By using ultra-short waves, science expects to penetrate the heavyside layer, or gaseous medium surrounding the earth, and establish radio communication with Mars and other distant planets.
A Perfect 10
Marian Marsh on the beach in a 1931 publicity shot (get a load of those heels!)
Green Hornet Coloring Books
The first three Green Hornet coloring books shown were published by Watkins Stathmore Co. in 1966. The last one pictured was published by Whitman publishing, also in 1966.
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Alright, Who Played With the Bat-Signal?
An image of an eye is projected onto a building at New York by a skyjector. February 1960.
Blue Beetle is Back!
I’m a little late in posting this, as I just found out about it…
“Scientists of the world unite! When Simon Stagg sabotages Mr. Terrific’s latest world-changing invention, reinforcements are needed. Enter the Terrific Council: Blue Beetle! The Atom! Man-Bat! Shay Veritas! Dhalua Strong! (Just hum a theme song in your head, it’ll be more exciting that way.) Looks like Michael Holt has been building a real path to progress behind the backs of his Terrific comrades-but the real question is, what else is he planning?” – (DC Comics)
La Optica Moderna
Ka-zar, April, 1981
Kazar, Shanna and Zabu
New Movie Magazine, Mar, 1933
Forgotten Gods
A trip to the Yucatan Peninsula in the summer of 1909 provided inspiration for Forgotten Gods.
Fifteen Foot Tall…
With Tusks Sixteen Foot Long
OVER In England the soldiers in the trenches haven’t even seen an enemy, much less fired a shot at him, have secured one of the most important results of the war. They have found the remains of a giant Straight Tusked elephant, the largest elephant that has yet been found in the world, which politely shoves the American Imperial Mammoth from the perch. so to speak, whereon it had stood for all these years as the largest known elephant.
(Detail from The Washington Herald, March 05, 1916)