Thursday, February 2, 2006

Old Guy Unmasked

Hey, remember those commercials for the Six Flags amusement parks that featured an extremely-senior citizen dancing his heart out? The character's name was Mr. Six and at the time, there was a colossal mystery as to who was playing him under all that make-up. Six Flags seems to have dumped the campaign but blogger Paul Davidson was determined to find out who portrayed the spry Mr. Six...and he claims to have the inside info.

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WonderCon Wonderment

The schedule is up for programming at this year's WonderCon, which commences a week from tomorrow in San Francisco. Here's the list for Friday, here's the list for Saturday and here's the list for Sunday...but you needn't click on any of them. If you're attending, you'll only want to attend my panels. You can get a list of them by clicking below.

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No Spit-Takes

Today on our sister site, Old TV Tickets, we offer up one from The Danny Thomas Show. And that seemed like as good a reason as any to post the covers to the two Danny Thomas Show comic books published by Dell. The great Alex Toth was hired to illustrate the one at left and, he says, that meant taking the artwork over to gain the approval of Mr. Thomas, himself. Though Danny had made a lot of money mocking the size of his own nose, he complained (Alex says) it was too large in the comic...but grudgingly allowed it to go to press as Toth drew it. The second and final issue was drawn by Russ Manning.

Please note: These are real covers of real comic books that were actually published. I did not whip them up in Photoshop.

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Broadway Not on Broadway

Some of the Broadway shows that have opened in Las Vegas haven't done well but more are heading to Nevada. Meanwhile, The Producers is a big hit in Israel.

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