tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33574802694973175372024-03-12T23:08:48.894-04:00M.O.D.M.A blog where people can read stuff and kill some time!bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-39123313772557413432018-02-16T17:17:00.000-05:002018-02-16T17:17:13.464-05:00Howdy!How have you been?
ABOUT THIS BLOG:
I've been busy these last few years, working on things not related to M.O.D.M., and doing the whole family thing. This blog fell by the wayside, not because I didn't enjoy doing it, but more simply because I couldn't commit the appropriate amount of time to it that I felt was necessary. One of these days, maybe, this blog will return to its former bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-32746554395266947642012-09-09T08:36:00.000-04:002012-09-09T08:36:46.486-04:00Sad NewsI just learned that Martin Filchock has passed away at age 100 (obituary).
Kind of a lousy way to get back into posting, isn't it?bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-22458640586846312112012-01-17T11:28:00.012-05:002012-04-12T10:46:15.895-04:00I Can't Believe It's Not The Chaotic World of Fletcher Hanks!Today's stories are:Tabu from Jungle Comics # 2 (February 1940)Stardust from Fantastic Comics # 6 (May 1940)Space Smith & Stardust from Fantastic Comics # 9 (August 1940)Fantomah from Jungle Comics # 16 (April 1941)None of today's tales are drawn by Fletcher Hanks. He worked on the first Tabu story, but I haven't seen any other stories of that character that appear to be drawn by Hanks. bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-42110931468859133472012-01-10T11:41:00.010-05:002012-01-10T12:43:06.308-05:00The Heroes of Rural Home Part IXFinally, here's my last installment of "The Heroes of Rural Home". I started this little project over two years ago, and I really didn't plan on it taking so long to complete. Obviously, I haven't posted everything this company produced, so you might have to go to The Digital Comics Museum if you want to see the full series & all the stories those books contain.Today's stories feature The bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-9389665016009577452012-01-09T15:09:00.005-05:002012-01-09T16:18:06.194-05:00Another Humor Digest and some Art Appreciation!January 6, 2012 was Martin Filchock's 100th birthday. I knew he was born in 1912, but the actual day & month was something I just discovered yesterday.In my last post, I mentioned how it had been a year since I scanned anything. Well, I can now check-off "What's Cookin' # 7" from the list of things I wanted to finish. Featuring the work of Joe E. Buresch, Woody Krimbell and birthday-boy bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-75979636310323413322011-12-13T11:13:00.003-05:002011-12-13T11:29:29.121-05:00New Comic FilesIt's been exactly one year since I've scanned any comics. It's not like I don't have anything to scan, because I still have a small pile of comics & humor digest magazines to scan, I just haven't been in the mood to sit at my scanner long enough to get anything accomplished for most of the last year. Well, that changed yesterday when I decided to scan Supermouse 4 (August 1949). When I bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-79039083671214146742011-11-22T12:22:00.003-05:002011-11-22T12:42:56.767-05:00Free Iron Sky ComicI just checked-out the "Iron Sky" website to keep myself updated on what's going-on with the film, and I was surprised to see that the site now includes a comic entitled "Bad Moon Rising". You can read the book online for free or, if you so choose, download the book and (get this) pay whatever you want for it. According to their site, all the money generated by purchasing the book will be used bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-40888386133849635912011-08-24T23:23:00.002-04:002011-08-24T23:36:40.179-04:00More About "Iron Sky"Last month I mentioned a German film called "Iron Sky". Well, if movies about Nazis living on the Moon since 1945, then plotting their revenge on Earth using flying saucers and zeppelins sounds like fun to you, then check-out the official "Iron Sky" website. At the site, you can view several videos of the movie. I think it looks like a fun film with some nice-looking special effects, but bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-65440177541459599072011-08-23T11:47:00.004-04:002011-08-23T23:26:08.629-04:00Breaking News ... if I posted this before anyone else talked about it!I was reading yesterday about Atomic Comics in Arizona closing all four of their stores (here or here or here). The thing that bothers me is the "doom & gloom" reaction this keeps getting. Even though people keep saying "this doesn't mean it's the end of the 'comic shop'", they keep talking about "the end of the comic shop", repeatedly bringing-up the digital market & the future of bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-83583018623767006352011-08-19T11:41:00.011-04:002011-08-26T12:10:43.567-04:00Art Appreciation: John Giunta (volume two!)Once again, John Giunta is the focus of "Art Appreciation". The two stories are from Buster Brown Comics # 4 (Summer 1945 - The Leathern Cord of Magic) and Mad Hatter # 2 (September-October 1946).
First up, though, is a two-page article focusing on "fan magazines" that was written by Giunta and ran in Amazing Mystery Funnies volume 2 issue 12 (December 1939). The reason I find this worthy of bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-2669453769939706632011-07-26T12:16:00.004-04:002011-07-26T12:58:25.277-04:00Random ThoughtsI was just reading about Marvels "Comics for Comics" Program, and I got a little irritated. Marvel is telling retailers that if they rip covers off unsold books, they can return those covers to Marvel and receive one "limited edition variant" comic from Marvel. Sounds like a great offer ... at first. I kept reading, though, and that's when I got more than a little annoyed, because it's not bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-54211458862293284382011-06-24T10:14:00.003-04:002011-06-24T11:23:47.864-04:00Stan Lee's "The Guardian Project"I heard about this in October 2010, and then completely forgot about it until just today. Being a fan of both hockey and superheroes, I'm not sure how this managed to slip my mind for so long.The National Hockey League and Stan Lee formed a partnership last year to develop superheroes for each of the 30 teams, collectively called "The Guardians". You can check-out the new heroes at bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-52254247714273599362011-06-13T14:54:00.004-04:002011-06-13T15:37:15.953-04:00Cool Comic Links & Other Random StuffTerrific Comics is Tony Z's new home on the 'net. Tony previously ran the "Golden Age Heroes" blog. Since October 2010, he has been publishing "Amazing Golden Age Adventure Funnies", which reprints many hard-to-find Golden Age comic book stories. Currently, there are three volumes of this series, so if you enjoy holding an actual book in your hands as opposed to staring at a computer screen inbchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-22681994538780977822011-06-10T11:44:00.015-04:002011-06-10T13:07:41.368-04:00Captain WizardIn the Golden Age of comic books, there were plenty of short-lived heroes, but few got bounced around as much as Captain Wizard did.Captain Wizard debuted in the pages of "Red Band Comics # 3" (which was reprinted in issue #4 and is today's 1st story), published with a cover date of April 1945. His next appearance (today's 2nd story) came about eight months later in "Meteor Comics # 1", cover bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-76359291271755103642011-06-07T12:51:00.004-04:002011-08-24T23:53:18.961-04:00Magazine Fiasco!A while back, I kind of ranted about an incident where someone had sent in a letter to a magazine to address corrections to an article the magazine had published, in which the bulk of that letter consisted of a post I had made on a message board. Based on the way the letter was presented, it had appeared as if the letter-writer was taking credit for the "hard work" I had put into my post OR thatbchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-1323426295316950922011-06-07T12:40:00.011-04:002011-06-10T21:26:12.734-04:00List of relaunching DC titles: Updated ... Again ... and again ... and again!LIST UPDATED June 10, 2011 (twice): Yep, I'm committed to making this list as complete as possible. Why trudge through dozens of news announcements and blog entries when you can just read this list?On June 1st, DC Comics announced that, following Flashpoint # 5, the company will be relaunching 52 titles, starting with "Justice League # 1". They will also be making all of their new series bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-49263579990954670562011-04-21T10:42:00.010-04:002011-04-21T15:19:55.272-04:00The Heroes of Rural Home Part VIIIToday's stories are:Steel Fist from Blue Circle Comics 4, plus the covers to issues 1 & 2;Maureen Marine, also from Blue Circle Comics 4 (February 1945);Jun-Gal from Blazing Comics 5 (March 1945);and The Prankster from Red Circle Comics 3 (March 1945).Coming-up in the next (and last) installment of "The Heroes of Rural Home" are The Green Turtle, Blue Circle, Maureen Marine and Steel Fist! Ibchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-9242113380698929292011-04-19T14:02:00.008-04:002011-04-19T15:02:08.619-04:00Golden Age comic storiesToday's stories are:The Clock by George Brenner, from Crack Comics 23 (May 1942);Fantom of The Fair by Paul Gustavson from Fantoman # 4 (Dec 1940 - possibly reprinted from an issue of Amazing Mystery Funnies?), along with the cover drawn by Lew Glanz (aka Louis Glanzman);and Target by Ken Battefield (according to the GCD) from Target Comics volume 8 number 6 (August 1947)I was flipping through a bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-42701715428846375462011-04-01T09:52:00.007-04:002011-08-24T23:57:49.933-04:00Art Appreciation: Martin Filchock & The Humor Digests!April Fools!!! Every year, the week before April 1st, I say to myself, "Hey! I've got a great idea for an April Fools Day joke", but the ideas I have usually require a ton of time and effort, and one week simply isn't enough time to get anything done. And then there's the fact that if I did post something on April 1st, I would imagine that people just aren't stupid enough to believe something bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-25871729371769262602011-03-25T12:19:00.006-04:002011-03-25T13:12:17.304-04:00Super Animals Unchained!Today's stories are from Supermouse 12 (April 1951 - Standard Comics) and Atomic Rabbit 5 (Oct 1956 - Charlton). After the stories, I ramble for a bit.If you want to read the entire issues these stories come from, here's the links:Supermouse # 12Atomic Rabbit # 5I don't post a lot, and I doubt I will ever hit anything close to a daily schedule that some bloggers manage to achieve. With stuff I bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-7727666165387310822011-02-14T10:07:00.005-05:002011-02-14T11:54:48.051-05:00Thinking Out LoudKind of dropped-off the face of the Earth there, didn't I? Too many plans and things that have to get done in the real world, and way too little time to do it all.When I named this blog "My Opinion Doesn't Matter" (since shorten to M.O.D.M.), my intention was not to let my personal opinion influence what I said about the stories or artwork I posted. If I though an artist stunk, well, that was my bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-88995627993075150522010-11-30T09:14:00.010-05:002010-11-30T10:38:56.184-05:00'Tis The Season for Sub-Zero!Here are two stories featuring Novelty Press' Sub-Zero, from "Blue Bolt Comics" volume 2 issues 3 & 4 (August & September 1941). My holiday-related ramblings follow the stories, so you don't have to read what I think about anything if you don't want.Now that December is almost finally here, it's time for me to really get geared-up for Christmas. That means trying to get all the Xmas bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-80404074987120537532010-11-16T10:24:00.004-05:002010-11-16T11:04:23.174-05:00Free Comics!While surfing the 'net, killing time, I found a place that has comic files people can download for free: www.mydigitalcomics.com. I've seen other sites that claim to have free downloads, but you have to register an account or jump through some hoops to get the "free comics". Not with "mydigitalcomics". You just go there, click the "free products" link on the left-hand side, and flip through 8 bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-62086106349823676742010-11-03T12:37:00.008-04:002010-11-03T13:09:26.200-04:00Nightmare & Sgt SpookFrom Hillman's Clue Comics # 12 (February 1947) comes Nightmare & Sleepy. This story features Nightmare in his second costume, which first appeared in issue 7 of Clue Comics.Sergeant Spook by Malcolm Kildale appears today with a two-part tale that ran in issues 4 & 5 of Blue Bolt Comics volume 2 (September & October 1941).bchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357480269497317537.post-77163747711342461092010-10-29T12:21:00.005-04:002010-10-29T13:10:06.818-04:00Some More Comic FilesI've spent the last few days scanning & editing quite a few books, including a nice group of issues from Charlton's Atomic Mouse series, Hillman's Clue Comics 12, Crime and Punishement 38, Ned Pines' Supermouse 29 and other assorted odds & ends. Check-out "My Golden Age Comic Book Files" page for all the "NEW" links to the files.Taking the easy way out for today's post, I'm showcasing thebchathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16119030633756492282noreply@blogger.com0