I am as indifferent to contemporary licensed comic books as I am to the contemporary TV shows, toys, and what-not on which they are based, but I have enjoyed both of Dark Horse's collected editions of Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, based on the terrific Thriller program of the early 1960s.  In the way of confessing a very guilty pleasure, I must say that I also did recently get Hermes' collected editions of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel, based on silly Irwin Allen TV shows, and that I rather hope that Hermes goes on to a volume collecting the Dell "Movie Classics" based on more or less silly Irwin Allen feature films, The Animal World, The Story of Mankind, The Big Circus, The Lost World (with art by Gil Kane!), and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Sam Glanzman!).  Now that these two publishers have proved it's not impossible to reprint licensed material from half a century ago, I'd love to see more TV adaptations and Movie Classics resurrected, as well as other entries in the Four Color series, particularly those featuring characters such as The Green Hornet (# 496, 1953) and Zorro (three or four different issues from the same period).

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