Cool Stuff: Buck Rogers and Bullwinkle Stuff!

Here's a nice poster for the Buck Rogers serials!




Buck Rogers Monogram Game!



Buck Rogers (TV series) Remco Utility Belt!

And now, for something I hope you'll really like... Bullwinkle stuff!



Bullwinkle, Peabody and Rocky Figural Bank!



Bullwinkle Bubble Bath!



Bullwinkle Colorforms!



Bullwinkle Puzzle!



Another Bullwinkle Puzzle!



And still another Bullwinkle Puzzle!



Bullwinkle Sleeping Bag!



Bullwinkle Tru-Vue Roll-A-Show movie viewer! Trust me, that's what it is!



Bullwinkle Ukelele! Well, at least he played one in at least one episode, so this isn't totally out there...

Next time around... Captains Courageous and More!

Castle of Frankenstein #9, Part 8!

We're up to page 52! Woo-Hoo!



This page provides coverage of Sci-Fi Fanzines, and the only one I recognize by name is Amra, which was a Sword & Sorcery/Robert E. Howard 'zine.



"The Box" by Hama... Larry Hama, the same guy who wrote comics for a while (and could still be, for all I know)?



Then, here's an ad to join the Frankenstein Society for only $1.50!



I'm not quite sure why such a macabre picture accompanies a review of "The Great Comic BOok Heroes" by Jules Feiffer...



...but of course, reviewer Lin Carter loved the book (it was one of my first books I ever got about the history of comics!)!

Also reviewed were the books The Mask of Fu Manchu ("Great fun!"), Spirits, Stars and Spells ("look this one up"), and The Mystery Monsters (about unsolved mysteries of hte animal kingdom).



And we'll end this part of coverage with this full-page ad for 8mm horror films!

Next time around... probably the wrap-up of this issue!

Just a Reminder...

...if you've got a blog that relates to the kind of stuff I talk about here in any way, please feel free to mention it when you leave comments on my postings! And if you add the Random Acts of Geekery to the blogroll or links section of your blog, let me know that as well (I have Google searches set up, but they don't always find everything all the time).

Why do I ask this? Because I like adding the blogs of my readers and linkers to the "Random Blogs of Geekery" blogroll down on the left-hand side of this here blog!

Reader Gilligan left a comment on the last Monster Mondays post, and I discovered he's got a pretty cool pop culture blog, which I've added to the blogroll... take a look at the list and see if you can figure out which on it is! (hee hee hee)

By the 10's: Flash Comics, Part 1!

And the last By the 10's of the year is a title that will extend into January! It's Flash Comics, starting with the Golden Age and Jay Garrick, and continue into the Silver Age with Barry Allen!



Issue 10... oh, yes, I'd forgotten to mention that Flash and Hawkman would alternate the cover spots! Here's an interesting cover... the scene should be very exciting, but it almost comes off as staid in some ways!



Issue 20... and I don't think the cover artist really carried off what was happening all that well... I had to look at the cover a few times before I quite figured out what was happening!



Issue 30, and this is a GREAT cover, especially compared to the first two I showed... it asks questions, it makes you want to read the story inside... wonderful!



Issue 40... and this is another great cover! I guess it took a while for them to get up to speed, eh?



Issue 50... I like this cover, too... things are getting odd, but I like it, compared to the generic action in on issue 10 and 20's covers.



Issue 60... is almost a great cover, but to my eye, it just isn't as good as the last few covers!



Issue 70... and Hawkman's got the cover spot now, there's a gorilla on the cover... and I have no idea who or what that is about to fight the gorilla!



Issue 80... Flash has the cover spot again, and I like the idea of this cover, if not the execution...



Issue 90 is another cover that grabs you, makes you ask questions you need to read the book to answer!



Issue 100, Hawkman's on the cover for this special issue, and Carter's got the hood on, instead of the familar hawk's-head helmet!

And that's where we'll leave it for now...

Cool Stuff: Original Comic Art!

It's the last Original Comic Art post for 2008! Let's see how we finish off the year...



First up is the cover for Creatures On The Loose 24, by Johnny Romita!



Next is page 1 from Daredevil 3, by Joe Orlando!



And here's page 9!



Next is page 17 from DD 15, by Romita!



And here's page 3 from issue 28, by Gene Colan!



Page 2 from DD 64, another Colan!



Marie Severin's cover for DD 68!



George Tuska's cover to DD 98!



And page 1 from Daredevil 152, by Carmine Infantino!

Had enough DD? How about DCCP?



As in DC Comics Presents, page 16 from issue 47, by Jose Luis Garcia Lopez!



Ron Wilson's cover to The Defenders 28!



Page 4 from The Demon 4... by Jack "King" Kirby, of course!

Hmm, that'd be a nice page to end the year of this feature with... but let's see if I can find something even nicer!



Well, page 27 from Detective Comics 337 by Carmine Infantino (an Elongated Man page) won't do it...



Page 10 from 'Tec 378 by Bob Brown won't do it...



Simonson's cover for 'Tec 450 is close...



Marshall Rogers' page 10 from 'Tec 471 is closer (slightly marred by the seller's imprint on the scan)...



Heck, the cover for 'Tec 473 by Rogers is really, really close!



Ah, perfect! Page 11 from Devil Dinosaur 3, by Kirby! Now that's the way to end the year with this feature!

Random Videos of Geekery: Bullwinkle, Episode 1!

Monster Mondays!

Feeling like a little crab today? How about some big crabs, then?



Ah, Attack of the Crab Monsters... this could've been a real great giant crab movie, but instead it suffered from a case of "throw a lot of stuff in that doesn't require expensive special effects even if it doesn't make a lick of sense"-itis!





I'd try to explain what I mean by that, but there's so much stuff in that movie that's just completely from out in left field that you really have to see it to believe it!



And yes, that's Russell Johnson, aka the Professor from Gilligan's Island!







Next attack is Attack of the Puppet People, as seen in these lobby cards -- although some of the photos on those lobby cards look more like pictures from a high school prom, if you ask me!



The Black Room, UK poster! I've never seen this one!



The Black Scorpion I may have seen when I was a kid...

And now, we'll wrap up the year's Monster Mondays with this gallery of photos and Mexican Lobby Cards from "Blood of Dracula's Castle"!