Month: October 2018
Happy Halloween
Betty Grable, 1938
War of the Worlds, 80th Anniversary
“The War of the Worlds” is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the scale of the panic is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners.(Wikipedia)
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White Zombie, 1932
Trade Magazine Advertisement
Marquee at the Regina Theatre, Los Angeles, California 1932
Le Courrier Français, 1889
Le Courrier français was a French illustrated weekly founded and edited by Jules Roques. It appeared from 1884 to 1914
Fear and Fascism, 1936
Illustrations by Lynd Ward from his wordless novel, SONG WITHOUT WORDS: A BOOK OF ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD (1936).
Lustige Blätter, 1901
Lustige Blätter (Funny Leaves) was a German satire magazine that was published between 1886 and 1944
Looking into your soul…
Dime Mystery Magazine, March, 1941
Walking Cactus, 1943
