Something About Midnight by D.B. Olsen Pocket Books 817, 1951 Cover by Victor Kalin

Bonnie Logan

The Marvel Family #31-36

(1949)

Fawcett, 1945 Series

Covers by C. C. Beck ? & Pete Costanza ?.

Includes work by Beck, Jack Binder, Otto Binder, Howard Boughner, Costanza, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bud Thompson, Bill Ward, and Bill Woolfolk.

22.10

Pep Comics #48, May 1944 Archie’s Girls Betty and Veronica Annual #6, 1958 Betty and Veronica Double Digest #73 Betty #112, July 2002

@pabloernesto said:

every browser except firefox runs on chromium. they are just chrome reskins. firefox is the only good browser. install firefox

Firefox does a ton of cool shit but just out of the box, fresh install it does less tracking and dataharvesting than Chrome (in that it does essentially none while chrome's goal is to crawl all the way into your asshole and monetize the data of the unique features of your intestinal lining) and does not contribute to the chromium near-monopoly (Firefox and Safari are the only non-chromium browsers with any notable market share).

Also you know how Adobe fucking sucks and is really annoying and it's frustrating to have to use their PDF reader? Firefox now comes with a built-in PDF reader AND editor. Check this shit out:

Firefox also has a feature called Multi Account Containers that allows you to log in to accounts in different containers so that you don't have to open up an incognito window or log out of various services to use a different account. For instance, I have my Work container and my School container and I can log in to office 365 in either one of them without having to log out of the other, or I can have seven tabs logged in to seven different tumblr accounts (not sideblogs, separate accounts) in the same window if I want to do that for any reason.

Also fuck google.

So people in the comments are talking about tabs and while I am a tab goblin who simply has 100-200 totally unorganized tabs open in eight windows at all times, there are multiple ways of organizing tabs that work well for a lot of Firefox users:

Now, the reason that I can have unholy amounts of tabs open is because the tab extension that I *do* use is Auto Tab Discard. "Discard" sounds scary, but it might be better described as "Auto Tab Sleep." This extension lets you set how long to keep tabs active before it snoozes them, which means that it doesn't keep loading or storing data for open-but-snoozed tabs and will refresh the tab the next time you click on it instead of letting it gobble up RAM. You can set it to not sleep tabs with media playing, or to not sleep tabs with incomplete forms so you can keep videos playing in the background and not worry that you're going to lose work open in other tabs while still sleeping stuff that you don't need to have open. It's a HUGE resource saver.

I also always like to remind people that it's a good idea to run multiple browsers; I have Opera installed for when I need to open a site that only runs on chrome browsers and Edge in case Microsoft gets pushy about using their browser when working on Microsoft licensing stuff. If Firefox doesn't run some pages you need, open those pages in a different browser and then use blissfully ad-free, account-contained, tab-slept Firefox for the things it works well with.

Also this comes up a lot in discussions of switching to Firefox: Gsuite (aka gmail, docs, forms, etc.) works just fine in Firefox. There are some limitations that might make them annoying for heavy users (the one that sticks out to me is that copy/pasting in sheets requires keyboard commands instead of right clicking), but Google products work fine in Firefox, and I fully recognize that you might need to use Google products (one of my classes is requiring us to keep a journal in a Gdoc we've shared with the professor, so I'm right there with you).

And here's your reminder that on android devices you can run Firefox mobile with extensions! There are comparatively limited extensions for the mobile application, but it allows you to run ublock origin on mobile which is, frankly, the only fucking way to use a mobile browser. If you're seeing ads in your mobile browser on Android please recognize that that is entirely voluntary. You could stop that today. It doesn't have to be that way.

For Apple device users, unfortunately it is impossible to run extensions on iOS browsers BUT Firefox Focus is available for both Android and iOS and may deliver a better mobile internet experience; it is privacy-focused, but not, unfortunately, ad-free.

Some people in the notes are asking about Ecosia - Ecosia is a search engine and mobile browser. I don't know what architecture the mobile browser uses, but either way it isn't a replacement for a desktop browser. Ecosia is fine to use if you like it, but if your goal is an ad-free browsing experience that's not what Ecosia is set up to provide. In terms of search engines, I use DuckDuckGo with google and bing as a backups, because you can toggle between search engines with one click in Firefox.

1940s Donald Duck for Sylvania Radio Tubes

Round Two, Bracket 2

Josep Homs

E.B. “Buzz” Gibson. Willis O’Brien’s assistant on King Kong (1933), teaching Kong’s stunt ape how to climb the Empire State Building.

Explore the wonders of the Mesozoic with these National Park posters!

John Carter

Art by Bernie Wrightson

Best of BDs: Hair Round 2-14

Reminder: This contest is about their HAIRSTYLES

Since Marion is up against a Tintin character I gotta get out the big propaganda : Marion Duval had the most important on-screen haircut in french BD change my mind you can't

Her hair looked like this in the first issue:

Very cute but very classic, but THEN in issue 3 , Attaque à Ithaque , her dad gives her an haircut while recapping the events of the last episodes, in a glorious display of well done exposition ahjdjdn

Despite having a bit of panic at first because it's very short , Marion loves it and will keep the hairstyle of the ENTIRE run of the Marion Duval bds :D Sometime she styles it a bit different, but it fit her dynamic and adventurous personality!

Where it gets personal for me is that as a kid ,she was the first girl fictional character I'd seen rocking a short haircut that wasn't a bob, and that wasn't criticized for being a "tomboy" - she's still Marion, cute, stylish, Parisian violinist and world traveler, AND she has a fantastic short haircut. It meant a lot to me and it still does! Vote Marion!

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June 1978

Laugh #327, cover by Dan DeCarlo

The Adventures of Little Archie #19-24

(1961-1962)

Archie, 1961 Series

Covers by Bob Bolling. Numbering continues from Little Archie Giant Comics (Archie, 1957 series) #18. Originally 84 pages, the title is reduced to 68 pages (retaining its Giant status) with #23.

Includes Little Archie by Bolling and by Dexter Taylor, and Li'l Jinx by Joe Edwards.

23.04

DC Women by Nathan Greno.