Fantastic Monsters Of The Films #5

I hadn't originally intended to scan such a huge chunk of Fantastic Monsters #5 but as I went along I found myself wanting to spend more & more time with this issue, I guess it's time to

stop and smell the neuroses...Anyway, I divided the whole mess into three posts, part two will appear tomorrow...probably.

I was watching I Was A Teenage Movie Maker the other day and there was a bit where some guy whose name I didn't recognize and don't remember said something about SPFX guys in general and Paul Blaisdell in particular not "revealing their secrets"- well, I just had to laugh, I saw the photograph...just to set the record straight, Blaisdell & Co. were all about telling you how they did what they did in order to inspire young'uns to go out and create their own creations, as this continuing series of articles shows...

Don't worry kids, all the "Continued on" pages are continued on the following two posts! Who loves ya?...

Things To Come...

Light The Jack O' Lantern, Pumpkinhead...(Update)

In an attempt to get the pumpkins rolling, I've come up with a new header(obviously)and re-installed the Monster Record Player I feature every year around this time, equipped with new tunes, many of the koolest of which I got from Blues From The Redboy and The Devil's Music, two great music sites that can be found in my Blog Archive. Thanx also to Karswell of The Horrors Of It All for supplying me with the graphic for the New Improved MRP notice in the sidebar. I don't have tons of stuff to share this year, mostly reposts of scary records I put up last year but with a difference- the files will all be from my own lps, lps which I managed to accumulate this year before the bottom dropped out of the family wallet. So, if you needed noisier copies of all your favorites, well, here they come! There will be at least a couple of InterWeb firsts and probably some monster magazine stuff I've been too lazy to post so far(scanning is hard!), not to mention the Dell Mad Monster Party comic in it's entirety(Rarrrr! scanning bad!)so stay tuned. The above image is the "cover" I made of a compilation of sound efx and music I made a few years ago and update every year, maybe i'll post that too. I made it as an exercise in Halloween ambience, a journey through the darkest night of the year & the soul. This year might be the darkest of all for all of us, at least 'til next year. Oh yeah, i'll probably be going on & on like this more often, too...(Boo!)

Stark Terror #2 - All, Or Nothing At All!

This is my last post for a while- all Hell has broken loose at home and anyway I need to save material for October & Halloween. I'll post more stories from this issue then and some other stuff too, as long as we're not all living under Hwy. 59 by then...

Heart-wrenching, no?...

Annette's Beach Party

Since it's summer and all that crap there must be Annette fever in the air. Two different blogs I keep an eye on, Zip Your Rip & Boot Sale Sounds both just posted Annette recordings, one of which was a mono version of Beach Party. A friend of mine has a copy of the stereo version so here it is, my excuse to indulge my Annette

hang-up. It's not what I originally planned on posting this week,

but what the hecky-durn...

"Hey , this frank looks like Frankie!..."

A Preview Of Things To Come (I Hope)...

heh-heh-heh...

Kyu Sakamoto's Sukiyaki & The Golden Gate Strings' Monkees Songbook

I'm on a once-a-week posting schedule because I don't really have that much stuff to spread around right now and this week's a real thrill, it's just stuff I have cluttering up my Rapidshare account.

My vinyl, my covers.

Kyu Sakamoto was the first Japanese artist to have a hit in the U.S. and was a big deal back when, there's like a million entries when you Google him, so knock yourself out...

"Sukiyaki", don'tcha know?...

This lp's main claim to fame is that the version of "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" that appears on it also can be heard in the cult film Lovedoll Superstar. It really is pretty cool, as is the film...

This Just Doesn't Seem To Be My Day...

So what'll it be next time, lucha libre or scantily-clad wimmen?...

Kay Martin and Her Bodyguards

If Les Paul played the accordian and Mary Ford had done topless modeling...Here's my own, personal copy of Kay Martin and Her Bodyguards, sounding better than previously offered elsewhere for downloadin'. I can't recommend this lp enough! "The Heel", "Swamp Girl" and "Baby, Did You Hear" will blow yer mind and she does a great version of "Summertime" too, it's all good, the cotton is high,

oh my, so am I!...

"It takes two heels to CLICK..."

For more info on Kay, well, there's not much out there. Songs from one album tend to show up on another. Besides the Christmas record I've grabbed files for three other records but two had the same songs on them and one was only half-new. I've seen six album covers in all. I've seen the Live at Las Vegas lp with two different covers but I suspect the contents are the same. There is at least one 45 floating around out there too...

Peter Fernandez & Ultraman

Of course everyone knows that Peter Fernandez voiced Speed Racer in it's American release, but he and his cohorts (Corinne Orr, Jack Grimes and Earl Hammond) also did an awesome job dubbing Ultraman, a show I could not have survived the early 70s without, and still watch on a regular basis. Thanx, Peter, Jack & Earl, who have all passed away...

(All screen shots taken from episode #35,

"The Graveyard of Monsters", directed by Akio Jissoji)

Batman Vs. Sun Ra & Another Giant Hand (Green This Time!)

No, you're not seeing double and you're not seeing Jan & Dean anywhere around this record, instead you're seeing the infamous Sun Ra & his Arkestra/Blues Project version of a Batman cash-in record, and an infinitely more cynical cash-in it is. There's lots of info out there about this record so i won't bore you with details. My folks bought me this record back in '66 and needless to say,

it befuddled me...

*Batman and Robin Swings!...*

I found this cover image for Batman #130 over at Monster Brains and here are my scans of the cover story, "The Hand From Nowhere". In other words, they don't know where this hand has been...

Lex Luthor?!?...

Jan & Dean Meet Batman #130 - Batman's Deadly Birthday (Mono)

What's all the excitement about? Well, gang, as far as I know this is the only Mono version of *Jan & Dean Meet Batman* that's been posted on the Inter-Bat that isn't on a lemme-see-what-you-got-first torrent site, plus I've included a story from my coverless copy of Batman #130 that's just about as silly as this record. So, Happy Birthday, Somebody, Somewhere!...

Holy Hodad, Batman!...

Is anybody else having a kinky li'l fantasy about Batwoman & Bat-Mite right about now?...