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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 24, 2016 13:38:49 GMT -5
Dying? That, gentlemen, is the last thing I shall do. I have a brother 8 years my junior who's pretty savvy with collectibles. He's the current candidate. I also found out recently that my first grandchild, a boy, is due to arrive next June. I've been given a blurry photo of him, but it's not enough to get a good read on the lad. We'll have to wait and see. But if he plays his cards right, he's going to have one hell of a tenth birthday.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 22, 2016 19:45:23 GMT -5
Not an Entry,
Just a Early Present for the members of this forum. Elizabeth Montgomery not dressed as a witch. She was quite lovely. And as an actress, Elizabeth Montgomery had considerable range. Bewitched often left her playing "straight" to the lunacy and hi-jinks of her co-stars, like the scenery-chewing Paul Lynde, the timorous Alice Ghostley, or the endlessly mugging Dick York. Her turn as one of two surviving combatants in an apocalyptic war scenario (the other being Charles Bronson) in the classic Twilight Zone episode "Two" demonstrated her luminous talent despite her character having no dialogue. She was also mesmerizing in 1975's The Legend of Lizzie Borden playing the title role. Oddly, Montgomery was a distant relative of Borden.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 21, 2016 19:21:30 GMT -5
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 16, 2016 17:42:03 GMT -5
Otherwise, made it to & from Arkansas (&, technically speaking, Texas, since my motel was right across the state line dividing Texarkana into separate-but-not-apart cities) OK earlier this week. Unfortunately, my wallet decided to stay behind at or near the Citgo station in Springhill, La. I had to have left it atop the rental car while topping off my tank. Oh, well -- I would say "a lesson learned," but clearly I don't learn lessons very well, since I did something very similar last year at the Sam's Club in Flowood, Miss., outside Jackson, where I left the wallet on top of the gas pump. In that case, someone found it & turned it in, so I was able to pick it up after heading back in driving rain for an hour & a half from the Alabama state line. This time around, no such luck when I found it missing 30 miles down the road while putting air in a tire. *sigh* Sorry to hear about your lost wallet. I was a serial loser (of personal items) for a long time. The worst was when I was flying from Savannah to LA in 1986 for my wedding. I was 18. I laid my plane ticket on the roof of my '74 Beetle, climbed in and drove to the airport. One of my Army buddies who was travelling with me was kind enough to purchase a replacement for me at the counter, to the tune of $600! My dad reimbursed him on arrival and still rightly gives me grief about it every so often. Should have taken it as an omen. We divorced, acrimoniously, in 1989.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 13, 2016 22:00:04 GMT -5
This is just getting absurd. R.I.P. Alan Thicke. Terrible news. I remember watching his Canadian talk show. An underrated performer. And the same age as Bowie, Alan Rickman, Greg Lake, etc. This year isn't doing sixty-nine any favors.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 13, 2016 21:03:01 GMT -5
So many great ones already posted! There's The Hangman, of course. I don't think I've mentioned him before. He first appears in a feature that starred another superhero. . .his brother, in fact. . .who ( significantly) dies!
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 13, 2016 18:39:44 GMT -5
Prince Hal. Can't resist Frazetta.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 11, 2016 18:39:26 GMT -5
Let's start over then, in a spirit of togetherness:
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 10, 2016 1:04:52 GMT -5
That list. That's a real list. What a dismal year THIS was. Begone 2016! I reject you!
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 9, 2016 22:10:10 GMT -5
I don't think I'm answering this thread properly because it wasn't a "discovery" so much as a resignation after relentless lobbying, but I dove into Punisher Max this year. This was the first Punisher material I'd HELD, much less READ, without scoffing in many years. Game-changer. Wow. Let me just say, as the absolute LAST fan to come across this work. . .ALL of you were right, the entire time. I'm only as far as Volume 3, but after Widowmaker, I'm on pins and needles. Ennis' Punisher = definitive (duh!)
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 9, 2016 20:48:57 GMT -5
Oh, cool! That's a reprint of the 1956 Atlas series Melvin the Monster with art by the legendary Joe Maneely. Is there anything that man couldn't draw?
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 8, 2016 19:06:41 GMT -5
I can't remember the last time I purchased a calendar. You wouldn't have to remember if you'd marked it on your. . .oh, right.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 7, 2016 20:40:47 GMT -5
The EC western books are largely forgotten these days (I think they all got turned into horror and sci-fi books that continued the numbering). As well as Romance and Superhero books in between. There's a lot of raw talent in the EC Westerns, and also in the contemporaneous books from which Gaines and Feldstein "recruited" (for lack of a better word) artists like Jack Kamen and Wally Wood after seeing their Fox work, for example.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 7, 2016 20:09:29 GMT -5
My first couple of thoughts for this topic were already taken, so I had to dig for something a trifle more obscure: Another Ingels cover, though he is recognizable here; everything is slightly off-kilter. Great cover!
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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 7, 2016 20:04:45 GMT -5
Phil Maurice Who publish that comic book that you provided us to see? That's from Hillman Periodicals, publisher of such gems as Airboy and The Heap. My note regarding Iron Man was facetious; there is no connection with the Marvel character.
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