Monster of the Day #3248

Updated on July 23, 2021 By Ken Begg 17 Comments

I’m sure that in a lot of these these pulp covers the skeletons are metaphorical, standing in for Death writ large. I don’t care. I love this sort of thing. Again, if I had a dime on me back then I would have bought anything that had a cover like this.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    So, what’s he doing? “No, honey, I ride for free.”

  • Marsden

    Did someone write 89 on the skull’s head with a pencil or is that part of the painting?

  • Gamera977

    ‘Well, I was going to steal your soul young lady but as a ginger you don’t have one- SO I’M GOING TO CHEAT YOU OUT OF YOUR FEE!!!’

  • Gamera977

    I watched Whitley Strieber’s ‘Communion’ on Amazon Prime and thought it was kinda meeeh. A movie with Christopher Walken and Andreas Katsulas should be more entertaining. Though I’m not sure Walken would be the guy I’d want to play me in an alleged autobiographic account. I guess I expected something more creepy and spooky as Strieber uncovers the ‘truth’ about his ‘abduction’. Frankly, an episode of ‘Ancient Aliens’ IMHO is more fun.

  • Ken_Begg

    I’m pretty sure that’s a dealer mark or something. Why you’d want to deface that cover is another issue.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I watched the Ralph Bakshi “Lord of the Rings” which was equal measure “pretty good” and “pretty bad.”

  • Rock Baker

    I saw that once and was similarly disappointed. I remember it as the movie where Christopher Walken tracked down martians and then didn’t kill them -which would’ve been much more satisfying. Instead, it was like watching propaganda from a cult. Very dark spiritual undertones there, particularly with the title they chose. Made me run screaming to a re-screening of INVADERS FROM MARS.

  • “You did it again, Bunny.”

    “Oops! Sorry, Mr. D.”

    “Each time you start a new ride, you reset the meter.”

    “I know, I’m sorry, I just…”

    “It’s fine. It really doesn’t matter. Not like they have any money, going where they’re going. It’s just the little things that make this experience. Get me?”

    “Yessir.”

    “Now let’s start from the top. Reset the meter and…”

    “‘Welcome t’ tha After Life Express! Where can I take ya?'”

    “‘I’d like to go to Heaven, please.'”

    “‘I’m sorry, sir, but yer an express straight down town. Tee hee. Oh, wait, I’m sorry, Mr. D, I shoulda…”

    “No, no. That works just fine, Bunny. That works just fine.”

  • I bought a complete import box set of original 70s The Tomorrow People on DVD. With Commentaries!

  • Eric Hinkle

    Well, given that these magazines were originally seen even by their authors and publishers as cheap junk, it’s no great surprise it was defaced.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Sounds like the opening of a Henry Kuttner story in Unknown Worlds.

  • Ken_Begg

    Now, though, collectors are like, “Dammit!” But yes, these are rarities because the paper and binding were so cheap–hence, pulps–that they were definitely not designed to last for decades.

  • Ken_Begg

    And of course Bunny sounds just like the original Harley Quinn (the good one) from BTAS.

    Also, they should have money. Cheap ass relatives not bothering to put coins over their eyes.

  • Ken_Begg

    Yikes! I think we’ll need some of that for T-Fest. Or at least the before/after part of it.

  • I have to say, the commentaries are top-notch. Made by actors who are clearly having a great time revisiting it and absolutely full of the little bits of information about filming locations and background events that I personally love. “Oh, that’s Putney hospital. It’s gone now. I had foot surgery there once”, that sort of thing. It’s also interesting to me to see the difference between how the BBC and ITV approached TV production.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’ve always wondered what those old pulp authors would say if you could travel back in time and tell them what those magazines are going for now.

    I ever find a time machine, right after sending Marx and Engels to the Age of Dinosaurs to become a Tyrannosaur’s lunch before they write their books I’ll get on it.

  • thunderclancat

    Sir, I know you’re a skeleton, but you have to pay the same as a fully fleshed human. Look, I don’t make the rules.