingofyore

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A comic book panel burned in my brain: #comicbookpanelburnedinmybrain

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Stay warm! "The Icy Fingers of Jack Frost" (Tales of Suspense #45; Sept. '63, cover art by Jack Kirby & Don Heck)

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The gold standard in '70s comic book ads: The Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle (Ideal) and Street Ball with Rick Barry and Dr. J (Spalding)! Art on the latter by MAD artist Jack Davis.

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Lots of snow in the midwest and southern US; be careful out there! (Teen Titans #24, V1 Dec. '69, cover by Nick Cardy) #teentitans #nickcardy

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

A comic book photo cover? Kinda rare. A comic book infinity cover? Kinda rare. A comic book photo AND infinity cover? WHOA - and Shazam #2 and Shazam #6 pulled it off twice in the series run. Art by C.C. Beck and Jack Adler.

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments