Sponsored by the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute, produced by American Visuals Corporations, and all wrapped up in the NRA (National Rifle Association). This one-shoot give-way comic was advertised in the back of many "boys won" magazines and comic books in the early 1950s. Often given away with "How To Be An NRA Ranger" pamphlet, and NRA Ranger targets, for shooting practice. 

The comic contains all kinds of insidious NRA propaganda, about "pioneering" Americans, guides of what to and not to shoot, along with all kinds of "fun" with rifles. Which includes "Games and Targets" with your rifle. Sending the message, that while you must be safe with your new rifle, guns are fun, guns are great, guns, guns, and more guns!!!

And us non-American folk still wonder why there is such an ingrained fascination for guns in the United States! 

A comic book produced by the Catechetical Guild Education Society in 1956. It depicts the trials and tribulations of the Catholic Church in America during the 18th and 19th centuries, through a large 64 pages. Between the late 1940s and into the mid-70s, the Catechetical Guild produced an extensive number of comic book titles. The groups comics made their way into the hands of young people via their church network. They produced almost exclusively religious and political propaganda tomes. Among their publications are the cult comic classics, such as Firebrands Of Christ (1947) and Is This Tomorrow: America Under Communism (1947).

Advertised as a "thrilling historical game", Betsy Ross and the Flag transports players to the historically inaccurate time in 1776, when Betsy Ross didn't design and sew the first American flag. But hey, lets not stop some historical inaccuracies get in the way of a good board game. As Transogram didn't when they published the game, based on the Landmark Book series.

As a player, you play Betsy, replete with sewing basket. You travel around the 13 original colonies, going to their town halls, to collect pieces of the flag. When you've collected all 13 pieces, and assembled your flag, players must make their way to the Flag Committee. The first player to make it to the Flag Committee and present their flag, is the winner. It's all just to thrilling for words. Seeing how there's no evidence that Betsy made the flag, or that there was even a Flag Committee, we'll file this game under the "fantasy" section.

Part documentary, part early form of mockumentary, I Am Curious (Yellow) was part of the emerging new wave of Swedish cinema in the late 1960s. Originally conceived as a 3 and a half-hour epic, the film was split into two companion films named Yellow and Blue, after the colours of the Swedish flag.

The film tells the story of Lena, as she goes on a journey of self discovery, followed by a film crew. With the director Sjöman documenting himself, documenting Lena. Lena builds an archive of her life, and her discoveries, as the film explores social and political themes of the period. Blurring the lines between fact and the fictional life of Lena, through interviews with people on the streets, and even an interview with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while he was on a visit to Sweden. 

The film's frank portrayal  of Lena's sex life caused controversy on the film's release. With graphic nudity and simulated sexual intercourse and oral sex, the film came to the attention of the censors.  

Purported to be the world's first sex doll, is said to be the creation of Nazi scientists in 1941. Borghild, was a sex doll or "gynoid", developed as a "female hygiene project" to stop soldiers on the front having sex with prostitutes. It was believed that the project was developed by Himmler, and approved by Hitler, to give inflatable sex dolls to the troops, that they could carry in their back-packs. 

The project was pushed forward by an ambitious Danish doctor, called Hannussen. He wanted to create a doll with an ”artifial face of lust”, for the soldiers.

A total of fifty dolls were supposedly ordered for use in Jersey by officials, but the purported project was cancelled by Himmler after two years, after soldiers refused to carry them due to the fear of embarrassment if they were captured and one was found in their possession. The bombing of Dresden also supposedly destroyed the factories that were planned to build the dolls, as well as the records of the project.

After many years of investigation, with no evidence to support the story, many historians now consider that the Borghild Project is a hoax. However in 2009, a black comedy titled The Borghilde Project was released. Starring Jaye Davidson, the film presents the project as being factual.

During the height of the 1950s Cold War period, the American government produced a hugs amount of information/propaganda literature. Probably the most well known is the "Duck and Cover" literature and PSA, which was aimed at children. The government also produced a series of pamphlets for adults, to inform them about what to do in the event of a nuclear attack from Soviet Russia.

One such pamphlets was the wonderfully illustrated "Facts About Fallout Protection" originally from 1958. It was part of a series of specialised information pamphlets designed for mass distribution. Others included "Rural Family Defence" from 1956, and "The Family Fallout Shelter" in 1959. During the late 50s and early 1960s, the building of public and private fallout shelters intensified across America, as they prepared for what many considered an inevitable war. 

A video game created in 1982 by Starpath Corp. (formerly known as Arcadia) for the Atari 2600 home video game console and featuring the Starpath Supercharger cassette accessory (originally called the Arcadia Supercharger). In which the special cartridge had a cassette port, to allow for a whole extra 6KB of memory, giving a "supercharged" kick to those blocky Atari games. (Supercharger sold separately.) 

In the oddly titled Space Invaders shoot-'em-up inspired game you have to fight off communist aliens, wanting to convert your planet into mutant communists. They are lead by an egg laying, irradiated vodka swilling Mother Creature (a parody of Mother Russia it can be assumed), who is hell-bent of spreading the evils of communism across the galaxy. The game allowed for multi-players. Up to four people could join-in, with players sharing the two Atari joysticks. 

Wow! Look at those pumped-up graphics that the whole extra 6KB brought to the Atari 2600! Assuming that the blocks are a purposeful design choice, relating in some way to the Eastern Bloc! Or it could be that the massive 6KB expansion had no impact on the quality of games. And the fact that they attempted to incorporate a cassette based element to a cartridge based system wasn't an utterly ridiculous and backwards move on the part of the game-makers.

Pastor Pete Peters was an evangelical Bible-thumping right-wing racist, who described himself as a "has-been cowboy wannabe preacher".  He became the pastor of LaPorte Church of Christ in LaPorte, Colorado and established the Scriptures for America, which was an outreach ministry that operated through short-wave radio, and mail order. Pastor Pete wrote a number of books and pamphlets. Through which he promoted his wacko white supremacist Christian Identity theology.

One of the most well known pieces of perverted propaganda that Pastor Pete produced was the short 12 page pamphlet, entitled The Bible: Handbook For Survivalists, Racists (used in his twisted mind as a positive term), Tax Protestors, Militants And Right-Wing Extremists. He claims in the pamphlet that of those aforementioned people, who he saw as being much maligned by the establishment, were actually supported and condoned by his reading of The Bible.

He writes in the pamphlet, "This writing is to present the truth of God's word and to expose a false and evil humanistic, Judeo-Christian, dangerous theology which attempts to malign and destroy Godly Survivalists, Racists, Tax Protestors, Militants And Right-Wing Extremists." Yup, old Pastor Pete was as crazy a Christian as they come. He proclaimed that Europeans comprise the twelve lost tribes of Israel and that contemporary Jews are satanic impostors. And he'd often tell listeners on his radio shows that, "the Bible says it's okay to kill homosexuals." Luckily Pastor Pete died and went to Hell in 2011.