Comic Book Short Story~The Reluctant Rustler

HAVE GUN- WILL TRAVEL premiered 55 years ago, and ran for 6 or 7 seasons. I was too young to remember it. I've never sought it out as I have other retro TV because I don't much care for westerns. However I have just watched the first 2 episodes and I must say I am very impressed. The second episode, guest starring Charles Bronson, would be Emmy nominated fare today. The half hour format makes for tight plotting and writing, which is why I love shows like Peter Gunn and the first 39 episodes of Danger Man so much.

This was the only TV show to spawn a successful radio drama version. Paladin was voiced by William Conrad.

Dell Four Color #1044 October 1959

art by  Alberto Giolitti

here are the 2 infopages for this issue

Good Old Food Mart

Kinda Picasso looking people

Grocery AND a night club!!

No one seems to shop at Food Mart by day.

TEXTING, 1948 style

from an ad for WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM SERVICE

Beatles Banjo and Marching Drum

The Art of Bill Randall

Born in 1911, Bill Randall attended the Chicago Art Institute. He produced propaganda posters during WWII. He's most known for his calender girls of the 1950s.
He also did magazine covers and ads.

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Artist on cover of his 1954 calender

Toyota EX-III

The Toyota EX-III concept car was shown at the 1969 Tokyo Motor Show. 

While most Japanese firms turned to European design houses for their innovative designs, Toyota struck its own course. The 1969 EX III was a case in point. Here was a sleek coupe, which advanced the dream-car ideal as much as the Europeans. Its sleek shape

carried over to its ultra-smooth underbody, making it very aerodynamic.

Comic Book Short Story~Monster In Town

Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #69 (August 1976)

George Wilson's art for the cover

art by Carlos Garzon

Classroom Movie~The Development of the X-15 Rocket Plane (1962)

Flash Gordon original cover art

George WIlson's original art for the cover of Flash Gordon #20, 1978

Don't know if the colors are muted by choice or just a result of printing..but it fails to bring out the richness of Wilson's original

Talk about a staged photo...a BBQ where no one is wearing wifebeaters or flipflops.

BBQ-Life magazine 1958. YUM! Why did the host cut up the onions, but leave the more difficult tomatoes for his drunken guests? (those must be 24 oz beers at least!). And are you supposed to slice your own eggplant and grill it? Grilling eggplant doesn't help it a bit. And what about the stuff in lower right--hamburger? steak? cow patties? and is that fondue next to the beans?

Department Store Ski Boat!

I knew you could once buy complete houses (in pieces) from Sears...Didn't know about boats! Wonder if you had to assemble them yourself?