Pop culture roundup: Comic organizer! Orson Welles! Beatles! Pythons! Batman!

Via Blog into Mystery: Old school tech for keeping track of your comics collection.


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Read Orson Welles' FBI file.
In 1945 you can see the hysteria of the Red Scare cranking into gear. Welles’ support of the UN is held against him, and several times it is mentioned as a point of some interest that Welles undertook some travel for, or otherwise was working at the behest of Franklin Roosevelt, who, let’s remember, was the president of the United States at the time. Similarly, wartime activities in support of the USSR—at the time an ally of the United States in the global conflict known as “World War II” against Nazi Germany—that’s also used as evidence that Welles is probably a subversive.
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NBC has turned up the audio -- no video -- of the first U.S. TV coverage of the Beatles, dating Nov. 18, 1963, and reported by broadcaster Edwin Newman.

Here's another entertaining early news story about the group.



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Monty Python reunites! Most of them, anyway!
In a nod to Graham Chapman, a Python member who died in 1989, a sign over the stage read: “Monty Python Live (mostly). One down, five to go.”


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Via the Golden Age: Check out this cool, vintage promo book for the 1940s Batman newspaper strip.



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