This week's Retroblogs™ marathon is...
where your mind will be warped by pre-Code horror tales, many never-reprinted!
Click HERE to see stuff your grandparents didn't want your parents to see!
Monday, August 20, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
MASKS: the Ultimate Mystery-Man Team-Up
We've shown you a team-up between The Shadow and The Avenger....
We'll be showing you a team-up between The Shadow and Doc Savage soon...
But there's a marathon team-up mini-series coming in November that'll make history for the sheer amount of pulp and media heroes from various companies combined in one story!
It's called, appropriately enough, MASKS, and features...
The Shadow!
Zorro!
The Spider!
Plus other heroes like Miss Fury, The Black Bat, and The Black Terror are mentioned as appearing later on in the series!
Watch for it!
Plus see a sneak preview of the latest (#8) cover for The Shadow's solo title!
Plus see a sneak preview of the latest (#8) cover for The Shadow's solo title!
Saturday, August 18, 2012
13 Ghosts and Illusion-O!
The 1960 William Castle movie 13 Ghosts used red/blue 3-D style glasses, but not for 3-D!
To see the ghosts, you looked thru the red "lens".
To not see the specters, you looked thru the blue "lens".
For years, you could only see the totally-b/w version on tv (including TCM), and the VHS release was b/w only.
The much-more available later pressings/editions are only b/w!
I finally found a copy of the original DVD release (with viewer) for only $4.99 in a used-DVD bin in a local music shop (we used to call them "record shops"), and spent the afternoon getting a real kick out of watching it!
It's an entertaining film, but it's better with Illusion-O! ;-)
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Captain Midnight Returns!
The anthology comic Dark Horse Presents #18 will feature a new tale of...
...Captain Midnight, apparently based on his Fawcett Comics incarnation...
...but, according to the promo copy, updated to the present!
And, it features a painted cover by Steve Rude!
Available in November!
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Harry Harrison (1925-2012)
Noted sci-fi-author Harry Harrison passed away this week...
...and while he's best-known to the average person for the movie Soylent Green, based on his novel Make Room! Make Room!, sci-fi aficionados (myself included) love his Stainless Steel Rat and DeathWorld series.
But many sci-fi fans are not aware of his almost decade-long stint as a comic book professional, doing everything from writing to editing to penciling and inking over 150 stories in almost every genre from horror to war to romance to Western.
(Oddly, he never did a super-hero story!)
In tribute to his passing, our brother blog, Seduction of the Innocent™ is running one of his horror tales "Terror of the Vampires Kiss".
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