Next Sunday at WonderCon! …

Tales from My Spinner Rack LIVE! at WonderCon Sunday, March 26 at 1:00 PM in Room 213CD Join me at WonderCon 2023 for my first-ever solo panel devoted to my weekly blog feature, “Tales from My Spinner Rack!” Badges for WonderCon 2023 at the Anaheim Convention Center are still available, but hurry ... this con... Continue Reading →

Gold Medal …

I used to love going to New York City in the fall. While my timing was always a bit off when it came to the leaves changing, I was usually there when the ice rink was up and running in beautiful Rockefeller Center, one of numerous iconic locations throughout that city that I visited each... Continue Reading →

TFMSR 011: The Spirit (1966) #1 …

The Spirit #1. Art by Will Eisner. Harvey Comics, 1966. TM & © Will Eisner Studios, Inc. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! The superhero revival of the 1960s—also known as the Silver Age of Comics—had its not-so-secret origin in the late 1950s when DC Comics brought... Continue Reading →

Downtown Rainbow …

I used to live in downtown San Diego, on the eastern edge of Horton Plaza (which barely exists anymore). This was the view from one of my apartments in the building (I lived in three different ones from 1998 through 2017), facing due east and the Hotel St. James, which was really a Ramada Inn,... Continue Reading →

February 2022 Books …

WHEW! February blew by with a series of storms and not as much reading as I'd like, but at least one of the book-books (as opposed to graphic novels I read) was a really dense 500-pager. Here's what I read in this stormy, wintery month ... Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz I watched the Masterpiece... Continue Reading →

TFMSR 009: Batman #147 …

Batman #147, May 1962. Cover by “Bob Kane” (Sheldon Moldoff) TM & © DC. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! Batman was in a scary place in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Both his books, Batman and Detective Comics, had reduced the Dark Knight from a... Continue Reading →

Palm Tree Sunset …

It's a shame that I have no idea where I took this photo. It almost looks like it's in the desert, but that one lone streetlight gives it away as somewhere, I think in San Diego, maybe in Balboa Park, across the pedestrian bridge into the flower and plant garden on the other side of... Continue Reading →

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