Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween Countdown: The Wrap-Up!



So below, you'll find my final posts for the Halloween Countdown, the third year in a row I've participated in it, and my second year kind of organizing it.

I'd like to thank all my regular readers for joining me here each day, even those of you who may not care for monster-related stuff (that would be what, five or six of you?).

I'd also like to thank all the new readers who've found the Random Acts of Geekery thanks to links from the other participating blogs, and hope that you'll continue to check back daily for the regular monster features with Monster Mondays, Monster Magazine Reviews (every Wednesday), and occasional monster features in Children's Book Theatre (appears more or less randomly), as well as the fairly regular appearances in the Saturday Movie of the Week feature! I'm also hoping you'll check my other monster blogs daily (see the "Random Blogs of Geekery Family of Blogs" list on the left for all of my blogs)!

I'd also like to thank the eBay sellers who've posted decent photos of their monster-related stuff, without which this blog wouldn't have nearly as much to share every day! I hope that any of you readers who've spotted something you just have to have will search for them on eBay (not that I get anything out of it) and find those goodies from good sellers.

And finally, I'd like to thank all my fellow bloggers who've participated this year. Every year, more and more blogs take part in it, and even the bloggers who couldn't keep it going every single day deserve some credit for trying!

That's it for this year's Halloween Countdown! Thanks again to all of you. Tomorrow, it's back to the usual Random Geekery around here!

Halloween Countdown: Monster Cards, Part 8!



And since it's Halloween proper, I decided to give you an extra dose of Monster Cards! These are from the "Monster Laffs" series that most people my age remember from when we were kids, I think!

laffs  055 what are you staring at
laffs  unk that lousy haircut ruined my looks
laffs 003 you should see me when im angry
laffs 008 mommyihadanightmare
laffs 013 you got a cavity in that molar
laffs 014 illcrashthisparty
laffs 016 hewinkedatme
laffs 018 gosh its past my bedtime
laffs 020 my ice cream melted
laffs 024 smileyoureoncandidcamera
laffs 025 imarestlesssleeper
laffs 027 im just falling apart
laffs 031 breakmydisheswillyou

And that will wrap it up for this year! Look for more of these cards to start showing up next October!

Halloween Countdown: Movie of the Week: Blood of Dracula!



For Halloween, I present as the Movie of the Week "Blood of Dracula"! Here's a trailer:

Trailer for BLOOD OF DRACULA (1957)


bloodofdracula_lc1.JPG

bloodofdracula_lc2.JPG

bloodofdracula_lc8.JPG
Mexican lobby card

bloodofdracula_lc9.JPG

bloodofdracula_still.jpg

bloodofdracula_still2.jpg

bloodofdracinsert.JPG

bloodofdraclc.JPG

bloodofdracula_lc.jpg

bloodofdrac_still1.jpg

bloodofdrac_mexlc
Mexican Lobby Card

bloodofdrac_altposter
An altered poster for the alternate title!

bloodofdrac_lc1

Cool Stuff!

Welcome to the only non-Halloween post for Halloween itself! It's cool stuff! And let's begin with the Lone Ranger!

loneranger_squirtgun

This squirt gun is a cute idea, but lacking in execution... if only the gun proper was on the side, where the Ranger would presumably be holding it. Still pretty cool, though!

lt_bugsstuntcar_ahi.JPG

Next, we have this Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Stunt Car, made by AHI, who also made all those superheroes (particularly Batman and Spider-Man), Planet of the Apes, Star Trek and other carded toys you used to see at Kmarts and the like!

Now, Marvel collectibles!

marevel_3rdeyecards1.JPG

Very cool set of 3rd Eye postcards! These were probably using the same art used on the other 3rd Eye products. Here's individual views:

marevel_3rdeyecards2.JPG
marevel_3rdeyecards3.JPG
marevel_3rdeyecards4.JPG
marevel_3rdeyecards5.JPG
marevel_3rdeyecards6.JPG

There will be more Marvel stuff coming up, probably in the next Cool Stuff installment!

mego_batman_batcoders.jpg

From Mego, here's the Bat-Coders, their Batman-themed walkie talkies! They also did Star Trek Communicator walkie-talkies.

mego_Greatestamerican.jpg

One of the rarest Mego items is this Greatest American Hero bug and figures!

And now, some Micronauts!

micronauts_alphatron.jpg
Alphatron!

micronauts_andromeda.jpg
Andromeda, Italian edition!

micronauts_betatron.jpg
Betatron!

micronauts_galacticcommand.jpg
The Galactic Command Center!

micronauts_gammatron.jpg
Gammatron!

micronauts_hornetroid.jpg
Hornetroid!

micronauts_monorailcity.jpg
Monorail City!

micronauts_stratastation.jpg
Stratastation!

micronauts_timetraveler
And Time Traveler!

missionstardust_mexlc.JPG

And finally, here's a Mexican Lobby Card for Mission: Stardust!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Favor to Ask Everyone Reading This Blog!

When reading this blog this weekend, could each of you click on at least one of the ads that appear? I'm trying an experiment to see how it affects my daily click-thru payments.

Thanks in advance!

Halloween Countdown: Original Horror Comic Art!



And here we are with the last Horror Comic Art Post for this year (unless, of course, I have some mixed in with the other original comic art posts)! Truth to tell, when I originally started culling the pictures I had of these together, I wasn't sure there'd be enough for the whole month... and as it stands, I won't even be halfway through the alphabet by the end of this post! So, I guess that means you can look forward to seeing more of these next October... and probably the October after that!

haunted01_cov_ditko.jpg

We begin this final Halloween Countdown: Original Comic Art post for 2009 with Steve Ditko's cover to Haunted #1!

hauntoffear17_02_davis

Next, it's page 2 from EC's Haunt of Fear #17, by Jack Davis!

hauntoffear21cov_ingels.jpg

Next, it's "Ghastly" Graham Ingels' cover to Haunt of Fear #21!

hauntoffear26_29_davis

Page 29 from Haunt of Fear #26, by Jack Davis!

hauntoffear26_31_davis

And here's page 31!

hauntoffear26_pg1_davis.jpg

Another Davis page, courtesy of Haunt of Fear #26, page 1!

hauntofhorror02_32

Next, we have page 32 from Haunt of Horror #2, by Gene Colan... and I may have all the pages from this story to show you!

hauntofhorror02_33_colan
hauntofhorror02_34_colan
hauntofhorror02_35_colan
hauntofhorror02_36_colan
hauntofhorror02_37_colan
hauntofhorror02_38_colan
hauntofhorror02_40_colan
hauntofhorror02_41

Yep, looks like 'em all!

hauntofhorror03_03_lieber

The seller of this page identified it as being page 3 from Haunt of Horror #3, by Larry Lieber... but the page itself says "Tales of the Zombie," making me wonder if possibly it was intended for that, and ended up in Haunt of Horror instead?

hauntofhorror03_04_lieber

Here's page 4!

And with that, we'll wrap up this year's Horror Comic Art coverage!