Month: June 2014

Toonces, the Monster That Could Drive a Car. Oh, Friday's MotD was from Ticks. I don't think anyone got that one.

I always thought bugs this size were more disturbing than really giant ones.

  Hey, Mister, you got a little....

Man, I loves me some practical effects.

Quick, Henry, the Flit!* [Sorry, I was feeling nostalgic.]

We haven't done '80s monster movies in a while, so....

No surprise here. This was as poorly executed as their Dracula book,  but at least Frankenstein fought a mad scientist who had a huge rampaging ape and giant spider and whatnot. The level of aliases was embarrassing, though. Aside from this, Dracula took the civilian identity of Al U.  Card. Get it?

In the mid-60s Dell decided to jump on the superhero bandwagon. Their gimmick was to base heroes on the classic Universal monsters. There was this and a Frankenstein book, and a Werewolf title (Wolf Man being copyrighted), but the latter had no real monster trappings. He was a spy with a fancy bodysuit and…

No more commies as of tomorrow. To be fair, as giant monsters went, nobody killed more people than Communism.

Hard to believe this never became as popular as Spider-Man.