It was the last broadcast of The Shadow in 1940, and it rang out the year with a bang. On Dec. 29, William Johnstone and Marjorie Anderson stepped up to the WOR...
Erle Stanley Gardner is best known for his series of 86 Perry Mason murder mysteries. But this prolific writer, who was at one time known as the world’s best...
Happy New Year! Sorry, didn’t mean to yell. Sensitive to noise, are you? Having trouble reading this with bleary eyes? If so, I’m sure we all understand, and...
This blog entry will be posted at 10 a.m. (Eastern) on Christmas morning. At that exact moment, some of you will be sitting by the tree playing with your new toys. No...
It was early 2004 and I was transferring a bunch of my VHS tapes onto DVD. One of those tapes was the colorized and edited version of the 1952 Republic Pictures serial...
“Death and The Spider” was originally published in the January 1942 issue of The Spider magazine. Richard Wentworth’s mentor, the mystic Mar-lar-delan...
I love a good fictional courtroom drama. And that makes Perry Mason a perfect fit for me. Perry Mason first appeared in book form, written by long-time pulp author Erle...
Strap that rocket pack to your back, take a running start and whoosh! You’re off, flying through the air, ready to challenge the monsters of evil that would...
It was 2006 and I had just finished watching a pulpy made-for-TV movie, SS Doomtrooper. What a hoot! Not in the “so bad it’s good” category, but rather...
“Prince of the Red Looters” was originally published in the August 1934 issue of The Spider magazine. Never before had any criminal dared give open challenge...