“Granting the Martians an older and wiser civilization, and a better knowledge of our affairs than we have of theirs, our warring earth must seem rather silly in their eyes.”
Lee Falk & The Phantom
Lee Falk, creator of The Phantom, standing next to Billy Zane who played the role of the Phantom in 1996
Comedy of Terrors
Two unscrupulous undertakers (Vincent Price & Peter Lorre) find they are about to be evicted by their landlord (Basil Rathbone) for being a year late on rent. In order to drum up business, the dastardly duo sneak into the house of a wealthy elderly man, but when the bill comes due, his young widow skips town with the inheritance. When they set out to repeat the process, they receive a message from the landlord that the money was due in the morning. So they set off to kill two birds with one pillow. Unfortunately the landlord is harder to kill than expected. Continue reading “Comedy of Terrors”
Mr. Skygack Observes Thanksgiving
Observed bucolic Earth-being with chin-foliage proffering kernel-food to gobble-bird ~~ at same time nervously fingering a nick-blade with slay intentions ~~ did not seem, however, to disarm suspicion-thoughts of fowl, which showed dubious sidestep tendency.
Published November 27, 1912
Gonna Need A Bigger Axe!
Mary Philbin prepares to do battle…
Photophone, 1897
Amazing Stories, Dec, 1942
Model & Toy Collector, 1991
Model & Toy Collector Magazine, Issue #18, 1991, featuring the Green Hornet.
The Last Gunpowder War? 1914
“Airships will carry vast lenses that will concentrate the rays of the sun, withering and destroying everything beneath them.”
Mars Needs… Rubber? 1899
From the The Worthington Advance, Worthington Minn, December 08, 1899.
