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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Friday, November 21, 2014

The Sea Beasts from One Billion, B.C.! (Aquaman, 1961)

Condensed down to just the good parts!
Those wacky mad scientists!
From Showcase #31, 1961, DC Comics by Jack Miller & Nick Cardy
Cover by Dick Dillin & Sheldon Moldoff

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Monday, November 10, 2014

Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Discovery of Cosmic Rays Announced This Day (1925)


"Those terrible cosmic rays!" Is there nothing they can't do?

In 1925, the confirmation of highly-penetrating radiation from “finite space” announced by Robert A. Millikan, calling them “cosmic rays”, was reported in the newspapers. He spoke to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin. Earlier tests with high-altitude balloons, or atop mountains, remained inconclusive as to extra-terrestrial origin.

The rays, he thought then, could be of local origin from radioactive materials. However, in 1925, measurements he made up to 27-m below Muir Lake (altitude 3540-m) and Lake Arrowhead (alt. 1530-m) showed rays reached given depths in each by comparable amounts.

Thus the atmosphere difference of 2-km did not originate the rays, they had 18 times the penetrating power of any known gamma rays, and possibly were the “birth cries” of infant atoms from fusion or electron capture. link

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Born This Day: Hermann Rorschach


Watchmen & Rorschach © DC Comics
Rorschach (Nov. 8, 1884 - April 2, 1922) was a Swiss psychiatrist who devised the inkblot test that bears his name and that is widely used clinically for diagnosing psychopathology. His secondary-school nickname was Kleck, meaning "inkblot," because of his interest in sketching.

In 1917, he learned of Szyman Hens, who had studied the fantasies of his subjects using inkblot cards. Rorschach began in 1918 using 15 accidental inkblots, asking patients, "What might this be?" He knew the human tendency to project interpretations and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli. The subjective responses of his subjects enabled him to distinguish among them on the basis of their perceptive abilities, intelligence, and emotional characteristics. His published results (1921) drew little interest until after his death. link

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Professor Eureka (1951)

Strange Adventures #5, by Henry Boltinoff, DC Comics, 1951

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

How Fire and Water Made The World! (1950)

Strange Adventures #3, DC Comics

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Opened This Day (1922): Tutankhamen's Tomb


On this day in 1923, archaeologist Howard Carter opened the sealed doorway to the sepulchral chamber of King Tutankhamen's tomb in Thebes, Egypt. A group of invited visitors and officials was present, including Lord Carnarvon, the aristocratic Englishman who had funded the excavation. link


Art by Roy G. Krenkel. Creepy is © and™ Warren Publishing Company.
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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Worldwide Adventures in Science!

Tales of The Unexpected #14, 1957, DC Comics

Thursday, October 23, 2014

The Snows of Mars! (1953) by Bernie Krigstein

Strange Adventures #33, 1954, DC Comics,
by Sid Gerson & Bernie Krigstein

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

The World Wrecker (1954) by Otto Binder & Carmine Infantino.

Strange Adventures # 50, DC Comics, by Otto Binder and Carmine Infantino. It's always great to see Carmine inking his own pencils!

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Friday, October 17, 2014

The Last Humans! (1952) by Broome, Oksner & Sachs

Strange Adventures # 27, DC Comics, 1952, by John Broome, Bob Oksner, & Bernard Sachs