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Fred Hembeck has a couple of great new artworks up for auction on eBay: An awesome pic of Batman friends and foes and a motley gathering of Forbush Man, Little Annie Fannie, Alfred E. Neuman and others. Check 'em out!

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Read a 1952 horror tale illustrated by Joe Kubert.

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Read a 1951 werewolf story illustrated by Al Williams.

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The premiere of the CW's "Spectacular Spider-Man" 'toon has been bumped back a week to March 8.

Two episodes of the new Spider-Man series will then debut back-to-back at starting at 10 am (ET, PT).

The...series, which is produced by Sony's Culver Entertainment, features a solid vocal cast led by Josh Keaton (Spidey/Peter Parker), Lacey Chabert (Gwen Stacy), Ben Diskin (Eddie Brock), and Robert (Nightmare on Elm Street, V) Englund (Vulture). The first episode of the series, which is set during Peter Parker's junior year in high school.


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Former Dave Clark 5 singer Mike Smith has passed away.

His death at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, north of London, came just two weeks before the Dave Clark Five was due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York.

The Dave Clark Five, whose hits included "Glad All Over," "Bits and Pieces" and "Because," were one of the first British bands to find major success in the United States after the Beatles.


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The Dick Tracy Museum in Woodstock, Ill., is shutting down.

The museum guest book hasn't been signed in weeks. The shelves are lined with unsold Dick Tracy pens, yellow fedoras and coffee mugs. And on a recent February morning, a broken furnace kept museum director Jim Johnson shivering until closing time. Only a few visitors stopped by, one of them a repairman who got the heat turned back on.

With attendance plunging, museum officials have decided to close the 1,000-square-foot shrine to the comic-strip detective and his creator -- longtime Woodstock resident Chester Gould. The decision was difficult for Gould's daughter, Jean Gould O'Connell, who said her father's estate could not keep funding it. The doors will close in June.


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Learn to play Beatles tunes from Giles Martin, son of the former Fabs producer George.

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