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ONE OF OUR FLYING SAUCERS IS MISSING
Virgil Finlay painted many scifi pulp covers in the 1940s and 1950s. Here we have some of his original paintings... as always sans copy.

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2019-06-15

Aloha! It was an honor for The Astronot 👨‍🚀 to receive The Grand Jury Award at the 13th Annual Honolulu Film Awards in Oahu🏝. Daniel & his Dad would stargaze the clear Oregon sky 🌌 during the 1940s & discuss if humans would walk on the 🌖.

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2019-06-14

I draw a 1940s lesbian superhero noir history webcomic with at https://t.co/03A6fayN73, and a watercolor postcard comic diary at https://t.co/MXLUGW0i8I
Pick up SuperButch issues, postcards and minicomics at https://t.co/oweefERZzj
Support at https://t.co/AzRCrD7h88

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2019-06-14



1945, Green Giant Corn Niblets illustrated by Norman Rockwell

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2019-06-12

MY EVER CHANGING MOODS
Vargas became widely known in the 1940s as the creator of the iconic pin-ups for Esquire magazine known as Varga Girls. Between 1940 and 1946 Vargas produced 180 paintings for the magazine. The art on American WW II aircrafts was inspired by these pin-ups.

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2019-06-08

This 1940s leaflet was aimed at young women considering a career in retail - it includes these great images of the shop floor, and a rather questionable ladder technique!

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2019-06-04

War and Rumours of War: 1940s British prints and drawings from opens here on Saturday 6 July.

Artists featured include Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Barbara Hepworth, Vanessa Bell and John Piper. Find out more in our press release https://t.co/aEN5JZuOYw

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2019-06-04

Lois de’ Fee (1918-2012) was the 6’4” “Queen of the Amazon” in the 1938 New York World’s Fair Amazon Exhibit. She was a top-grossing headliner of burlesque throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s, making $400 a week. She married 5 times & adopted her daughter Star in 1941.

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2019-06-03

Animation backgrounds from the Superman cartoons, THE UNDERGROUND WORLD (1943) and JUNGLE DRUMS (1943). Imagine seeing these on the big screen, in a darkened theatre.

These 1940s cartoons, by the way, gave Superman the power of flight—before that, he could only leap.

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2019-06-02

This was going to be Rose’s zoot suit but I wasn’t feeling it. I think the other one looks better. Even so I still think it looks cool.

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2019-05-26

this megumi is in a 1940s noir and she has definitely murdered and will murder again

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2019-05-22