Let’s Ventriloquise!

‘Ventriloquism’ With 5 Famous Comics Talking Figures – This 1930s book contained four thin cardboard talking figures: Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Lillums.

[Found here.]

Ololygmancing Hot Links

Hello Stranger, Barbara Lewis (1963)
 One of the prettiest songs ever written IMO.

Barbara Lewis was inspired to write a song with that title while working gigs in Detroit with her musician father: “I would make the circuit with my dad and people would yell out: ‘Hey stranger, hello stranger, it’s been a long time’.” The song is notable because its title comprises the first two words of the lyrics but is never repeated at any point in the rest of the song. [via Wiki]

A snek!

Puttering.

Grape bricks.

Thai rednecks.

Current events.

Adam’s first swim.

Mary had a little rabbit.

Entitled Do Not Disturb .

Norty Blues Episode 75.

The happiest vertebrae.

Eyechat [via Nag on the Lake].

Gaping maws [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Costco Apocalypse Dinner Kit.

The final minute of WWI [via Bunkerville].

Popular Scientific Recreations – 1883 [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here.]


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M.A.R.S.* PATROL TOTAL WAR

November 1969 issue No. 8 of M.A.R.S. PATROL Total War:
“When the M.A.R.S. Patrol destroys an invader weather-control ship, they capture a badly wounded courier whose name translates as Victor. Victor explains that his is an army of aliens, intent on capturing Earth for its resources. Through their interrogation, M.A.R.S. concludes that the next major attack will be on Miami. Gold Key Comics Club News. In ‘Part II: Seek and Destroy’, M.A.R.S. helps fend off the attack on Miami even as ‘Victor’ escapes, determined to redeem himself. A booby trap from his own side kills him just as M.A.R.S. discovers the secret underwater base, which they then destroy.” [source]

…and one of them appears to be a football star.

 

The Montgomery Story

Martin Luther King Jr. was born 15 January 1929. Its a shame that so many self-serving politicians and faux civil rights organizations have co-opted and distorted his legacy.

Click on the image to read the whole publication.

YAHHHHH EEUNNHHH

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I feel like this a lot.

[Image from Hanuman.]

Happy Pappy Day

“So… you want to date my daughter, eh? Okay, but first, you must pass the test.”

You really have no idea what your father’s done on your behalf.  Kranggg.

[Image from Happy Pappy’s Golden Age Comics.]