Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
Letter from Jack the Ripper, delivered in a box with half of a kidney. It was sent to George Lusk the Chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee
From Hell
Mr Lusk
Sor
I send you half the kidne I took from one women preserved it for you the other piece I fried and ate it was very nice. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if only you wate a little longer.
Signed
Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk
Apparently global warming is nothing new…
Before the letters to the editors started being published, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby included some historical information towards the back of the Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos comic. Issue #3 was a shopping list for WW2
Cover to the TV Channels weekly newspaper television guide, featuring Batman and the Green Hornet.
A steel-reinforced cement, ghoul proof, coffin, The “ghouls” in this case are grave robbers… or are they?
The four times Peter Gunn graced the cover of the TV Guide (left to right, top to bottom)
January 3, 1959, July 11, 1959, February 13, 1960 (with John Vivyan of Mr. Lucky, another Blake Edwards creation) and February 11, 1961
American soldier standing in the ruined crypt of the Monument to the Battle of Nations in Leipzig, Germany, 1945
Call of Cthulhu is a fun, modern, low-budget, fan-made, silent film, based on HP Lovecraft’s most famous work. (Silent, b&w, 47 minutes)
If you wish to purchase this for your collection, it is available here: https://store.hplhs.org/products/call-of-cthulhu-dvd
10,000 BC was panned by some viewers for being “historically inaccurate,” but honestly what did they expect from a director that had Will Smith knock an alien out with a punch to its helmet or uploading a computer virus to an alien mother ship. I picked up the movie at Dollar Tree, and honestly it looked like some of the D&D games I’ve participated in. It’s basically an alt-history/fantasy flick of a young hunter in a primitive society going to get his beautiful girl back after she was abducted and taken to a far away land. Along the way he gathers an army of men whose people were also taken captive. Its nothing more than a fun popcorn fest. If it was named something other than 10,000 BC it probably would have had better reviews.
Shown below are various posters for 10,000 BC.