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Marvel Comics Silver Age DisContinuity 003
Fantastic Four #3

One of the greatest guides to the concept of continuity in a specific series is The DisContinuity Guide: The Unofficial Doctor Who Companion by...

Steve AhlquistJanuary 18, 2013

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Marvel Comics Silver Age DisContinuity 002
Fantastic Four #2

One of the greatest guides to the concept of continuity in a specific series is The DisContinuity Guide: The Unofficial Doctor Who Companion by...

Steve AhlquistJanuary 11, 2013

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Marvel Comics Silver Age DisContinuity 001:
Fantastic Four #1

One of the greatest guides to the concept of continuity in a specific series is The DisContinuity Guide: The Unofficial Doctor Who Companion by...

Stefan BlitzJanuary 4, 2013

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M-I-C… See That Exit? K-E-Y… Why? Because You’re Fired!

Mouseketeer Roll Call! Bobby! Annette! Sharon! Lonnie! Cubby! Mary Danella Espinoza…? * insert sound of record scratching here * For three seasons, The Mickey...

Stefan BlitzDecember 19, 2012

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LEWIS COLLINS: The Lost British Action Hero

Forces of Geek’s Big Mike Leeder takes a look back at the highlights of the lost British action hero; a man who could have...

Stefan BlitzDecember 14, 2012

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STAR TREK FEDERATION: THE FIRST 150 YEARS
Guest Book Review by Robert Meyer Burnett

I wish it were possible to convey just how much of my youth I spent living in the 23rd Century. According to my mother,...

Stefan BlitzDecember 10, 2012

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Madison Avenue Is Afraid Of The Dark

As the holidays overtake the sights and sounds of our culture in a seemingly endless loop, there are those aspects of it that have...

Stefan BlitzDecember 7, 2012

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HISTORIGEEK: Wealth or Rank Possessing

Around this time of year, the airwaves seem to be filled with a veritable cacophony of “Seasonal” songs. Some of these seem to bring...

Stefan BlitzDecember 3, 2012

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LYRES: Back on Fyre!

By the time he had assembled his band Lyres, Boston singer/songwriter/tambourine shaker/pianist/Vox Continental organist, Jeff Conolly, had already become a legendary figure on The Hub’s...

Stefan BlitzNovember 19, 2012

Columns/Features

Sasquatch in The Seventies: A Bigfoot Movies Primer

Back in the 70s, many kids (not to mention many adults) thought that monsters were real. In some places “Nessie” the Loch Ness Monster...

David E GoldweberNovember 7, 2012

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A Happy Adrenaline:
Rod Serling and Lamont Johnson

Considered an actor’s director, Lamont Johnson had made a smooth enough transition from acting (Tarzan, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gunsmoke) to directing. When an offer...

Stefan BlitzNovember 7, 2012

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HISTORIGEEK: Trick or Treat

Ahhh… Halloween. A time when there are still a few of us who open our homes to an assortment of neighborhood ghosts and goblins,...

Stefan BlitzOctober 31, 2012

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Rod Serling and Charles Beaumont

When Rod Serling entered a Los Angeles party in 1959, a young writer named Charles Beaumont approached him and said that Serling’s most recent...

Stefan BlitzOctober 24, 2012

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Maximum Carnage: Better Late Than Never?

The ’90s weren’t the greatest period in comic books, particularly superhero comics. The speculator boom shifted the focus from quality to collectibility, and companies...

Andre BennettOctober 23, 2012