by Alex Dalenberg | Oct 14, 2014 | Books, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.October 13, 2014In 1931, well before Theodor Seuss Geisel published the childrens’ books for which he achieved his fame, he was drawing ads for Flit insect spray and publishing cartoons in magazines, most notably Life and the...
by Alex Dalenberg | Aug 26, 2013 | Books, Reviews, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.August 25, 2013 Now that science fiction has achieved respectability, showing up regularly on the New York Times Best Seller List and filling half the screens at the megaplex, we forget that in the early days, all we fanboys had was H.G....
by Alex Dalenberg | Aug 5, 2013 | Antique Book Reports, Books, people, Vintage
By Dale Dalenberg August 5, 2013 Note: You can click through the slideshow above. Disney may not have succeeded in making Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter a household name, but few characters in popular literature are more universally known by name amongst even...
by Alex Dalenberg | Jul 3, 2013 | Comics, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.July 2, 2013The new film Man of Steel (Warner Bros., 2013) gives us a re-imagined Superman who is entirely welcome in the already crowded universe of fine interpretations of this most super of all super-heroes. Henry Cavill as Clark...
by Alex Dalenberg | May 12, 2013 | Books, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, MDMay 12, 2013Earlier this year we wrote about new research into Frederic Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent, basically the urtext of the anti-comic book crusade of the 1950s. You can read the original post here, but as a refresher, Dr. Wertham...
by Alex Dalenberg | Mar 27, 2013 | Books, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.March 27, 2013Editor’s Note: Oz the Great and Powerful was strictly OK, but the source material is legendary and we’ve got a lot of it in the library. We’ll be taking a look at other Oz books and films over the next few weeks, including...
