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The world of The Lost World series in Planet Comic is our own...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:38:17 -0400

The world of The Lost World series in Planet Comic is our own but transformed by the Volta Men conquest.

Mankind is mostly exterminated and his works lie in ruins. Nature has retaken the cities and strange vicious beasts have evolved. A handful of backward human survivors scratch out a living among the ruins, dodging beasts and Voltan patrols.

As they travel North America and Europe, laboring to unite these survivors against the enemy, Lyssa and Hunt encounter some familiar locations.

The villains of The Lost World series in Planet Comics are a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:01:00 -0400

The villains of The Lost World series in Planet Comics are a militaristic alien race called the Volta Men.

The wicked Volta Men launched a surprise attack that destroyed Earth’s cities and annihilated its population. Now, they patrol its blasted surface, seeking to eliminate survivors. Earth is only one in a long line of worlds the cruel Volta Men have subdued.

The Volta Men are an amalgam of mid-20th Century bad guys. They look like a cross between goblins and zombies, They dress like the Wehrmacht. They live in a totalitarian society like Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Russia. They enjoy torture and bloodsports like Imperial Romans. There’s also a hint of Ming the Merciless and other Yellow Peril villains about them.

Oh, and speech theirs Yoda anticipates does.

Lyssa is Hunt Bowman’s companion / comrade / mate in The...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:06:32 -0400

Lyssa is Hunt Bowman’s companion / comrade / mate in The Lost World series in Planet Comics.

She meets Hunt when both are captured by The Volta Men and must work together to escape. Lyssa was queen of a remnant human population on Mars, descended from Earth space explorers, but gives that up to join Hunt.

Her intelligence and abilities vary from story to story. In some tales she is smart and clever and explains the world to the isolated Bowman. In other stories, she is silly and empty-headed—a 1940s caricature of a woman. Throughout the series, she is a stalwart fighter and saves the day at least as often as Hunt.

And she doesn’t wear a whole lot.

Hunt Bowman is the hero of The Lost World series in Planet...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:06:28 -0400

Hunt Bowman is the hero of The Lost World series in Planet Comics.

Hunt grew up on the devastated Earth. His parents and their tribe were destroyed by Volta Men, leaving the boy to fend for himself. Until he met Lyssa, Hunt believed himself to be the Last Man on Earth.

Not a lot to say about Hunt. He’s heroic. He’s strong and good with a bow. Hunt loves Lyssa. Hunt wants to unite the human survivors and forge an army to drive the Volta Men from earth. Hunt travels the world fighting Volta Men, mutants, monsters, and aliens and organizing humans.

Pulp Saturday has been reading his way through The Lost World...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:42:00 -0400

Pulp Saturday has been reading his way through The Lost World serial which ran for 49 installments in Planet Comics from 1942-52.

Lost World follows protagonists Hunt Bowman and Lyssa as they battle their way across a post-apocalyptic world trying to build a resistance force against Earth’s conquerors, the evil Volta Men.

On the cover of Planet Comics #30 (May 1944), Hunt slays a Voltaman attacking Lyssa in the ruins of Paris.

pulpflesh: Planet Comics

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:09:29 -0400

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Planet Comics

Pulp Saturday is getting out his funny books today! The pulps...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:09:25 -0400

Pulp Saturday is getting out his funny books today!

The pulps gave birth to the comics. In the beginning was Superman, created by two sci fi-loving, pulp-devouring Cleveland teens and published by the group behind the notorious Spicy line of pulps.

And Superman made money. Lots of money. A fortune.

Soon all the pulp publishers were trying their hand at comics…

Planet Stories, May 1951, and Planet Comics #67, Summer 1952.

Eighty-four years ago tomorrow, one-armed, one-legged daredevil...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:00:58 -0400

Eighty-four years ago tomorrow, one-armed, one-legged daredevil Capt. Smiles O’Timmons opened Olentangy Park for the 1929 season with a stunt much like this one.

underneaththedress: Evelyn Nesbit Tragic beauty Evelyn...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:00:37 -0400

underneaththedress:

Evelyn Nesbit

Tragic beauty Evelyn Nesbit.

I was at Madison Square Garden over the weekend and reminded of the slaying of architect Stanford White there in 1906 by Henry Thaw, Nesbit’s insane husband who claimed to be defending his wife’s honor..

ianbrooks: Know Your Cosmic Horrors by Jess Bradley Happy...

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:00:47 -0400

ianbrooks:

Know Your Cosmic Horrors by Jess Bradley

Happy Cthulhu Cthursday, errybody! Prints available for purchase at bigcartel.

Artist: Website / Tumblr

Since I’m up in Massachusetts this week…

Aw yeah!

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:01:03 -0400

Aw yeah!

die-zeit: creepers

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:01:13 -0400

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creepers

Sixty-five years ago today, ground was broken for the new Ohio...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:30:17 -0400

Sixty-five years ago today, ground was broken for the new Ohio State University Medical Center. Here’s what the new medical center looked like shortly after its completion in 1951. Just Doan, Upham, and Means Halls and the old hospital, Starling-Loving Hall.

Amazing how different this photo would look if taken from the same vantage point today.

THIS WEEK IN UNIVERSITY DISTRICT HISTORY

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:00:37 -0400

1904- “Nothing better than-nothing equal to INDIANOLA SUMMIT.” House lots on sale. (Indianola Summit is bounded by Summit, the Big Four railroad tracks, E 14th, and Wyandotte.) May 15.

1929- Olentangy Park, N. High at North St., opens 1929 season with performance by 1-armed, 1-legged daredevil parachutist Capt. Smiles O’Timmons. (Love that name!) May 18.

1930- Nudity, drunkenness, brawling, High St. parades, Mirror Lake dunkings, and hurled eggs mark annual frosh vs. soph battle. May 13.

1933- Frosh vs. soph egg fight deteriorates into general riot at 15th and High. Police respond with firehoses and clubs. Students throw bricks and stones. May 18.

1948- Ground-breaking for futuristic, new Ohio State University Medical Center. May 13.

1958- Iconic 1898 Armory Building is mostly destroyed by fire. May 17.

1974- Ohio State 1973-74 enrollment of 47,268 makes it largest campus in the nation. May 16.

The H.P. Lovecraft Bronze Bust Project

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:01:16 -0400

The H.P. Lovecraft Bronze Bust Project:

The H.P. Lovecraft Bronze Bust Project will erect a life size tribute to the iconic author in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island.

bannerword: Assorted illustrations of Dejah Thoris. Further...

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:01:03 -0400

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Assorted illustrations of Dejah Thoris.

Further interpretations of the Princess of Mars.

michaelkearney: Frank Frazetta – Dejah Thoris and...

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:01:00 -0400

michaelkearney:

Frank Frazetta – Dejah Thoris and Woola.

Though best known for Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first success was his 1912 pulp adventure A Princess of Mars.

The titular princess of Mars, Dejah Thoris, still captivates readers and inspires artists a century later.

Pterodactyls fight biplanes in the trailer for 1977’s The...

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:30:31 -0400

Pterodactyls fight biplanes in the trailer for 1977’s The People That Time Forgot. Starring John Wayne’s son, Patrick.

1963 Ace paperback of The People That Time Forgot, second in...

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:01:42 -0400

1963 Ace paperback of The People That Time Forgot, second in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1918 Caprona trilogy. Originally published in Blue Book.

Another great Roy Krenkel cover.

A rescue mission to save the protagonist of The Land That Time Forgot becomes stranded itself on dinosaur-haunted Caprona. The rescuers search for their man and a means of escape while uncovering the bizarre secret behind the lost world’s strange fauna. Hint: Caprona takes evolution personally.

Trailer for1975 movie version of The Land That Time Forgot. A...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:30:35 -0400

Trailer for1975 movie version of The Land That Time Forgot.

A reasonably faithful adaptation and fairly well done except for the unconvincing and silly-looking puppet dinosaurs.