The Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster. Scans from The World’s Worst Aircraft.

Title cards to the eight Famous Studios Superman theatrical shorts. Like the original nine by Fleischer, some of these were originally animated; the handgun in “Showdown” moved, as did the waterfall in “The Underground World.”

For some reason this feels like, er, a slightly more problematic set of images than the first. Oh well. At least “Eleventh Hour” and “The Underground World” are breathtakingly beautiful (and “The Mummy Strikes” ain’t nothing to sneeze at, either)…

Title cards to the original nine Fleischer Studios Superman theatrical shorts. What’s great about these - which I couldn’t capture due to my deficient GIF animating technology - is that a number of them are themselves animated. The “magnetic” part of “The Magnetic Telescope” flickers like a neon sign, the “Terror on the Midway” spotlight moves, etc.

I’ve never understood why we’ve never seen the Mechanical Monsters again. Such great designs.

astromonster:

Fletcher Hanks

Good lord!

That’s… um… uh… maybe I’ll just leave this here, then.

Image from Mile High Comics.

monzo12782:

From a book of pulp covers I don’t remember the title of. One scan of quite a few. Love the coloring on this one a lot, though.

April, 1942.

Seriously, that is some gorgeous shading.

Absolutely mesmerizing. Jack Fina’s rendition of “Flight of the Bumblebee,” from the 1948 Disney compilation film Melody Time.

Here, have the Andrews Sisters singing the Sabre Dance. The Harmonica Gentlemen reappear!

The Andrews Sisters with the Harmonica Gentlemen - “Sabre Dance” - 1947 78rpm.