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Comic Book Readers

orkin 1947

what’s this?

Little girls read comics from the very beginning of their incarnation??

“Girl reading comic book in newsstand” by Teenie Harris (c. 1940-1945) © 2006 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

That sound you hear is thousands of wangsting sexist fanboys shrieking in horror.

Suck it.

In an 1853 Punch magazine sketch satirizing the “beard movement,” an old lady is approached by helpful railway guards and “concludes she is attacked by Brigands.” be

How People Reacted to Computer Viruses in 1988

"It arrived in the middle of the night. The students were safe…their computers weren’t."

‘Beyond reasonable doubt’: King Richard III’s remains found buried beneath England parking lot He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled. Now things are looking up for King Richard III. Scientists announced Monday that they had found the monarch’s 500-year-old remains under a parking lot in the city of Leicester — a discovery Richard’s fans say will rewrite the history books. University of Leicester researchers say tests on a battle-scarred skeleton unearthed last year prove “beyond reasonable doubt” that it is the king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and whose remains have been missing for centuries. “Richard III, the last Plantaganet King of England, has been found,” said the university’s deputy registrar, Richard Taylor. (AP Photo/ University of Leicester)

Sorry why are more people not screaming about this???

They found him in a damned car park. RICHARD THE THIRD!!!!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY GRASP HOW BAD I AM FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW.