Monster of the Day

Rather similar to yesterday's cover; this is issue #3, that was issue #4. The title appears to have been quarterly, so perhaps sales figures came in and were strong, or maybe the editor just liked this cover, and told the artist to give him another one like it.

Those fish are too cool for school. Literally.

Still love me some skeletons.

Love me some skeletons.

Rock Baker was nice enough to send me some fab painted pulp covers. I love these, and hey, it saved me some work. Enjoy! Man, there's a lot going on here.

Look at that. Movie technology has truly became amazing. I will never love such things, though, as much as that puppet snake in King Kong Escapes yesterday.

He's kicking his ass without even looking at him. That's cold, brother.

This one's kind of a cheat, but I'm cool with it.

I guess this is probably a repeat of yesterday's MotD, as some of our savvy commenters pointed out. And indeed, it does look quite the same. This is the only still I could actually find of it from Princess on the Moon, though, which is criminal. And event this looks like a Russian lobby…

Here's an interesting one. In 1978, Toho and Hammer quite nearly made a coproduction about the Loch Ness Monster. Toho announced it, and they got as far as making up the prop, the poster art and announcing some of the talent, such as Bryon Forbes for director. Then Hammer's funding fell through and the…