Here's the do-it-yourself calendar page from the October, 1964 Jack & Jill.  The days of the wek don;t match this year, but it...

My big brother Robert is nine years older than me.  And when I came along, he was forced to share his bedroom with me. Now that I am a gro...

  In case you couldn't tell by their color, these monsters from Marx Toys glow in the dark!    Notice that, as with Aurora...

Somebody (named Melissa and now 21 years old) got to the above page first! When, in their song "D.O.A.," the group Bloo...

The resurgence in popularity of monsters started with the "Shock Theatre" release of Universal monster/sci-fi movies to TV station...

Here is my 2010 Halloween compilation. It has been unavailable until now because the hoster, Mega-you-know-who, is no longer extant. H...

Aurrora came out with this model, "The Witch," in 1964.  I bought one and built one.  However, below you can see what I have ...

Another great kids' magazine was Jack & Jill . Here is some stuff from its October 1964 issue.        "At...

Once upon a time I built monster models from Aurora. One of the latter-day ones was their version of Bride of Frankenstein . . .    ...

From the 1965, October issue of Golden Magazine, here's an activity calendar for October.   Even if the days of the week don...

Back when I used to haunt thrift stores, I came across this thermos. However, I've never seen the lunch box that it presumably was issu...

  For Day Two of Blog-o-ween, let's hearken back to pages from a 1991 Universal Monsters Coloring Book! Notice how very carefully ...

WELCOME  TO  BLOG-O-WEEN . . . Here it is, Halloween Time!  Time for Blog-o-ween, a celebration of that fun and funky time of year! ...