Pilot Magazine, Jan 18th, 1936
Month: May 2020
Five Miles A Minute!
Auto Engine Drives Motorcycle at High Speed
Assembled especially for establishing a world’s record of over 300 miles per hour, and oversize motorcycle powered with an automobile engine has been making speed tests on the Pacific coast. the Motorcycle, weighing 1,500 pounds, is powered with a six-cylinder Plymouth automobile engine with fan and generator removed. With special timing and carburetor jets, the engine makes 4,100 revolutions per minute. The wheel-base is eighty-five inches and the overall length is 115 inches a standard motorcycle frame being lengthened and reinforced with steel tubing. Two large sprockets connected by a three-quarter inch chain facilitate steering, the handlebars having been moved back several inches from their original position. Two steel plates, one on each side in front of the rear wheel, serve as brakes by actual contact with the ground or track. They can be raised of lowered by a lever.
Elmo the Fearless, 1920
The Sting of the Green Hornet #2
Issue #2 of a 4 part mini-series, story by Ron Fortier, art by Jeff Butler
Saturday Evening Post, Feb 5, 1944
Saturday Evening Post, February 5th, 1944. Cover art by Mead Schaeffer
They Live in Memory, 1922
Artwork from a newspaper insert, from a bank advertisement, honoring those that lost their lives in the Great War.
Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty
All gave some; some gave all. Happy Memorial Day
Bernard Perlin (1918-1943), Artist. From the Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries, 1943
Crimes by Women, Issue 54, 1954
Crimes by Women #54, Fox Features Syndicate, 1954
Indianapolis Speed Classic, 1934
Cartoon in the Evening Star, Washington DC, March 30, 1934
The Amazing Transparent Man, 1960
A crazed former U.S. Army major Paul Krenner designs an invisibility machine and uses it on an escaped convict who was doing time for safe-cracking to gather more material to improve his device in order to create an army or invisible men! The safe-cracker, however, has other plans. Decent flick, less than an hour long, you can watch it here (archive.org)