Ohio-born cartoonist Gardner Rea was among the initial contributors to The New Yorker, but in his long career, his work was published by various magazines. Among them was Collier’s, whose cartoon editor, Gurney Williams, edited this volume of Rea’s cartoons first published in that magazine. The contents cover a wide variety of subjects, from the …
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In 1941, Bob Hope published They Got Me Covered, a humorous autobiography. It’s a light-hearted look at his early life that focuses chiefly on his career, and particularly on his radio program and his motion pictures. The writing and the tone are much like what one experienced in his monologues and conversations during his specials, …
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The February 13, 1926 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly featured four serials, including the start of Charles Francis Coe’s The Ranch Beyond, one novelette, four short stories, five poems, and a special insert that is a tribute to Frank A. Munsey, the founder of the magazine, who had passed away on December 22 of the …
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The February 6, 1926 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly featured four serials, including the start of The Seal of Satan, one novelette, five short stories, and five poems. I skipped the serials, as per my usual practice when I lack all the parts, but I read the remaining content. I found it another good issue, …
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It had been many years since I had last read the comic strip Fred Basset when I ran across this paperback and picked it up. I still found the often-jovial hound amusing, though I had forgotten — if I had ever noticed — that the strip was set in England. Worth a look for fans …
The third issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly for the year 1926 included the first installment of a new serial, Wild Paradise, by Kenneth Perkins; it’s a western adventure concerned with an Arabian stallion. Other serials in the issue include The Vanishing Professor (Part 2 of 4), There Goes the Bride (Part 4 of 5), and …
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My pulp magazine focus this year is on Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1926, ninety-five years ago. My aim is to read all the issues I possess (currently around 18) in the week that corresponds to the week the issue would have been available, bearing in mind that the date on pulp magazines was the date …
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The long-running series of volumes edited by Lawrence Lariar and collecting cartoons that appeared in various magazines throughout the year, which began in the midst of World War II, was nearing its end with this edition. The book contains the usual mix of topical cartoons and those with more timeless appeal; a few will be …
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