The Golden Masks

Classic cover.  The bright colors (and I don't hate the use of yellow in this one) are used so well here.  Agent T may have wanted a longer nose (heh, anteater nose) but I like a more realistic proportions.  Still, I'd take Rozen over Gladney most any day.  This composition really makes it look as though The Shadow is looking right at the viewer.  Great cover.

Cinco de Mayo

Party on, Shadow-philes.

Treasures of Death

I like this cover since it shows The Shadow's ability to solve any problem.  It's not very exciting but it is well done and it has a ring on it.  What more does one want?  Oh. yeah, The Shadow himself would be nice.  (and less yellow...)

A tale of never growing up

  I wish I could remember the first time I saw Star Trek.  I think it was "Arena" with the Gorn, but I'm not sure.  What I do remember is the friend's house where I often watched Trek (although I can't remember the friend) in Bismark.  This would've been the summer of 1972.  I moved to Butte, MT later that year or early '73, second grade at any rate.  Butte is where my love of Star Trek blossomed.  It was where I found the novelizations of the series by James Blish at the local Ben Franklin store.  There was a used bookstore that carried stills from the show that I bought and pinned up all over my room.  There was Woolworths where I got my Mego figures and the bridge as well as models and that big, ugly phaser toy.  I even got the communicator walkie talkies for my birthday.  But what I really remember was J C Penney.  Second floor.  Boys department.  1975.

  This shirt was my prized possession and has never left my memories.  I had a couple of friends who would build cardboard sets and armed with our model ships and our model phasers and communicators we made up our own adventures.  

  I just ran across this shirt in a trunk and it brought the biggest smile to my face.  My lovely wife had cleaned it and put it away for me a long time ago.  I thought it was lost.  I bring this up because I recently bought the Anovos Season One shirt and have the Wand Company phaser and communicator.

  I haven't grown up.  I probably won't grow up.  Why?  'cause I don't wanna grow up.  Beam me up and Live Long and Prosper.

Meanwhile...

  Along with The Shadow, Batman and Star Trek I put The Phantom in my pantheon of heroes.  I used to follow his comic pages adventures back in Butte in the early 70's.  We got this paper every Thursday (I can't recall what it was) and it had color "funny papers" included.  Looked forward to Thursday all week long.  The Phantom was part of that and quickly became my favorite.  I couldn't tell you what the adventures were or who the artist was just that it fired my imagination.

  As time rolled on I found the Charlton Comics and had a problem with the art.  Over time I came to appreciate Pat Boyette and his version of The Ghost Who Walks.  

  However Jim Aparo was my favorite

and Don Newton came in second.

  Just a little side trip through my Legion of Heroes.

Not much more I can give ya

May day's clew

Happy May Day, agents.  Give this a go.