WILDWEST GERMANY

All work and no gunplay makes Joe a very dull boy.

We have more German goodness for you today. Above is a cover of Big Joe’s Wildwest-Abenteuer number 5, Joe gründet eine ranch, which means Joe Sets Up a Ranch. We know little about this series, except that it debuted in 1955, and Joe was usually chasing and shooting guys, rather than doing chores. Most of these seem to have been written by someone calling himself Glenn Stirling, but others were the work of Marc Relling. We found no references to the series in English, so we’re assuming these are West German originals, rather than reprints of American work, and judging by the €2 asking price these are not particularly rare. We’ll see if we can find out more, and whatever we uncover we’ll certainly share.

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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

1920—Terrorists Bomb Wall Street

At 12:01 p.m. a bomb loaded into a horse-drawn wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City. 38 people are killed and 400 injured. Italian anarchists are thought to be the perpetrators, but after years of investigation no one is ever brought to justice.

1959—Khrushchev Visits U.S.

Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. The two week stay includes talks with U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, as well as a visit to a farm and a Hollywood movie set, and a tour of a “typical” American neighborhood, upper middle class Granada Hills, California.

1959—Soviets Send Object to Moon

The Soviet probe Luna 2 becomes the first man-made object to reach the Moon when it crashes in Mare Serenitatis. The probe was designed to crash, but first it took readings in Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belt, and also confirmed the existence of solar wind.

1987—Radiation Accident in Brazil

Two squatters find a container of radioactive cesium chloride in an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil. When the shielding window is opened, the bright blue cesium becomes visible, which lures many people to handle the object. In the end forty-six people are contaminated, resulting in illnesses, amputations, and deaths, including that of a 6-year-old girl whose body is so toxic it is buried in a lead coffin sealed in concrete.

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