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This week:

'Trig' Matson #1 which features a Western hero, but it also has an aeronautical duo of adventurers in one backup feature, and a trio of humorous detectives in the other

Lucky 'magpie' Comic, another 52 page Frank Johnson one-off anthology

I really hope "Scanilations" will finally take off. I think they are such a cool idea. So, it's a "Yes From Me"!

Thanks, Mark,
The 3rd Dutch Scanlation book I've chosen for this Sunday's new Books for Review and Analysis by our Reading Group has just been uploaded by Crashryan.  It needs Administrator approval to be visible to members and other readers. So, I hope you or another administrator will be able to approve it today or tomorrow.

Thanks for your support in this new CB+ section, and with our Reading Group.  I'll soon start translating, "Bob Crack 1", another Golden Age Beeldroman (digest-size graphic novel) series from Jago Uitgevers (Publishers).

I really hope "Scanilations" will finally take off. I think they are such a cool idea. So, it's a "Yes From Me"!

Lol, that's hilarious!

Sam Leff was the writer on "Davy Jones." Alden McWilliams was the artist following Wayne Boring. Both men did fine work on the series. In its last days the strip suffered the final indignity: It was drawn by Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico. They didn't sign their work...only Sam Leff's name appeared in the signature block. I speculate that the strip's circulation was going downhill and the pay was too low for McW to continue, The Fraccio-Tallarico team always seemed to show up when the rates hit rock bottom.

         TTA
What does it mean? Does even The Shadow know?

In older comics blue was a highlight color for black and sometimes artists used enough shadowing to make it work. (Superman & Lois's hair for instance)

Although in this story we seem to have very little black used on the Black Hood and the policeman uniforms are the same blue.

I know they only had four colors, but they could have made the policemen uniforms a lighter blue.

There's an old Batman story that describes his uniform as black, not blue and gray... of course they also describe Robin's uniform as black as well, which is quite the stretch.

Good story but why is Black Hood not wearing ....a black hood? Or anything else black for that matter.

Link to the comment: Black Hood Comics 9

Paw,
Just accidentally read this post

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Our pal Robb has completed Merry_Go_Round, no number, from 1945 - apart from the ibc.  You can find it here:-
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78768   

Clicking on the link,
this comes up,

"Something Is Not Quite Right.
The page was not found."


Probably you have already changed the location?

Yes, it was moved to ACG's One Shots.  You can find it here:  https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=78847

Previously, it was stored under La Salle Publishing in Small Publishers.  But La Salle was a non-comic book publisher from whom ACG bought part of their unused WWII paper quota, as ACG had reached their own quota limit.  The same was true for 1944 giant 130-page "Funnybone Comics", which is the ONLY ACG Golden Age Funny Animal comic book we are missing.  One of our scanners, who has retired, owns a complete copy of it.  I wish he'd allow a CB+ contributor to scan it for upload to CB+.

McMILLAN & WIFE:  Night Of The Wizard
“Why did you murder me?”   (6 of 10)

Mac & Sally are invited to a seance at which a murdered man appears accusing his widow of the crime! Mac, refusing to believe in ghosts, wracks his brain for most of the story, trying to figure out who could be impersonating the dead man, who benefitted from his death, would benefit from driving his widow insane, and... is the dead man REALLY dead in the first place?

You know, if they'd swapped this story and the next one, this could have easily aired as a HALLOWEEN episode.

Sharon Acker is "Evie Kendall", the grieving widow. I had to look her up before I realized I'd seen her in a STAR TREK and 2 episodes of HEC RAMSEY.

Paul Richards is "Dr. Eli Spake", who's trying his best to help Evie avoid a nervous breakdown. Every time I see his face or hear his voice, I'm always reminded the most memorable line the actor ever spoke in his career was, "Glory be to the bomb and to the holy fallout" (from BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES).

Cameron Mitchell is "Harry Hastings", a semi-retired stage magician who admits he's in love with the widow. When spooky stuff happens at night designed to scare Sally, it became a bit too obvious that he was probably involved. (The previous season, he'd played a man who faked his own death in the McCLOUD episode, "Somebody's Out To Get Jennie".)

Eileen Brennan is "Nora Dane", friend of the family, who may know more than she says. I always mostly remember her for THE CHEAP DETECTIVE (1978) with Peter Falk.

Martin E. Brooks makes his 2nd appearances as "Deputy D. A. Chapman", convinced Evie DID kill her husband, accuses Mac of helping a murderess go free, and hopes to hit her with at least a purjury charge.

John Astin makes his debut as "Skyes", the eccentric police scientist who tries to determine if the body they buried a year earlier is in fact Evie's husband, or not. I always enjoyed him on this show, and was surprised that he didn't appear in that many episodes.

Philip Carey is "Arthur Kendall", the dead husband (or is he?) seen (mostly) in flashbacks. In the 1950s, he starred as PHILIP MARLOWE on TV.

This episode opens with a high-speed chase (WHAT, AGAIN???), once more causing me to ask, "WHY is the Police Commissioner taking part in chasing a bad guy?" I guess Mac must really like being that involved. Later, as Mac works to figure out the mystery, I'm reminded that this show really tended to have some of the most unusual murder mysteries ever seen on TV, and it's clear that Mac's mind does not work like normal people's. There's Charlie Chan, there's Hercule Poirot, and then there's Stewart McMillan-- and each of these characters' thought processes are unique. Time and again, when a new twist is revealed, or a new plot point suddenly figured out, it feels like my head is exploding as I watch. It's no wonder I like this show.

Sally, oddly, doesn't get to do much in this one, except look beautiful. I was reminded that, when this episode was made, Susan St. James had only recently become a new mother in real life. (But, very strangely, this was not reflected in the series-- despite Sally being pregnant in the PREVIOUS story. I guess there was a miscarriage.)