Robert McGinnis (via X-ray Delta One)

I still love the art from this version 

Lord of the Rings Sculpture Banks (1978)

I got to meet Irwin Hasen in 2006 at Hero Con, really nice guy.  Had some great stories, and was friendly as anything

“The Challenge of The Harlequin!” - art by Irwin Hasen (1947)

Apocalypse Now, is one of my all time favorite films.

Dirty Gamer Girls

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.

In case you needed a refresher

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1981)

I own this issue.

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