Queen B! We found this royal insect in our copy of Charles Butler’s The Femininʻ Monarchiʻ, or The Histori of Beeʻs (Oxford, 1634), which was likely previously owned by Benjamin Franklin. #MacroMonday
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)
I… gotta admit, I was waiting for the story to turn on her and make her out to be unreasonable, but damn.
It would be interesting to discover the history of this. Anyone care to wager it was quashed by some macho editor?
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.
Apparently she’s public domain now, so if any of y’all want to write a revival series of her, you can!
Public domain =
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!
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.
Happy Birthday to the guy with the gun, Bruce Campbell!
While most genre icons gain fame through monsters and madmen, Groovy Bruce is the smart-mouthed, boomstick-wielding hero we all want to be. With unmatched charisma and the mightiest chin in the cosmos, Campbell helped the Evil Dead franchise achieve perfection with his timeless performance as Ashley J. Williams. With a million genre flicks to his name and a gig as the new ho-st of Ripley’s Believe it or Not, Campbell is the king of the weirdo cool.
Hail to the King, baby.
According to the 1976 DC Calendar, June 16th is the anniversary of the day Krypton exploded, the Kryptonian calendar date being 39 Ogtal 10000.
Photo credit: Gone & Forgotten
Neato retro horror plastic monster toys with interchangeable heads! Not only are the figures fantastic, but we also dig the spooky packaging design!
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