June 30, 2023

Hank Janson & Reginald Heade

Hank Janson was the most popular and successful of British pulp fiction authors of the 1940s and 1950s. His books were violent "pseudo-American" thrillers sold in paperback editions featuring erotic cover art, and it is estimated that some five million copies were sold by 1954.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Janson

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/j/hank-janson/

Reginald Heade was a British illustrator of sensational paperback novels, but also had a brief career in comics, working for the magazines Knock-Out and Comet, both from the Amalgamated Press. He also published under the name Cy Webb. Most of his output were realistically-drawn historical adventure comics or biographical comics.

http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/reginald-heade.htm

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/heade_reginald.htm

June 2, 2023

The Stranger (1964)


The Stranger, Australia's answer to Doctor Who.

When a mysterious stranger appears on a family's doorstep, his arrival changes the course of human history. First aired in 1964 and unseen for over 50 years, The Stranger was Australia's first sci-fi TV series.

https://sitemap.televisionheaven.co.uk/reviews/the-stranger

https://shorturl.at/gkLQV