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Monthly Archives: June 2019
Suicide Club: Getcher Tickets
A week from today I’ll sit in for a talk with Signman: John Law — I see it’ll cost eight bucks to get in, but we’ll shoot for entertaining. John Q. Publick almost never gets to hear us rattling off yarns about … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Michael Connelly’s Earliest John Hancock
In a book of his crime fiction, that is. Welcome to Autograph Hound Super-Sunday the Second! A couple of months ago I stopped into the book-haunted quarters in the American Southwest where Dennis McMillan currently is making his lair. Probably … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Kevin Cook on Full Auto
And Kevin Cook — noted pulp and book collector — couldn’t resist sending in some remarks on the subject of autographs. I’m fairly sure Brian Leno has a bigger auto collection, but when it comes to pulp era signers, Kevin may … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged A. Merritt, All Around, All-Story, Autographs, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kevin Cook, Pulps, Seven Footprints to Satan, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: Edwin Baird Inscription
It’s Autograph Hound Saturday again, and we all know the biggest Autograph Hound making paw prints on These Mean Streets is none other than Brian Leno. Given this opportunity to display a few of the John Hancocks in his trove, … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit
Tagged Argosy, Autographs, Brian Leno, Edward Arnold, Edwin Baird, T.C. O'Donnell, The Heart of Virginia Keep, Weird Tales
Rediscovered: The Full Belknapius
Then again, I could start a regular Autograph Hound Super-Sunday feature. . . . Brian Leno’s mention yesterday that he picked up his Alfred Galpin/Frank Belknap Long item from the Necronomicon Press catalog of Long’s last library reminded me of something. Leno isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, Willeford
Tagged Autographs, Bill Clinton, Book Collecting, Brian Leno, Dennis Etchison, Frank Belknap Long, Necronomicon Press, Reign of Fear, Thomas M. Disch
Sinister Cinema: Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood
Our pal from Brooklyn Nathan Ward is kind of going nuts with Wild West stuff recently, and naturally he watched the new Deadwood movie, which led to some somber musings about the show being juggled differently, so Keith Carradine as Will … Continue reading
Posted in Film, News
Tagged Deadwood, Garrett Dillahunt, Keith Carradine, Martha Plimpton, Nathan Ward, Raising Hope, Will Bill Hickok
