Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
The Vickers-Crossley Model 25 was a British military vehicle used by the British Army in India. Besides being used in India, the Model 25 was also exported, with one of the customers being the Imperial Japanese Army. The Japanese saw a need for increased mechanization of their military. In 1931, the Japanese army used their newly acquired armament during the Manchurian Incident of 1931.
A Model 25 in Shanghai
Estonian Defense Forces with 3 Model 25s
From the Roanoke Rapids Herald (NC), Jan 4th, 1934
It’s Radio Man! A genuine walking, talking, yodeling robot!
TOWERING seven feet high, a strange “radio man” has just been completed after ten years of arduous work by August Huber, a Swiss engineer. Beneath its jointed steel body, the gigantic mechanical man is a maze of automatic switches, relays, and other controls. Microphones within the automaton’s’ ears pick up spoken commands and carry them to an intricate system of twenty electric motors that make the fantastic creature walk, talk, sing, or yodel at the will of its master. Power for these various activities is supplied by batteries concealed in the ponderous legs. When this modern monster talks through the loudspeaker installed in its chest, its lips move in time with its speech. An ultra-short-wave receiver installed in its torso enables the “radio man” to follow orders transmitted to it by radio from remote points.
Dynamite comics is now taking pre-orders for the 1940s era hero the Black Terror, if done right it could be a lot of fun! Cover by Jorge Fornés, story by Max Bemis
