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Art by Virgil Finlay for "The Rebel Soul" by Austin Hall in "Famous Fantastic Mysteries," August 1940.

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“- Elwood Blues: It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?

[a brief thinking pause while Jake attempts to light a cigarette]

'Joliet' Jake Blues: Fix the cigarette lighter.”

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The Phantom Empire, 1935.

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French poster from 1964 for The Killers.

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Crystal Vision by Alice-Mary Schnirring from the May 1942. Weird Tales.

Artist unknown.

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Weird Tales, May 1942.

Cover art by Ray Quigley

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Ad for the G. Richard brand of bicycles in the French magazine “Le Rire,” No. 38, 1898. Art by Garnier.

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The Swan Maidens by Walter Crane, 1894.

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From Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest by Walter Crane. 1893

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Ad for Craven Tobacco from the 1930s.

"For men who know good tobaccos" and are not craven about admitting it.

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Burne Hogarth - Gunslinger Illustration Original Art (undated)

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“Adventure,” Vol. 121, No. 1 (May 1949). Cover art by Robert Stanley.

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“The Start of a Car Rally” by French artist Guy Sabran in the October 3, 1931 issue of “L’Illustration,” devoted to the Automobile and Tourism.

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“Fifteen Western Tales,” Vol. 20, No. 1 (October, 1949).

Uncredited Cover Art.

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“April Fool’s Day” by Russell Sambrook on the cover of “The Saturday Evening Post,” April 2, 1938

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Detective Fiction Weekly, November 26, 1932

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The American Magazine, December 1935And The Man Who Could Work Miracles, 1936