…but I have to laugh at Hotsky Trotski

(via Pencil Ink)

Some choice (and surprisingly affordable) lobby cards from Santo Street:

The secret? Pancho Villa was a luchador!

Santo’s big dance movie wasn’t the success he’d hoped for.

Color by Luridcolor®

John Carradine’s late career Mexican movies are every bit as good as his late career American ones.

Batwoman and Gorn were the original Dynamic Duo.

I suspect the artwork is far creepier than the actual film.

They Saved Quetzalcoatl’s Brain!

(Via Comically Vintage.)

Classic Basil Wolverton. Whole story available at The Horrors Of It All

Few people know that before he became Soviet Premier, Nikita Kruschev was the USSR’s greatest ventriloquist.

Kruschev and Yakov the drunken Trotskyite on stage in Kiev, 1934.

Two pager from Glad Magazine, a Christian alternative to Mad.

Click each image for slightly larger view. More pages from Glad and lots of other goodness can be found at The Magic Whistle

From a 1971 “True Crime” comic. Image found at The Jack Kirby Museum. Full Capone story atdiversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com.

I’m not sure which one of them threatens your soul more. Way more about Herbie can be found at the Bronze Age of Blogs