Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
Edison’s Conquest of Mars was an illustrated serial story that started its weekly publication on Sunday February 4th, 1898 and ran through April 10th, 1898 (later published in book form in 1947). The novel was an unauthorized sequel to H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds”
If you feel like reading the story, it is available at archive.org
“Works fine”… What a rousing, heart-felt endorsement from LIFE Magazine!
Advertisement from Popular Science, October 1949
The Executioner by J. C. Leyendecker. Saturday Evening Post, Nov 26, 1921
Couple of postcards showing a group of tourists by the still mostly covered sphinx in 1914
Continue reading “Tourists at the Pyramids, 1914”
Happy Thanksgiving!
TV Tornado Annual, 1968, featuring Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Magnus Robot Fighter, Green Hornet & Kato, Tarzan…
October 1967 edition of Black Belt magazine featuring Bruce Lee as “Kato”
ABOUT THE COVER: This months eye-catching cover portrays Kato, the crimebusting assistant of “The Green Hornet.” Master of Kung-fu, he wields two-section staff as a club (foreground) and as masked Kato, he flips devastating darts at his opponents, weapons concealed under his armpit. Both weapons are in arsenal of ancient Chinese martial art. Photos by courtesy of 20th-Century Fox TV.
Thanksgiving cover for the Saturday Evening Post by J.C. Leyendecker, 1928
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl’s sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang. (IMDb)
Found out about this film when doing a quick internet search on William Hopper (Paul Drake, the private investigator on Perry Mason). When I saw it also had Craig Stevens (Peter Gunn) and Keye Luke in the credits, I had to get a copy. Unfortunately, Warner Bros has not seen fit to release it on video yet.