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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURE ARTICLES
The Amazing Talented Herb Jeffries.....
A look at the many faceted career of the
Bronze Buckaroo
And A Little Child Shall Lead Them.....
An overview of Little Orphan Annie on radio.
Battlestar Galactica Memories.....
Once again, Tom gives us a unique view of a fondly remembered television show.
Backstage Memories Of ABC-TV
Part One: The Page Staff and Guest Relations.....
Tom shares memories and anecdotes of his early days working at ABC.
Bela Lugosi's Last Serial.....
A look at Lugosi's work in The Phantom Creeps
The Clayton Moore Memorial Service.....
A report, with pictures, on the Memorial Service held for Clayton Moore on Sunday, January 16, 2000 at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles.
The Comic Book: As Seen in the Silver Age.....
What was the state of the comic book in 1968? And which of its heroes might still be entertaining readers
a generation later? These were the questions examined by Raymond William Stedman in this article written four decades ago.
The DC Archives Series.....
An overview of the DC Archives reprint books, including a list of titles and contents. Updated through December, 2004.
The Early Warner Bros. Television Westerns....
A look back to the days when Warner Bros. brought Western action to prime time on the small screen.
The Green Hornet Strikes Again.....
An overview of the serial of the same name.
Johnston McCulley: Man of Mystery.....
A collection of facts and speculations about the life of the creator of Zorro.
The Nickelodeons.....
An article about that new entertainment craze that is sweeping the nation....the Nickelodeon. Taken from the November 23, 1907 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
Space Patrol Memories-Pt. 1.....
Tom takes you on a guided tour of the ins and outs of the television show Space Patrol, both as a fan and an insider. Part 1 of 2.
Space Patrol Memories- Pt. 2.....
Tom continues his guided tour of the ins and outs of the television show Space Patrol, both as a fan and an
insider. Part 2 of 2.
Tom Mix: The Curley Bradley Years.....
A remembrance of the radio show and its premiums. Were you a Straight Shooter?
Weird Wonder Tales.....
An overview of the 70s Marvel reprint title, with emphasis on the art that made the title one of the best of its type.
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
The Diogenes Club
Featuring the adventures of Sherlock Holmes—originals by Doyle and spoofs by certain other distinguished authors, along with dossiers on the men behind each pastiche.
The Edmond Hamilton Hall of Wonders
Tales from the farthest futures to the deepest horrors by one of the Grand Masters of Science Fiction, along with biographical and reference material.
The Rudyard Kipling Bungalow
Tales of adventure and imagination, including the Mowgli stories from The Jungle Book, by the unofficial poet laureate of the British Empire, with additional biographical and background information.
The Baroness Orczy Solarium
The story of the creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel, with several of the Pimpernel's adventures, not to mention feats of deduction by the Baroness's sly sleuth, the Old Man in the Corner.
SHORT FICTION
An Ancient Ghost Story.....
Athenodorus looked round and saw the apparition exactly as it had been described...
Author's Adventure.....
Mark was an interesting talker, and one forgave him his usual song of praise when his monologue was spiced with interesting anecdotes...
A Chapparal Christmas Gift.....
The original cause of the trouble was about twenty years in growing...
Climax For A Ghost Story.....
A short short story with a long afterword.
The Curse of Yig.....
In 1925 I went into Oklahoma looking for snake lore, and I came out with a fear of snakes that will last me the rest of my life. I admit it is foolish, since there are natural explanations for everything I saw and heard, but ...
Death Plays Santa Claus.....
Deep disgust formed a picture in the face of Detective-Lieutenant Mike O'Hara as he sat before his desk in the Homicide Squad's room at Police Headquarters. It was nine by the clock on ...
The Death's Head Meteor.....
High up, on the top floor of a hundred-story building sat a man at a desk. Before him was an array of dials, a system of switches and intricate electrical...
The False Burton Combs.....
I had an outside stateroom on the upper deck of the Fall River boat and ten minutes after I parked my bag there I knew that I was being watched. The boat had already cleared and was slowly...
The Frontier Guards.....
"What a charming little house!" said Brinton, as he was walking in from a round of golf at Ellesborough...
The Ghost Patrol.....
Donald Patrick Dorgan had served forty-four years on the police force of Northernapolis, and during all but five of that time...
He With the Glass Heart.....
We had just lost our routine bridge game in the smoking room of the Ferrania—my travelling companion, Maynard, and I—and had set up the nightly beers for Harrison and Dr Carmichael...
How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar.....
Simpson's Bar, on the eve of Christmas Day, 1862, clung like a swallow's nest to the rocky entablature and splintered capitals of Table Mountain...
In Amundsen's Tent.....
Yes, it was we who entered the tent, found there the head of Robert Drumgold and the pages whereon he had scrawled his story...
The Jameson Satellite.....
In the depths of space, some twenty thousand miles from the earth, the body of Professor Jameson within its rocket container cruised upon an endless
journey...
John Ovington Returns.....
Ovington tried to rally his reason. He tried to convince himself that this was all a weird dream, but the two letters lay convincingly side by side. Had the spirit of the old John Ovington truly come back...
The Molemen Want Your Eyes.....
Out of the bowels of the earth they came, old and lank and blind. And their cold, dead hands sought warm, fresh youth...
Murders in the Rue Morgue.....
Residing in Paris during the spring and part of the summer of 18--, I there became acquainted with a Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin. This young gentleman was of an excellent—indeed of an illustrious family, but...
Murder On The Limited.....
The section of his white pajamas from just below the shoulder blades to the small of the back was a dark, moist red that glistened like jelly...
The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage (Fitzgerald's first published story)...
When I first saw John Syrel of the New York Daily News, he was standing before an open window of my house...
The Night Before Christmas.....
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...
The Night Wire...
There is something ungodly about these night wire jobs. You sit up here on the top floor of a skyscraper and listen in to the whispers of a civilization. New York, London, Calcutta, Bombay...
Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant...
After Professor Jeptha Jonkin had, by skillful grafting and care, succeeded in raising a single tree that produced, at different seasons, apples, oranges, pineapples...
The Sardonic Star Of Tom Doody...
I came in here, Miss Envers, a safe-burglar that had been caught for the first and only time in fifteen years of crime. I am going out of here completely reformed, and with only one aim in my life...
The Scarlet Plague (Novelette).....
The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled up the slopes...
The Signalman.....
To change that signal, to trim those lights, and to turn this iron handle now and then, was all he had to do...
The Thing in the Cellar.....
It was a large cellar, entirely out of proportion to the house above it...
Thubway Tham's Thanksgiving Dinner .....
On this, the day before the annual Thanksgiving feast, Thubway Tham leaned against the wall of a building and almost snarled as he...
Thubway Tham Tunes In.....
Some men are born radio fans, some achieve radio fandom, and others...
Thubway Tham's Inthane Moment.....
Detective Craddock stepped nearer the front of the little cigar store on the corner, and almost pressed his nose against the window...
Timberline.....
I sat in the wagon waiting for Scipio Le Moyne to come out of the house; there in my nostrils was the smell of the wet sage brush and of the wet straw and manure, and there, against the gray sky, was an afterimage...
The Trailor Murder Mystery.....
In the year 1841, there resided, at different points in the State of Illinois, three brothers...
The True History of The Hare and The Tortoise.....
...and it was decided that the Hare and the Tortoise should run a race...
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen.....
Stuffy Pete took his seat on the third bench to the right as you enter Union Square from the east, at the walk opposite the fountain. Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years he had taken his seat there promptly at...
The Upper Berth.....
... the conversation was beginning to languish; the tobacco smoke had got into the heavy curtains, the wine had got into those brains which were liable to become heavy, and it was already perfectly evident that, unless somebody did something to rouse our oppressed spirits...
The Watcher by the Threshold.....
I have told this story to many audiences with diverse results, and once again I take my reputation in my hands...
Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking.....
It was with much caution that Whistling Dick slid back the door of the box-car, for Article 5716, City Ordinances, authorized (perhaps unconstitutionally) arrest on suspicion...
The Zayat Kiss.....
Sir Crichton died, with nothing to show the cause of death but a little mark upon the neck, face, or limb...the 'Zayat Kiss.'
SHORT FICTION THAT BECAME MOVIES
Boile de Suif (Ball of Fat).....
First filmed as The Woman Disputed in 1928. Directors: Henry King & Sam Taylor
For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands...
The Beast With Five Fingers.....
Filmed as The Beast with Five Fingers in 1946. Director: Robert Florey.
The story, I suppose, begins with Adrian Borlsover, whom I met when I was a little boy...
The Caballero's Way.....
First filmed as The Caballero's Way in 1914. Director: Webster Cullison
The Kid was twenty-five, looked twenty; and a careful insurance company would have estimated the probable time of his demise at, say, twentysix.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.....
First filmed as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008. Director: David Fincher
As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered...
Farewell to the Master Part 1..... ( | )
Filmed as The Day the Earth Stood Still in 1951. Director: Robert Wise.
From his perch high on the ladder above the museum floor, Cliff Sutherland studied carefully each line and shadow of the great robot...
Gay Falcon.....
First filmed as Gay Falcon in 1941. Director: Irving Reis
Now of this man who called himself Gay Falcon many tales are told, and this is one of them. It is told how, late one night not long ago...
Leiningen Versus The Ants....
First filmes as The Naked Jungle in 1954. Director: Byron Haskin
"Unless they alter their course and there's no reason why they should, they'll reach your plantation in two days at the latest." Leiningen sucked placidly at a cigar about the size of a corncob and for a few seconds gazed without answering...
The Man Who Would Be King.....
First filmed as The Man Who Would Be King in 1975. Director: John Huston.
The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again...
The Most Dangerous Game.....
First filmed as The Most Dangerous Game in 1932. Director: Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack.
"Off there to the right--somewhere--is a large island," said Whitney." It's rather a mystery--"...
Stage To Lordsburg.....
First filmed as Stagecoach in 1939. Director: John Ford
This was one of those years in the Territory when Apache smoke signals spiraled up from the stony mountain summits...
COMPLETE NOVELS
Bar-20.....
The first novel to feature Hopalong Cassidy.
With an introduction by Raymond William Stedman.
Gulliver of Mars.....
The full text of the 1905 novel that preceded the creation of John Carter. Was this Burrough's inspiration? Introduction by G. Edward Kymala.
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu.....
The novel that introduced Fu Manchu to the world. Introduction by Bob Gay.
A Princess of Mars.....
The first novel in the John Carter series, written by the creator of Tarzan. Introduction by G. Edward Kymala.
SERIALIZED NOVELS
The Curse of Capistrano.....
The first appearance of Zorro from 1919. Introduction by Dan Neyer and Bob Gay
PICTURE GALLERIES
The Gallery
Items from all eras and interests.
Clark's Closet
Items from the collection of Clark Savage, Jr. TGA
The Closet Rides Again
Fantasy & Adventure
The history of popular fiction told through covers and commentary.
The Complete Avon Fantasy Reader
The Whistle Stop Gallery
Images devoted to the world of railroading.
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DEPARTMENTS
Book Notes
In a Door, Into a Fight, Out a Door, Into a Chase
The autobiographical memoir by William Witney. Reviewed by Raymond William Stedman.
Bar-20: The Life of Clarence E. Mulford, Creator of Hopalong Cassidy
A look at Hopalong Cassidy and his creator by Francis M. Nevins. Reviewed by Raymond William Stedman.
The Cracker Barrel
Tom Mason comments on the state of the comic book industry in 2003.
Film Foot Notes
#1 Nellie and Bert Grace
Reference
Serial Features.....
An overview of the odd hybrid known as the serial feature. Rich has also included an extensive list of known titles.
Reviews
The Unabashed Plug Dept......
Reviews of comics and graphic novels that originally appeared on The News Stand.
The Comics Rack
TNL Treasures
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