Movie of the Week: 20 Million Miles to Earth!

This week's featured movie is "20 Million Miles to Earth," and here's the trailer:



Here's a whole mess of promotional materials:











Italian poster


Presssheet

















If you want to watch the whole thing... here it is, courtesy of Google Video:



Of course, you'd get better quality viewing from the DVD... and yes, here's a handy Amazon link that you can use so you can add this movie to your collection, and earn me a few pennies, too... how better can you help support the Random Acts of Geekery?

Children's Book Theatre: Bullwinkle Coloring Book, Part 4!

So, to recap... Bullwinkle was a famous TV singing star, until Boris and Natasha (worried that he was too popular) doped him up so he couldn't appear on TV. The Pottsylvanian villains then took his place as a dance team! Our heroes rebounded by forming an orchestra, with Mr. Peabody, Sherman, and Boris and Natasha joining them (yes, really). And now the plot gets even more confusing...



That's right, it's one of the Moonmen (Croyd or Gidney or someone else, we're not told). And apparently, Bullwinkle's piano playing is getting the Moonwomen all hot and bothered!



And what do the Moonmen do because their women are hot for Bullwinkle? Especially since the Moonwomen apparently never watched the Brady Bunch, so they won't try to invite Bullwinkle to the senior prom or fake being seriously ill so he'll visit them?



Now, one would think the Moonmen would want to get rid of Bullwinkle (or at least Scrooch him), but not these two...



Sorry about the first image there... scanner glitch! Anyway, as you can see, the TV studio doesn't have the best security, do they?



And now, Bullwinkle's been sprinkled with Moon Dust! As Emeril Lagasse would say, "Bam!" Thanks to the other Moonman, we know what it will do!

Will Bullwinkle float all the way to the moon? Will Boris and Natasha's plans suddenly start making sense? Will Mr. Peabody and Sherman make another appearance in this coloring book (well, actually, no)? Tune in next time!

Cool Stuff: More Spidey Stuff!

Time to look at more Spidey items!



One of these days, I've got to go through my movie viewer photo files and figure out just how many companies somehow got the license to do film loops of the 1960s Spidey cartoons!




I loved the idea of these portfolios... although they apparently didn't sell all that well, I like to think it sort of paved the way for Alex Ross! Click on the images for larger views!



I have no idea if the pouch and the decoders actually came together or not!



Some of these items I've posted before... I believe they are all Secret Wars items!



While I like the idea of a small plastic Spider-Man figure on my desk, I'm not sure that a pencil sharpener glued to his feet works as well for me...



I loved Shrinky Dinks when they were out... and wonder how the heck it is I never, ever got this set!



Spider-Socks, Spider-Socks...



So, this silly Sparkling Gun not only has nothing to do with Spidey, it also has nothing to do with the Hulk or Captain America! Guess the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon licenses weren't doing much that year...



Spidey Sunglasses! Unbreakable lenses? Perhaps... but they don't look like they stay in the frames, do they?



Aside from the Spidey figure perched on the base of this telephone... it's not really that much of a Spider-Man telephone, is it?



I think I had one of these for a while when I was buying and selling collectible toys for a few years...



Yes, Spider-Man walkie-talkies don't really make much sense... but they do look pretty cool, don't they?



Spidey Webmaker! Remember seeing these advertised in the comics?



This wind-up walking Spider-Man is just goofy enough to be cool!

Give-A-Show Fridays: Quick Draw McGraw and the Flintstones!

By the 10's: The Unknown Soldier!

Taking over the numbering from Star Spangled War Stories, here's the end of this 1-10 series, with The Unknown Soldier!



Issue 210!



Issue 220!



Issue 230!



Issue 240!



Issue 250!



Issue 260!

And that will wrap it up! Next time around... Boris Karloff!

Cool Stuff: Original Comic Art!

Welcome to the Jungle!



Well, Jungle Action, anyway... here's the Gil Kane cover for issue 16!



And Pat Boyette's cover for Charlton's Jungle Jim #25!



Here's a misfiled JLA page! I believe it's page 7 from JLA 7, by Mike Sekowsky.



And page 16 from the same issue!



And page 27!



Now we're back to proper alphabetizing, with this splash page from the Angel story in Ka-Zar #3, art by George Tuska! Man, normally I love Tuska's stuff, but his Angel doesn't look right to me at all!



Here's page 58 from that issue!



Larry Lieber did a great job on the cover for Kid Colt 187, don't you think?



Not sure who did the art for page 17 from Laurel and Hardy #47 here!



Next up is the splash from the Dracula story from an issue of Legion of Monsters, by Dick Giordano!



Here's page 17 from Lois Lane 102, art by Curt Swan, although the inker's really overpowered Swan's pencils!



Next we have page 1 from Magnus, Robot Fighter 28, by Manning!



And here's page 22 from Man-Thing 9, by Mike Ploog!

There'll be a few more Man-Thing pages next time around!