{"id":9300,"date":"2017-07-22T20:29:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=9300"},"modified":"2018-12-25T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T01:00:14","slug":"shalka-dorks-read-pulp-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2017\/07\/22\/shalka-dorks-read-pulp-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Shalka Dorks read pulp fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet Archive has a beautiful trove<\/a> of pulp magazines ranging from the late 1800s through the 1990s, all free, all scanned in high-quality color, available for you to read or to admire the pretty pictures.<\/p>\n

Being a sci-fi and fantasy fan, as well as a connoisseur of the Technicolor cover art of 20th century pulps of that genre, I picked out some of most iconic and amusing covers for my own use. I modified the covers to add silly titles and author names. Then I reduced covers and backs to a size at which people could still admire the covers, but at which my 1:6 scale populations could also read them.<\/p>\n

Here are my Shalka Dorks getting meta-fictional: sci-fi characters reading Atomic Age pulps!<\/p>\n

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Left to right: Brad, Alison, the Master, Scintilla, the Doctor, the Stylist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brad reads “Femmes from the Future.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Alison reads “Seriously? My Wife Is a Better Mechanic Than You.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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TFW you’re reading “The Robot With No Concept of Personal Space” while actually experiencing the same. The Master [incidentally a robot].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Scintilla reads “The Doll Who Hypnotized Her Owner Into Buying More Action Figures.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Doctor is reading “Captain Hot Pants, Space Pirate!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Stylist is reading “How Ghelji Scammed a Dope out of His Coat.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Robot action figure is reading “The Jello Time Capsule.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Internet Archive has a beautiful trove of pulp magazines ranging from the late 1800s through the 1990s, all free, all scanned in high-quality color, available for you to read or to admire the pretty pictures. Being a sci-fi and fantasy fan, as well as a connoisseur of the Technicolor cover art of 20th century… Continue reading Shalka Dorks read pulp fiction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[746,792,777,797,795,796,794],"class_list":["post-9300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-16-scale-stuff-i-made","tag-alison","tag-doctor-who-dolls","tag-scintilla","tag-the-doctor","tag-the-master","tag-the-stylist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9311,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}