Michael Golden Micronauts comic book covers Pt. 2









Golden Age Human Torch pin-up

Batman: Brave and the Bold pics: Catwoman! Red Tornado!

Here are some pics from an upcoming ep of "Batman: Brave and the Bold" on the Cartoon Network.

Hail the Tornado Tyrant!
"Red Tornado attempts to create a being that will possess the one thing he lacks: human emotion. His experiment goes awry after an attack from Major Disaster and his Tornado Champion quickly turns to the dark side as Tornado Tyrant, whose only goal is to destroy all humans!"























Pop links: Bazooka Joe movie?! V review! Gerry Anderson's UFO! Supermen don't smoke! Hembeck! UK Star Trek comics!

Seriously? A movie based on the Bazooka Joe comic strips in bubblegum?

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Check out a review of the series pilot for ABC's remake of "V."

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Gerry Anderson's live-action series "UFO" may get adapted for the big screen.

Check out the opening for the original:



Trivia note: This purple-haired beauty, Lt. Gay Ellis on the show, was played by Gabrielle Drake, sister of the late British folk-pop singer Nick Drake.



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Don't Stand There Gawping presents a couple of Superman anti-smoking ads.

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Fred Hembeck presents a great new batch of cartoons.



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Bully presents some cool UK Star Trek comics covers.

Upcoming pop culture DVDs

Upcoming DVDs of interest. Click the title links to pre-order from Amazon.


Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5


Dollhouse: Season One


Mad Men: Season 2


Entourage: The Complete Fifth Season


Grey Gardens (HBO movie)


Pushing Daisies: The Complete Second Season


Flight of the Conchords- The Complete Second Season


Green Lantern: First Flight (Two-Disc Special Edition)


The Lucy Show: The Official First Season


For All Mankind [Blu-ray]


Race to Witch Mountain (Two-Disc Extended Edition + Digital Copy)


G.I. Joe A Real American Hero: Season 1.1


Adam 12: Season Three


Super Friends: The Lost Episodes


Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series


The Donna Reed Show: The Complete Second Season


Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Vol. 1


Wolverine and the X-Men: Deadly Enemies


Donald in Mathmagic Land


The 10th Victim

Vintage Marvel Comics house ad: Human Torch and Sub-mariner

Pop links: Blue Beetle preview; 1980 Flash Gordon picture book; Harlem Globetrotters cartoon; Human Target previews; voice of Mickey Mouse passes

DC Comics shares pages of a new Blue Beetle series, which will be sharing space with Booster Gold in one of the publisher's new co-feature titles, which will also include a Doom Patrol/Metal Men book.



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Vinnie Rattolle shares the 1980 "Flash Gordon Book."



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Saturday Morning Blog presents an episode of the 1970s Harlem Globetrotters cartoon. Man, I remember that show. And I was so excited when the Globetrotters came to my town.



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Sci Fi Wire shares four clips from Fox TV's upcoming "Human Target" series.

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Wayne Allwine, who provided the voice of Mickey Mouse over the past 32 years, has died at age 62.

He was only the third person to lend his voice to the famed rodent. Disney himself started voicing Mickey Mouse in 1928, when he made his talking debut in "Steamboat Willie." Jimmy Macdonald took over the responsibilities in 1947 and handed over the reins to his protege Allwine in 1977.

Allwine provided Mickey's voice for such movies as "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983), "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), and "The Prince and the Pauper" (1990). He also brought Mickey to life for Disney theme parks, television, radio and live stage events

Michael Golden Micronauts comic book covers Pt. 1









Vintage Marvel Comics house ad: Sub-mariner

Pop link: Dylan's teen poem! Juliet Landau joins Green Lantern Corps! Ian Hunter and Mott! Eisner! Krenkel!

UPDATE! Turns out the poem mentioned below isn't by Bob Dylan, but merely his reworked lyrics to a song by Hank Snow. Details here.

A poem that Bob Dylan wrote at summer camp at age 16 is being auctioned off. It reads:

Little Buddy

Broken hearted and so sad
Big blue eyes all covered with tears
Was a picture of sorrow to see

Kneeling close to the side
Of his pal and only pride
A little lad, these words he told me

He was such a lovely doggy
And to me he was such fun
But today as we played by the way

A drunken man got mad at him
Because he barked in joy
He beat him and he's dying here today

Will you call the doctor please
And tell him if he comes right now
He'll save my precious doggy here he lay

Then he left the fluffy head
But his little dog was dead
Just a shiver and he slowly passed away

He didn't know his dog had died
So I told him as he cried
Come with me son we'll get that doctor right away

But when I returned
He had his little pal upon his knee
And the teardrops, they were blinding his big blue eyes

Your too late sir my doggy's dead
And no one can save him now
But I'll meet my precious buddy up in the sky

By a tiny narrow grave
Where the willows sadly wave
Are the words so clear you're sure to find

Little Buddy Rest In Peace
God Will Watch You Thru The Years
Cause I Told You In My Dreams That You
Were Mine


Bobby Zimmerman

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Juliet Landau talks about her voice role in the upcoming direct-to-DVD Green Lantern animated film.

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Singer Ian Hunter talks about his upcoming solo album, plus planned Mott the Hoople 40th anniversary reunion gigs.

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The Pictorial Arts
profiles Will Eisner's Connie, who appeared in the artist's U.S. Army maintenance publication P*S.



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Golden Age Comic Book Stories shares illustration art by Roy Krenkel for Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Cave Girl."

New comics May 20, 2009

Releases of note this week.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER OMNIBUS VOL. 7 Dark Horse is doing a great job with these reasonably priced omnibi.

BATMAN BATTLE FOR THE COWL #3 The wind-up of this big event denouement. I suppose here's where they'll tell us (maybe?) who'll be Batman until Bruce Wayne comes back.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #594 I'm enjoying this current Mark Waid-written arc.

HULK #12 I picked up Hulk #11 last month and, you know what, it's big dumb fun, just the way Hulk oughtta be. I detect myself slowly gravitating toward reading monthly funny books again. I suppose I better do so while they're still around.