Still EERIE After all These Years

Earlier in the year I posted the comics content of Eerie #15, from June 1968.  Now it's time for more fun from that representative fright frolic:  the ads!

I always wondered if those masks could be as cool on MY FACE as the pix in the ad made it appear.  Back in the Sixties, $34 buck was a big chunk o' change, roughly equivalent to $300 today.

Nowadays I can say I have heard the contents of most of these records.  Some still stand up as chilling or evocative today.

I never saw that Blazing Combat mag.  I always figured that the implied competition between Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie was an attempt to make fans buy both and compare 'em.

Pow!  Zam!  I might have read an issue or two of Screen Thrills, but I bet a lot of the "thrills" have leaked out of these properties over time.

See you Monday!

  

Gee, Mister Loo-TORR!

That's NOT how Lex Luthor was known before the wonderful Superman: The Movie came along and stereotyped the evil genius.

Here's a Luthor history from the September 1, 1988 Amazing Heroes.

Now you can decide which Luthor you like.  Give me Silver Age any day!

See you Thursday, fellow super fans!

  

Gimme a Hammer

That's the solution to "Technical Difficulties," Track 1 of this socko, boffo compilation of songs from that storied decade, the Eighties!

01 - Technical Difficulties - Mondo Vita   1983  (2:12)

02 - Easy to Please Me - The Cheeters   1981  (3:50)

03 - And There's More - The Bytes   1983  (3:54)

04 - Jailhouse Rock - Judy Nylon   1983  (3:51)

05 - You've Lost - Tom Dickie and the Desires   1981  (2:41)

06 - Fotogenic - Ellen Shipley   1980  (3:31)

07 - Watching the Tears - The Pencils   1984  (3:55)

08 - Tina’s Got a New Hairdo - Metro   1982  (3:12)

09 - Payola - The Professionals   1981  (3:39)

10 - All for One - Berlin   1982  (3:17)

11 - O-O-O-O-O - Those French Girls   1982  (2:07)

12 - Aim Low - Graphic Shadows ‎   1984  (2:55)

13 - Worst Suicide - Unlimited Systems   1985  (4:24)

14 - She's So Cynical - The Modulators   1982  (2:33)

15 - She Wants You - The Breaks   1983  (3:54)

16 - Girls - The Lost Tropics   1983  (3:11)

17 - While the City Sleeps - Artificial Organs   1981  (3:33)

18 - Confidential Story - Jane Bond & the Undercover Men   1981  (3:12)

19 - Victim of Hypocracy - The Kids   1982  (3:58)

20 - Generator - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission   1980  (4:33)

21 - Air Heads - Popular Mechanix   1980  (2:18)

22 - Decisions - Unit 5   1981  (4:11)

23 - Non Stop World - Life by Night   1985  (4:02)

Other tracks of especial note:  All of 'em!  Don't be an "Air Head" or a "Victim of Hypocracy."  In this "Non Stop World," you can "Aim Low" or be a "Generator."

Though it's an interesting concept, don't you  dare ever believe that life is the "Worst Suicide"!  Because "And There's More"!

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

Thanks for sharing this Musical Month of May!  See you on Monday for who knows what!