Comic Book Occult Detectives: 1930s
This post is brought to you by Strange Detectives by G. W. Thomas, featuring four cases by the Edwardian era detective, Richard Delamare. Along with Read More
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The Missing Miss Bartendale
The Missing Miss Bartendale of the 1942 film version of The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension (1922) is typical of the changing Read More
Bob Hope: Afraid of Ghosts?
Bob Hope made The Ghostbreakers in 1940 with Paulette Goddard. His comic book The Adventures of Bob Hope (that ran from February 1950 to February Read More
Fredric Brown’s The Ghost Breakers
Guess how excited I got when I stumbled across “The Ghost Breakers” by Fredric Brown in 5 Detective Novels (Summer 1952), a reprint Pulp. Originally Read More
Link: Ghosts & Laughs: Comedians as Ghostbreakers
The idea of a ‘funny ghostbreaker’ begins not in a movie, but on the stage. Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard’s The Ghost Breaker: A Melodramatic Read More