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 →
Fantastic Four Annual #1, July 1963. Cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. TM & © MARVEL. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! I cannot begin to tell you how excited 8-year-old me was to find out there was a Fantastic Four Annual coming out in the... Continue Reading →
Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! My father taught me two things in life: 1.) When it’s cold outside, make sure your head, hands and feet are kept as warm as possible, because you lose most of your body heat through your extremities. And 2.) Nobody is... Continue Reading →
I've been concerned lately about how much everything seems to be changing. Some of this is due to "progress" (definitely a subjective term), and some of it due to the pandemic, of course. Downtown San Diego is a definite microcosm of this. I don't have very many photos that document these changes, but here are... Continue Reading →
For episode 007 of Tales from My Spinner Rack, there’s only one comic book to fit the bill … featuring Bond, James Bond. Showcase #43, March 1963. James Bond TM & © EON Productions Limited and Danjaq LLC Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! Who would have... Continue Reading →
While I’m hopefully not running the risk of sounding like a motivational poster that involves a kitten dangling from a high wire with the partially obscured message in the photo above (taken by me on 2/04/2023 at the beach behind the Hotel del Coronado), I am writing this post in celebration of the two-year anniversary... Continue Reading →
Flash Gordon #1, September 1966, first King Comics issue. Art by Al Williamson. TM & © King Features Syndicate. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! That cover of Flash Gordon #1 heralded a couple of firsts when it premiered in the summer of 1966 (cover-dated September). It... Continue Reading →
We have a coven of crows near where I live and every evening, just before sunset, they become very active. It's at this point in time that I normally take a short walk, and I see them and hear them--really, REALLY hear them--as they circle around, cawing at each other (or no one in particular).... Continue Reading →
Remember when 2023 sounded so far in the future we’d all be flying around in jetpacks and reading would be automatically inserted in your brain, no page-turning necessary? Well, here we are and I’m still buying books. I’ve upped my GoodReads Challenge to 75 books this year, after reading 76 in 2022 (with an original... Continue Reading →
Superman #146, July 1961. Art by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye. TM & © DC. Click on the images in this post to see them larger on your screen! You know the drill: Strange visitor from another planet, baby Kal-El is launched in an experimental rocket to Earth by his parents Jor-El and Lara (no-El)... Continue Reading →
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