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The Land That Time Forgot (Part 2 of 3) by Edgar Rice Burroughs in the March 1927 issue of Amazing Stories.

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Magic books by Dunninger the magician

Mostly self published, or published by Hugo Gernsback.

Popular Magic Vol. II (1929)

Popular Magic and Card Tricks (1929)

Here's Fun for Young and Old: Dunninger’s Magic Tricks (1940)

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Wheeler and Woolsey were, I think, the first to get a million-dollar contract in Hollywood, only for Woolsey to die after one film.

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Startling Stories,” Summer (July) 1946. Cover by Earle Bergey for Henry Kuttner’s novel, “The Dark World,"

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“The Education of Mr. Pipp, No. 36” by Charles Dana Gibson in “Life” magazine, September 14, 1899.

“A Double Wedding, at which he makes his Greatest Sacrifice.”

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Tales of the Bagman, B.C. Bell.

A pulp pastiche set in 1930s Chicago and starring a man with a literal flower bag with eye holes cut in it over his head. The Bagman is a former low-level crook turned protector of the innocent, fighting crime with two fists and some help from his buddy Crankshaft.

Good thing he's not gluten intolerant.

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Operator # 5 fought so many outlandish menaces to America and the world. Yet, no matter how different they were, they all seemed to buy the helmets for their minions from the same place.

Perhaps if he had hunted down who this was, he could have found out their backorder list and stopped some of these before they got to the point of firing ladies out of cannons at the White House.

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Flying, March 1955.

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Popular Aviatio, May

Started in 1927, it went through some name changes, going to Aeronautics, then back to Popular Aviation, then it became Flying in 1942. It is still being published today.

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So, this used to be a thing.

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Frizz, a quick "ice cream" in a box that was introduced by Kraft just after WW II.

It didn't last long.

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Pussy Fane was created by Jane Littell and appeared in two or three stories in Romance magazines from 1931 to 1932, beginning with “Party Girl” (Underworld Romances, Nov. 1931).

An early version of a superheroine, she was raised in the circus around the big cats, whom she likes more than people.

She is an acrobat and has “the strong jungle odor of the cats would cling to her for life. " She regularly douses herself in the strongest perfume she knows.

She also has superhuman strength, which she was born with–“any sudden need always found her possessed of the strength of twenty men.”

She is a beautiful escort (“party girl”) for the Pauline Whiting Entertainment Agency, letting herself be used as arm candy by men who want a pretty girl by their side for an evening, whom she usually ends up having to save from gangsters or the like.

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A short lived mixing of two genres, from November, 1931

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Pink Pudding, introduced in 1955.

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“Memories” “When her little sister came to town.” by Charles Dana Gibson in Life magazine, October 27, 1921.

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1958... Rafael DeSoto https://flic.kr/p/2qDYk4D