New Supergirl "fight song" video


Teaser video for upcoming Bob Dylan 1965-66 "bootleg" sets

Bob Dylan's recording 1965-66 recording sessions, which yielded the classic Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde albums, are being released Nov. 6 in a variety of configurations, ranging from an 18-CD box collecting pretty everything, to a six-CD "deluxe" version and a 2-CD "best of."

Here's a highlights video:


Coming Soon: Asterix and the Missing Scroll



The 36th Asterix book, and the second by new creative team Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, is set for release Oct. 22.

No plot details yet, but you can pre-order a copy now from Amazon.


Pop Artifacts: Vintage Marvel Comics pennant flags



Pop Focus: Vintage mystery and suspense paperbacks

No lecture this week, just a selection of pulpy goodness from our files.

Doesn't it seem like nearly any of these titles would make the great name for an album or song or, in the case of the first pic, a blog? I especially like the phrase "Calamity Town."






















Coming Soon: Ragnarok Volume 1: Last God Standing by Walter Simonson

Out Nov. 12.
Ragnarok... the Twilight of the Gods in Norse mythology... the destruction of the Nine Worlds. And now, three hundred years later, the birth of vengeance. Collects issues #1-6. Walter Simonson returns to comics in a BIG way with an all-new series.

Final trailer for James Bond: Spectre


Pop Culture Roundup: Kaluta's Carson; Boswell Sisters documentary; Master of Kung Fu Omnibus plans

Via The Golden Age: Michael W. Kaluta's adaptions of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Carson of Venus stories were published in DC Comics' Korak, Tarzan and Tarzan Family titles in the 1970s and are fabulous. They should be re-printed in a decent format. In the meantime, you can have a look at them here.

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A Kickstarter campaign is in the works to produce a documentary film about the fabulous Boswell Sisters.


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In news that will make Bronze Age comics fans (like me) swoon, Marvel has announced plans to collect its Master of Kung Fu in a series of four huge omnibus books starting next summer. Reprints up until now have been off the table due to rights issues, which are now evidently resolved.
The series began in 1974 with issue 15 of Special Marvel Edition magazine by Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin before it was renamed to The Hands of Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu, gained massive popularity and ran until issue 125 in 1983.

New Music Friday: Paul McCartney; Blitzen Trapper; Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., more

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