Month: March 2020

The '80s really were the last heyday for practical effects monsters. As noted yesterday, I haven't seen TerrorVision, but this thing was apparently huge and required several people to operate it. Although I wouldn't trade his seminal work for anything, it does make you wonder what Paul Blaisdell could have whipped up with more…

Ugh, Monday. Well, for me anyway, it's off to work. Although again there are only a couple of us in a big space now, so the distancing thing isn't that difficult. I hope the rest of you are keeping well and occupied. What are people watching. I hope you're sitting down, but I've been…

Stuart Gordon has passed away. I'm getting up there, so I remember when filmmakers from the '40s and '50s started dying, now it's people remembered from the '80s. I never really felt that Re-Animator or From Beyond (admittedly, I haven't seen that one) really 'felt' like Lovecraft, but man, Dagon sure does. Great movie.…

Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, Werewolf by Night, and now the most horrifying monster of all...a clown. You know, when I was a kid clowns were considered fun. I don't know when that huge cultural shift happened where they're just considered creepy now. Weird. Keep well, everyone.

I hope everyone is well! Did Warren takes adds for these, considering they were highlighting a competitors products? Power Records went pretty heavy on the monster thing, including the super-hero issues they choose. I was wondering if they advertised as well in Creepy and so on, and if that was part of the reason…

OK, that's got to be Mike Ploog. I checked (after Cullen Waters noted the same thing yesterday, credit to him), and unsurprisingly several (all?) of the Power Records performances can be found on YouTube. Enjoy!

Doughty FoJ Michael C suggested monster-related covers from this fun series. I'm sure my demographic will remember Power Records, which at one point dramatized like radio plays Marvel comics stories, including issues of their various monster series such as the above, on cheapie vinyl records which came with covers like this. It's comparatively rare…

Talk about rip-offs! (Actually, Jones came before Carter, who Marvel also had the license for. Jones was before his time, I guess.) Have a great and more important safe weekend, everyone.

Again, meh. I guess the lizard guys are pretty decent, though.

So here, apparently, was the introduction of Thongor. Again, you can tell they did not have their best people working on this. Generic skeleton guy, generic demons, generic beautiful woman in peril, and of course a rather generic hero. This is the sort of book that relied on people reading comics out of habit…