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Chris Holmes
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Superman, Santa Claus, and Me! Superman’s Christmas Adventure, 1944; published by Detective Comics (aka DC Comics), artist
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You kids with your YouTube and streaming services have it so good. Back in 1947 the main way to listen to recorded music at home was rather brittle shellac 78 rpm records. One of the leading brands
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If you’re a beautiful dame and find yourself underwater and face-to-face with a man-eating shark, you want a giant bowie knife at your side. I just need to know how she ended up in the water
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Just in time for Halloween, I’m kicking off a new series featuring a festive Halloween cover. It’s the cover to Our Gang Comics #28 (Dell, November
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We're back for our junior year of vintage back-to-school print
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This slide is purportedly an image of the Pentagon parking lot, but is not dated. The seller indicated that other slides in the same batch were dated 1949, which seems plausible given the design of
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Let's scare up a good time by checking out some spooky vintage Halloween ads from years gone
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One of the many things that makes Kentucky Fried Chicken unique in fast food history is that its growth as a powerhouse franchise was not quite as direct as, say, McDonald’s. For one thing, the
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If there’s one thing I love even more than Halloween, it’s a Halloween pinup. This 1940s Paulette Goddard photo is rather tame by my usual standards but it’s a beauty just the