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Well, it seems to me I really have been remiss in not featuring one of the loves of my (mis-spent) youth -
the old time cliff-hanger serials of the Golden Days of Hollywood.
My exposure to them, was of course, through television (c'mon... even i'm not THAT old), and mostly through vastly compacted and edited down movie condensations that usually left something to be desired....

but still - there was (and still is) something unique and appealing about them, especially those made by the prolific Republic Studios.

My fave?
"King of the Rocketmen" (of course!), but "Radar Men from the Moon" comes a close second, followed closely by anything with Buster "Flash Gordon" Crabbe...

truth be told... i'll watch almost any of these with very little prompting required at all....

These were also the main form for adaptions of comic stip characters into film versions.... Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon, Captain Marvel, Captain America just to name a few....

This is a way cool fanzine from the '60's (64 pages!) of print ads for this genre of a bygone age....

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