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1939: World War II begins
1940: The Battle of Britain
1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
1942: First Nazi extermination camp opens
1943: Dambuster Raid uses bouncing bombs
1944: Siege of Leningrad is lifted - Hitler survives assassination attempt
1945: Adolf Hitler commits suicide - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
1946: Bikinis on sale - Nazi's are executed - United Nations first meets
1947: Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier - Roswell 'UFO' crash
1948: Gandhi assassinated - Hells Angels founded - State of Israel created
1949: Berlin Blockade lifted - People's Republic of China created
1950: Korean War begins - China invades Tibet - VW debut panel van
1951: Catcher in the Rye published - I Love Lucy debuts on CBS
1952: Eva Peron dies - Green Berets created - The Mousetrap opens
1953: Stalin dies - Hillary & Tenzing climb Everest - Korean War ends
1954: First Godzilla film - Marilyn Monroe marries Joe DiMaggio
1955: Albert Einstein dies - Disneyland opens - Rosa Parks arrested
1956: Khrushchev denounces Stalin - Elvis releases Heartbreak Hotel - Fidel Castro lands in Cuba
1957: Sputnik 1 orbits the Earth - Boeing 707 makes maiden flight - Elvis buys Graceland
1958: Treaty of Rome forms EEC - NASA is created - Demonstration of first microchip
1959: Barbie doll goes on sale - Buddy Holly dies in plane crash - The Mini is launched
1960: Ali wins Olympic Gold - Tiros 1 launched - Kittinger freefalls 16 miles
1961: Gagarin becomes the first man in space - Kennedy inaugurated as U.S. President
1962: Marilyn Monroe dies from overdose - Telstar launched - John Glenn orbits Earth
1963: Tereshkova first woman in space - US ZIP codes introduced - President Kennedy assassinated
The Highway Code 1935 | |||||||||||||||||
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Section: | Odds And Ends | ||||||||||||||||
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Description: | Issued by the Minister of Transport with the Authority of Parliament (with supplementary notes) |
Tom Mix In The Fighting Cowboy Part 1 Of 3 | |||||||||||||||||
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Title: | Big Little Books | ||||||||||||||||
Section: | Odds And Ends | ||||||||||||||||
Uploader: | Jim Thorpe | ||||||||||||||||
Description: | Due to the size limitation of uploads, this Big Little Book file has been divided into 3 parts. Between 1909 and 1935, Tom Mix appeared in over 300+ films, all but nine were silent movies. He was Hollywood's first Western megastar and is noted as having ... |
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Title: | Big Little Books | ||||||||||||||||
Section: | Odds And Ends | ||||||||||||||||
Uploader: | Jim Thorpe | ||||||||||||||||
Description: | Due to the size limitation of uploads, this Big Little Book file has been divided into 3 parts. Tom Mix made movies with Selig Pictures from 1910 until 1917. He then signed by Fox Films in 1917 and remained with them until 1928, averaging five or so films a year. ... |
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Title: | Big Little Books | ||||||||||||||||
Section: | Odds And Ends | ||||||||||||||||
Uploader: | Jim Thorpe | ||||||||||||||||
Description: | Due to the size limitation of uploads, this Big Little Book file has been divided into 3 parts. Tom Mix made over $6,000,000 during his career but an extravagant lifestyle had sharply reduced his estate to a modest amount by the time he died. |
Toonerville Folks | |||||||||||||||||
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Title: | Single And Small Run | ||||||||||||||||
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Description: | Fontaine Fox' single panel gag strip, July 31 -August 24, 1935. This was a series about the inhabitants of a suburban/rural town, serviced by the Toonerville Trolley. It inspired a few movies, including at least one with Mickey Rooney playing Mickey McGuire, ... |
Amos Hokum (1936) | |||||||||||||||||
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Title: | Single And Small Run | ||||||||||||||||
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Description: | Down but not quite out in urban America during the Depression, by J. B. Watson, from 1936. This gag strip had originally appeared in the Afro-American in the 1920s, and was brought back to the newspaper in these strips “after a 10-year lay-off”. |
Around This Town (1936-37) | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | Despite the title, the setting of these single panel gag strips from the pages of the Afro-American newspaper, can vary from the streets of urban America to the stewpots of darkest Africa. Drawn by an ever-revolving group of artists, including Mae Jackson, ... |
Aventuras ilustradas 2 - El universo en guerra | |||||||||||||||||
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Title: | Aventuras ilustradas | ||||||||||||||||
Section: | Spanish Language Books | ||||||||||||||||
Uploader: | Integro | ||||||||||||||||
Description: | Collection: AVENTURAS ILUSTRADASEditorial: Publicaciones Pocholo, 1936Nºs total: 3Scans: Romaninof |
Ben Webster 1936 Sundays F story | |||||||||||||||||
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Uploader: | JonTheScanner |
Big-Time Harry (1936) | |||||||||||||||||
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Title: | Single And Small Run | ||||||||||||||||
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Description: | A single guy with big schemes in the midst of the Depression; this gag strip did not get a running title until the following year. From the Afro-American chain of newspapers, by Adams. |
Billy Make Believe 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Uploader: | Firak | ||||||||||||||||
Description: | By Harry E. Homan. Billy Make Believe is kin to Bobby Make-Believe in the fact that both strips revolve around the imaginative "make believe" adventures of their protagonists. Billy's tales seem to have a more traditional fantasy slant- It would ... |
Booker, 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | A skinny elongated gag strip; the characters are drawn without facial features, giving it a surreal quality. There is one example of continuity,a series of three strips set in a nudist colony. From 1936-37, originally appearing in the Afro-American. |
Bringing Up Father (1936) Sundays | |||||||||||||||||
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Bringing Up Father 1936 Sundays | |||||||||||||||||
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Buddy, 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | An American flyer and a French count wind up in the middle of Fascist occupied Ethiopia, in this light--hearted 1936 weekly adventure strip by Fred Watson from The Afro-American chain of newspapers. Probably the first and only English-language comic strip or book ... |
Closeup and Comedy 1936-37 | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | scanner unknown |
Corky 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Dan Dunn 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Dixie Dugan 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | Never before available anywhere else, the complete 1936 (missing Sundays) |
Don Dixon 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Uploader: | narfstar |
Gulf Funny Weekly 165 | |||||||||||||||||
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Section: | One-Title Publishers | ||||||||||||||||
Uploader: | Devil Scans |
Harlem Humour, 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | A short-lived gag fumetti from the Afro American newspapers in the summer of 1936, starring a revolving cast of Harlem stage performers; scripted by Ralph Matthews, images by various photographers. |
High Lights of History 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Uploader: | ilovecomix |
Joe Palooka 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | Scans by pavelexprg and his brothers |
Just Kids 1936 Sundays | |||||||||||||||||
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Uploader: | JonTheScanner |
Krazy Kat 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Myra North, Special Nurse 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Napoleon - Dailies 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Title: | Napoleon and Uncle Elby | ||||||||||||||||
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Oaky Doaks 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Our Boarding House 1936 - Dailies | |||||||||||||||||
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Our Boarding House 1936 - Dailies | |||||||||||||||||
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Our Boarding House 1936 - Sundays | |||||||||||||||||
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Out Our Way 1936 Dailies (Jan-Jun) | |||||||||||||||||
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Out Our Way 1936 Dailies (Jul-Dec) | |||||||||||||||||
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Out Our Way 1936 Sundays | |||||||||||||||||
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Polly and Her Pals 1936 Sundays | |||||||||||||||||
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Secret Agent X-9 | |||||||||||||||||
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Title: | Big Little Books | ||||||||||||||||
Section: | Odds And Ends | ||||||||||||||||
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Description: | Big Little Book 1144 by Charles Flanders |
Tailspin Tommy In The Great Air Mystery | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | Tailspin Tommy was an air adventure comic strip about a youthful pilot, "Tailspin" Tommy Tompkins. Originally illustrated by Hal Forrest, the strip had a 14-year run from 1928 to 1942. Tailspin Tommy flew into movie theaters throughout the 1930s. ... |
The Hotspur 9999 Supplement - What You Don't Know | |||||||||||||||||
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Tom Mix and the Stranger from the South | |||||||||||||||||
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Treasure Chest of Christmas Songs and Carols | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | scanner unknown |
War on Crime Introduction May 18 to May 30 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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War on Crime A1-36 Urshel Kidnapping Case - Jun 1 to Jul 11 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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War on Crime B1-30 Pretty Boy Floyd Jul 13 to Aug 15 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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War on Crime C1-78 Dillinger Aug 17 to Nov 14 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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War on Crime D1-108 Barker Brothers Nov 16 1936 to Mar 20 1937 | |||||||||||||||||
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Wills Wild Flowers Cards 1 1936 | |||||||||||||||||
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Title: | Cigarette and Tea Cards | ||||||||||||||||
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Description: | A lovely little booklet with a charming idyllic illustration, featuring wild flower cigarette cards from Wills cigarettes. |
Amos Hokum (1937) | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | More strips about an unemployed World War I vet in the tail end of the Depression, by J B Watson from the 1937 issues of The Afro-American. Sadly, one strip contains an offensive caricature of a Jewish tailor. |
Ben Webster Sunday G story 1937 | |||||||||||||||||
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Ben Webster Sunday H story 1937 | |||||||||||||||||
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