Beach destination, Netherlands, 1985. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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Y/N's face was drenched in sweat and his hair was practically permanently glued to his skull as he walked around the catwalk of the boiler room with a level of uncertainty, anger, and worry.
He could sense two presences somewhere in this maze of boiler fires and metal. Both of whom he was anxious to find. One in particular wouldn't like it when Y/N caught them.
The sound of something scraping against the metal walls echoed all around him as he came to the end of the road so to speak, and in the center of said end was one of the people he had been searching for.
"The little piggy finally came home." The raspy voice said as they turned to reveal horror movie icon Freddy Krueger in all his burned face pizza glory.
"Let him go, Krueger." Y/N said, eyes glowing red and powerful.
Freddy laughed at his demand. "Your wish.... Is my command!" With a wave of his hand, Freddy revealed a captured Peter Parker hanging over a flaming hell pit. One by one the very things that were keeping Peter bound, let him go as he fell towards the fiery embers of hell.
"No!" With a glowing red hand, Y/N suspended Peter in mid-air. With the other, he blasted back the dream demon as he fell with an audible thud. Y/N looks at Peter and hugs him. "Are you okay?"
"Thanks to you I am. How do we get out of here? Click our heels three times?"
"We have to wake up. Come on, we're going."
"Oh you little fuckers aren't going anywhere." Freddy growled as his chest had a hole through it from where Y/N blasted him with chaos magic. He waved his hands over his wound and it disappeared. "In dreams I am..... Forever! Two bad you two aren't." He raised his razor bladed glove.
"Run!" Y/N grabbed Peter's hand and they ran as Freddy's evil laugh echoed in their shared nightmare.
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Beverwijk (2) (3) by Yulia van der Waa
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Street scene in Scheveningen, South Holland, Netherlands
Dutch vintage postcard, mailed in 1904 to Apeldoorn
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Netherlands, 1973. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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Artist James Bama’s original painting of Doc Savage for the Bantam Books 1964 edition of The Man of Bronze. This is the first of 62 covers of the 96-book series that Bama would paint.
Steve Holland, star of a short-lived Flash Gordon television series in the 1950s, was Bama’s model of choice, given his rugged features and physique. As seen in the painting, Bama matched Holland’s hair closely to give Doc a more realistic look. It also closely resembles how Doc was pictured in the original pulp series and comic books.
However, Bantam’s art director, Len Leone, who was a big Doc Savage fan, didn’t want “normal” hair for Doc; he wanted a look that conveyed that Doc was no ordinary man.
Doc’s hair is described in the pulps as a darker shade of bronze than his skin, and that Doc usually wore it combed back so that it resembled a skullcap made of bronze. Leone wanted that look. He also mandated a widow’s peak which he said had been mentioned in the pulps; this a matter of small controversy because many fans don’t recall anything about the widow’s peak ever being mentioned.
Nevertheless, Bama did as he was told by his boss, and changed Doc’s hair in the painting.
Thus was born the iconic Doc Savage look that has prevailed to this day.
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