@seanhowe.bsky.social was asking for film noir he might not have seen. Here's something you don't see every day. From Finland. Aki Kaurismäki's Nordic Noir adaptation of Hamlet. Even better than it sounds. rarefilmm.com/2025/11/haml...

Interview with Jerry Perles. Perhaps of interest to @bobdeis.bsky.social @jlmast.bsky.social @michaeljvassallo.bsky.social kwakk.info/tout/?s=Jerr... Considerable Goodman content.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The Post of The Year!

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

Fuck this is good

Maybe the best version of Master of War ever. Amazing from an 83 year old. youtu.be/4_tjVWuD-A4?...

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

I cannot fucking believe this is actually a conversation they broadcast. Just kill them? But Matthew Dowd was fired why?

Reminder that the revised editions are available pay-anything-even-nothing for two more weeks. (There's also a bunch of Kirby in Looming Narrative (The Demon; Devil Dinosaur; The Guardian) and a smidge in Examining New X-Men (particularly his Magneto)). ko-fi.com/travishedgec...

Trump's big announcement:

Full (unedited) interview with Bruce Jay Friedman. @bobdeis.bsky.social @jlmast.bsky.social Considerable Martin Goodman content. www.mikesacks.com/bruce-jay-fr...

Series of essays by Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social Seven chapters on Kirby's Fourth World. @levin.bsky.social @josie.zone @zachrabiroff.com @kirbyzen.bsky.social @jeetheer.bsky.social linktr.ee/uslivinginfi... @jlmast.bsky.social

It's 1971 and James Bama is everywhere. @bobdeis.bsky.social Found today in a Little Library.

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social No cap on the number of sexual deviants they hire yet. bsky.app/profile/iwil...

It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇 Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.

Yankee Beria. God help us all.

ACTION COMICS #47 (April 1942): 80 year old Superman comics telling readers who the real "super" villains are.

I just finished the behemoth (treasury-like trim size, 415 pages) that is the Atlas Artist Edition No. 2 - featuring Al Williamson: “The City that Time Forgot” and Other Stories. Incredible book - so happy to have been able to buy it at a 35% discount some months ago. Highest recommendation!

Liberace and Bob Dylan; in a place called “The 80s.”

🚨NEW: Zohran Mamdani has won the democratic primary for Mayor of New York, beating Andrew Cuomo and stunning the nation with this victory. REPOST to congratulate Mamdani on making history!

The victim was not the subject of any warrant, but just a random grab based on racial profiling. He was in the process of applying for citizenship. That means he had no criminal record as was here legally as a permanent resident. santanero.org/2025/06/21/l...

Bipartisanship is dead and I have never been so happy about anything in my life.

@bobdeis.bsky.social Not comics or men's adventure but perhaps of interest to Bob Deis. flashbak.com/soft-core-ha...

The factual record:

From: DICK AYERS Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 "So... regarding those Kirby / Ayers signatures... I always put the signatures on our work together just as I always sign my work. I noticed that the "whiteouts" were happening and it sure didn't make me happy."

Lee began not only signing the Ditko-Lee stories (but no others in the genres) but began to systematically remove/cover up the "Kirby & Ayers" signatures on many stories signed that way by Ayers. Lee also began placing blurb promotions for Ditko-Lee stories on front covers drawn by Jack Kirby.

After Lee took over the popular title began to sell poorly and was soon cancelled.

Two months later Lee takes over the existing title (AMAZING ADVENTURES) and changing the name to AMAZING ADULT FANTASY using it as a showcase for the Ditko-Lee tales.

In October of 1961 (same month as FF #1) Lee suddenly shows an interest in the genres signing stories involving Steve Ditko.

At Marvel during the 1958-late 1961 period Lee showed no interest in the various monster-mystery-fantasy titles being published by Goodman. Available sales records and Goodman's publication history suggest those titles were buoying Goodman's line at that time.

Here's a video preview of our new, expanded, full color edition of HE-MEN, BAG MEN, & NYMPHOS, the classic collection of men’s adventure magazine stories by the great Walter Kaylin. Now available in paperback & deluxe hardcover via Amazon (amzn.to/4mgkV0c), BudsArtBooks.com, and MensPulpMags.com.

TALES TO ASTONISH #32, March 8, 1962 was published two months prior to the first appearance of Spider-Man in AMAZING FANTASY #15. According to Stan Lee, Kirby was unable to draw a character who wasn't heroic looking. The protagonist here is Henry Fuller. I've changed the name to Peter Parker.

Jack Kirby (May 15, 1984). @jeetheer.bsky.social

Ah i wish i wasnt so far away. I'd kill to see original Metron in person. It'd be like meeting a celebrity. (Okay ngl i want to see the whole damn exhibit)

Jack Kirby reported several times he brought in character and story presentations on spec. COMICS FEATURE #44 (1986). Kirby, Ditko and others would create a character or story idea as a freelancer without any expectation their presentation would be purchased. Not a "work for hire" relationship.

Dick Ayers wrote a story called for TWO-GUN KID #61 called "And Not A Word Was Spoken." The story contained no dialogue. Ayers says when he requested a story credit Lee told him, "Since when did you develop an ego? Get out of here!” Lee took the script credit and pay for a story written by Ayers.

John Buscema: A situation like that killed Don Heck's career. He'd come to me practically in tears and ask me, "John what can I do to satisfy these guys." It destroyed some people, but it didn't destroy me. I said if I can't work with Stan, I'll go somewhere else. To hell with Stan.

Wally Wood would create thumbnails on typewriter paper when writing a story. Stan Lee took the writing money and credit for Wood's stories on every Daredevil story Wood wrote with the exception of issue #10 where Wood was paid and credited for writing.

Here's a page of a Lee dialogue "script" (actually a page of dialogue based on Kirby's script). Oddly the page is signed by Jack Kirby. The page of dialogue is in the possession of Dr. Marcus Miller who is a friend of the Kirby family.

@kenparille.bsky.social @jlmast.bsky.social What is most encouraging is the biography is being produced with the full cooperation of the Kirby family.