Kentucky's Comic Book Scare

I just discovered this well-done Lexington Herald-Leader piece from last year on the 1950s comic book scare and how it affected Kentucky. You'll have to embiggen the pages to read them.

 

New Additions to Booksteve's Library

 

Today was the start of the quarterly used book sale in the next county. I always try to make that one as I've always gotten the best books there. Of course I have 13 books to read for review already, and 3 new books I just got in the mail. But hey, I'm BOOKsteve, right? 

So here's today's six buck haul:

Oh, and here are the three I got in the mail.

To find out about the review copies, follow my column at FORCES OF GEEK!

The Great Masquerade-1974

Last night I discovered this 1974 movie on the Internet Archive and it is another contender for worst movie ever made. 

One funny scene, though, comes when Johnny Weissmuller, the movies' greatest Tarzan (in his penultimate picture), who plays a beauty contest judge, is confronted by a guy in a gorilla suit who says, "Remember me?" Johnny smiles and says, "Cheetah!" I laughed. Even that was problematic though, as Johnny is playing a character (a cameo, really), with a character name, and not himself.