Sunday, March 2, 2025

Captain Wings

If you took my advice at THOIA and found your way over here to AEET just now, well then get ready for one of the most propular cross-over posts I've ever created! First of all, no one ever has to pull my leg to post some incredible Bob Lubbers artwork, and if it's in a comic story involving loony violent war slavers, and a young lady who can't seem to keep her wardrobes from thankfully malfunctioning, well-- count me in! Plus: Lots of gorgeously staged aircraft battle action, and not to mention that crazy ass way to sacrifice a person, ending in yet another astoundingly gory panel (of which you are sure to be a big fan of! Get it?) The story is called "Port of Missing Pilots", and it can be found in the April 1947 issue of Wings Comics #80, published by Fiction House. And if you haven't already read the other gore galore post first over at THOIA today, --then git flyin'!

Friday, February 28, 2025

Sex Dictionary '67 **ADULTS ONLY!!!**

We saw many posts here this month about love and romance, but not too many about actual sex. So to keep it all on a more scientifically based, educational level, (booo!) let's dig into some excerpt highlights, both photographic and illustrated, from Dr. William J. Robinson's 200-page "Sex Dictionary" Sexology paperback series published by Monogram Books in 1967. All of your own questions and curiosities are sure to be answered, and maybe, juuuuust maybe, you'll learn a new thing or two. Or three. Maybe four. I actually have a few things of my own that require immediate defining, --just sayin'! And yeah, if you ever wondered what those small, sexy mail-order book ads in the back of adult men's magazines from the 60's were all about then hold on to your pubis mons veneris! I do hope everyone enjoyed this month of pulse-pounding posts.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

The Fastidio

One more series of late 1800's postcards for you today, and while these are technically postcards, they are actually also a series of six advertisements for Fastidio Cigars, which was apparently a popular smoke from Havana back in the day. Now the difference between this set of postcards and the previous sets I've posted this month is that these tell more than just a romantic story-- these spell out how a series of blundering mishaps can do no harm to the mental well-being of a Fastidio cigar smoker. Let me see if I can properly narrate the action as played out below: 

1.) During a lovely, but lengthy long walk through the forest, we find our cute couple resting for a spell. Our anxious young man finds this to be the appropriate time (on bended knee) to plead his undying love and intentions for our seated (on a dirty old log) damsel in distraction. 

2.) After receiving the rather obvious cold shoulder, our couple stands back up to continue their now longer, awkward journey back upon the lakeside path, when "hello!" our handsomely frazzled fellow spots a bit of dirty old log schmutz on the young lady's dress! 

3.) Not a problem. We're by the lake after all, and a dab or two of water will surely remedy the-- 

4.) Ooops! 

5.) "Now look what you've done, you foozler!" she screams, after having clearly pulled him into the water with her. 

6.) Giving her a moment to cool off, as well as dry-out, I'm assuming our hapless hero is taking a moment behind the bushes to either smoke a Fastidio, or maybe he's peeking through said bushes at her and etc etc... because it totally was her fault, after all.

Four of the postcard backs do a bit more Fastidio advert razzle-dazzle, while the other two have the traditional style postcard mailer backs. A fun series for sure, and I still can't believe I found all of them as they were scattered throughout hundreds of other various postcards in 4 different boxes.

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Zephyrs of Love

Today we have a superb set of three beautifully embossed, Art Nouveau style postcards, one mailed to lucky Miss Virginia Fischer of Maplewood, MO in August of 1923 (the other two unused.) "Thy Love is Thine", "Zephyrs of Love", and "Fragrant Mementos", all featuring gorgeous garden nymphs surrounded by blossoming flowers, and an endless aroma of affection...

Friday, February 21, 2025

In a Garden, aka Their Hour of Bliss

Collecting old postcards is pretty fun, especially when finding a colorfully complete series set of early 1900's postcards (made in Germany) that tell a sweet little love story / poem like this. All of these gorgeously vibrant cards were originally mailed in October of 1908 to Miss Louise Yann (Yamm?) who resided in CITY. Well, that tells us a lot, I guess. I do hope she got them all! Surrounded by lush greenery, blooming flowers, and an erupting fountain in the background under a very bright blue sky, --not to mention the wonderful example of the Victorian / Edwardian fashion from the era-- our happy couple couldn't have asked for a more magical setting.