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Finished chapter 38, “The World of Abbott and Costello” (1965) (pages 417-424) (Compilation film released nine years after Budd Abbott’s and Lou Costello’s last film together and six years after Lou Costello’s death in 1959. Chapter is also about the two’s break up as a comedy team and also their last solo works on television and in night clubs.)

Finished chapter 37, “The Thirty-Foot Bride of Candy Rock” (1959) (pages 410-416) (Lou Costello’s final film; he died two months after shooting it, prior to its release.)

Finished chapter 36, “Dance With Me, Henry” (1956) (pages 402-409) (Last Abbott and Costello film together; Lou Costello would make one more without Bud Abbott, the next chapter’s “The Thirty-Foot Bride of Candy Rock” (1959).)

Finished chapter 35, “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy” (1955) (pages 389-401) (Abbott and Costello’s last film for Universal (by then “Universal-International”).)

Finished chapter 34, “Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops” (1955) (pages 383-388).

Finished chapter 33, “Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1953) and “Fireman Save Our Child” (1954)* (pages 369-382). (* Planned to star Abbott and Costello but recast with Hugh O’Brian and Buddy Hackett when Lou Costello got ill with rheumatic fever again.)

Finished chapter 32, “Abbott and Costello Go to Mars” (1953) (pages 361-368) (and, yes, they don’t actually go to Mars, they go to Venus… and New Orleans)

Finished chapter 31, “Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd” (1952) (pages 354-360).

Finished chapter 30, “Lost in Alaska” (1952) (pages 345-353).

Finished chapter 29, “Jack and the Beanstalk” (1952) (pages 336-344).

Finished chapter 28, “Comin’ Round the Mountain” (1951) (pages 327-335).

Finished chapter 27, “Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man” (1951) (pages 316-326).

Finished chapter 25, “Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion” (1950) (pages 305-315).

Finished chapter 25, “Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer” (a.k.a., “… Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff”) (1949) (pages 296-304).

Finished chapter 24, “Africa Screams” (1949) and “10,000 Kids and a Cop” (1948) (pages 283-295).