Crime Mysteries #12

"Chilling Tales Of Crime and Terror" I guess they wanted to reap the sales of the crime AND horror craze, but this was published in 1954, and the two trends were on their last legs, and censorship of both subjects were already in the mail..

Flair, But Not Ric.

Here's a pack of Flair pens from 1975. Prized items for us creative types! The package art alone is great!

Mrs. Slydes!

The classic image of Mrs. Slydes from House On Haunted Hill (1959) One of William Castle's best!

Don Martin Tarzan

A Mad Magazine pin-up: Tarzan Of The Apes by Don Martin. Mad used to be great.

Batman Give-A-Show

What an incredibly cool toy! The Batman Give-A-Show Bat-Projector! This was from The U.K., by Chad Valley licensed by Kenner. Why Kenner didn't release this in the states I'll never know. I'm a sucker for the Kenner projectors anyway, but with Batman in the mix, I would've died to get this as a kid! When they started putting photos of the toys on the box instead of artwork like this, toys were less desirable I believe. It's from 1966, natch. "As seen on ABC Television" 

Munster Fun.

Here's a neat item I can't remember seeing before, The Munsters Sticker Fun coloring book. It has a neat cover, and what gets my attention is that the Marilyn actually looks like Pat Priest! The art on other Munster items don't often have a likeness of any of the Marilyns. This leads me to believe that this is from 1965. They're trying to catch that smart-ass raven in the cuckoo clock!

Tom Terrific!

Here's a great coloring book - Tom Terrific! with Mighty Manfred The Wonder Dog. Tom was a feature that was shown on Captain Kangaroo.Each adventure was in five segments, with the first four ending in cliffhangers. The fifth was the conclusion. Tom was a Terrytoons show (within the show).. If you are too young to remember Tom Terrific, I would encourage you to check the episodes on YouTube out. The episodes posted by OldCartoonTube are the whole adventure edited together in a 12 minutes cartoon.