Edward Gorey Illustrations From A 1960 Edition Of War Of The Worlds By H.G. Wells, published by Looking

The best of the Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes: Audaz. 

Audaz. Audaz was created by Messias de Mello and appeared in the Brazilian comic strip “Audaz, O Demolidor” (Gazetinha, 1937-1938); the strip was reprinted in Spain in 1949. Audaz is a gigantic crime-fighting robot controlled and piloted by the brilliant scientist Dr. Blum and his friends Gregor and the child prodigy Jacques Ennes. He takes on a variety of ordinary human criminals, albeit with an occasional Mad Scientist included.

Yes, folks, the first heroic giant robot piloted by humans was not Japanese, but was Brazilian. Not the first giant robot of science fiction—you can find predecessors in the American pulps. But the the first giant robot with human pilots, of the kind that Japanese science fiction later specialized in—that, as far as I’ve been able to tell, was a Brazilian creation. Interesting, especially in that Brazilian science fiction, as a national genre, didn’t tend toward the pulpish until the mid-1930s, so “Audaz, O Demolidor” was quick work.

Tip of the hat to Citystompers, a great blog for Giant Monsters.

Master post of links to kaiju/tokusatsu/giant monster movies & shows you can watch for free and its completely legal. Some sites might be region locked, I’m not sure which, so I apologize ahead of time if that happens to you.

Movies

Gamera: The Giant Monster - Iron...

A prediction of things to come, who knew?

Vintage Star Tours postcard

OH MY GOD!!! Gas is $1.15! Oh, and there’s a T. Rex there.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

This makes me beyond happy.

The new Hatbox Ghost

I own this issue.

Now that David Letterman is retiring, perhaps he can score a role in the next Avengers movie.

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Twin Peaks Matchbook Series by Steven Rhodes