Juvenalia: "The Spoor of Cthulhu"

You can tell what I read too much of as a teen.

By the time I was twenty, when I wrote this, I was totally warped.  Thanks, Aich-Pee-Ell!

See you back here on Monday for the commencement of the final week of this year's Blog-o-Ween!
  

More Munster-ous Mucking About

A few more pages of the Munsters coloring book.

 When Herman's "natural" face wins the prize at a costume party, Lily is insulted.

The above two images comprise a two-page spread.

Well, see you on Friday, kiddies, for another relic of my fictional past, Cthulhu-style.
 

Fran Krause’s Creepy Worlds, Number 2

Cartoonist and weird thinker Fran Krause has come up with some deliciously odd and bizarre thoughts.  I felt as if his growing-up was exposed to the same warping influences as mine!

These three panels are from his 2017 The Creeps:  A Deep Dark Fears Collection.  Read it!  Buy it!

 And I'll see you fine fiends once more on Wednesday!

  

Aurora’s Monster Customizing Kits!

As complements to their boffo, socko Universal Monster models, Aurora Plastics released a couple of Monster Customizing Kits.

My big brother, custodian of all that was manly (under-21 manly that is), bought them.

Here are some instructions sheets for these amalgamations of things intended to make your scary plastic monsters even scarier.

As they did with most of the Aurora monsters line, Polar Lights reissued their own version of the Monster Customizing Kits.

What are we leading up to?  why, my fifty-plus-year-old leftovers!

This is what’s left.  The tombstones have some very suspicious “weathering” to try and bring out the lettering:

ONE NOTE ABOUT THE PHOTO OF MY ITEMS:

The Frankenstein head isn’t part of a customizing kit.  No, it’s the survivor of a spin-off series that combined racing and monsters.

Many of the monster-figure parts of those monster-racer kits were the same as the actual “monster” kits, as you can tell by this Frankenstein head.

See you right back here on Monday, my fellow A-SCARE-icans!

You're the Topps

It's another installment of the Topps Monster Cards once bought as a bunch from a now-closed comics shop.

Above is one of the cards with a gal's face pasted over the original Evelyn Ankers image.

Above is the original.

This card's joke is a lot like those "Mommy, Mommy" / "Daddy, Daddy" jokes we pre-teens were so fond of.  Example:

KID:  Daddy, Daddy, I don't like running around in circles!
DADDY:  Shut up or I'll nail your other foot to the floor.

See you back here on Friday!

Fran Krause’s Creepy Worlds, Number 1

Cartoonist and weird thinker Fran Krause has come up with some deliciously odd and bizarre thoughts.  I felt as if his growing-up was exposed to the same warping influences as mine!

These three panels are from his 2015 Deep Dark Fears collection.  Read it!  Buy it!

See you on Wednesday.

More Munstrous Fun

Here're three more pages from the 1964 Munsters coloring book.

Leave it to old Herman to have a square head even with the knight's helmet off!

See you on Monday with more creepy fun!

1970s Paper Halloween Ephemera

Here are some of the paper Halloween decorations my mom bought, probably at TG&Y.

These just went up decorating our front door on Wednesday.

See you on Friday!

Halloween in Comics Land!

Here’re some fun scary bits from comic-book land:

From the November, 1941 Captain America

From the Fall, 1945 Comic Cavalcade

The December, 1946 Flash Comics cover

Action #247, December, 1958

Later on in the 1960s

So, as you can see, Halloween abounded in comic-book land!  See you on Wednesday!
 

Continuing ... Topps Monster Cards

Here are more of what I call Topps's Monster Cards:

 The above image references the 1972 Alka-Seltzer commercial with the same tagline.

 You'll note that some other female face has been pasted in over that of Wolf Man actress 

Maria Ouspenskaya.

My grandkids are sick of hearing my variation on the above gag:
Q:  Why is there a fence around the cemetery?
A:  Because people are just dying to get in!

And the follow-up:
Q:  How many dead people are in there?
A:  All of them!

See you on Monday, fiends and lashes!

Welcome Back to the Munsters Mob!

Here are more images from the 1964 Whitman The Munsters coloring book, which was colorized by three generations before I removed it from circulation.

In the story presented here, the adult Munsters have been invited to a costume party by Marilyn's new beau.  Poor Marilyn, she's sooo plain ...

And here's a cleaned-up page for you youngsters to print and color!

Ta-ta, friends!  See you back here on Friday!