Horror, Terror, and other FUN Stuf

12 digitally-restored depraved and demented comic cover images that demonstrate why people in the 1950s thought comic books caused juvenile delinquency!
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THESE were the images of pop-culture bloodsuckers!
They don't sparkle in sunlight...they FRY!
They don't brood...they BITE!
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Check out twelve terrifying man-beasts in this creepy calendar by clicking on the cover!

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...both the horrific AND humorous versions!
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12 digitally-remastered images from movies and graphic novels of Martians invading us (and a couple of us invading the Red Planet)!
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12 classic comic comic covers and movie posters showing:
Lust!
Depravity!
CatFighting!
Now that's entertainment!
And, amazingly-enough, it's all PG-rated!
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Dr Wertham condemned her in Seduction of the Innocent!
Adolescent boys worshipped her!
She was THE ultimate comic book pin-up!
See why with a dazzling dozen of her best Golden and Silver Age covers!
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He began life in the late 1940s as The Calico Kid, a masked hero whose secret identity was a lawman who felt justice was constrained by legal limitations. (There were a lot of those heroes in comics and pulps of the 40s!)
But, with masked heroes in every genre doing a slow fade-out, and both westerns and horror on the rise, the character was re-imagined in 1949 as comics' first horror / western character!
The Ghost Rider himself was NOT a supernatural being.
He wore a phosphorescent suit and cape, making him glow in the dark, appearing as a spectral presence to the (mostly) superstitious cowboys and Indians he faced.
And, since the inside of the cape was black, he'd reverse it, and appear in the dark to people as just a floating head, usually scaring a confession or needed information out of them.
In the series' early days the villains were standard owlhoots or, like The Rider, people pretending to be supernatural beings.
That changed around 1952, when he started facing real mystic menaces including Indian spirits, vampires, and even The Frankenstein Monster (though not the one from Prize Comics.)
Unfortunately, it was about this point in time that Dr. Wertham began his crusade against comics in general and horror comics in particular...
By 1954, The Ghost Rider had lost his series. The next year he disappeared entirely.
If you're a fan of horror, masked heroes, Westerns, or all three genres, take a long, lingering look at The Ghost Rider!
You'll not see his like again!

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Who did you think it was? Captain Parmenter, Sgt. O'Rourke & Corporal Agarn?
BTW, a new DVD of the F TROOP tv series is out. Corny as hell, but lots o' fun! "It is...BALLOON!" (In-joke you'll get if you watch the DVD!)
And now I can't get the damn theme song out of my head!!! "The end of the Civil War was near, when quite acc-i-dent-al-ly..." (That's how it was broken down in the lyrics!)

Prize Comics' Monster of Frankenstein began life in Prize Comics #7 (the same issue that introduced The Green Lama to comics) and continued over several years going from a relatively-straight sequel to the Mary Shelley novel to all-out comedy, all drawn by the same artist, Dick Briefer (who also created the series The Target & the Targeteers.) and continuing to the point when Prize Comics became Prize Western Comics.
By then, he had his own title, also played for laughs, which ran for 17 issues.

Of particular note was Prize Comics #24, where The Green Lama, Yank & Doodle, The Black Owl, and other Prize Comics heroes teamed up as The Prize Fighters to deal with the assumed threat of The Monster, much as various Marvel heroes tend to team up to try to tame The Hulk from the 1960s onward.
By the mid-1950s, with horror comics a hot genre, The Monster was revived as a straight horror title with #18 and running thru #33, with Dick Briefer still at the artistic helm. This is the period Golden Age fans still speak of in respectful hushed tones (although technically, it's not the Golden Age).
Old-timers may also note the logo was adapted for the first (and only) issue of Calvin Beck's Journal of Frankenstein, a b/w magazine which was retitled Castle of Frankenstein for the remainder of it's run. (It was one of the better competitors to Forrest J. Ackerman's long-running Famous Monsters of Filmland).
There have been several reprints of the Briefer material including Ray Zone's 3-D Zone, Michael T. Gilbert's Mr. Monster's Hi-Shock Schlock, and most recently, Idea Men Productions' trade paperback (ISBN-10 1419640178, ISBN-13 978-1419640179)

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Don't make the same mistake young John Locke did!
Discover "What was the secret of the mysterious HIDDEN LAND!"
Choose Mystery Tales comic book cover or logo art collectibles now, or be Lost forever, John!
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NOTE: Scanned directly from the ACTUAL comic book! NOT a screen grab! NOT taken from a reprint!

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Want to show the world you don't take sh-t from anyone? Try these hard-boiled tops and accessories! (And you don't need a license to carry 'em!)

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A Reform School Girl...

..or a Teen-Age Dope Slave...

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Funny, that's what my wife says...

The WORST movie of all time! (But a pretty good poster image! Go figure...)

Sexy aliens in tight leotards have come to conquer us!
We surrender!
Do with us as you will! PLEASE!!!

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Mysterious and beautiful, the Phantom Lady protects us all using the Black Light of Justice TM to shine goodness upon evildoers!

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Since Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast that convinced Americans that we were REALLY being invaded, Martians have been an integral part of Halloween.
So, let's celebrate with a slew of Mars-related goodies featuring arrogant invaders, benevolent visitors, and (in an ironic twist) Earth invading Mars by clicking here!

Most famous was the film starring the aptly-named Tod Slaughter!
Now you can make a fashion statement with ghoulish garb and goodies featuring imagery from that earlier take on the Demon Barber by clicking here, where you'll find Sweeney, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Little Shop of Horrors and other ghoulish goodies!!