Coming up: Rhino's Super Rare Doo Wop Box

Out July 24, 2015 on five CDs.

Details:

From the team that brought you the original three Doo Wop Boxes comes this one, chock full of the rarest and greatest vocal group recordings from 1951-63, the golden years of Doo Wop. We present, not only some of the greatest names the Moonglows, the Flamingos, the Heartbeats but their hardest to find recordings too. Compiled and annotated by Grammy winner Billy Vera, this may be our most fabulous set yet. If you were to buy the original vinyl copies of these classics, it would cost you several hundred thousand dollars that is if you could find them. This is a Doo-Wop box that no serious collector can afford not to own. And youll never hear them sounding as good, thanks to master re-mastering expert Jerry Peterson.


See Wink for my review of the Alex Toth "genius" trilogy

Check out the nifty Wink books site for a photo-filled review by yours truly of IDW's brilliant three-book series focused on the comics and animation work of Alex Toth.


Vintage DC Comics superheroes stickers from Blue Ribbon Bread



Pop Focus: Leslie Charteris' "The Saint" in comic books

Leslie Charteris' "The Saint" has enjoyed a decades-long history in novels, films, TV and... comic books - at least on a few brief occasions.

Below are covers of the character's late 1940s series published by Avon in the U.S., along with covers published for a 1960s series that ran in England and Australia. I love the crisp, clean lines of the British covers, and their cool graphic design.

Images from the Grand Comics Database, which is still seeking scans of a few missing "Saint" covers.