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How good is Josh Howard's T-Bird & Throttle, published by Alterna Comics? Well, watch the video and find out. While you're at it - check out Alterna's website here - https://www.alternacomics.com

Yertle and CC are on the move, with loud barking in the background supplied by our insan kelpie, Toby.

Frank Mentzer expanded the Dungeons & Dragons well beyond the Basic and Expert sets, charting a course that allowed players to advance their characters all the way to immortality. In this video, I look at the Companion, Master and Immortals boxed sets for D&D, as well as the Rules Cyclopedia that collected them, and the much beloved Holmes Basic D&D boxed set.

Movie Monsters by Alan Ormsby was my first introduction to movie monsters, and maybe one of the greatest books ever published for monster kids - tune in and take a look.

April has come and gone, so it's time to parade a few acquisitions, including some Fisher Price Adventure People, a sweet knock-off Transformer, two bodacious baddies from Batman '66 and a toy I've been wanting for quite some time. (Oh, and that last bit in the title should be read in a Dalek voice)

Premiering on NBC in 1958, Steve Canyon was an adaptation of Milton Caniff's classic newspaper strip. Col. Steve Canyon is a test pilot and later airbase commander who has some surprising adventures for a show of the period ... and with some fantastic guest stars.

Once I was bit by the D&D bug and got the Moldvay/Cook Basic and Expert Dungeons & Dragons boxed sets, I just had to take it up a notch and get ... Advanced Dungeons & Dragons! In this video, I share my memories of those books and how my friends and I actually used them at the gaming table.

Pro Draft Football, a Parker Brothers game from 1974, pits players against one another as managers of pro football teams trying to build the highest value team possible. And it came with vintage football cards!

This video begins a multi-part look into my experiences with role playing games, starting with my introduction to the hobby on the playground in 6th grade and my first RPG - the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set by Tom Moldvay.

Bryan Baugh's Wulf & Batsy, published by Alterna Comics asks the question - Can a vampire and werewolf find happiness in a world of humans? Oh - and that artist I couldn't think of is Jack Davis. Bryan Baugh's Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@bryanbaughart7677 Alterna Comics Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@AlternaComics Alterna Comics Site - https://www.alternacomics.com

Dallas was a pop culture sensation in the late 70s and 80s, with perhaps the slimiest villain the world had ever known - J.R.! Tune in and hear my thoughts on the first two seasons as I make my way through one of the biggest shows ever made.

When you spend your childhood years in front of a TV in the late 1970's, you have many opportunities to be creeped out. This is my story ... of terror!

Got a nice surprise this morning, as Yertle, our 45+ year-old tortoise emerged from hibernation. It was a cold March, and we figured it could take another week, but there he was! His big, dumb son, CC, is apparently sleeping in.

Welcome to the March Toy Haul at Dad's Den - with both retro toys like Speed Racer's Mach 5, Space: 1999's Professor Bergman (played by Barry Morse - yes, I remembered it after I made the video) and White Elephant Toyz' Atomic Apeman, and vintage toys like the Six Million Dollar Man, Fisher-Price's Adventure People and Parker Bros' Pro Draft.

Can this wimp handle a bloody western like 2015's Blood Tomahawk? Tune in and find out.

Three old comics reprinting even older stories! Today, we look at some old, torn up copies of DC Special 15 (1972) featuring Jack Cole's Plastic Man, Giant Batman Annual 7 (1964) with tales from the later Golden Age, and The Flash 214 (1972) reprinting some silver and golden age classics, including the introducing of the Metal Men!

Making successful sci-fi on television in the 70's and 80's wasn't easy. In this video I look at three shows that didn't quite make into the 'classic' category - The Man from Atlantis (1977/78), Logan's Run (1977/78) and V (1984/85).

Two sci-fi book reviews on tap today - A.E. van Vogt's "Rogue Ship" (1965) and Keith Laumer's "Glory Game" (1973). Tune in to see which one I liked, and which one I didn't ... and most importantly, why. Also, special guest appearance by some fun finds at a local thrift store.

This month's toy haul features some old toys, and some new, including Mego's Dracula, White Elephant Toyz' Bloody Mummy and Teenage Bog Monster (a return appearance), Galoob's Blackstar, Chap Mei's sabretooth tiger, the super awesome Alpha Probe shuttle from Fisher-Price's Adventure People line and Mattel's Pulsar, the Ultimate Man of Adventure. Zia Records Online: https://www.ziarecords.com White Elephant Toyz: https://www.whiteelephanttoyz.com

In 1975, the Aurora bestowed onto mankind the Kar-a-a-ate Men, two punching, kicking dynamos that typify America's love affair with martial arts. In this video, I show off a relatively intact Kar-a-a-ate Man, marvel at his flocked hair, and talk about the acceptance of Asian martial art into American pop culture. HI-YA!

Many fine books have been forgotten over the years, and deserve not only to be read, but adapted into a visual medium. In this video I talk above three forgotten classics in the public domain I think would fill the bill: M. P. Shiel's 'Purple Cloud' (1901), C. J. Cutliffe-Hyne's 'The Lost Continent' (1899) and Mary D. Nauman's 'Eva's Adventures in Shadow-Land' (1874).

With January in the rear view mirror, it's time to do a some show-and-tell of the toys I picked up, including the fantastic Teenage Bog Monster from White Elephant Toyz! White Elephant Toyz: https://www.whiteelephanttoyz.com

Reviews of two super fun games from the 1980's based on popular soap operas ... yes - soap operas! Dallas (1980) by Yaquinto Games and All My Children (1985) by TSR, the makers of Dungeons & Dragons

Join me on a mechanized walk down memory lane, as I look through some of the transforming robots that survived my childhood.

The way Scooby-Doo and his pals have been depicted over the past 50+ years is informative about the way culture has changed ... and I don't think it's a good thing.