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Rediscovered: The Block Begins to Creak Under the Weight of All Those Comics. . .

Now here s some news. Brian Leno let me know today that he has decided to sell a chunk off his horde of stuff. For years he s been hawking wares on eBay, but I think of most of those listings as Continue reading

Rediscovered: More Leno Library

Brian Leno has come into a group of display cabinets and now is working to fill them up. I imagine he ll juggle some of the stuff around again, eventually. Maybe have one devoted to his Jack the Ripper collection. Or Continue reading

Two-Gun Bob: Mak Morn Meets Kull

I bought and read the First Passage collection with the earlier drafts of well-known Howard stories. It seemed to me that REH was at many times just trying to get the story down on the page, and then all the poetical turns Continue reading

Posse McMillan: Alias D. B. Bug, Esq.

Kent Harrington popped in a note about the recent nod to our pal (and publisher) Dennis McMillan: Loved the shirt post and the shirt. It reminded me how we used to use aliases for fun. I was always Lt. Raj Continue reading

Rediscovered: Metcalfe and Gawsworth

I used to get images from Brian Leno of his recent autograph purchases. I still do, but I used to, too. Yep, it s Autograph Hound Saturday once again this time featuring John Hancocks and holographic scribblings from writer John Continue reading

Posse McMillan: A Shirt Off His Back

From time to time I m prowling through old email archives and when I see something related to, or from, the late Dennis McMillan I m tossing it into a new DMac file. At minimum, it ll be fun to round up various Continue reading

Rediscovered: The Agony and the Ecstasy

Digging through some unearthed files, I came across a contemporary review of my book Willeford lost, I d forgotten about it. The review should have been lost in some other piles of paper, but there it was. I had done Continue reading

Rediscovered: The Library of Brian — Inspiration, or Warning!?!

Brain Leno has a story about when he was a kid in Bismarck, beginning to buy paperbacks. He d sit in front of the small bookcase he shelved them on and savor his library. His father made the bookstand out of Continue reading

Rediscovered: The Latest Life

Our pal Morgan The Morgman Holmes just dropped his new review of the latest biography of Robert E. Howard on the Arkhaven Comics site. Keeping his hand in, even as he populates his own Substack site with the extensive archives Continue reading

Rediscovered: Get Yer Shiel Here

Aha. I ve been waiting for this book although technically I don t really need it. You do. Beating the likes of Random House and Little Brown and their ilk to the punch, Hippocampus Press just gathered under one set of Continue reading