Borg-9!

Extreme close of of Ernest Borgnine!

EC In-House Ad!

Great inside front cover of Haunt Of Fear #14, by Al Feldstein...

Bizarro Code

Words to live by.

Strickly Fun!

Monsters! Strictly For Fun candy & toy boxes, circa 1969. Art by John Severin.

Easy Show - Marvel Comics Edition

I have a Kenner Easy-Show, but mine is with Hanna-Barbera characters. This one a little harder to find.

Madmae Tussaud's Guillotine!

Captain Company ad for one cool Aurora model kit. And...it really works. $1.23 is all you needed.

Here's Blood In Yor Eye!

Just a neat 1940s-1950s British paperback cover.

Eerie Pubs Covers

Eerie Publications had the damnedest covers of any horror comics ever. I recall being slightly unsettled by them as a lad.. My favorites are the humorous ones like the Witches' Tales above, and the Tales from The Tomb, with the horror artist getting his monstrous comeuppance (Myron Fass?). The Monster vs. Monster covers are cool too as The Tales Of Voodoo depicts.. 

Mid-Atlantic Newspaper Ads

Classic wrestling ads via Seth Hanson, an amazing collector of these cool windows into the past... Find him on Facebook, or Twitter The upper one is from the early 1970s, about 1972 in Greenville, S.C. ,and the bottom is earlier, say 1967, and I believe it to be from Asheville, N.C.

Cross-Weird Puzzle!

A monster movie themed crossword puzzle from a old monster mag via my buddy Ron Merchant on tumblr...

Chaney Shall Not Die!

This is a great piece on The great Lon Chaney from a 1929 Motion picture annual, illustrating him in some of his best roles at MGM Studios.

Creepy (& Eerie) Colon!

Original Art of Uncle Creepy, and Cousin Eerie by Ernie Colon.

Land Of The Giants Item...

The Remco Space Sled, inspired by ABC-TV's Land Of The Giants (1968 -1970) Neat box art, and with photos, yet!

"Art" Slides!

I still contend that illustration is cool. The implied message is that the photos are way to saucy to print in the ad! Hubba - Hubba!

Post Cereal Promotions - Early 70's Commercials!!

Archie records and more. A neat group of commercials that make me long for the days...

Funky Fireworks Labels!

I recently ran across some fireworks labels from the past. Some are well done, some look like a family member was called on for the art...
The "Monster" was a swipe from the Moon Monster ad from comic books of the 1960s.
Batman... Not so great, but Voodoo is a winner I think.

Brian Bolland Ad

Here's and ad for Forbidden Planet,  comics and more stores from The U.K. I saw this ad back in the late 1970s, of course I didn't know who Brian Bolland was then, but I was impressed. Cool and Creepy!

Starkly Sinister!

Hollywood Horror Teeth. The design and copy on this is mighty fine. It looks 1950s, but must be newer than that.

Captain Action!

 Captain Action ad from a D.C. comic above, and below, the back of Action Boy's box. These were before my time a bit, but man, had I seem 'em in the store I would've desired these rascals very much..

Lurking Fear!

This British Lovecraft paperback has the coolest cover art. I seem to recall this edition was late 1940s - early 1950s.

Head Shrinkers Kit

A cool toy in a cool box! There we go! I recently saw the TV commercial for this on YouTube and it looked neat. By Pressman Toys, c. 1966.

Dark Judges Attack!

A mini poster from 2000 A.D. by the great Brian Bolland.  Judge Dredd vs. the Dark Judges are some of the best Comic stories ever, and no small part of that greatness is Brian Bolland's art.

Are You A Lover?

A nifty little ad from the early days of Famous Monsters Of Filmland. A Sneaky way to sell a mask! The ad copy was probably written by Forrest J. Ackerman!

For the cool kids of 1962

You would have been the talk of the block tooling around in this baby! A deluxe Flintstones Pedal Car!

Topstone Vampire Girl

My hands-down favorite of the Topstone masks ads from Captain Company.  Debating on a tattoo of same.

Peter Cushing - Vampire?

Yes! Peter Cushing played MacGregor, a vampire in Tendre Dracula, in 1974! Pretty creepy looking too!

The Biggest Wrestler Of All Time!

Martin "The Blimp" Levy was billed as "the heaviest wrestler of all time" He could give the McGuire Twins a run for their money!  Sadly, he was unlucky in love it seems. Whoa Nellie!

Barnabas Glow Poster!

I never knew this existed back in the day, or I would've been dying to get one! The best of the show - spookiness! I hope I run across one before I go to that great Crypt in the sky..well, you know what I mean!

Castex 5 - Munsters

Here's a neat Munsters item that is rare as you might guess - The Munsters Castex 5 Casting set from 1964. You could make a pretty good living selling the statues on eBay! Not the most desirable graphics on the box, but mighty cool nonetheless.

Dracula's Grave

Dracula's Grave, a Memphis favorite.

Goolie Goodies

The Chemtoy figures. I don't know what happened to my my Goolies. I have Drac, but need the rest of the set!  I recall some of the figures had balance issues..

Spooky Luchadores!

Los Dracula, and Los Hermanos Muerte (Brothers of Death) to fuel your lucha nightmares! The Los Dracula's masks are too cool!

Munsters TV Times Cover

Here's a photo of Fred Gwynne, and Yvonne DeCarlo that I've never seen before, on this August 1964 copy of The L.A. Times TV insert. Both have unusual looks on their faces.. The caption "Spooks Alive! The New Trend" Seems to be about all the offbeat/ monster sitcoms that were hot in the 1964 /1965 season. Such as The Addams Family, Bewitched, My Mother, The Car, My Favorite Martian, etc., AND The Munsters, of course.

Freebirds Meet Cyndi!

Here's a photo of The Fabulous Freebirds and 1980s pop icon, Cyndi Lauper. You know, the WWF's "Rock And Wrestling Connection" days. The 'Birds did not tarry long in N.Y..  They "had to be free" as Ronnie Van Zant said in the song... Michael looks happy here though...

Roy's Wild Ride

Roy Rogers riding Jerry Lewis like a horse...or something. I wasn't there.

Newsstands(2).

I'd like to visit these newsstands. Who am I kidding? Any newsstand! I see some sweet comics in the non-cartooned one!

Liger.

A great photo of one of the greats - Jushin Thunder Liger. Myself, Lenis Sargent, and my then girlfriend traveled to Greenville to see him on a WCW card in 1993. That was my last visit to the historical building.

Aurora Poster

Here's a look at a truly cool in-store poster featuring model kits from TV shows. I'd love one, thanks!

The Two (3) Marilyns.

As you know, I am a fan of The Munsters, the CBS-TV show of the 1960s. The first Marilyn, Beverly Owens, left the series in the middle of season 1, because she was very unhappy, and wanted to marry her then boyfriend. So after 13 shows, she was let out of her contract.  She was replaced by Pat Priest in December 1964. When they were casting the movie (Munster Go Home), it was announced that Pat wasn't going to be in the film, she was pretty upset. It seems they wanted a younger Marilyn, so they went with actress Debbie Watson. I don't know... I still think Beverly Owens was the best.

Visit Transylvania.

Visit Transylvania was from Topps Funny Travel Posters from 1967. There were 24 posters in a set, but this one had to be the best. Outstanding art by Wally Wood to boot!