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The Barnyard Broadcast Radio Control Room Early Background Layout Drawing Walt Disney (1931) From the Mickey Mouse theatrical short The Barnyard Broadcast comes this original early background layout drawing for the radio control room seen multiple times throughout the feature.

The Barnyard Broadcast Radio Control Room

Early Background Layout Drawing

Walt Disney (1931)

"Meow. Meow." Wait a minute, that's not Minnie's harp playing over the radio! From the Mickey Mouse theatrical short The Barnyard Broadcast comes this original early background layout drawing for the radio control room seen multiple times throughout the feature. This short was directed by Burt Gillett (1891 - 1971) and released on October 10, 1931. It saw Mickey and Minnie along with Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow put on a radio concert from a barn repurposed into a broadcasting studio.

Buck Rogers 25th Century Combat Game Warren Paper Products (1937) This Combat Game centers on a multi-level Rocket Ship Control Base populated by cardboard characters and weapon emplacements, creating a colorful tabletop battleground drawn from the visual language of classic pulp science fiction.

Buck Rogers 25th Century Combat Game

Warren Paper Products (1937)

This Combat Game centers on a multi-level Rocket Ship Control Base populated by cardboard characters and weapon emplacements, creating a colorful tabletop battleground drawn directly from the visual language of classic pulp-era science fiction. Few toy properties did more to establish the look and feel of space adventure during the first half of the twentieth century, making Buck Rogers one of the foundational franchises of the genre.Buck Rogers 25th Century Combat Game

Warren Paper Products (1937)

This Combat Game centers on a multi-level Rocket Ship Control Base populated by cardboard characters and weapon emplacements, creating a colorful tabletop battleground drawn directly from the visual language of classic pulp-era science fiction. Few toy properties did more to establish the look and feel of space adventure during the first half of the twentieth century, making Buck Rogers one of the foundational franchises of the genre.

Witchcraft #04 The Terrible Face Claws Of The Cat Diary Of A Monster The Man Who Bribed Death Art by Al Hollingsworth Avon (1952) In a way only a pre-Code issue could provide, Overstreet notes that this issue includes a, "people cooked alive cover and story."

Witchcraft #04

The Terrible Face

Claws Of The Cat

Diary Of A Monster

The Man Who Bribed Death

Art by Al Hollingsworth

Avon (1952)

In a way only a pre-Code issue could provide, Overstreet notes that this issue includes a, "people cooked alive cover and story." Skull / skeleton cover by Al Hollingsworth.

Ships And Men (1943) Sample Comic Page Art by Everett Raymond Kinstler Everett Raymond Kinstler created the present work as a title page for a hypothetical comic. This full page created as a sample, would be used by the artist in hopes of obtaining jobs in certain story genres and art styles.

Ships And Men (1943)

Sample Comic Page

Art by Everett Raymond Kinstler

Everett Raymond Kinstler created the present work as a title page for a hypothetical comic book. This full page created as a sample, would be used by the artist in hopes of obtaining jobs in certain story genres and art styles.

This work exhibits stylistic similarities to Real Life comics, which Kinstler published his first comic book story with Real Life in May 1943 the same year annotated on this sample page.

The only good thing to come out of the dipshit Odyssey discourse is that at one point I commented “if we’re worried about accuracy, then Jason Mantzoukas should be playing Odysseus,” and now I can’t get it out of my head 😄

Impressively-Greek-looking Mantzoukas with long, wild hair and crazy beard, wearing a leather jacket and laughing at something off-camera.

Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a radio adventure series which aired from 1933 to 1951. Storylines centered around the globe-trotting adventures of the popular athlete at Hudson High School, his friend Billy Fairfield & his sister Betty, and their uncle, an industrialist.

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