Comic books on sale 60 years ago, April 17, 1962.

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japanese posters for “cléo de cinq à sept” (1962) and “le bonheur” (1965)

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Got your bonnet ready?


Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pinning the Hat: Second Plate, c. 1898, lithograph printed on cream laid paper. The Clark, 1962.99.

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"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck was published 1939. It won a National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize, & helped Steinbeck to the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

About its Great Depression-themed plot, he said "I've done my damnedest to rip a reader's nerves to rags"

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14 April 1939. The classic novel, Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck was first published in the USA. It’s set in the Great Depression, focusing on the poor Joad farming family struggling with economic hardship. The novel helped Steinbeck to win the Nobel Prize in 1962.

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Riley's One-Point-Five was a small, sporting saloon from BMC with few obvious direct competitors. The 1962 brochure was as charming and dated-looking as the car itself. The cover's tweed cap, driving gloves and nostalgic slogan seemed to evoke a bygone era.

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Debuting as Carol Ferris in 1959, she first appeared as in 1962.
Though she wasn't the first nor the last one to carry that title, Carol'd still be the most remembered of them all.
Here's our cover remake.

Color & assembly by

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Happy birthday to the true King of Hearts: Ataru Moroboshi!

If you go by his original birthdate of Friday 13th April 1962, our boy would be 60 years old today! 😱

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Promo photos for the movie “The Black Lizard”
Yukio Mishima. 1962

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Laurent Parcelier, 1962 French painter.
Coffee on the terrace this morning?

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From the V&A collection: E.299-1962 Print La Ménagerie Impériale V&A On display Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C https://t.co/FsNYhgc83T

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Today in Comics History: In Bil Keane’s “The Family Circus,” the now-iconic dashed line first appeared 60 years ago, on April 8, 1962.

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José Luis Cuevas, Plate (folio 14) from Recollections of Childhood, 1962 https://t.co/6bir65uLZ3

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Fermati, dove corri?
Il cielo è dentro di te;
Se altrove tu lo cerchi
In eterno lo perdi.

_Angelus Silesius

🖌René Magritte Il terapeuta, 1962

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おはようございます‼
4月6日~15日は
「春の全国交通安全運動」

自動車普及に伴う
交通事故の急増を受けて
1962年からは政府の重要施策として
交通対策本部が中心となり
交通事故撲滅のため

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Flecha Roja (Sánchez Avia, Pedro Quesada, 1962)

Una vez se descubre el pastel de los indios en llamas la cosa pierde fuelle. Por otro lado tampoco sé qué esperaba teniendo el contexto, así que, buen trabajo para el guionista.

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