For ease of navigation, I’ve grouped some of the long-form series I’ve written together. Enjoy!

Fates Worse Than Death

• • Introduction: Exploring the Motion Picture Serials
  • Flash Gordon (1936)
  • The Annie Wilkes Award for Most Blatant Cheat
  • Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
  • Batman (1943)
  • Fighting with Kit Carson
  • The Perils of Pauline (1914 and 1933)
  • The Phantom Empire
  • Radar Men from the Moon
  • Zorro’s Black Whip
  • The Could-Have-Beens
  • Gang Busters
  • Batman and Robin (1949)
  • Undersea Kingdom
  • The New Adventures of Tarzan
  • The Miracle Rider
  • The Green Archer (1940)
  • Daredevils of the Red Circle
  • Shadow of Chinatown and Big Trouble in Little China
  • Panther Girl of the Kongo
  • Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars
  • Serials at Feature Length
  • The Green Hornet (1940)
  • The Painted Stallion
  • Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion
  • The Green Hornet Strikes Again
  • The Fighting Marines
  • Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
  • Feature-Length Serials Revisited
  • Tailspin Tommy
  • Captain America (1944)
  • The Adventures of Sir Galahad
  • Pirate Treasure
  • King of the Royal Mounted
  • Ace Drummond
  • Tim Tyler’s Luck
  • The Phantom (1943)
  • Flying G-Men
  • The Mysterious Airman
  • Dick Tracy (1937)
  • Superman (1948)
  • Dick Tracy Returns
  • Atom Man vs. Superman
  • Dick Tracy’s G-Men
  • Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc.
  • Mandrake, the Magician
  • Red Barry
  • Adventures of Captain Marvel
  • Drums of Fu Manchu
  • Adventures of Captain Africa
  • The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
  • Fantomas (1913-14)
  • Les Vampires
  • Judex (1916)
  • Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery
  • Jungle Queen
  • Junior G-Men
  • Darkest Africa
  • Haunted Harbor
  • Lost City of the Jungle
  • The Masked Marvel
  • The Vigilantes Are Coming
  • The Phantom Creeps
  • Secret Service in Darkest Africa aka Manhunt in the African Jungles
  • The Mysterious Mr. M
  • Brenda Starr, Reporter
  • Terry and the Pirates
  • Don Winslow of the Navy
  • The Vanishing Shadow
  • The Shadow of the Eagle
  • Raiders of Ghost City

The Pleasures of Anthology

• Part One (book collecting; science fiction anthologies)
• Part Two (H. P. Lovecraft and Weird Tales)
• Part Three (comic books)
• Part Four (comic strips; recuperating from illness)
• Part Five (record collecting; early development of the album)
• Part Six (records; the LP and “greatest hits”)
• Part Seven (Harry Smith and the Anthology of American Folk Music)

Points of Connection

• Part One: The Many Children of Krypton (pastiche and copycat characters in comics; Squadron Supreme)
• Part Two: A is A . . . or is it? (pastiche in Watchmen)
• Part Three: Invasion of the TV Doppelgangers (“Bizarro Jerry;” counterparts in TV sitcoms)
• Part Four: Mirror Universes (Galaxy Quest and reconciliation)
• Part Five: Shadow Kingdoms (fictional branding; Disney and Escape from Tomorrow)

Orphans of the Orchestra (ongoing)

• Part One: the Ophicleide and Harpsichord
• Part Two: the Saxophone
• Part Three: Banjo and Mandolin Orchestra