The soup can, as any fool can plainly see, is up. For those of you who don't know, the soup can is the symbol that I won't be posting much, if anything, today on this here blog. Usually, the mere posting of the soup can gives you more new content than most blogs but we have a high standard here for putting new goodies up here on newsfromme.com. In case anyone's interested, there are now close to 23,000 postings on this site, less than 100 of which are reruns.
I'm taking today off from it so I can devote all my attention to a special project which I may be able to tell you about later this week. Most of you will not be interested but you don't get to 23,000 without putting up a lot of real trivia. (When people ask me how I get to that total I tell them the secret: Make every fifth post a plug for Frank Ferrante.)
I would like to thank those of you who write me when you find typos on this blog. If you haven't spotted many, that may be because a few of my volunteer proofreaders are so fast that most of them are found n' fixed within twenty minutes of their posting. I don't acknowledge them all because usually, eleven people write in all at once but the fastest has got to be Mark Thorson. Ron Bauerle deserves special mention because he keeps catching errors in old posts, meaning that they were there for a while and no one noticed or reported them. Thanks to you all.
A number of you have written in to ask about the history of the memorable and covinous Dick Van Dyke Show comic books published by Gold Key in the sixties. I have updated my original article, expanding it, correcting some erroneous information and incorporating some better scans of the covers and you can see it right here.