Comic Strip Review: Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Volume 13: 1950-1951 IDW, through the Library of American Comics imprint, has been reprinting the long-running Dick Tracy comic strip in over-sized volumes, starting from its 1931 beginnings. This volume covers the turn of the decade from the 1940s to the early 1950s. We begin with a callback… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Volume 13 1950-1951
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Book Review: They Talked to a Stranger
Book Review: They Talked to a Stranger by Len O’Connor This book is centered around ten interviews with juvenile delinquents by then-radio reporter Len O’Connor in 1950s Chicago. Each of the boys is identified with a nickname, some their actual nickname, others chosen to protect their identities. They’re asked how they got into a… Continue reading Book Review: They Talked to a Stranger
Book Review: Some Kind of Peace
Book Review: Some Kind of Peace by Camilla Grebe & Asa Traff Disclosure: I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. Siri Bergman is a Stockholm psychologist who is suffering from the loss of her husband, their unborn child and a crippling fear of darkness. So… Continue reading Book Review: Some Kind of Peace
Book Review: Blood Lance
Book Review: Blood Lance by Jeri Westerson This is the fifth Crispin Guest novel, featuring a disgraced knight of the Fourteenth Century who takes up a career of detection, earning the nickname “Tracker.” I have not read the previous volumes. Guest happens to witness a man falling from a bridge into the Thames. By the… Continue reading Book Review: Blood Lance
Book Review: The Avenger #7 (Murder On Wheels, The Three Gold Crowns and Death To the Avenger)
Book Review: The Avenger #7 (Murder On Wheels, The Three Gold Crowns and Death To the Avenger) The Avenger is one of the classic hero pulp characters, a man so strongly affected by a horrific crime that all color drained from his skin and hair, and his face became frozen. Determined that no one else… Continue reading Book Review: The Avenger #7 (Murder On Wheels, The Three Gold Crowns and Death To the Avenger)