Out this Thursday in your newsagency, The Phantom back up story is my new short from my ongoing series of tales ft. The Phantom in The Vietnam War, “Said the Joker to the Thief”. Thanks Glenn, Dudley &

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GOLDEN AGE: selina, first known as ‘the cat’, was one of two villains (alongside the joker) to be introduced in the very first batman issue in 1940; in her handful of appearances, she pulled off lavish heists & reformed temporarily, before disappearing from the comics for years

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Chiura Obata (Japanese), 1885 - 1975. Watercolours/ink of the Monterey Peninsula. Carmel Cypress, 1940; Carmel Valley, 1946; Point Lobos, 1930; Monterey Cypress on the Cliffs of Pebble Beach, 1948.

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David Mink, Landscape Near Flats, 1940; The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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BLUE FAIRY Kindly saviour of wayward puppet Pinocchio 1883; human-sized, not diminutive, she has a mysterious history, appearing first as a spectre child with blue hair. 🎨Augusta & Cavalieri 1924; Disneyfication, 1940; re-imagined under water in A.I. (2001)

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(1) Frida Kahlo, "The Dream", 1940; (2) Transi tomb of John Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel (1408-1435).

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Mountain Stream (color on silk), Matsubayashi Keigetsu, 1940; Adachi Museum of Art. This is the original post, from Art Look Gallery on Facebook, posted this morning.

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