You guys talking about the 'other' storylines in the popular comic books have jarred something loose in my memory...We all remember Green Arrow and Green Lantern but does anyone else remember (from Detective Comics I think) the shape-changing alien known as the "Manhunter From Mars" or the race of super-advanced simians [gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans etc] that lived in super-cities underground and traveled in atomic powered cars through continent wide tunnels??? I don't recall the names of the two series but the storylines appeared occasionally in the 'regular' comic books...
I do remember "The Haunted Tank" series.
On TV, there were a couple good comedies to watch. "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" was great; everybody loved Maynard G. Krebs. "Our Miss Brooks" was another, Art Linkletter had a talk show; "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie"; "Wild Bill Hickock", "The Bob Cummings Show"... My favorite was "Science Fiction Theater"...There was an episode about a widow and her son living way out in the desert, no phone or electricity, and visited by a mysterious stranger with a suitcase, telling wild stories to the kid about trains running in the sky...The widow was woken up in the morning to find the stranger gone and the son playing with his electric train set which was plugged into the strangers suitcase/duplex receptacle...Cool stuff for the 50's...
