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1971 Marvel greeting cards by Third Eye. Groovy.

A Soviet sailor learns to play Kageki in a San Diego arcade, July 1990. The USSR's Pacific Fleet dropped anchor for a 5-day goodwill visit.

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The Trojan Horse on the set of 1997’s “The Odyssey” in Malta.

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“The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” poster for an Italian re-release, 1976.

French poster for Mario Bava's "Hercule contre les vampires," aka "Hercules in the Haunted World," 1962.

“Clash of the Titans” poster with artwork by the Brothers Hildebrandt.

Classics Illustrated edition of Homer's Iliad, 1951. Cover art by Alex Blum.

"Bards are honoured and respected throughout the world, for the muse teaches them their songs and loves them." —The Odyssey, Book VIII

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Historian Michael Wood takes us to a coffeehouse in Kars, Turkey, where a traditional bard (aşıks) performs the “Epic of Köroğlu.” As seen in 1979’s “In Search of Troy.”

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A bit of levity in Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya’s “Labyrinth: The Deeds of Theseus,” Soviet animation produced by Soyuzmultfilm, 1971.

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Odysseus is here to chew bubble gum and kick ass — and he’s all out of bubble gum.

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Odysseus comes home: “God guide my arrow straight!!”

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Watching the fireworks from home on a Mars Attacks card, 1962.

THE RIGHT STUFF, 1983. Poster art by Tom Jung.

LOGAN'S RUN opened on this day in 1976.

Dropping Tom Cruise into the CGI world of “Minority Report.”

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David B. Mattingly, 1982.

"Imperial City, Alderaan -- city floats in gray clouds." Ralph McQuarrie concept art for the original STAR WARS, a design later used for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.

STAR WARS graphic tees, 1977.

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