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Friday, 10 October 2008

Yet another handsome volume arrived in the mail the other day, Ray Harryhausen — Master of the Majicks Volume 2: The American Films from Archive Editions.

When I first heard about this book, I panicked. Why didn't I already have Volume 1? It turns out that Volume 2 is the first to be published. The plan is to publish Volume 3 second and Volume 1 third. This is fine.

I'm still (slowly) reading the amazing new Library of American Comics release Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles, so I've had to put this Harryhausen book on hold.

The Harryhausen book looks really great, though. I spent a few minutes flipping through it and was very impressed. When I saw this reproduction of a letter from the Department of Defense concerning Project Bluebook and a book called The Flying Saucers Are Real, I got very excited, thinking, "I have that book!".

I was wrong, though. I don't have that book. I have these books:

The Allingham book I bought in San Francisco. I can't remember where I got the Ruppelt book.