The Last Topps Monster Cards for This Year

 This is a great line.

 I believe the woman's face is an airbrushed replacement for the original.

 The above image was a riff on the famous Crest toothpaste ads.

See you Monday for a final reminiscence!

More Munsterizing

This week's Munster coloring-book pages:

And this week's cleaned-up coloring page:

See you on Friday with some more Topps Monster Cards!

Revenants from Halloween 1984

For Halloween 1984, I dressed up as our favorite crazy mixed-up kid.

 

With green makeup, an old suit, and wooden empty thread spools, I staggered through the neighborhood.

As is proven by the second photo, the 18-month-old in the house was not particularly frightened.

Also in 1984, I came up with this scribbling (yes, it's a sonnet):

Nightmare

 by Mark Alfred

Friday the 13^th, April, 1984

Enveloping, it chafes and smothers you;

You have no warning; then it is too late

To keep from seeing what no others do.

This is your private torment; yours the gate

That leads into the hidden, dim recess

Of every misbegotten lust and dream.

For nothing here forbids: no foul excess

Can be denied in this dark-litten gleam.

Your self is yourself’s pris’ner, and no cell

Could grip with clammy clutch to such intent.

Awakened, you must sleep, and who could tell

What horrors lurked in sleep, or what they meant?

It seems the grandest terrors still remain;

Your pleasant, daylight heart must bear the stain.


See you on Wednesday, fellow frighteners!
 

Topps Monster Cards, Part 3

This mummy guy is NOT Karloff or Chaney, so I assume it's ye olde Stunte Manne.

  The card above is numbered 26, as is the card below.

 The "girdle" line is an often-references trope from the 1960s or 1970s, but I can's seem to track down its actual origin.  It's from a TV campaign.

 The guy's face, above, is another of those paste-ins.

See you on Monday!

Wednesday with the Munsters ... (Not the Cheese)

Here's our weekly stipend of coloring pages.

 *sigh* The kid has to stay home with a babysitter, while the grown-ups get all the fun!

 At least Eddie knows his mom will, be blue without him!

John Alden looks more like a Jack-in-the-Green.

And our coloring page for this week:

Marilyn laments the ineptitude of their housekeeper.

See you on Friday with more Topps Monster Cards!
 

A Scary, Silly Music Compilation: MA-16 - Ghos-Terrific Sounds

Here's what we've got:

1    Mr After Halloween Costume Shop Salesman     Al Lowe      1:00

2    "The Return of Dracula": The End   Gerald Fried      4:08

3    Teenage Frankenstein     Alice Cooper  3:27

4 Trick or Treat Andrew Gold 3:23

5 Everybody Loves You When You're Dead Stranglers 2:39

6 Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon    The Cramps 3:12

7 Count Dracula All About Halloween 1:09

8 Halloween in Heaven Type O Negative 4:50

9 The Nightmare Before Christmas Pharaoh Atem 1:37

10 Godzilla (Album Version) Blue Oyster Cult 3:42

11 Halloween Parade David Berkeley    3:16

12 Gigantor Helmet   4:12

13 Surfin' Halloween Big Chopper 1:27

14 Count Dracula Robbie the Werewolf 5:09

15 Halloween Monster Mania stAllio!   7:55

16 Planet of the Apes Frankenstein Drag Queens   3:00

17 The Legend of Wooley Swamp Charlie Daniels   3:56

18 Spooks of Halloween Town   Yoko Shimomura   1:20

19 Hand of Blood Bullet for My Valentine 3:37

20 Casper, the Friendly Ghost      Peter Pan Singers 0:53

21 Scary Song Frankenstein Drag Queens    2:37

22 Zombie Stomp      H. Zombie featuring Toño Pneumo 4:14

23 Halloween Party     Sue Schnitzer 3:54

24 Frankenstein Rock Eddie Thomas 1:50

25 I Want a Monster     Prairie Dawn 2:12

I hope you have a spooky, ooky, time!  By the way, below is the original source of the CD cover art, from 1955:

https://www.filefactory.com/file/6l8frqf6kt72/MA-16.rar

See you again soon!