Blog: Funky Junk Stuff
More funky junk stuff like this in the Funky Junk Trunk.
Vintage Cartoon: Joie de vivre
Joei de vivre
(Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin/1934)
"...in this case a sophisticated version of Perrault's Cinderella. Instead of working from designs from children's illustrated books, this film incorporates elements from French art nouveau posters, the fine art of Matisse and visual ideas from the Post Impressionists and Italian Futurists. The choreography is very imaginative, and constantly plays with the movement of the two dimensional abstractions in three dimensional space."
You'll find a QuickTime movie link in the ASIFA article: An Animation Salon: What Is An Animated Film?
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Vintage Fashion: Cool Suits
Uploaded by kokosbolla to LiveJournal - Vintage Ads
When? Is this early 70s?
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Ingmar Bergman Time Cover
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Related links:
Ingmar Bergman - Wikipedia
Ingmar Bergman Face to Face
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Movies: "The Poor Man's Julie Christie"
Well, I guess a girl can be called a lot worse things. Worse or not they could be called The Battersea Bardot.
Carol White Wikipedia, IMDb, The Britmovie forums
Julie Christie Wikipedia, IMDb, The Britmovie forums
Brigitte Bardot Wikipedia, IMDb
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Vintage Comics: In Search of Atom-mannen
I wrote to Hyperdave at Datajunkie.
"I need help identifying a superhero. I recently found out that there was a comic fan and amateur (in every sense) sculptor here in Sweden who has, during the last 50 years, created a sculpture park with all types of comic characters. I've only seen a couple of photos from there and one of those shows a sculpture of a superhero character that I've never seen before. On the base of the sculpture reads "Atom-mannen" which would - in English - be "The Atom Man". However he doesn't look anything like any of the atom men I've seen. Of course sometimes names aren't translated directly so he might be called something completely different. Now, it must be said that it's not certain he is American, perhaps he's even Swedish but it's not likely. I would appreciate if you'd have quick a look 'cause if someone would know it would be you. Cheers!"
website for the sculpture park - Seriegården (Comics Farm)
I had spent several hours searching for the right Atom Man. Here are some of the results that came up searching for comics/atom/superhero/atom man/atomic/atoman etc:
OK, back to my letter to Hyperdave. To my surprise he had no clue what superhero this could be!! But another one
of his readers did. Lamont kindly informed that "He's Sparkman, from United Features Sparkler Comics". Wow, finally a breakthrough! He supplied us with an image of an issue of Sparkler Comics too, featuring "The Spark Man". I thought with a correct name there should be no problem finding a number of images on the Internet but ...no, not much at all. Four Sparkler covers and another one with a tiny image. That's it.
I guess The Spark Man wasn't very popular or at least he isn't now. Just one poor superhero among superheros. Probably short-lived. One would think though that there'd be - if hardly any images - some information available but the result is even worse. "King of Manhattan: Sparkle Comics. This madman who lived in the sewers with access to dutch settler's gold was in the habit of kidnapping and torturing beautiful women. Was opposed by the Spark Man." That sounds pretty interesting but that's about the only mention of The Spark Man that I could find. Well, if there is anyone out there with more you are welcome to share. That concludes my little story of my accidental and slightly obsessed search for Atom-mannen AKA The Spark Man.
...or so I thought...
Just about to publish this post I came to think of dear ol' Lex10 of the GlyphJockey blog who I know has a certain liking for the Nancy comic. As you may have noticed on the covers above Nancy was one of the featured comics in Sparkler Comics. So I took a look in GlyphJockey and what did I find if not an episode of The Spark Man!!! The costume and the colours are a bit different but it is The Spark Man. The comic seems really bad but... who cares!
Sparkler Comics #41 1945.
PS. The creators were Fred Methot and Paul Berdanier who also made the unforgettable Triple Terror comics. Remember? ;)
PPS. I found some additional information and more covers at atomicavenue.com: "Sparkler Comics (2nd Series)- Two issues of Sparkler Comics (1st series) were published by United Features Syndicate in 1940, but this second series ran from 1941 until 1955. As one might expect, the stars of this long-running series were primarily United Features comic strip characters: Tarzan (by the legendary Burne Hogarth); Nancy (by Ernie Bushmiller); The Captain and the Kids; Li’l Abner; and Abbie & Slats. The title also introduced the super-hero Spark Man who went through two or three costume changes over the course of the series, but was only cover-featured eleven times."
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Golden Age of Comic Books
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Book Covers: From the Thrift Store
Some random book covers
from the 50s and the 60s found in a thrift store.
(They are all photoed in the store and slightly edited afterwards by me, in case they look somewhat strange to you that might be why.)
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Vintage Comics: Läderlappen
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| From Martin Klasch |
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| From Martin Klasch |
"You will become a SUPERMAN with this 15-minute method"
Ad for a fitness course by mail with Swedish fitness guru Arne Tammer, found on the back cover of one of these Batman issues. "Give me 15 minutes a day..." was his famous slogan.
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| From Martin Klasch |
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| From Martin Klasch |
Two more thrift store bargains.
Greeting cards from the 70s? 60? Newer? I don't know, it's hard to say. But I like the look. They are in Swedish but the original might not be...
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Children's Books: Kajsa
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| From Musselsoppans Vänner |
I just happened to come across this little charming children's book from 1961 in a thrift store today. The illustrations were made by Åke Lewerth (for Swedes mostly know for illustrating Agaton Sax). You will find some more from the Kajsa book at Musselsoppans Vänner.
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Vintage Ads: BRIO
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| BRIO magazine ad made for posting in the nursery. Martin Klasch |
BRIO (Wikipedia)
More nice BRIO images at this collector of BRIO wooden toys.
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