After WW2, superhero comics started to fade in popularity, and the focus was science fiction, funny animal, horror, and-- Romance comics! Lots of romance comics. Who created the first romance comic? Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.

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Absent from Britain since WW2, Opel returned in the late '60s, with this early range brochure calling the cars 'The Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove'. Precedence was given to the larger Rekord/Commodore series, although the Kadett and Olympia were also on offer.

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After WW2, the car side of Steyr-Daimler-Puch concentrated on building selected Fiat models under licence with Steyr engines - the last ones were early examples of the 126. The company was best known outside Austria for its rugged 4X4 models like the Haflinger.

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On the Eastern Front in WW2, the USSR suffered very heavy losses while fighting the Nazis. Most of the soldiers who died were young men in their late teens and early twenties, and four out of every five Russian men born in 1923 did not survive the war. https://t.co/KsmE84LwfF

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During WW2, de Vasconcellos worked on large sculptures such as 'The Last Chimera' and 'The Hand'. She became the first female fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and was a founding member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors in 1953.

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As I near the finishing line with 'Wild Labyrinth' - I feel a bit guilty for not giving much attention recently. Books are like children, for this writer anyway! So - if any of you like historical or WW2, or dogs, or this story could be for you!

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Peugeot's first new model after WW2, the 1290cc 203 went into production in 1948 and is shown in this early brochure in both saloon and the rarer 4-door cabriolet version. The 203, with its US-influenced styling was the company's only car in the early 50s.

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Picture Puffin book number 46. A Children's Alphabet designed and drawn by Grace Gabler @ 1945. Gabler was in Ambleside during WW2, where the Royal College of Art had decamped from London. Her friend designed wooden blocks for her degree piece whilst Grace designed this book.

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For any primary teachers planning next term's work, I'm offering a number of topic based Zoom sessions related to my poetry books on WW1/WW2, Space, Romans, Vikings, etc Or based around 'Walking With My Iguana' Details here: https://t.co/dmwYcGAmWk

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Felix Bürkner competed in individual dressage for Germany at the 1912 Games. In WW1, he commanded a German cavalry squadron. He continued to serve in the Reichswehr after the war and during WW2, he was the head of the Army Riding School in Krampnitz.

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85: 1942

So apparently you can't hashtag a number. I feel like years would be popular hashtags. I guess I'll just hashtag instead.

I find it interesting that there's games for both sides of Pacific WW2, the other so far being Sky Destroyer.

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Intended as a pseudo-sequel to DUMBO, potentially using similar characters, little work was done on Bongo before it was shelved at the outbreak of WW2, later being revived for FUN & FANCY FREE. Here are early sketches done for the sequence. Learn more: https://t.co/vt6C7Xh3WX

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I'd just like to add that in my headcannon, after ww2, JE is somewhat mute, it's not from being blasted with a nuke twice, he just chooses to be mute most of the time



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In April 1940 Evelyn Dunbar was appointed an official, salaried war artist by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, to record UK women's contributions to WW2, particularly the Land Army. In 2015, c.500 of her paintings, sketches etc were found in an attic. https://t.co/na8WJ691s2

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Sam Wilson and the Red Tails fighting in WW2, pages from Generations/Cap with wonderful colors by Laura Martin

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Created to kill Hitler and end WW2, Subject-1776 arrived in Berlin to find the Furer's dead body in a bunker. He's spent the last eighty years wandering America.
Is stopping an upcoming terrorist attack his last chance to be the hero he was made to be?

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Is it already Saturday?

Catch up with the new and upcoming with our weekly report:
https://t.co/eiZU4AYitw

WW2, fantasy, sci fi, there's something for everyone to enjoy.

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Carine: Monster hunting knight in a world where iron is rare.
Tatiana: Special forces soldier during a future apocalypse.
Yvette: Army cadet during WW2, sharpshooter.
Seryl: The girl who helps put everything back together after the future apocalypse.

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