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DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME (1947 – RKO Pictures)
The final Tracy film brings in yet another Tess Truehart, this time played by Universal Scream Queen Anne Gwynne– and we’ve got some interesting characters in the mix, but we’ve lost not only Junior this time around but Vitamin Flintheart– which really detracts from this one. It does have Boris…
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DICK TRACY, DETECTIVE (1945 – RKO Pictures)
Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki and Jane Greer DICK TRACY was a breakout character from his first appearance in newspaper comic strips in 1931- created by Chester Gould the hard-boiled Tracy took a few years to really find his way but when it did it became a blockbuster– an…
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MYSTERIOUS DR SATAN (1940 – REPUBLIC PICTURES)
Republic Pictures negotiated with National Comics to bring SUPERMAN to the motion picture screen in the form of a 15 Chapter Movie Serial– the script was about halfway written, casting choices had been made, and then the deal fell through–National (now known as DC Comics) didn’t like the script or…
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TERRIFICON Comic Book Convention in Connecticut
Terrificon Comic Book Convention – it was held Aug 8-10th at Moheghan Sun Casino in Uncasville Ct. and we went down for the show Friday and part of Saturday. Despite being a local show (it’s an easy hour away) we’ve never been invited as guests, which is ironic since we…
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DICK TRACY’S DILEMMA (1947 – RKO Pictures)
Ian Keith returns as Vitamin Flinthart and so does Lyle Lattel as Dick Tracy’s right hand man, Pat Patton, but Morgan Conway is out and the man who played Tracy in all of those serials is in– Ralph Byrd takes over with this installment. I’m in the minority that I…
