Originally published at: God spoke to modern man in 1952 and it's quite a sight | Boing Boing
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This isn’t the Ladybird Book of Revelations?
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Godless heathen that I am, I love this stuff. It reminds me very much of The Bible Story by Arthur Maxwell, a ten volume set that I grew up with. There are some really weird and wonderful illustrations in there, I’ll try to post some.
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Five Go God-bothering?
Learn to Bigot with Janet and John?
(Equally popular titles from the 1950s, I seem to recall.) 
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Is White Jesus there buying insurance or opening a bank account?
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I think he’s interviewing for a new job but the management isn’t impressed with his qualifications.
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To me, the cover looks like Jesus is getting laid off and is giving some sass back.
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Noddy Goes Up in the Rapture?
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The Secret Seven and the Mystery of the Transubstantiation.
(Note how most of these are by Enid Blyton. THE pre-eminent 1950s author of books for ‘nice’, white, middle-class, British kids.)
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“Laying me off just before my birthday? C’mon Bill. Just you wait, in 6 years, 10 months, 13 days, 2 hours, 29 minutes and 9 seconds I’m going to be standing next to my guy Peter as he says you don’t fit with the culture here, and you definitely haven’t been consistently hitting your KPIs - then we’ll see how you like it.”
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Judging by the WTF looks on the co-workers’ faces, that hippie won’t be a good fit for the office culture.
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"The indoor jacket, the robe. You ever see someone outside in a robe? They looked like they escaped from the loony bin.
‘Oh, just getting the paper.’
‘Before the monsters do, right?’" - Jim Gaffigan
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They sacked him three days ago.
He keeps coming back.
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And Thomas from HR keeps refusing to believe Jesus was actually sacked until he can poke the pink slip
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Not only did Jesus blow his first sales gig and Loaves & Fishes Inc. by giving out the product for free, he actually came back to headquarters with more samples than he left with.
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Some of these 7DA illustrations were beautifully done. Harry Anderson, a major illustrator in 40s and 50s magazines, was sucked in by the outfit and created many splendidly-painted, thoroughly ridiculous images. Many shared this theme of The Big J counselling “regular” people in contemporary dress. “Regular” meaning mostly male, 99.99% white (some non-white people made it into the background), and always solidly middle-class. Two famous examples are Jesus pointing out the way to a map-reading couple in a convertible car and Jesus sitting with some kids showing off his nail holes.
One funny thing is that the rising dead men always wore a suit and a tie and the rising dead women wore Sunday-best dresses and pert hats. Nary a plumber or auto mechanic among 'em. Maybe on Resurrection Day all men will automatically be given suits so they can enter Heaven without violating the dress code.
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It’s how most people were buried in the 1950s in the U.S. Even laborers would be dressed in a new suit purchased for that purpose.
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Aka the plot of Red Planet Mars with Peter Graves, same year.
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1952?
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