'Our Take'...  On Some Of The Current Top 10 DVD Rentals

As Of 11-30-08!

We have several new blog readers that aren't aware that Tina and myself having been reviewing DVDs, books, comics, etc., for a while....

Those reviews can be found in 'Our World', which is the portal to our eBay pages, which has the links to our reviews, listings, blogs, etc... everything that is part of our eBay endeavors.

As this blog post is being generated at the end of the 2008 Thanksgiving Day Weekend, the following are considered to be the Top 10 Rented DVDs:

01 - Tropic Thunder

02 - Wall-E

03 - Get Smart

04 - Hellboy II - The Golden Army

05 - Kung Fu Panda

06 - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

07 - Journey to the Center of the Earth

08 - The Happening

09 - Iron Man - Michael's POV, Tina's POV

10 - The Incredible Hulk

Please note that the above list does not contain the newest DVDs released, including Hancock. Tina and I are looking forward to the X-Files: I Want To Believe release on December 2nd. I also want to check out the 'Wanted' DVD being released on the same day....

For those DVDs and / or Films that we have reviewed, just click the title of the DVD above. For a link to all the DVDs we have reviewed, (totalling over 330 so far), just click this link here:  Link to DVD Reviews.

We also have reviews on books about comics, graphic novels, and books that Tina likes to read that are not necessarily pop culture books. Those can be found by clicking here:  Link To Book Reviews.

 Lance Temple...  The Outlaw Kid!

In a previous blog post I had stated that my early childhood period was during the late 1950's to early 1960's, when westerns on TV and in comics were part of my everyday life.

Today as Tina and I are going to an 80th Birthday Brunch for my Dad, I am reflecting on those earlier simplier times when I was a kid in his household and watched those TV Shows and read those western comics...

In that earlier blog post I also mentioned that of the 'Big Three Westerns' that Marvel Comics printed in the 1960's, (Rawhide Kid, Kid Colt, and Two-Gun Kid), it was Kid Colt Outlaw that was my personal favorite western character!

All three of the above characters were also in earlier comic book series besides their own title.  Before taking the name 'Marvel Comics' in the early 1960's, the company that Stan Lee worked at had been called 'Atlas Comics' during the 1950's. That was a 'boom time' for western comics for several comic book companies!

Among Atlas Comics' western line of comics was the character 'The Outlaw Kid'. His own title lasted for 19 issues from September 1954 to September 1957. 

Today I enjoy reading these and the other Atlas western comics for the artwork. However there were so many western comics being published at the time in the 1950's, that the ones with photo covers from the TV Western Shows were the ones that drew me to collect them!  Unfortunately Atlas Comics didn't have any of those licensed properties. Matter of fact their own Wyatt Earp Comics were not the TV Show's licensed comics and so I read the Dell Comics with the Hugh O'Brian photo covers instead!

Funny thing was... When Marvel Comics started flooding the newstands in the early 1970's with their comics expansion, The Outlaw Kid was brought back in both new and old stories. His second series ran from #1 in August 1970 to #30 in October of 1975.

It was then that I read all the old stories that I missed as a young kid. So the reprint westerns were actually a good thing for readers that found it hard to find the originals. We didn't have eBay or LCBS back then to find copies. Mail order and comic cons were the main way to find them!

However the westerns basically saw an end at the 1970's when the genre simply rode away into the Old West folklore...

Today I find that westerns are seeing a resurgence both in film and in the comics field. With the Jonah Hex western comic book movie to be released, this genre should show even more collectability in the next few years.  Actually the majority of our western comics have been sold overseas to international buyers the last couple of years...

Instead.... how about (ERB) Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter of Mars as a film project?? John's story goes like this:

That above was the premise of a comic book series from Gold Key Comics and later from Marvel Comics. It was also a lead feature strip in a DC Comics Title!  So there should be some people that know John Carter's story!

The Gold Key series ran for 3 issues from April 1964 to October 1964.

The DC series ran in Weird Worlds for a while in 1972.

The Marvel series ran for 28 issues from June 1977 to October 1979.

Actually, there had been earlier versions of John Carter, the first being in 1939's "The Funnies" Issue #30.  So Carter's story is almost as old as Buck Rogers, but not as familar....

Anyway, the above is my thought on not re-making another version of Buck Rogers.... instead doing John Carter as a sword and sorcery adventurer on another planet!

For those interested in reading more of John Carter, we do have several of the different versions of the John Carter Comics run listed in our eBay Featured Store.

 

Thanks for reading this blog post today, and please join us again for more!

Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Enjoy the rest of the long weekend if you have today off!

~ Michael

        

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Thanks for reading this blog post today, and please join us again!

Oh.... and Happy Thanksgiving Day today!

~ Michael

        

Note From Make It So Marketing: To the left is a photo of Michael and Tina from the 2008 SDCC - San Diego Comic Con International. Click that photo to see 'Our World'!                   Each comic / comics book. Graphic Novels or magazine in our eBay Featured Store is individually graded by Michael, inventoried, priced, bagged and boarded, before being listed for sale!                     We attend several  Pop Culture Conventions and Comic Cons during the year to replenish our comic books and other pop culture inventory for resale!                   If you don't see what you are looking for, feel free to email us a 'want list' and if in stock, we'll place it in our eBay Featured Store 'Just for You' to purchase!

"Hammering Out the Web For You Since May 12th, 1998!"   Note: If you work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works!

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