Nostalgia Digest [Book 48, Chap. 2, Spring 2022, April-May-June 2022] ed. Steve Darnall (Funny Valentine Press, $5.00, 64pp, digest) Cover: Bing Crosby
1 • Hello, Out There in Radioland! • Steve Darnall • ed
2 • A Few Moments With . . . Leonard Maltin • Steve Darnall • iv
4 • Bing Crosby, Transcribed • Martin Grams, Jr. • ar
10 • Television’s First Family [Mary Kay and Johnny] • Garry Berman • ar
14 • Necrology of 2021 • Anon • ob
22 • Confessions of a Baseball Card Collector • Dave Reddall • ar
25 • CELEBio: Gene Kelly • Official Bio by MGM 1954 • bg
28 • The Man of Many Voices [Santos Ortega] • Denise Noe • ar
32 • Those Were the Days [program guide April-May-June] • Anon • schedule
40 • Don’t Make Me Over [Ann Sheridan] • Jordan Elliott • ar
46 • Suspense: The Final Year • Keith Scott • ar
54 • Having a Wonderful Crime [Burke’s Law] • Michael Barrett • ar
61 • Mail Call • lc
Contents formatted for inclusion in Phil Stephensen-Payne’s Galatic Central reference website.
FictionMags Index Family Item Types & Other Abbreviations key.
Nostalgia Digest [Book 48, Chap. 1, Summer 2021, January-February-March 2022] ed. Steve Darnall (Funny Valentine Press, $5.00, 64pp, digest) Cover: Humphrey Bogart 1 • Nostalgia Digital. . er, Digest • Steve Darnall • ed 4 • A Few Moments With . . . Carol Burnett • Steve Darnall • iv 6 • King of the Underworld [Humphrey Bogart] • Stone Wallace • ar 14 • Too Marvelous for Words [Johnny Mercer] • Ted Mosser • ar 20 • A Small Screen Holiday • Walter Scannell • ar 28 • And a Little Child Shall Lead Them {Amosandra doll] • Mark Price • ar 32 • Those Were the Days [program guide January-February-March] • Anon • schedule 40 • A Looney Lifesaver [Mel Blanc] • Dennis Goodwin • ar 46 • Printing the Legend [Biopics] • Michael Barrett • ar 52 • The Morse Code [Carlton E. Morse] • Jordan Elliott • ar 60 • Mail Call • lc
Contents formatted for inclusion in Phil Stephensen-Payne’s Galatic Central reference website. FictionMags Index Family Item Types & Other Abbreviations key.
Nostalgia Digest [Book 47, Chap. 4, Autumn 2021, October-November-December 2021] ed. Steve Darnall (Funny Valentine Press, $5.00, 64pp, digest) Cover: Bob Hope 1 • Hello, Out There in Radioland! • Steve Darnall • ed 2 • A Few Moments With . . . George Chakitis • Anon • ar 4 • So Many Memories, So Many Thanks [Bob Hope] • Martha Bolton & Linda Hope • ar 11 • Those Are History • Steve Darnall • ar 12 • Hark, Hark, the Clark [Chicago’s Clark Theater] • Wayne Klatt • ar 16 • Solid as a Rock [Lurene Tuttle] • Denise Noe • ar 23 • No Batteries Required [yo-yos] • Dave Reddall • ar 26 • Trading Places • Gene Popa • ar 32 • Those Were the Days [program guide October-November-December] • Anon • schedule 40 • Mr. Universe [Buster Crabbe] • John J. May • ar 48 • Dragnet Revisited • Jim Dohren • ar 54 • Little Big Man [Peter Lorre] • Michael Barrett • ar 60 • Mail Call • lc
Contents formatted for inclusion in Phil Stephensen-Payne’s Galatic Central reference website. FictionMags Index Family Item Types & Other Abbreviations key.
Nostalgia Digest [Book 47, Chap. 3, Summer 2021, July-August-September 2021] ed. Steve Darnall (Funny Valentine Press, $4.50, 64pp, digest) Cover: Ernie Kovacs 1 • Hello, Out There in Radioland! • Steve Darnall • ed 2 • A Few Moments With . . . Hank Garrett • Anon • ar 4 • The Year of Joltin’ Joe [Joe DiMaggio] • Walter Scannell • ar 8 • Welcome to Kovacsland [Ernie Kovacs] • Jordan Elliott • ar 16 • CeleBio: Dorothy Lamour • Paramount Pictures 1948 • ar 20 • The Time of Your Life [Ralph Edwards] • Martin Grams Jr. • ar 26 • Beware… of It! Them! and The Thing • Wayne Klatt • ar 32 • Those Were the Days [program guide July-August-September] • Anon • schedule 40 • An Actor of Substance [Charles Laughton] • Stone Wallace • ar 48 • Young Man with a Duck [Joe Penner] • Garry Berman • ar 52 • The Little Studio That Could [Republic Pictures] • Bob Kolososki • ar 60 • Mail Call • lc
Contents formatted for inclusion in Phil Stephensen-Payne’s Galatic Central reference website. FictionMags Index Family Item Types & Other Abbreviations key.
Nostalgia Digest [Book 47, Chap. 2, Spring 2021, April-May-June 2021] ed. Steve Darnall (Funny Valentine Press, $4.50, 64pp, digest) Cover: Gracie Allen 1 • Hello, Out There in Radioland! • Steve Darnall • ed 4 • The People’s Choice [Gracie Allen] • Denise Noe • ar 10 • Necrology for 2020 • Anon • ar 18 • Sweet Dreams [Soda Fountains] • Dorothy Rieke • ar 22 • Father (usually) Knew Best • Dan McGuire • ar 26 • Fantastic Voyage [Fantastic Four] • Jordan Elliott • ar 32 • Those Were the Days [program guide April-May-June] • Anon • schedule 40 • Unforgettable… [Nat “King” Cole] • Phil Marsh • ar 46 • Bring on the Heavies [Sydney Greenstreet, Conrad Veidt, Laird Cregar, Lionel Atwill, George Zucco, George Macready, Hope Emerson] Walter Scannell • ar 54 • From Underwater to Outer Space [Lloyd Bridges] • Deborah • ar 60 • Mail Call • lc
Contents formatted for inclusion in Phil Stephensen-Payne’s Galatic Central reference website. FictionMags Index Family Item Types & Other Abbreviations key.
Nostaglia Digest Winter 2021 The remarkable life of OLIVIA de HAVILLAND, Hollywood legend The screen partnership of NELSON EDDY and JEANETTE MacDONALD How THE SHADOW became one of radio’s great heroes From Teddy Bears to Barbie dolls: The world’s most famous Christmas gifts The career of DANNY THOMAS, and a promise he kept Agnes Moorehead, Richard Widmark and other radio actors who became movie stars A complete listing for Steve Darnall’s Those Were The Days! FLOYD GIBBONS, the globe-trotting reporter who became a radio star PLUS: Memories of mimeograph machines; the way televisions used to be; more! Ordering Information
Status Report Finished up The Digest Enthusiast No. 13 and ordered a print proof from Lulu.com this week. Hopefully, the proof will show up next week and everything will align with the targeted Dec. 18th release. Meanwhile, prep on the Kindle and Magzter versions kept me busy.
Here’s a cover preview of the issue, with a painting by Brian Buniak.
In other updates, Ran Scott continued his work creating artwork for Pulp Modern Vol. 2 No. 6.
No news from Marc Myers on the print proof from Lulu.com on his Roman Scott collection–with a little luck he can release it next week.
Our current issue: The Digest Enthusiast No. 12 is available in print at Lulu.com and Amazon, and in digital formats at Kindle Books and Magzter.
New Releases Guns+Tacos Season 2 Episode 10: A Taco, A T-Bird, A Beretta and One Furious Night by Ann Aptaker When Maureen learns that Leo “Riddles” Ridley is back in Chicago, the screaming harridan of violence and vengeance is unmuzzled in Maureen’s troubled head. The harridan only quiets when fed steady doses of death, which Maureen is only too happy to provide, especially if Riddles is the on the menu. She’ll make him suffer for his betrayal, for abandoning her to the fate of prison for her work as a member of Riddles’ outfit.
Subscribe to Guns+Tacos Season 2 at Down & Out Books: • Trade Paperback — $32.95 (includes all six digital episodes plus a subscriber-exclusive short story and FREE shipping within the Continental U.S.!) • Digital Formats — $11.95 (includes all six digital episodes plus a subscriber-exclusive short story)
Digest Magazine Blogs R.T. Raichev, whose story “The Other Imelda” will see print in EQMM Nov/Dec 2020 and essay “Murderous Decoys—Philip MacDonald and ‘Loves Lies Bleeding’” appears at Something is Going to Happen.
Gabrial Hart reviews Slow Bear by Anthony Neil Smith at EconoClash Review.
TDE Contributors’ Corner Uncle Jack (Seabrook) and Cousin Peter (Enfantino) review Eerie No. 48, Vampirella No. 25, and Creepy No. 54 at bare•bones e-zine.
Readin’ and Writin’ Finished reading the current issue of Nostalgia Digest (Autumn 2020) this week. Editor/publisher Steve Darnall starts things off with “Reflections of a Golden Age” highlighting 42 milestones over radio’s 100-year history. The issue is packed with entertaining articles, but among my favorites were Wayne Klatt’s “Pleasant Screams” about radio’s horror programs, and the two biographies of Alan Ladd and Raymond Massey, by Walter Scannel and Stone Wallace, respectively.
Also wrapped up Savage Season by Joe Lansdale, the first Hap and Leonard novel. It was great fun, full of action, desperate characters, and lots of heart. If you’ve enjoyed the TV series, the source material is well worth your time.
Received an article from Vince Nowell, Sr. for TDE13 on pulps and digests edited by Robert A.W. Lowndes. I’m still gathering cover images for it, but I’m looking forward to taking it to layout.
Our current issue: The Digest Enthusiast No. 12 is available in print at Lulu.com and Amazon, and in digital formats at Kindle Books and Magzter.
Vintage SF Digest Worlds Beyond Feb. 1951 Inside covers: Contributor Bios Contents Page Jack Vance “Brain of the Galaxy” Lester del Rey “The Deadliest Female” H.B. Hickey “Like a Bird, Like a Fish” Lord Dunsany “The Old Brown Coat” Poul Anderson “The Acolytes” Walter C. Davies “Forgotten Tongue” Richard Matheson “Clothes Make the Man” C.M. Kornbluth “The Rocket of 1955” The Dissecting Table (Book Reviews) Harry Harrison “Rock Diver” Halliday Sutherland “Valley of Doom” In the Next Issue
Worlds Beyond Vol. 1 No. 3 Feb. 1951 Editor: Damon Knight Cover: Van Dongen Interior Art: Harrison, Jannace, Napoli 5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 25¢
New Releases Nostalgia Digest Autumn 2020 Contents Steve Darnall “Hello, Out There in Radioland!” Steve Darnall “Reflections of a Golden Age” (cover story) Dan McGuire “At This Theatre Next Week” Chapter Four Jordan Elliott “Man and Superman” (Clayton Collyer) Clair Schulz “Smilin’ Through” (Pegy Lynch) Walter Scannell “This Ladd for Hire” (Alan Ladd) Wayne Klatt “Pleasant Screams” (radio’s scary shows) Alex Udvary “Hollywood Madmen” (Clark & McCullogh) Stone Wallace “Prince of Players” (Raymond Massey) Mail Call Plus, the Radio Program Guide for Those Were the Days and WGN Radio Theatre
Nostalgia Digest Book 46 Chapter 4 Autumn 2020 Editor: Steve Darnall Cover: Mark Braun 5.5” x 8.5” 64 pages, b&w interior $4.50 on newsstands Four-issue subscription $17 Eight-issue subscription $30 Nostalgia Digest website
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2020 Contents Page Linda Landrigan: A Word of Thanks The Lineup Elliot F. Sweeney “Mrs. White Hart” art by Kimberly Cho Dan Crawford “Storage” Jane Pendjiky “Fruiting Bodies” Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “The Handoff” Christopher Latragna “Call it Sad, Call it Funny” Sharon Jarvis “Who Killed What’s Her Name?” Laurel Flores Fantauzzo: Booked and Printed James Sallis “The Beauty of Sunsets” Wouter Boonstra “Archored” translated from the Dutch by Josh Pachter Steven Gore “Inflection” art by Daniel Zalkus Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Hitch (puzzle, solution on page 192) Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle, solution on page 192) Richard Freeborn “Family Harmony” John Paul Davies “Limited Edition” Dave Zeltserman “Past Due” art by Kevin Speidell Michael Nethercott “Old Echoes” Tom Larsen “Buscando Tupac” Bob Tippee “You Said This Was Business” Josh Pachter selects/introduces a Mystery Classic: “Thubway Tham’s Hoodoo Roll” by Johnston McCulley (Detective Story Magazine Nov. 12, 1921) Lee Lofland’s Case File: Excited Delirium The Story That Won (May/Jun) “Never a Dull Moment in the Kitchen” by Rosemary Herbert Coming in AHMM Nov/Dec 2020 Directory of Services/Indicia
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 65 No. 9 & 10 Sep/Oct 2020 Publisher: Peter Kanter Editor: Linda Landrigan Managing Editor: Jackie Sherbow Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon Senior ADs: Victoria Green, Thomas Slosser Cover: Erika Steiskal 192 pages $7.99 on newsstands until Oct. 20, 2020 Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website
Amazing Selects No. 3: Adrift in the Sea of Souls by David Gerrold Contents Page Adam-Troy Castro’s Introduction: The Sprung Chicken Steve Davidson’s Publisher’s Note: David Gerrold David Gerrold “Adrift in the Sea of Souls” David Gerrold “The White Piano” David Gerrold “Jacob in Manhattan” Author’s Afterword About the Author Art the Artist: M.D. Jackson
Amazing Selects No. 3 Publisher: Steve Davidson Cover and interior artwork M.D. Jackson 5.5” x 8.5” 170 pages Print $8.99 Kindle $8.99 Amazing Stories website
Also out is Mystery Weekly Magazine Sep. 2020, with stories by Nick LeGrand, Edward Lodi, Joseph S. Walker, Benjamin Mark, William Burton McCormick, Shea E. Butler, Stan Dryer, and Eric B. Rurark. Available in print $7.99 and Kindle $3.99
Digest Magazine Reviews John O’Neill gives an overview of the “Big 5” digests for Sep/Oct 2020 at Black Gate.
Robert Lopresti reviews Joseph S. Walker’s “Golden Lives” from Mystery Weekly Magazine Sep. 2020 at Little Big Crimes.
David Levinson reviews Worlds of If Oct. 1965 at Galactic Journey.
Kevin Tipple reviews Mystery Weekly Magazine April 2020 at Kevin’s Corner.
Digest Magazine Writers’ Updates Alan Dean Foster, whose “The Treasure of the Lugar Morto” appears in Analog Sep/Oct 2020, talks about writing at The Astounding Analog Companion.
Iris Hockaday, whose story “The Thunderstorm” appears in EQMM Jul/Aug 2020, reflects on “mystery” at Something is Going to Happen.
Jason Sandford on “The Eight-Thousanders” from Asimov’s Sep/Ocy 2020 at From Earth to the Stars.
Storytime Charlie Cancel’s “R/amitheasshole Posted by Tammy Whammy 2 Hours Ago” at Pulp Modern Flash.
Josh Pachter reads his “The Secret Lagoon” from EQMM Sep/Oct 2019 at Podomatic.
Zine Scene Jim Main’sBrain Freeze No. 5 was released this week. Its contributor list is too long to re-create here, but includes TDE illustrator Rick McCollum. The 52-page zine is available for $6.25 post paid from: Main Enterprises PO Box 93 New Milford, CT 06776
TDE Contributors’ Corner Jack Seabrook and Peter Enfantino review The Brave and the Bold No. 167, Batman No. 328, and Detective No. 495 at bare•bones e-zine.
Richard Kellogg sent a press release for his new book: Barry Baskerville’s Christmas Mystery (Airship 27, 2020) by Richard Kellogg and lavishly illustrated by Gary Kato, is now available from Amazon.com. In the seventh entry of this series of mysteries for children, Barry uses all his skills of observation and deduction to identify a thief who has been stealing Christmas trees from the lawns of the residents of Watsonville. Young readers will learn about the methods used by Sherlock Holmes while improving their own problem-solving skills. Sherlockians will find the book a great holiday gift for their children and grandchildren.
Jack Seabrook’s The Hitchcock Project—Harold Swanton Part Seven: Bang! You’re Dead at bare•bones e-zine.
Readin’ and Writin’ Alec Cizak offers creative writing tips on plotting at ACTV.
Did a fair about of reading this week, but didn’t finish any one of the books or digests currently in play. More next week.
Finished retouching the pages of Head No. 1 for Marc Myer’s upcoming Roman Scott collection.
This week’s progress on TDE13: Steve Carper sent nearly a dozen cover scans for his upcoming article on digest SF novels. Jack Seabrook tapped Walker Martin for help securing the final images from Mystery Book Magazine No. 16, for Jack’s article on Leo Marr. And the color work on Bob Vojtko’s six gag cartoons was completed. Four will appear on one page I’ve dubbed “Zowie” in tribute to the Lopez digest magazine from the 1970s.
Our current issue: The Digest Enthusiast No. 12 is available in print at Lulu.com and Amazon, and in digital formats at Kindle Books and Magzter.
Vintage Science Fiction Digest Galaxy Aug. 1977 Inside front cover by James R. Odbert Contents Page Calendar James Patrick Bean’s Editorial: Galaxy and the Galaxy Harbert Charles Petley “…and Earth So Far Away” art by Stephen Fabian Frederik Pohl: Postscript to Gateway Charles Sheffield “Perfectly Safe, Nothing to Worry About” Jerry Pournelle, PhD: A Step Farther Out (science fact) Frank Herbert “The Dosadi Experiment” Richard E. Geis: The Alien Viewpoint art by Tim Kirk Arsen Darnay “Pheromonal Fountain” Spider Robinson: Galaxy Bookshelf Jay Brandon “The All-Soul is Calling Quinlan” art by Stephen Fabian Directions (letter pages) Galaxy/If SF Mart (classified ads)
Galaxy Science Fiction Vol 38 No. 6 August 1977 Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson Editor: James Patrick Baen Art Director: Stephen Fabian Assistant Editor: Elaine Will Science Editor: J.E. Pournelle, PhD Contributing Editor: Spider Robinson Consulting Editor: Theodore Sturgeon Cover: Kelly Freas 5.25” x 7.75” 160 pages $1.25
New Releases Pulp Modern Vol. 2 No. 5 Summer 2020 Contents Page Alec Cizak: From the Editor Andrew Bourelle “Companion” Peter W.J. Hayes “The Bowie Knife” Mandi Jourdan “These Violent Delights” “Doc” Clancy “Ghost Town” Timothy Friend “Burnin’ Love” Serena Jayne “Necessary Evils” Adam S. Furman “Intercession” Victoria Weisfeld “The Unbroken Circle” Nils Gilbertson “How to Make a Boulevardier”
Publishers: Uncle B Publications & Larque Press LLC Editor: Alec Cizak Design: Richard Krauss Cover: Rick McCollum Interior Artwork: Ran Scott Cartoons: Bob Vojtko 5.5” x 8.5” 132 pages Print $6.99 Kindle $2.99
Editor Alec Cizak reads his introduction to the issue on ACTV.
The Jul/Aug 2020 issues of Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen are now available. For contents click on their titles.
Amazing Stories has launched a Kickstarter Campaign to help fund another four issues of the magazine.
Storytime The second issue of Close to the Bone is out with crime fiction and other genres. Free download.
Digest Magazine Blogs Robert Reed on “Who Carries the World” from F&SF May/Jun 2020 at Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Uncle Jack (Seabrook) and Cousin Peter (Enfantino) review Vampirella No. 17, Eerie No. 40, and Creepy No. 46 at bare•bones e-zine.
Readin’ and Writin’ There’s no other magazine I can think of like Nostalgia Digest. It’s kind of like TV Guide, only for radio; radio from its golden era celebrated anew every Saturday on WDCB and WGN, on air and online. The quarterly Digest shares the schedules and synopsis of all the shows and rounds out every issue with nearly a dozen articles on celebrities, popular culture, and history. The Summer 2020 edition, which I read this week, is the all-vintage swimsuit issue, featuring celebrities Ava Gardner, Doris Day, Anne Baxter, Kirk Douglas, Loretta Young, Alexis Smith, Jackie Cooper, Leila Ernest, Kay Stewart, Eddie Bracken, Richard Conte, Gene Tierney, Beryl Vaughn, Jimmy Durante, Maureen O’Hara, Marie Windsor, and Ginger Rogers. The articles on Keir Dullea, Andy Griffith, Jack Pearl, wartime baseball, the Chautauqua movement, and Jimmy Stewart were all enlightening and entertaining. My thanks to Editor, Publisher, and Host Steve Darnall for another great issue, and for all you do to keep old time radio and those thrilling days of yesteryear alive!
Also read the second issue of Verdict, for a work-in-progress article. Haven’t decided yet if it’s for The Digest Enthusiast No. 13, or elsewhere. Verdict No. 2 a terrific issue of a terrific magazine. Sad it only lasted four issues. Some strong entries here by Samuel Blas, Bruno Fischer, Dorothy B. Hughes, Henry Kane, Cornell Woolrich and of course Rex Stout, whose Neo Wolfe novel Fer De Lance is serialized.
Many thanks to Kevin Tipple for highlighting Michael Bracken’s story “El Despoblado” in The Digest Enthusiast No. 12 at The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog.
Thanks also to David Haden of Tentaclii, an H.P. Lovecraft blog, for including The Digest Enthusiast No. 12 in a post this week.
Received comp copies of the new issue of The Digest Enthusiast No. 12 from the printer and began mailing them out to contributors. This time the printed book was produced by Lulu.com and I’m very pleased with the results. Their all-new website and new standard color option enabled this edition to include a full color interior at a reasonable, if not inexpensive, price. The book is available in print at lulu.com and for Kindle and Magzter. Among many other features is Lester del Rey’s The Five Ages of Science Fiction by Ward Smith.
New Releases Nostalgia Digest Summer 2020 Contents Steve Darnall “Hello, Out There in Radioland!” A Few Moments with . . . Keir Dullea CeleBio: Barbara Stanwyck (Paramount Pictures, 1949) Randy Turner “What it was was Mayberry” (The Andy Griffith Show) Al Doyle “Play Ball?” When baseball’s top players went to War, a wave of youngsters. veterans and amputees ensured the game would go on. Garry Berman “Vass You Dere, Sharlie?” Jack Pearl and the rise and fall of Baron Munchausen. Dan McGuire “At This Theatre Next Week” Chapter Three David Rutter “Summers of Enlightenment” How the Chautauqua movement conquered America…by offering its citizens “all things in life.” Swimsuit Spotlight: Ava Gardner, Doris Day, Anne Baxter, Kirk Douglas, Loretta Young, Alexis Smith, Jackie Cooper, Leila Ernest, Kay Stewart, Eddie Bracken, Richard Conte, Gene Tierney, Beryl Vaughn, Jimmy Durante, Maureen O’Hara, Marie Windsor, and Ginger Rogers. Annette Bochenek “Our (Every)man in Hollywood” James Stewart became a movie star, but never forgot his small-town roots. Mail Call
Plus, the Radio Program Guide for Those Were the Days and WGN Radio Theatre
Nostalgia Digest Book 46 Chapter 3 Summer 2020 Editor: Steve Darnall 5.5” x 8.5” 64 pages, b&w interior $4.50 on newsstands Four-issue subscription $17 Eight-issue subscription $30 Nostalgia Digest website
Mystery Weekly Digest June 2020 Contents Page M.C. Tuggle “The Calculus of Karma” Martin Hill Ortiz “Afterglow” Luke Foster “Seat 9B” Carl Robinette “Nothing Doing” Allan Durand “Ancient Cypress” Arthur Vidro “Gli or Nogt?” Robert Lopresti “In Praise of My Assassin” Tammy Huffman “Angels Stirring” Peter DiChellis “Gallery Thief” (A You-Solve-It)
Mystery Weekly Magazine No. 58 June 2020 Publisher: Chuck Carter Editor: Kerry Carter Cover: Robin Grenville-Evans 7.5” x 9.75” 94 pages Print $6.99 Kindle $3.99 MWM Website
The history of Los Angeles figures prominently in Paul D. Marks’ just-released novel, The Blues Don’t Care (Down & Out Books). In his post this week he shares research on The Rex, a gambling boat anchored just beyond the three-mile limit, at SleuthSayers. Paul writes about The First Two Pages of the new novel at Art Taylor’s blog.
Digest Magazine Reviews Paul Fraser reviews The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction and the F&SF issues from whence the stories came at SF Magazines
Kevin Tipple reviews Mystery Weekly Magazine Feb. 2020 at Kevin’s Corner.
James Reasoner reviews Commando: Codename Warlord at Rough Edges.
David Levinson reviews Worlds of If July 1965 at Galactic Journey.
Storytime Nick Kolakowski’s “Scapegoat” at Rusty Barnes’Tough Crime.
Charlotte Platt’s story “Meet the Family,” read by JD Graves for PodClash No. 3 at EconoClash Review.
Robert Lopresti posts his story “Nobody Gets Killed” from AHMM Mar/Apr 2018 at his blog.
Digest Magazine Blogs Richard Larson discusses hi story “Warm Math” from F&SF May/Jun 2020 at Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Robert Lopresti talks about his “In Praise of My Assassin” from MWM June 2020 at SleuthSayers.
TDE Contributors’ Corner Jack Seabrook and Peter Enfantino review Batman No. 321, The Brave and the Bold No. 160, and Detective Comics No. 488 at bare•bones e-zine.
Jack Seabrook reviews “The Monkey’s Paw—A Retelling” from The Alfred Hitchcock Hour at bare•bones e-zine.
Zine Scene Jim Main set out to publish a new mini comic called Brain Freeze and put out a call for SF-inspired contributions. The response was tremendous, but as they arrived he worried the repro size wouldn’t really do justice to the detailed artwork many artists sent in. So he jumped up to digest-manga-size, splitting the book into two parts to accommodate all the material. Brian Freeze No. 1 parts A and B are $3.00 each postage paid. Part A features comic and illos by John Lambert, Kevin Duncan, Verl Holt Bond, Steve Shipley, Doug Holverson, Bob Vojtko, Doc Boucher, Jon Lawrence, and Brian D. Leonard. While Part B features Jason Bullock, Jerzy Szotek, Carl Taylor, George Lane III, Tony Lorenz, and more from Steve Shipley, Jon Law- rence, John Lambert, Doug Holverson, and Brian D. Leonard. Contact Jim via FaceBook for more ordering info.
Readin’ and Writin’ Haven’t read a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs in quite a few years so I decided to revisit the author with an Ace paperback edition kicking around for nearly as long. The Eternal Savage, originally titled The Eternal Lover. The science fiction aspect of this one is time travel, the necessary element that allows a prehistoric man to visit the jungles of Lord Greystoke. But Tarzan is mentioned only in passing, the caveman, Nu is the hero. He shares the spotlight with Nat-ul, the impossibly beautiful female lead. The plot and romance are serviceable, it’s the adventure and action where Burroughs excels and The Eternal Savage was quite satisfying, if not the best of others I’ve read long ago.
Finished reading Fate No. 735 on Monday night. Editor Phyllis Galde use her editorial to honor the memory of her friend and co-editor Rosemary Ellen Guiley who passed in July 2019. Susan Swan serves as Senior Editor on this edition that includes articles on animals lost on the Titanic, encounters with Shadow People, Sumerian “Gardener’s Sin,” the Devil’s footprints, monster hotspot Payson, Arizona, crystal skulls, UFO theories, a history of tattooing, and plenty of other true reports of the strange and unknown. In sum: a welcome edition for Spring 2020.
Finally, I read Black Gat Book No. 20: Madball by Fredric Brown. Crimes among the carneys. Stellar cast of cronies caught in a web of avarice, cons, lust, and murder. A classic novel, reprinted in a beautifully designed new package, still leveraging the best of the past, but with bright, white paper stock the first edition never glimpsed in the madball.
Lulu.com has shipped the proof of TDE12 and I anxiously await its arrival.
TDE Advertisers The latest Bud Plant’s Incredible Catalog (Early Summer 2020) arrived this week and I was happy to see it included a listing for The Digest Enthusiast No. 11. Sign-up to Bud’s weekly eNewsletter or download the catalog at Bud’s Art Books.
Vintage Western Digest Zane Grey Western Magazine Dec. 1969 Leo Margulies: The Open Trail (introduction) Contents Page Romer Zane Grey “The Other Side of the Canyon” Clay Ringold “A Question of Faith” James McKimmey “Showdown at Blue Bluff” Paul Clane “Even Shoot-Out” Walter Dallas’ A Carload of Killers Zane Grey “The Camp Robber” (A Zane Grey Masterpiece) Owen Wister “Timerline” Gil Brewer “Pawnee” C. Hall Thompson “Gun Smart”
Zane Grey Western Magazine Vol.1 No. 3 Dec. 1969 Publisher: Leo Margulies Editorial Director: Cylvia Kleinman Advisory Editor: Romer Grey Advisory Editor: Dr. Loren Grey 5.25” x 7.75” 128 pages 50¢ cover price
Nostalgia Digest [Book 48, Chap. 2, Spring 2022, April-May-June 2022] ed. Steve Darnall (Funny Valentine Press, $5.00, 64pp, digest) Cover: Bing Crosby
