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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Cool Stuff: Give-A-Show Projector Stuff!
Here's a smattering of Give-A-Show Projector sets!
This set is coming up in a month or so on the Give-A-Show Blog!
These have already been featured here and there:
This set was one I just won in late October -- as I'm writing this on Nov. 1st, I'm still waiting for it to arrive, so I can scan the slides and prepare the YouTube movies for the Give-A-Show Blog! I've already got the set after this one scanned.
I don't recall off the top of my head which of these I've already got:
If you didn't want to buy a full set of slides with a projector, you could buy smaller sets that included slides released as part of the larger sets, like these:
I've got the Six Million Dollar Man set... it's rather disappointing, because each slide strip is a single story, when it really could've benefited from using two or even three or four strips to tell a story!
This one's on the list of sets I need to get... hopefully one will turn up at a bargain price sometime!
These sets are from the UK, produced by Chad Valley, who had the license there:
Stingray!
This set was a near-duplicate of a Kenner US set, with some slides replaced with UK characters.
Next time, it's back to miscellanea!
This set is coming up in a month or so on the Give-A-Show Blog!
These have already been featured here and there:
This set was one I just won in late October -- as I'm writing this on Nov. 1st, I'm still waiting for it to arrive, so I can scan the slides and prepare the YouTube movies for the Give-A-Show Blog! I've already got the set after this one scanned.
I don't recall off the top of my head which of these I've already got:
If you didn't want to buy a full set of slides with a projector, you could buy smaller sets that included slides released as part of the larger sets, like these:
I've got the Six Million Dollar Man set... it's rather disappointing, because each slide strip is a single story, when it really could've benefited from using two or even three or four strips to tell a story!
This one's on the list of sets I need to get... hopefully one will turn up at a bargain price sometime!
These sets are from the UK, produced by Chad Valley, who had the license there:
Stingray!
This set was a near-duplicate of a Kenner US set, with some slides replaced with UK characters.
Next time, it's back to miscellanea!
Friday, January 23, 2009
Cool Stuff: Original Comic Art!
This installment of Original Comic Art starts out GIant-Size!
With page 38 from Giant-Size Avengers #2, art by Neal Adams and Dave Cockrum!
We follow that up with the cover for Giant-Size Conan #3, by Gil Kane!
And complete the Giant-Size stuff with the cover for Giant-Size Fantastic Four #2, also by Kane!
Next up, Haunted #1's cover, by Steve Ditko!
Next, page 1 from the Haunt of Fear #26, by Jack Davis!
And now we're back to Gil Kane with page 12 from Hawk and The Dove 5!
Next, would you believe page 11 from Luke Cage, Hero for Hire 9, by George Tuska?
And we'll finish off this installment with Hi-School Romance 54's cover, apparently by Jack Kirby!
With page 38 from Giant-Size Avengers #2, art by Neal Adams and Dave Cockrum!
We follow that up with the cover for Giant-Size Conan #3, by Gil Kane!
And complete the Giant-Size stuff with the cover for Giant-Size Fantastic Four #2, also by Kane!
Next up, Haunted #1's cover, by Steve Ditko!
Next, page 1 from the Haunt of Fear #26, by Jack Davis!
And now we're back to Gil Kane with page 12 from Hawk and The Dove 5!
Next, would you believe page 11 from Luke Cage, Hero for Hire 9, by George Tuska?
And we'll finish off this installment with Hi-School Romance 54's cover, apparently by Jack Kirby!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Quasimodo's Monster Magazine #5, Part 2!
Continuing my look at issue 5 of Quasimodo's Monster Magazine, beginning with page 10!
As you can see, like the previous article on Jekyll and Hyde through the years, this article on Heroes of the Horrors uses two pages of photos to lead off Ron Weiss' article. I have to imagine this was done to help pad out the issue to 100 pages. Pictured are Lon Chaney Sr. as the Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney Jr. as the Mummy, Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster, Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Peter Lorre and Vincent Price (I can't identify for certain the roles they're playing in these shots).
The Article itself is an interview with Calvin Beck, author of the book "Heroes of the Horrors," and before the article itself starts, you are treated to shots of Lon Chaney Sr. showing how he could change his face with virtually no makeup!
In the interview, Beck tells how he happened to write the book, how he selected the six actors presented in it, and he answers a few questions about Chaney Sr.
This is followed up with a question about Lugosi almost not being cast as Dracula, how Karloff got into acting, and how Karloff was cast as the Frankenstein Monster.
Next up is a question about Karloff's durability as an actor compared to Lugosi, and a few questions about Chaney Jr.
The Chaney, Jr. answers continue on page 19, as you can see.
On page 20, there's a question about the Vincent Price/Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe movies, and if Beck would write another book about other horror stars.
Pages 22 and 23 are a bit more padding!
Oddly enough, the article ended on page 20 in mid-sentence, and isn't concluded anywhere in the magazine!
Coming up next time: An interview with Himan Brown, creator of the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre!
As you can see, like the previous article on Jekyll and Hyde through the years, this article on Heroes of the Horrors uses two pages of photos to lead off Ron Weiss' article. I have to imagine this was done to help pad out the issue to 100 pages. Pictured are Lon Chaney Sr. as the Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney Jr. as the Mummy, Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster, Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Peter Lorre and Vincent Price (I can't identify for certain the roles they're playing in these shots).
The Article itself is an interview with Calvin Beck, author of the book "Heroes of the Horrors," and before the article itself starts, you are treated to shots of Lon Chaney Sr. showing how he could change his face with virtually no makeup!
In the interview, Beck tells how he happened to write the book, how he selected the six actors presented in it, and he answers a few questions about Chaney Sr.
This is followed up with a question about Lugosi almost not being cast as Dracula, how Karloff got into acting, and how Karloff was cast as the Frankenstein Monster.
Next up is a question about Karloff's durability as an actor compared to Lugosi, and a few questions about Chaney Jr.
The Chaney, Jr. answers continue on page 19, as you can see.
On page 20, there's a question about the Vincent Price/Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe movies, and if Beck would write another book about other horror stars.
Pages 22 and 23 are a bit more padding!
Oddly enough, the article ended on page 20 in mid-sentence, and isn't concluded anywhere in the magazine!
Coming up next time: An interview with Himan Brown, creator of the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre!
Cool Stuff: DC Collectibles!
I'll bet this Super Heroes Bingo game was fun!
I used to have some of these Super Powers figural mugs!
I wish I had photos of all the pieces for this Super Heroes Checkers set!
A beat-up but still cool Super Friends lunchbox!
Super Friends Pencil Sharpeners! What a wide range of artists' work was used here!
I always love finding photos of the Stick-Ons stickers, and I wish these would be reissued in mass quantities!
Very cool Super Friends wallpaper!
Very cool wrapping paper, isn't it?
More DC stuff next time!
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