Re-visiting Three Days of the Fanboy

Here’s a blast from the past that I came across on a friend's Facebook page, unloading a (rare?) Rob Hanes audio adventure released on cassette in 1994. 

Performed as a classic radio show, it was the brainchild of college buddy Bob Westal, who wrote and directed this audio comedy-drama that was recorded at a tiny home-based recording studio in North Hollywood. It’s a completely tongue-in-cheek audio adventure, involving Rob being hired to protect a rare comic book and going down the rabbit hole of high stakes comic-book collecting!

It’s a bit dated (Paul Tsongas anyone?), but perhaps its main claim to fame is that it led one of the principal players of the “WCG Mystery Theatre Players”—Scott Brick—to a successful career as an award-winning, hall of fame audiobook narrator. As well as being a talented actor, Scott is a huge fan of old time radio (as well as comics), so this gig was right up his alley and he really sets the tone. I should add that Scott is a friend from college, as are Bob and the other members of the “WCG Mystery Theatre Players” who appeared in the show, including Terry Delegeane.

Though I later converted the master recording into digital format and made it available on CD (burning copies as needed), it’s now available for streaming free on YouTube (link below). Though it’s solely audio, I did add opening titles at the beginning and a full end credit sequence in the last couple of minutes. Accompanying this post are photos from the recording session.