Fifty years ago today on January 12, 1966, Batman premiered on ABC television. I was nine months old. The show ended its network run in March of 1968, just before…
With the latest Bond film, Spectre, in theaters, and considering I’ve been writing about 50-year-old things this year, it’s a good time to take a look at 007’s battles with…
Earlier this week I pulled into the driveway after work and saw Grace and Scott “galloping” around in the front yard. Grace explained that they were “riding their turkeys.” She…
Comic book artist Murphy Anderson passed away on Oct. 23, and while I always knew I liked his work, it hadn’t occurred to me until now just how many of the most powerful…
Why wait ’til 2016? It was better in 1949.
The first week of this month, we enjoyed a relaxing week in the Outer Banks with Grandma and Grandpa. We managed to get the same house we had 3 years…
Help!, the Beatles’ second motion picture, arrived in American theaters fifty years ago this month. Like its predecessor A Hard Day’s Night, it was directed by Richard Lester and featured…
From July 11 to 18, Jason experienced his first Boy Scout summer camp at Camp Raven Knob, just outside Mt. Airy, NC (aka “Mayberry”). Given his dietary and allergy issues,…
I couldn’t let the recent passing of actor Patrick Macnee go by without at least a tip of the bowler. My memories of Macnee go way back. It’s likely I…
Superman’s one-time supremacy on the newsstands meant that by 1965, girl reporter Lois Lane was well-established as the first (and I think, still only) character to headline a comic by…
