Monster of the Day #490
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Monster of the Day #490

Truly a pioneer of cinema, Méliès was one of the first to exploit the eerie uncanniness of skeletons. And jazz hands. Dance ten, looks three.
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Monster of the Day #487
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Monster of the Day #487

Our week of monsters banding together to fight evil concludes with two similar TV examples. Just as Land of the Lost and Valley of the Dinosaurs were basically cartoon / live action Saturday morning kiddie versions of each other, so were Monster Squad (with future Love Boat co-star and then Congressman Fred Grandy) and…
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Monster of the Day #486
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Monster of the Day #486

So the Legion of Monsters lay dormant after their one appearance in the '70s (as seen yesterday), but were apparently revived recently. Man-Thing and Ghost Rider were not to be found, but Morbius the vampire and Jack Russell (seriously), the Werewolf by Night, came back. Added were, apparently, the Living Mummy and a gill…
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Monster of the Day #485
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Monster of the Day #485

In the '70s, the voluntary Comics Code weakened, and supernatural characters came roaring back. Marvel here attempted to make a super-team of some of their monster characters, which obviously failed, since they never reunited. (Although recently the team was revived with several of the original monsters.) I have this comic--duh, it had Ghost Rider…
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