Fifty years ago this month, the world met Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD. Okay, so technically we’d already met Nick a couple years earlier as a tough-as-nails three-striper in “Sgt Fury…
Grace had her dance recital on Wednesday, and all the practice paid off; she did a great job. Her old class, a couple years ago, was more just a case…
It’s hard to believe I share a birth year with Emma Peel, but that’s probably because I made my 1965 debut as an infant, while Emma showed up fully grown. And…
Grace wanted to play a game today, so I dug one out of the closet that we’ve never played, even though it dates back to the 90s. It’s called “Rapid…
Weekend before last, Jason, Scott and I traveled with Troop 800 to Sherando Lake park, near Waynesboro for a weekend of camping. Jason’s chief goal was to fulfil his requirement to…
To my eye, there’s little if any difference between Marvel and DC Comics today, but in 1965 the difference was fairly pronounced. Two books on the stands in April of…
If you were a kid in the 70s’s, you might have seen a TV show called Space: 1999. If you weren’t, it’s likely you never heard of it. It was dark…
Even though I wouldn’t lay eyes on it until it was reprinted in the early 70s, the bizarre tale of the Super-Moby Dick of Space fist hit newsstands in March of 1965. When…
Long ago, before the geeks inherited the Earth, before “Big Bang Theory” ruled the airwaves and superhero movies ruled at the box office, before everyone and his brother had a…
Jason and I had an adventure this past weekend as BSA Troop 800 made a weekend outing to Camp Pendleton in Virginia Beach. Among the highlights was a day trip…
