![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://2-www-accel-pss.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?container=accel&gadget=howtobearetronaut.com&debug=0&nocache=0&v=u8u7jnqbdijrtp344779jt5bjs&rooe=1&html_tag_context=img&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhowtobearetronaut.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F05%2FAtop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
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Comic Girl Power, 1940s
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Colour footage of St John’s Wood, 1940s
Colour photographs of New York City, 1941
“This Love of Mine” – Cyd Charisse
“Got to be This or That” – June Barton
“In Old Shanty Town” – Johnny Long and his Orchestra
“The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi”
“Love Turns Winter to Spring” – Martha Tilton
Cars of the Future, 1948
Replica 1949 Claud Butler Cycle
The day the stripper came on Campus, March 4, 1948
'Plaskon' Ads, 1940s
'Are You Ready for Marriage?' Quiz, 1950
'Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow' Seagram's Ads, 1940s
Captain America and the FBI Go to War Against Drugs, 1990
Rocket Ads, 1947-1974
In an odd way, most of these cover illustrations feel like a kind of gender-switched echo of the series of “Man’s Life” magazine covers you featured in another capsule. These are maybe a bit less lurid, but not by all that much.
I’m wondering if the girl on the cover of the “Exciting” comics is supposed to be the “Black Terror, Nemesis of Crime”. Each issue shows her on the cover while boasting the tagline “Featuring The Black Terror”, But she looks more like a typical “Jungle Goddess” type character than a Shadow/Batman type crimefighter.
“COMIC GIRL POWER”?
More like male fantasy material. Bikinis in space?