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Joe. Interests are sci-fi, sketch, soaps, old movies, comics, and VCR repair. I'm of the mid-to-late-stage Facts of Life generation. I have a blog I don't update often enough. http://soapssnlscifi.wordpress.com

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Soaps&SciFi @soapsscifi.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe a little but the trends were already there, with the way he was going on about self-deportation.

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Matt Hawkins (fort90) @fort90.bsky.social · 14h

The FORT90 BROADCAST SYSTEM, brought to you by @wonderville.nyc, is ON THE AIR…

twitch.tv/wondervillenyc

Once again, am running behind, so still working on the run of show, so just head on over to the first (& hopefully only) alt channel of the evening…

www.twitch.tv/fortninetyte...

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Matt Hawkins (fort90) @fort90.bsky.social · 16h

TONIGHT! "Broadcasting" from @wonderville.nyc it's FORT90 TV!

And no, it has nothing to do with Halloween, I just feel like showing a Smash Mouth music video with "realistic" audio; stream starts at 8:00PM EST…

www.wonderville.nyc/events/fort9...

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Soaps&SciFi @soapsscifi.bsky.social · 14h

I'm someone who mostly enjoyed Hanks as a comic, but I never really cared for that writer.

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Attract Mode @attractmode.bsky.social · 17h

Regular viewers of FORT90 TV are very familiar with individual below, whereas most everyone else I would assume might have more than a few questions; tune in tonight (see www.wonderville.nyc/events/fort9...) to have them answered… maybe (and yes, some game-adjacent content is also in store)

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Matt Hawkins (fort90) @fort90.bsky.social · 20h

TONIGHT! "Broadcasting" from @wonderville.nyc it's FORT90 TV!

And while not everyone across the world does Halloween, there are nonetheless numerous traditions when it comes to paying tribute to beings that are not of this world; stream starts at 8:00PM EST…

www.wonderville.nyc/events/fort9...

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Soaps&SciFi @soapsscifi.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks. Appreciate seeing this.

Soaps&SciFi @soapsscifi.bsky.social · 16h

So are they saying marrying off-panel Martha gave him a fatal disease?

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · Feb 26

"The Story of Martha Wayne" by Wilson Scruggs, 1953-1962
February 19th, 1956 as seen in the Sedalia Democrat

Serialized comic strip "The Story of Martha Wayne." A man sees a doctor and is told he has an incurable disabling disease. Not trusting the doctor, the man asks what his diagnoses would be "if you hadn't just found out I'm marrying Martha Wayne?"

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 22h

"In Our Office" by Wood Cowan, 1919-1921
October 3rd, 1931* as seen in the Cameron News-Observer

*reprint

Comic strip "In Our Office." Two boys argue over who was the first man, Adam from the Bible or President George Washington. They go to the office secretary and ask her, and she tells them that the first man was found in India. "Well who found him?" one of the boys asks.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 22h

"Superman" by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, 1939-1966
April 21st, 1945 as seen in the Nevada State Journal

Serialized superhero comic strip "Superman," based on the... you know who Superman is. A professor panics when one of his students flips the switch to the professor's atom-smasher while Superman is inside. However, Superman is unharmed, seemingly proving the student's term paper on Superman's invulnerability. The professor is still not convinced, and assumes something is wrong with the atom-smasher.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 21h

"Life's Darkest Moment" by H.T. Webster, 1915-1954
June 4th, 1946 as seen in the Omaha World-Herald

Single panel comic strip "Life's Darkest Moment." A boy is embarrassed being made to wear an apron while helping clean the house, "mother's little helper."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 21h

"Friday Foster" by Jim Lawrence and Jorge Longarón, 1970-1974
January 10th, 1971 as seen in the Fresno Bee

Sunday edition of serialized comic strip "Friday Foster." While in Granada, Spain, fashion photographer Shawn North is invited to meet an old friend, retired torero Juan Olvera, being told to come alone. When he gets there, though, Olvera is confused, he thought North had invited him there, not the other way around. Meanwhile, North's assistant, photographer Friday Foster, is dressing in her hotel room when a messanger knocks at the door, who tells her she's invited to meet North and Olvera in the cafe.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 21h

"Word-A-Day" by Mickey Bach, 1946-1987
November 18th, 1982 as seen in the Patriot-News

Single panel comic strip "Word-A-Day." The word of the day is "guru." People gather around a desk, complaining that their Wall Street guru told them to dump their stocks, only for the stock value to go up. Caption gives a definition, "In Hinduism, one's personal spiritual adviser or teacher; any leader high regarded by a group of followers; sometimes used derisively."

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · Feb 26

"Twin Earths" by Oskar Lebeck and Alden McWilliams, 1952-1963
November 15th, 1956 as seen in the Carlsbad Current-Argus

Serialized science fiction comic strip "Twin Earths." A scientist shows off pictures of new construction helicopters, which he calls "Sky-Hooks," to two impressed women.

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Zach Wilson @televisionaryzw.bsky.social · 1d

Classic TV streaming update: I don't know if this is a first time, but it's the first time I've noticed it, as of this morning the horror anthology Freddy's Nightmares is available on both Tubi and Plex.

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Matt Hawkins (fort90) @fort90.bsky.social · 22h

TONIGHT! "Broadcasting" from @wonderville.nyc it's FORT90 TV!

And since the spooky season is in full swing, it's time to check out some haunted houses, cuz like Connor O'Malley (& the bible) sez, "Being scared is being alive"; stream starts at 8:00PM EST…

www.wonderville.nyc/events/fort9...

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · Feb 26

"Don Winslow, U.S.N." by Lt. Comdr. Frank Victor Martinek, U.S.N.R, 1934-1955
September 24th, 1935 as seen in the Commercial Appeal

Serialized navy comic strip "Don Winslow, U.S.N." Also known as "Don Winslow of the Navy." A Navy sailor searches for a friend who has gone overboard, but he appears to have drowned. Thinking that impossible, the sailor begins to wonder if foul play is involved.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 1d

"Aladdin McFadden" by Jim Lavery, 1937-1937
July 19th, 1937 as seen in the Richmond News Leader

Comic strip "Aladdin McFadden." A woman shows Aladdin McFadden some photos taken of her, complaining that they don't do her justice. In a nearby barn, a parrot says how she doesn't need justice, she needs mercy. Upset, the woman assumes is was Aladdin's sidekick, Squeaky Shannon, who said that, so she throws a bucket at him. This comic only ran for five weeks.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 1d

"Buck O'Rue" by Dick Huemer and Paul Murry, 1951-1952
October 15th, 1951 as seen in the Cleveland Press

Serialized Western comic strip "Buck O'Rue." Hero cowboy Buck O'Rue holds up some outlaws at gunpoint in a saloon. A shady character named Skullface Skelly starts to explain that right now, Buck is in Mesa Trubil, a territory the United States government refused to accept into the union following the Civil War, making this technically not American soil. When Skullface asks for a passport, Buck shows him his gun and says, "This heah is th' on'y passport ah needs!" Which is about the most American response ever.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 1d

"Jungo" by John Duncan, 1954-1955
October 3rd, 1954 as seen in the Cleveland Plain Dealer

Sunday edition of comic strip "Jungo." Jungo the ape gets excited when a man comes by to put up wallpaper. After seeing how excited Jungo gets at the activity, the people he stays with agrees to let the ape wallpaper his own room. When they go up to see how he's done, they discover he didn't take any of his framed pictures down, wallpapering over them instead.

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Forgotten Comic Strips @forgottencomics.bsky.social · 1d

"Dr. Guy Bennett" by "Dr. B.C. Douglas"* and Frank Thorne, 1957-1963
May 14th, 1962 as seen in the Post-Crescent

*pseudonym for Dr. Michael Anthony Petti