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The Tibetan Book of Proportions: An 18th Century Guide To Drawing Buddha

The Tibetan Book of Proportions: An 18th Century Guide To Drawing Buddha

Cartoonists have a guide on how to draw the Buddha. No such guide exists for ...
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¡Qué Extraño! 20 Odd and Maravilloso Mexican Comic Books

¡Qué Extraño! 20 Odd and Maravilloso Mexican Comic Books

  Bullies could beat up the fat American kids reading Batman and Superman.  But, you ...
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Rib and Bones: When Soviet X-rays became bootleg records of forbidden Western music

Rib and Bones: When Soviet X-rays became bootleg records of forbidden Western music

A quick trim with manicure scissors; a hole made (a burning ciggie was fine) and the ‘Bones’ or ‘Ribs’ were good to play. ...
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Doctor O’Followell’s X-rays of women wearing corsets: 1908

Doctor O’Followell’s X-rays of women wearing corsets: 1908

In 1908, Doctor O’Followell’s Le Corset (The Corset) featured X-rays of corsets for women. Well, so he ...
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Miniskirts & Monopoly: 1969 Parker Brothers Fashions

Miniskirts & Monopoly: 1969 Parker Brothers Fashions

1969 was the year of the Moon Landing and Woodstock, but it was also the ...
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They Stick Like Magic! A Gallery of Colorform Adventure Sets (1966 – 1980)

They Stick Like Magic! A Gallery of Colorform Adventure Sets (1966 – 1980)

Last week here on Flashbak, I remembered “Fotonovels” or “Photostories,” and tagged those publications as ...
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Chart Busting Babes: 64 Top Hits Cheesecake Album Covers

Chart Busting Babes: 64 Top Hits Cheesecake Album Covers

In decades past, when you released a "top hits" album you had basically two options ...
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Faces of Auschwitz: 1940 to eternity with heroes, victims and villains

Faces of Auschwitz: 1940 to eternity with heroes, victims and villains

  Two new Commandments: 11: Never Forget 12: Don't be a bystander. They knew. They ...
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Viva Las Vegas! Adverts and Ephemera from Sin City in the 1960s-70s

Viva Las Vegas! Adverts and Ephemera from Sin City in the 1960s-70s

The over-the-top opulence here would make Henry VIII blush, but that's what Vegas is all ...
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The Illuminated hipsters of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

The Illuminated hipsters of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

  As anyone who has read Jack Kerouac knows, his novels are filled with real ...
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Bionic Woman Drawn Badly: 6 Awful TV Show Comic-Books

Bionic Woman Drawn Badly: 6 Awful TV Show Comic-Books

Before we meander through these old comic book adaptations of US TV shows, it should ...
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Hairy, Macho and Dynamite on a Waterbed: A Look at the 1970s Stud

Hairy, Macho and Dynamite on a Waterbed: A Look at the 1970s Stud

"Knock, Knock" Who's there? Oh, look who's arrived.  I'd like to introduce to you the ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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