When I was a kid, my local cable channel used to run old, black and white movies on weekend afternoons. There was the Creature Feature on Saturday with classic monster movies and sci-fi flicks, like
Frankenstein and
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers. Sundays brought the Afternoon Matinee that featured adventure films with the likes of Sinbad and Allan Quartermain. I didn’t miss a single one of them if I could help it and it my love of those genres and the imagery from the era that still persists. So, in tribute, today’s pipes ‘n’ pulp post is an afternoon matinee triple feature with Esoterica Dunbar in a meer-lined Le Duc and a 1931 Laurence Herndon illustration.