Edgar Rice Burroughs; misc. covers on Golden Age Comic Book Stories
Pirate Blood - A modern-day young man named Lafitte, a descendant of the New Orleans pirate of the same name, finds himself thrown by a bizarre set of events into his ancestor’s profession. The tale is a semi-serious takeoff on the hoary theory that heredity equals destiny.
It appeared in the collection The Wizard of Venus (Ace Books, August 1970) +
The Violet Fairy Book
Illustrations by Henry Justice Ford
The monkey brought to Otohime.
(via mudwerks)
Coast Guard signalman operating a blinker lamp
Photographs of Coast Guard Uniforms 1941-1945
Dress blues with white “Dixie Cup” hat; this was a typical uniform combination worn while on liberty. This uniform was the same as worn by Navy sailors except for the shield device, in white, on the lower right sleeve.
Black and white photograph of officers in naval dress at the Elco Naval Academy in Rhode Island.
John F. Kennedy is in the center row, center.
Henry R. Sutphen of Electric Launch Company (Elco) and his designers (Irwin Chase, Bill Fleming, and Glenville Tremaine) visited the United Kingdom to see British motor torpedo boat designs. While visiting the British Power Boat Company, they purchased a 70-foot (21 m) design.
During World War I, the company built five hundred and fifty 80-foot submarine chasers for the British Admiralty.
Between the wars, it introduced the 26-foot Cruisette, a cabin cruiser which became successful. This was followed in the 1930s with 30-foot to 57-foot Veedettesand Flattops.
During World War II, Elco formed the Elco Naval Division in Bayonne, New Jersey. Nearly 400 Elco PT boats (“Patrol Torpedo” torpedo-armed fast attack craft) were produced for the U.S. Navy .
Perhaps the most notable 80-foot PT boat was PT-109, commanded by future president John F. Kennedy. In the film PT 109, the “Elco” script logo can be seen on the cockpit throttle housing in several scenes.
At the end of the war, the company merged with its sister company, Electric Boat, to form the nucleus of a new corporation General Dynamics. In 1949, General Dynamics decided to focus on government contracts for submarines at Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut
General Dynamics/ Electric Boat Corporation has been the primary builder of submarines for the United States Navy for over 100 years.
ARGOSY WEEKLY
misc issues 1920 ~ 1942
- Golden Age Comic Book Stories -
Gold Key comics - Turok, Son Of Stone No.60 - Jan., 1968
(1020 x 1519)
wikipedia: The page “Sea honker” does not exist.
King comics - Popeye No. 91 - Nov., 1967
(1014 x 1520)
Classics Illustrated - No. 81 - The Odyssey - Oct, 1966
The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odysseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer.
The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the first. It is believed to have been composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.
The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his ten year journey home after the fall of Troy.
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Time For Love - No. 7 - November, 1968
(1003 x 1536)
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