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I'm too late for Flag Day, but here is a nice cover from the 01-08-1942 issue of The Shadow, a pulp magazine.
Showing posts with label Flag Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flag Day. Show all posts
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Pulp -- The Shadow -- June 15, 2025
I'm too late for Flag Day, but here is a nice cover from the 01-08-1942 issue of The Shadow, a pulp magazine.
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Happy No Kings Day/Flag Day -- June 14, 2025
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Happy Flag Day, everyone. Today we also celebrate No Kings Day to support our democratic government against the authoritarian attacks from T***p and his lickspittles. Some smart person had the idea that people should post photos of President Barack Obama on social media today because T***p is insanely jealous of him.
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The US Army, the US Navy and the US Marine Corps had planned a parade to celebrate their 250th birthdays this year, but T***p coopted it and turned into a North Korean-style celebration of his birthday.
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Tomorrow is No Kings Day -- June 13, 2025
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Since the Second T***p Reich has been trashing our constitution and are capping it off with a huge military parade for the birthday of the draft-dodging coward and rapist, people across the nation are celebrating No King Day tomorrow. The Fascists are coopting Flag Day and the celebrations of the 250th birthdays of the US Army, the US Navy and the US Marine Corps.
I you want to find nearby protests, look here:
Friday, June 14, 2024
Happy Flag Day, 2024 -- June 14, 2024
| Bismarck Tribune, 14-June-1924 |
Happy Flag Day, everyone.
"A Flag for the Millions." Our flag belongs to all Americans, native born and adopted. We need to stick together.
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Comic Book -- Our Flag -- June 8, 2024
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Flag Day is coming, so I thought it would be appropriate to post the cover of Our Flag Comics, which featured The Flag, a superhero. The Flag folded pretty quickly.
Friday, June 7, 2024
Pulp -- Amazing Stories -- June 7, 2024
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Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories may have been the first magazine dedicated to science fiction. With Flag Day coming, I thought this might be appropriate.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Flag Day 2023 -- June 14, 2023
Happy Flag Day, everyone. The US had just entered World War One in April, 1917. That may have encouraged this elaborate commemoration.
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Flag Day 2022 -- June 14, 2022
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Happy Flag Day, everyone. The July, 1959 issue was the first one with an image on the cover.
When I was young, one of my favorite spots in the house was a big set of shelves in the basement that had every issue of National Geographic, in order by date, going back to the mid-1950s. The July, 1959 issue was the first one with an image on the cover.
After my dad died, my uncle decided that he needed to clean up my mother's basement. He threw away all of the Geographics. I still get upset about that.
Monday, June 14, 2021
Flag Day 2021 -- June 14, 2021
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Happy Flag Day, everyone.
Here we see Captain Marvel leading the Marines ashore in an amphibious assault on a South Pacific island. He proudly carries a really big flag.
Captain Marvel, the Big Red Cheese, made his debut in Whiz Comics #2, published by Fawcett. Fawcett had earlier published the humor magazine Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. The Captain was Billy Batson, a boy who worked for radio station WHIZ. An ancient wizard gave him the ability to become adult Captain Marvel by saying the word "SHAZAM." Captain Marvel, often drawn by CC Beck, was Superman's greatest competitor until National Periodicals (DC) won a lawsuit alleging that Captain Marvel infringed on Superman's copyright. At the same time, most superhero titles were dead or declining. DC revived Captain Marvel in the 1970s.
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Pulp -- Doc Savage -- June 13, 2021
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Tomorrow is Flag Day, so I thought I would post the cover of the July, 1942 issue of Doc Savage.
Doc Savage was a pulp character who debuted in 1933. Doctor Clark Savage, Jr was a many of many talents, mental and physical. He gathered a team of aides including Monk, Ham, Johnny, Renny and Long Tom. Each had his own unique talents. His cousin Patricia turned up in many stories. Doc and his team had many adventures fighting evil around the world. Lester Dent created the characters and wrote many of the novels.
I first got to know Doc Savage from reprints that Bantam Books did in the 1970s. I often spent what little money I had at Canterbury Corner on Geary or Green Apple Books on Clement buying copies.
George Pal produced a bad movie in 1975. I saw a still in Famous Monsters of Filmland and immediately knew that they had done a poor job with Doc's aides. I went to see it anyway.
DC did some comic books in the 1980s.
I never heard the NPR recreation of the radio show.
Doc Savage was a pulp character who debuted in 1933. Doctor Clark Savage, Jr was a many of many talents, mental and physical. He gathered a team of aides including Monk, Ham, Johnny, Renny and Long Tom. Each had his own unique talents. His cousin Patricia turned up in many stories. Doc and his team had many adventures fighting evil around the world. Lester Dent created the characters and wrote many of the novels.
I first got to know Doc Savage from reprints that Bantam Books did in the 1970s. I often spent what little money I had at Canterbury Corner on Geary or Green Apple Books on Clement buying copies.
George Pal produced a bad movie in 1975. I saw a still in Famous Monsters of Filmland and immediately knew that they had done a poor job with Doc's aides. I went to see it anyway.
DC did some comic books in the 1980s.
I never heard the NPR recreation of the radio show.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Flag Day 2020 -- June 14, 2020
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The Justice Society of America was an early grouping of superheroes which appeared in All Star Comics. Here we see them saluting the flag, which is borne by Hawkman. When I started reading DC comics, they would sometimes bring back the JSA in Earth Two stories or reprint old stories.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Happy Flag Day, 2016 -- June 14, 2016
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I enjoy the marches of John Philip Sousa. At one time he led the United States Marine Band, "The President's Own." "Stars and Stripes Forever" is our official national march.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Happy Flag Day, 2014 -- June 14, 2014
This cover from the 21-June-1917 Life Magazine, marks the first Flag Day after the United States declared war on Germany during World War One.
The original Life Magazine was a humorous weekly that was published from 1883 to 1936. Here is the cover of their 16-February-1922 edition. Be sure to click on the image to see a larger version.
The image comes from MagazineArt.org (http://www.magazineart.org).
Friday, June 14, 2013
Happy Flag Day #6 -- June 14, 2013
Dancer Ann Miller poses with a flag, in a red white and blue outfit.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Happy Flag Day #5 -- June 14, 2012
Thank you for the photo to LucyWho (http://www.lucywho.com).
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Happy Flag Day #4 -- June 14, 2011
Thank you for the photo to LucyWho (http://www.lucywho.com).
Monday, June 14, 2010
Happy Flag Day #3 -- June 14, 2010
June 14 is Flag Day and it is also the anniversary of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt, in Sonoma, where American and other settlers led by William B Ide rose up against the Mexican goverment of California and declared a California Republic. Some time around this date, William L Todd, nephew of Mary Todd Lincoln, created the original Bear Flag, which the rebels raised on a flagpole in the Sonoma Plaza. The California Republic faded away when the rebels learned that the United States had declared war on Mexico in June. The original Bear Flag burned in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco. The California state flag is based on the Bear Flag.
I took the photo of the second Bear Flag monument in Sonoma Plaza on 08-April-2010. I have not been able to find the name of the sculptor.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Happy Flag Day #2 -- June 14, 2009
I took this photo of the flags at Moscone Center on 14-January-2009.
Today we had breakfast at the Sharp Park Restaurant. I had bangers and scrambled eggs. Very good.
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