Dial "M" for Midget

It isn't that people are taller
it's just that their phone's getting smaller
With i phone or cell
a girl cannot tell
the size of a gentleman caller

Photo: John Agar and cast anxiously await a call from their agent in Attack of the Puppet People (Bert I. Gordon, 1958).

Serial's Killer

The doc's building an army, robotic
And has killed to be ruler, despotic
The U.S. of A.
Held under his sway...
He's a villain most unpatriotic.


Robert Wilcox is the heroic and hooded "Copperhead", and Eduardo Ciannelli is the villainous and Mysterious Doctor Satan (William Whitney, John English, 1940). Originally written as a vehicle for Superman, Doctor Satan is considered to be one of the best of Republic's cliffhanger adventure serials. To carry out his nefarious plan, all Dr. Satan needs is to steal the professor's remote control device. And then...

Erect Dialing

A fellow had called the wrong number
and woken a gal from her slumber
A red blooded male
he looked through her veil
and told her that he was in lumber

Art by Wally Wood for Galaxy Magazine, 1958. Source: Golden Age Comic Book Stories.

3-D or Not 3-D

Through stereoscopic invention
the cinema added dimension
But gimmicky flicks
chock-full of film tricks
were lacking artistic pretension

Read an earlier 3-D limerick here. We found the above poster at DaveKehr.com. Dave's N.Y. Times article on the fascinating history and possible future of 3-D films can be found here.