HaPpY NeW YeAr! 2025 Marks Our 20th Year!

 

Thelma Todd 1906-1935

Beautiful blonde actress and comedienne Thelma Todd died mysteriously 89 years ago this week. There was a ton of newspaper coverage including images of her corpse in an open casket display, attended by huge crowds!

 

Christmas in Toyland by Brandon Walsh and Royal King Cole, 1935

Here's a sweet and funny holiday strip that ran in newspapers through most of December in 1935. According to strip expert Allan Holtz, who ran different versions of these strips on his own blog back in 2007, this 1935 strip--bylined Brandon Walsh but signed "King Cole"-- is actually drawn by a man with the wonderful name of Royal King Cole. After a while, Royal K. Cole headed west and became the chief author of many a movie serial in the 1940s including CAPTAIN AMERICA, SUPERMAN, AND BATMAN AND ROBIN!

 

The Computers Are Coming--1968

Here's a TV GUIDE article from 1968 that fairly accurately predicts a lot of things that have come to pass, or are still being predicted, for computers.

 

Meet Jiminy Cricket-1940