Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
The Mk V was a Fighter design in the form of a sesquiplane (a biplane having one wing of less than half the area of the other) with straight lower wing and no tail. The experimental craft was fitted with a 600 hp Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine and two Vickers machine guns. While it demonstrated equal capability to conventional fighters of the day, other issues prevented it from going into production. It was first flown from Andover in May 1934.
SAFE from bomb attacks, free from disease and changing temperatures, living in cities a mile beneath the surface of the earth, such is the dream of science for the man of the future, a not impractical dream which may doom the towers of Manhattan and every other large city to destruction… (Modern Mechanix, July, 1934)
A young girl who lives on a tropical island loses her parents to a voodoo sacrifice, but although she manages to escape the island, a curse is put on her. Years later, as an adult, she feels a strong compulsion to return to the island to confront her past. (IMDb)
Norman Rockwell Painting for the Saturday Evening Post, Dec 15th, 1934
