Who drummer Keith Moon may've been a drunken lout, but he had good taste in comic books. Fred Hembeck investigates.
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Australia's Courier-Mail examines the long, long, long history of comics hero The Phantom.
Pre-dating both the Batman and Superman comic book heroes, The Phantom was the brainchild of Missouri-born writer Lee Falk in 1936, who had already, as a young man conceived of his other great comic character, Mandrake the Magician, two years earlier before coming up with the brilliantly simple idea of having a multi-skilled, physically impressive and well-educated crime fighter living in the mysterious deep woods of a jungle from where he could freely come and go while pursuing justice.
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The work of late cartoonist and character designer Alex Toth will be examined in the extras that go along with the upcoming Space Ghost DVD set, Earl Kress reports.
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Oasis, The Killers, Razorlite, James Morrison, The Fratellis and Travis are among current artists re-recording songs from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album. The songs will air on BBC 2 radio on June 2, celebrating the original LP's 40th anniversary, and may crop up as downloads or a CD.
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