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"In brightest day,
in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power...
Green Lantern's light!"
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Green Lantern
The Golden Age
2005, DC Direct
This rare photo shows Cap, Bucky, and Toro in 1944. (I use the old Toybiz Human Torch figure as Toro because it's a bit smaller than other Legends).
This ledger contains the transactions of shareholders of the Amsterdam department of the VOC (United East Indies Company) between 1658 to 1672. From 1602, The VOC grew rapidly to become a multi-national company with trading forts in southern Africa and all over Asia. Amsterdam Museum.
At Artus Quellinus - Sculptor of Amsterdam, exhibition in the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. The Palace was originally built as the city hall for the magistrates of Amsterdam. Build by the celebrated architect Jacob van Campen in 1648-1655.
Girl with a Pearl Earring is Johannes Vermeer’s most famous painting. It is not a portrait, but a ‘tronie’ – a painting of an imaginary figure. Tronies depict a certain type or character; in this case a girl in exotic dress, wearing an oriental turban and an improbably large pearl in her ear. Johannes Vermeer was the master of light. This is shown here in the softness of the girl’s face and the glimmers of light on her moist lips. And of course, the shining pearl. The work has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902 and has been the subject of various literary, in 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands.
it was a rainy-listen-to-adele kind of day.
also, i'm in issue two of golden age!
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Portrait of an unknown officer (detail), 1634, by Dutch painter Jan van Ravesteyn. At the exhibition Faces from the Dutch Golden Age. Historical Museum of The Hague.
From 1619 to 1622 he was apprenticed to the Leiden history painter Jacob van Swanenburgh at the Langebrug 89 in Leiden. He learns the art of etching from him. Later Rembrandt starts a studio in Leiden, where he collaborates a lot with his friend, the painter Jan Lievens.
The Beyond / Heft-Reihe
> Doomsmoke
Script: ?
art: Ken Rice
Ace Magazines / USA 1954
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Explore #46 - 30.06.2009 & Explore Front Page
And light and grandeur of the Golden Age;
When never a heart was sad,
When all from king to herdsman had
A penny for a wage.
Ah, that old time has faded to a dream—
The moon’s fair face is broken in the stream;
Yet shout and carol on, O bird, and let
The exiled race not utterly forget;
Publish thy revelation on the lawns—
Sing ever in the dark ethereal dawns;
Sometime, in some sweet year,
These stormy souls, these men of Earth may hear.
From A Lyric of the Dawn by Edwin Markham (1852 - 1940)
Best Viewed Large On Black - Art Deco Weekend, Napier, NewZealand [?]
A 1930's Chrysler of some description but I can't remember what... any ideas?
Here's another shot of more of the front of the car... Bye Bye Chrysler!
Scoop Comics / Heft-Reihe
Master Key
cover: Charles Sultan ?
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1942
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Alright I'm about to drop some crazy facts about Alan Scott so buckle your cosmic seatbelts, 'cuz this is some crazy stuff!
"The Green Lantern" was created by Martian Nodell and Bill Finger back in the early 40's after being inspired by (you guessed it) Superman, and railroad lanterns in dark train stations. The name Alan Scott came from a New York Phone Book. Oh, and Martian also gave GL a side-kick during the solo series named Doiby Dickles (...yeah we're not gonna talk about him). We're here to talk about the (very weird) lore behind DC's first ring bearer!
Originally, his power ring was strictly magic based! No alien tech, no weird space police, none of that! He basically just had a magic lantern that was literally green!
More specifically, the lantern contained the mystical flame known as The Star Heart! Alan Scott was actually the one to forge The Ring himself to harness The Star Heart's power and wield it any way he saw fit!
This magic ring could do all sorts of crazy stuff! Everything from green constructs, melting metal, shrinking objects, allowing Alan to fly or phase through objects, etc. Besides all that, the ring needed be charged after 24 hours, plus for some reason unknown at the time, it was ineffective against wood! :P
These parameters made for some... interesting stories :P
Now see, later in Alan Scott's publishing history (I wanna say like late 40's/early 50's, right before the Golden Age kicked the bucket), The Guardians of all Magic in The Universe came along (yep, those little blue fellas were magic too).
Well they basically collected an enormous culmination of all magic in the universe into the center of a star that was put in the far reaches of space where no one could harness the power! As a result, The Star Heart was born! These Magic Guardians were also the ones responsible for the weakness to wood (but that's another sorry) :P
Some how The Star Heart fell to earth and was forged into a lantern by the Hun's or some nonsense ancient society, then through the ages found it's way to Alan in a locomotive accident. (phew... that's almost too much origin story)
Anyway, sometime later, this enormous origin story was refined and retcon'd to where the power ring and its magic were granted by "The Green"; A mystical realm inhabited by the minds of The Parliament of Trees (Yep. That's a thing in the DCU apparently...). This also gave an explination for the weakness to wood! Additionally, it also tied Alan a little tighter to DC's current Swamp Thing stories (He's also associated with The Green fyi)
However (for whatever reason) this origin concept was dropped and DC went back to The Star Heart mess. Typical DC....
Anyway, after his debut in All-American Comics (1940), he held his own solo series for a small number of years; but ultimately his time in All-Star Comics under The JSA is really what most people remember him for!
Over the years Alan laid low as The Silver Age really kicked in gear. He made brief appearances here and there like during Crisis on Infinite Earths, Zero Hour, oh and that one time in the 90's where he stopped aging, turned into Sentinel, murdered his own kids, and pulled his wife of out hell. (...yep)
Generally though, Post-Silver Age, he was re-imagined as a WWII Veteran alongside the other original JSA members (because technically they were) so that's pretty cool.
Inadvertently, the whole team basically became the inspiration to DC's modern heroes, i.e. The Flash being inspired by Jay Garrick.
But for current continuities sake because we all know DC won't let us have nice things, his New 52 origins (ugh) didn't come from a big ole'green magic space lamp, but the soul of his Earth-2's dead gay fiancée's engagement ring... (yeah, I know right? That's almost more complicated) ...Oh and the WWII Veteran thing? Nope! That's gone too!
Take of that what you will... *continues to grumble about N52 and how dumb DC was for approving it all*
*whew*
...Yeah, this dude's had some interesting history after being chucked in the gutter for Hal and the GL Corps (which, honesty, is just as weird when you think about it). But it's impressive that he's still banging around despite some characters from The JSA like Hourman or Dr Mid-Nite who are still regarded as B-list characters at best.
Weird... :P
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That wa sporbably to much info, but I digress, The weirdness surrounding The Golden Age Green Lantern is part of his charm :)
At anyrate, I had an incredible time working on this cover!
Gabe printed a pretty great figure if I do say so myself! It was one of those desperately needed characters in my collection and I'm really glad to own another Golden Age Hero!
You may still be able to find one for yourself over at www.pariscustombricks.com
I'll keep this short though because Patreon's already got the details (more images of the build, the lighting set-up, more info about the project, etc), but yeah, This project was a blast to work on and I'm incredibly happy to own this fig :)
Oh and there's a new JSA image up over on Patreon too! So go check that out too!
...Okay that's it (for real this time) :P
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The sleek Hughes H-1 racer, flown by Howard Hughes to a world speed record in 1935 and a transcontinental U.S. speed record in 1937.
Rembrandt, Portrait of Jacques de Gheyn III, 1632. At the exhibition Young Rembrandt - Rising Star in Lakenhal Museum Leiden NL.
More of Young Rembrandt at:
The Dartmouth Regatta Statesman recreates one of the great holiday trains of the golden age of rail travel with a journey around the Devon coast - the English Riviera - while the Royal Regatta at Dartmouth is in full swing. West Coast Railways Brush Class 57/6 No. 57601 leads, with Class 57/3 No. 57313 at the rear, as the train passes Natton crossing minutes after picking up passengers at Ashchurch Station in Gloucestershire en route from Wolverhampton to Kingswear on 26th August 2017.
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Ook bekend als Joan Poppenhuis, op de plaats van de Gulden Steur. Gebouwd in 1642. Architect Philip Vingboons.
OP nummer 97 de jeugdherberg StayOkay
The Mauritshuis in The Hague is one of the best art museums in the world to see Dutch and Flemish Golden Age and old masters painting from the 17th century. Although the collection consists of only around 250 paintings, all the major artists from this period are represented with works of astonishing quality. Famous works on permanent display include Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and View of Delft, Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, Fabritius's The Goldfinch, and Potter's The Bull.
Baffling Mysteries / Heft-Reihe
> 6 of Me on the Prowl
Script: ?
art: Ken Rice
Ace Magazines / USA 1953
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
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Scoop Comics / Heft-Reihe
> Rocketman / "I'll put the Finishing Touches on this before Doris gets back"
Script: ?
art: Al Plastino
Chesler / Dynamic / USA 1941
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Wonder Woman (Diana Prince) first appeared in October 1941 in a back-up story for All Star Comics #8 and it was meant to test her appeal at a time when female superheroes were rare. By the following year Wonder Woman quickly broke out and headlined under her own title.
In the 70's the star-spangled heroine with metal bracelets on her wrists and a magic lasso by her waist appeared in her her own TV series, cartoons and movies as well as her regular comic book appearances.
She celebrated 75 years in 2016 and appeared in a series of stamps issued by the US Postal Service. An ageless beauty indeed!
This shoot was featured in issue 11 of Golden Age Magazine, you can see it here: issuu.com/goldenage/docs/issue11 You can also see more from this shoot in my latest blog post: thomascolesimmondsphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/kits...
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