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[superdames]

Re-posting this because I finally got to scan it in high-res.

Betty Bates is a goddamn hero.

—“Betty Bates, Lady-at-Law” in Hit Comics #47 (1947)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I… gotta admit, I was waiting for the story to turn on her and make her out to be unreasonable, but damn.

[je-suis-loupseul]

It would be interesting to discover the history of this. Anyone care to wager it was quashed by some macho editor?

[aqueerkettleofish]

Shockingly…. no.  I looked it up, and apparently she had her own title for like a decade, and got lost in the shuffle when DC bought Quality comics so they could get Plastic Man.

Apparently, she was also a consistent badass.

…and may have been played by a time travelling Drew Barrymore.

I am going to have to look up her creator– Bob Powell, also responsible for Sheena, Queen of the Jungle– because Damn, this is not something I would expect to see from the Golden Age.

[littlemissonewhoisall]

Apparently she’s public domain now, so if any of y’all want to write a revival series of her, you can!

[lenotchpoodles]

Public domain =

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[georgeromeros]

Young Frankenstein (1974) dir. Mel Brooks

“Ixnay on the ottenray.”

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[vintagegeekculture]

For obvious reasons, I don't talk a lot about current events on a blog called "Vintage Geek Culture." But there is a truly bizarre connection in this 60s scifi novel to the current case of Jeffrey Epstein, a man who ran a hedge fund surrounded by intelligence agents and trafficked in underage girls in a sex ring, one surrounded by key members of finance and politics.

The author of this novel is former wartime intelligence agent Donald Barr, the father of the current Attorney General, William Barr. As principal of the Hackley Private School in the 1970s, Donald Barr's day job, Barr was the first to hire Jeffrey Epstein as a math teacher, despite the fact Epstein didn't have a college degree.

Here is where it gets weirder. The plot of "Space Relations" is that ultra wealthy aliens, debauched and bored and unable to be satisfied by their riches, start to kidnap humans as sex slaves, transporting them into space to be given as illegal playthings of the super rich of the galaxy.

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[annabellehectorworldofweird]

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[artist-blake]

The Ancient of Days, 1794, William Blake

Medium: etching,pen,ink,watercolor,paper

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Splatterday Mourning Cartoon: Betty Boop - Snow White

[kinkyhorrorarticles]

Ho-wdy, Ho-rror Ho-mies!

This week’s scary tale is a psychotically psychedelic psych-out starring Betty Boop! In the grand tradition of Minnie the Moocher, this ‘toon tale is wilder ‘n’ weirder than anything Uncle Walt would dare to release! Featuring Cab Calloway as Koko the Clown and the swankiest spectre in the hereafter, here’s the fair and faBOOlous Snow White!

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Happy Birthday, Peter Lorre!

[kinkyhorrorarticles]

Happy Birthday to that saucer-eyed sorcerer of sinister sin-ema, Peter Lorre! One of the most popular performers in movie history, Lorre lent his considerable talents to some real heavy-hitters: Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Arsenic and Old Lace, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea are just a few of the all-timers he starred in.  And that’s not even including his ho-rror films! Mad Love, The Beast with Five Fingers, The Comedy of Terrors, Tales of Terror, Corman’s The Raven, and M (if you count it)… Lorre has some serious creep cred! And, on top o’ that, nearly every spooky cartoon features a Lorre caricature; his voice is the go-to  impression for comic spooksters everywhere.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Lorre!

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[oldshowbiz]

The Moulin Rouge was the only Black hotel casino in midcentury Las Vegas. It opened as an antidote to the Jim Crow policies of all the other hotels, although it was located a far ways from the action.. It showcased the best Black acts and was considered quite the party spot. Remarkably, the shell of the original sign still stands in a vacant lot.

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