Goin' Wildey!

You would too, if you got to read an interview with Jonny Quest creator Doug Wildey!

Note the implication on the first page's intro that "the age of 63" is a super-antique, geezerish age.

It's either a slip of Wildey's memory or a typo ... but JQ music director was Hoyt Curtin, not "Cartin."

This is from the May 15, 1986 issue of Amazing Heroes, number 95.

See you on Thursday, fellow Questians!

  

FINAL WORDS!

Since some folks are acting like the world is gonna end any minute, I thought it would be apropos to share some deep and not-so-deep thoughts on the subject from around the playground.

          In their 2012 book Megacatastrophes! David Darling and Dirk-Schulze-Makuch rank the likelihood of “Nine Strange Ways the World Could End.”  Least likely?  Radical climate change, whether caused by Mankind or things like solar flares.  The most likely danger, the thing to lose the most sleep over?  A pandemic, whether from medicine-resistant new bugs or old standbys like the plague or Ebola.

 

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

          ― T S Eliot, “The Hollow Men”

 

Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

          ― Roger Zelazny

 

It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke.

          ― Søren Kierkegaard

 

Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can’t resist seeing how it happens.

          ― Cracked.com

 

Apocalypse has come and gone. We’re just grubbing in the ashes.

          ― Samuel R Delany, Dhalgren

 

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

          ― Richard Bach

 

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don’t worry it’s not the end of the world.

          ―  Jay London

 

 

It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice—there are two other possibilities: One is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

          ― Frank Zappa

 

Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

          ― Stephen Hawking

 

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

          ― L Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

 

I’m against endings. I’m against things being over. Being finished should be stopped! I am Comrade-in-Chief of going on. I support furthermore and etcetera!

          ― Saša Stanišić

 

Somehow the world never seems to end before your homework is due.

          ―  P J O’Rourke

 

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

          ― Joel C. Rosenberg

 

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

          ― Albert Einstein

 

Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

          ― Dr Strangelove

 

There’s something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell’s pork and beans, defending one’s family from marauders. But some secret part of us thinks it would be good to survive. All those other folks will die. That’s what after-the-bomb stories are all about.

          ― John Varley

 

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

          ― Charles M. Schulz

 

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

          ― Joseph Campbell

 

I’m completely optimistic—I know the end is coming!

          ― Lydia Lunch

 

Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

          ― Rorschach

What do YOU say, me fine feathered finks?

  

I Bought it for This Article

 Since I was just past 16 when this came out, I encountered it year later, maybe in Lute's Books in OKC.  This is from the December 1973 Penthouse.

How's THAT for fun!  See ya Thursday.

  

Superboy TV, Part 6 - Logos Great and Small

More from the promo folder issued to syndicating stations for Season 2 of the live-action Superboy.  This packet is courtesy of the late great Mark Barragar.

This would have been around 1989.

Remember, this era was marked by physical cutting and pasting of printed material.  Hence the myriad sizes!

Above is the entire packet's appearance.

PS you can find the previous five shared folders from this kit by simply searching "Superboy TV" in the SEARCH box.  See you Monday!

  

They Wrote for Superman!

This is from the August 15, 1988 Amazing Heroes, that's issue #147.  The article covers Super Scribes from the Sixties to the Eighties.

I loved these recountings and summations, especially since at the time I hadn't read everything mentioned.  Boy, I gotta get back into the Comics Closet and read a few thousand comics again!

Until Thursday, see ya in the funny books!

  

It's the Time for Gory Musical Glory!

To wrap up the glories of Halloween, let's go out with a *blorp* and a *squish*, wiht a new Halloween comp!

The photos were taken Halloween 1963 at the White House with JFK and kids -- Track 19 is a reference to "Something to Tide You Over" in 1982's Creepshow.  The performers of Track 23 are no relation to the TV show, except in name.

 01 - Somebody's Watching Thriller (Michael Jackson vs Rockwell) - DJ Schmolli - 2019  (3:49)

02 - Just Another Halloween - The Mutts - 1985  (2:14)

03 - Irving - Johnny Brandon and Irving - 1958  (2:35)

04 - Sneakyville - Secession - 1987  (3:42)

05 - Grim Reaper - The Twelfth Night - 1965 (1:54)

06 - Love in the Cemetery - Lord Kitchener - 1962  (3:28)

07 - Living in a Coffin - Lost Cherrees - 1984  (1:43)

08 - The Raven - Jackie Brooks - 1956  (2:51)

09 - Frankenstein Again - The Lurkers - 1985  (3:59)

10 - Dis-Gorilla (Part 1) - Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots - 1977  (2:57)

11 - The Omen - Shattered Faith - 1983  (2:09)

12 - Minnie the Moocher at the Morgue - Smiley Burnette - 1935  (3:02)

13 - Munsters Theme (live) - The Deadbeats - 1978  (1:51)

14 - Teach Me How to Rock and Roll - The Creepies - 1975  (3:11)

15 - The Robot Walk - Tony Alamo - 1964  (2:44)

16 - The Lakeview Man - The Rainmakers - 1987  (3:00)

17 - 30 Foot Bride - The Tinglers - 1959  (2:07)

18 - Witchcraft Love - Richard Starr - 1964  (2:16)

19 - Deep Black Sea - Left for Dead - 2006  (2:54)

20 - Polka Dotted Poliwampus - Clint Miller - 1958  (2:10)

21 - Flesh to Flesh - Lamont - 1988  (3:50)

22 - Split Personality - Ronn Cummins - 1964  (3:15)

23 - King Kong - Groovie Ghoulies - 1989  (2:10)

24 - Halloween 9 - Stevo In Yr Stereo - 2024  (9:13)

The biggest excitement is saved for last!  Track 24 is by my old friend and fellow Mazeppite, Stevo In Yr Stereo, who concocted this truly ghoulish (yet lighthearted) mashup.  Find tons of delightful musical bemusements at siysradio.com.

 See you round the graveyard, kiddies!

THIS LINK GOOD FOR THREE DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Monday, assuming you survive this night of frights!!!