Timing is everything. Marvel Comics had previously had some success with their pop culture magazine Pizzazz (which I look back on fondly here), so after the video game craze hit the US by storm in the late 70s and early…
I was quite fortunate to chat with the great Bjo Trimble last month. Trimble, if you don’t know, worked with her husband John to save Star Trek in 1968. The letter writing campaign they spearheaded convinced NBC and Paramount to…
I just picked up the Marvel Super Special adaptation of the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica – it was in a special “tabloid size” (which really showcased the gorgeous art of Ernie Colon) as well as magazine-sized. The super special was…
I still miss Starlog. It was the first mainstream magazine that jacked directly into the high geekery I felt at an early age. It was one thing to be able to go to a local drug store and buy comics…
I’m an obsessive Apeophile. I adore the original Planet of the Apes films, flaws and all. When I was a child they played the films on Saturday afternoons and it was the first exposure I had to “unhappy endings”… and…
Two of my pop culture obsessions are Star Trek and the Planet of the Apes series. In a just world there would be Apes conventions around the world just like there are ones for Trek… but, alas, the world does…
Found this in my magazine collection – a very good article on the TV Show The Prisoner from Starlog issue 11. Written by Howard Zimmerman (who wrote a LOT of Starlog’s content in the early years of the magazine), the piece…
Here’s an unintentionally funny article from the great Six Million Dollar Man comic magazine that was published during the time the series was on the air. Why are they such a great team? Because they are the first bromance: “They have…
Because of the Labor Day holiday weekend, I completely forgot a very big anniversary. September 4th was the 40th anniversary of the UK airing of “Breakaway,” the very first episode of Space: 1999. I was a HUGE fan of this…
Here’s an ad from Starlog magazine, circa 1977. When I first saw this, I thought “Wow, this is totally illegal now.” But after doing some research I found that, yes, you totally can put a different “face” on the US…
I am unhealthfully obsessed with the Planet of the Apes films. I think it’s because the first Apes film was the first real “sci-fi” film I saw. I was eight – maybe. Before Star Wars, before Logan’s Run, I saw…
I SO wanted a robot when I was growing up… and for a while, that was actually possible. Behold, this Sears 1985 Wishbook page: Omnibot! Maxx Steele! Chatbot! And the big bad OMNIBOT 2000! Holy cow, these things were AWESOME.…
One of my hobbies is collecting old Christmas catalogs, because these catalogs were my gateway into geekdom. Every September, we would get the Sears and JCPenney catalogs, and I would stare at the toy section for HOURS. Any proper Christmas…
Inspired by this post, I spent some time seeking out scanned copies of one of my favorite things from my childhood: Compute! Magazine. I had a Commodore 64 as my first computer, and I use edit to learn how to program…
So, this extended trailer for the new Man from U.N.C.L.E. film was just released… And it sold me. I am a HUGE fan of the original series (I even kinda like the horrible third season… kinda) and I was incredibly…
I LOVED the Micronauts toy line from Mego. Loved loved loved it. I played with Micronauts even more than the Star Wars toy line, and I was a huge Star Wars fan. There was just something about the Micronauts that…