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From The Washington Times, Washington D.C., September 10, 1922
Evening Star, Washington D.C., August 17, 1925
Artwork for the hardbound compilation of the first NOW Comics Green Hornet series. Includes portraits of Van Williams, Bruce Lee and Keye Luke. The artwork was later used as a promotional poster for the comic series.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation testing the effects of lightning on an automobile, where 3 million volts strike the roof of a steel-topped car.
As an arrow speeds from a bow, Spring-heeled Jack rode in the air, and as he hovered for a moment between the bayonets, a pistol gleaming in his hand. There was a spurt of fire, the officer fell, and then Spring-heeled Jack was gone.
Spring-Heeled Jack, 1904, issue #7
(Edited for length… Mr Oufle, hosting a party at carnival time, and quite drunk, decides to wear his son’s masquerade costume, which was a combination of a suit of green and gold, intended as a foresters dress; a costume of the time of Francois L, covered with spangles; and last, but not least, a bear-skin suit, so contrived that the wearer of it was covered with fur from head to foot, and looked precisely like a black-bear escaped from a traveling caravan.)
A spoof article written in the December issue of Locomotive Engineering, A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock, by Eli Gilderfluke
The scope of this elaborate joke can be seen in the various components described below, Ive highlighted just a few of the many jokes, not to mention, the machine in the engraving would not be able to move thanks to the configuration of the wheels (52-57). Continue reading “Gilderfluke Perfected Locomotive, 1897”