Pop links: Listen to new McCartney album free, Stan awarded Medal of Arts, Batmania, lost Doctor Who eps found, Marvel World, more!

NPR is streaming Paul McCartney's new "Fireman" album. It's not too bad, actually. Not as dance/electronica as his past Fireman releases. In fact, the single is downright bluesy.

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Stan Lee was awarded a National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal at the White House yesterday.

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Jon's Random Acts of Geekery features a Castle of Frankenstein article about the 1960s Batman craze.



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Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents a batch of Tarzan and Western illustration art by J. Allen St. John.



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Four words: Monty Python YouTube Channel.

For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands.

We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back: We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube.

No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting. We're giving you the real thing - HQ videos delivered straight from our vault.

What's more, we're taking our most viewed clips and uploading brand new HQ versions. And what's even more, we're letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there!

But we want something in return.

None of your driveling, mindless comments. Instead, we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.

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Tapes of 1960s "Doctor Who" episodes previously thought to be lost forever have turned up in Thailand.

Researcher Damian Finucane claims to have traced nine early episodes to Thailand, including the seven-part Journey To Cathay serial in which the time-traveling Doctor joined Marco Polo on the Silk Route. They were sent for broadcast on the country's now-defunct Channel 4 in 1967.

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I'm Learning to Share has posted a great gallery of images from 1950s-70s Scholastic Books. I remember ordering these things through my school book orders as a kid.

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Sanctum Sanctorum Comix pays a visit to Marvel World!