That’s Fabulous Flo Steinberg, Marvel’s Corresponding Secretary, in the preview frame.
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In Search of Steve Ditko – Part 1
The BBC program In Search of Steve Ditko, by Jonathan Ross, was pulled from YouTube, but not before I downloaded it, so I’ll post it here. This is a tiny 320×240 video, and letterboxed at that, scaled up to 440×330.
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Colbert In Parade
Hey, did you see that Stephen Colbert is in this week’s normally conservative-to-milquetoast Parade magazine? It’s a good article. Don’t miss it.
By the way, I didn’t watch Colbert with Jon Stewart on the Emmys last week. I clean forget they were on! Sorry.
The MMMS Records Remastered
Since it seems I’m the primary provider on the Net for the audio from the two flexi-discs that Marvel Comics produced in the 1960’s, I thought I’d offer them with superior sound compared to what I posted five years ago. Here they are, remastered for the best possible audio fidelity.
The Voices of Marvel
Scream Along With Marvel
Technical notes:
- Technics turntable, Shure cartridge, AGI pre-amp, AKG headphones.
- Captured using Audacity from pre-amp line level output.
- 24-bit resolution, 48 kHz sample rate.
- Click removal used sparingly. No other noise reduction or equalization.
- A dimple in the flexi-disc causes a recurring thump between 3:15 and 3:35.
- The left channel in each recording was deemed better, forced into 2-channel mono, then exported as lossless WAV files.
- WAV files converted to MP3 at 256 Kbps CBR.
The Pratt Family In England
In 15 minutes you can learn about a Pratt family’s origins in England. I don’t know if there’s a direct connection to my own family. What I want to know is why there’s a rat in the middle of our name!
Note: This is a customized YouTube player with a playlist. It’s fairly intuitive to figure out.
Don Heck’s Heartbeat
One more comic book related post for today. There’s a fun video on YouTube from a fellow who posts his stuff under the header The HAPPY SHOW! It’s the Voices of Marvel record, from Stan Lee’s Merry Marvel Marching Society, put to a Flash animation.
The audio for this came from a transfer I made five years ago and posted here on my original Web site. I know it’s my recording because of the thump in the flexidisc that results in a “heartbeat sound” while artist Don Heck is on the phone.
I don’t know where the “Scream Along With Marvel” audio came from, but it’s not mine. The one I made sounds a lot better. I trimmed out most of the gap between the two songs. Did I do that five years ago, already?
[audio:http://209.51.142.186/~dogatco/mmms/mmms67.mp3]P.S. The HAPPY SHOW! has separate videos for my audio transfer of the Scream Along With Marvel songs. I’ve put them together in a customized YouTube player.