Monster of the Day

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…

This pretty much sums up the concept of uninspired. It's competent, but there's a generic knock-off barbarian (Marvel had the Conan license, but I'm sure would have preferred to own a character like him if he could be made similarly popular--which obviously didn't happen). A generic monster. (The "Man-Monster"? Really? That's fresh.) I mean,…

First of all, I hope everyone is well. I actually braved a theater with a friend yesterday (along with maybe 10 other souls) to see King Kong. I will say that the parking lot for the multiplex was maybe a quarter filled, maybe. 20%? Not great for a Sunday. Still, King Kong. Great movie.…

YouTube has a nice (if nowhere near this crisp) copy of Lady Vampire from 1959. I had never even heard of that. Now I can't find the channel anymore, though, and apparently it's been deleted. That's a real shame, as they had a lot of great Japanese and British horror movies. No licenses though,…