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Movies, tv shows, cartoons, comics, magazines, models, toys, LPs, anything that has to do with the marvelous monsters of my youth are fondly remembered on this blog.

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  • Funeral Home VHS ad

    Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 10:55 in ads, posters, artwork

    Click to view full-size scan.Another post featuring an 80's VHS release ad, this time an ad slick for "Funeral Home." ...

  • Monster Week on Ch 7

    Posted on Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 17:27 in ads, tv guide, japanese monsters

    These ads were clipped from 1974 TV Guide for the week of January 5th through the 11th. New York's Channel 7 (ABC) was showing these fun films, and by all accounts this was the first Monster Week of many.For much more info on these week-long film fe...

  • House Of Dark Shadows

    Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 07:41 in movies, ads, posters, vampires, dark shadows

    Today's Monster Memories are of:"House of Dark Shadows."(Click on images to view full-sized.)The newspaper ad that so enthralled me as a kid!"Come See How The Vampires Do It," was the tagline for the 1970 movie. What "It" may have been is only inferr...

  • Day of the Dead video release poster

    Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 15:13 in ads, posters, artwork, zombies, romero

    Today's Monster Memories are of:The video release ad for "Day of the Dead"Oh, you're gonna love me for this one. When you click on the image you'll get a bloodshot eyefull of zombiedom's main man, Bub, in a cool painting to tout the movie's 1986 rele...

  • Disney's 1977 Halloween Hall O' Fame

    Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 10:46 in disney, ads, articles, animation

    Today's Monster Memories are of:Disney's 1977 Halloween Hall 'O Fame Last October as I was going through old videos, to put favorites on DVD, I found two treasures that I had taped off TV back in the early 80's... both versions of the Disney Hallowee...

  • Lost In Space Monsters

    Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 13:01 in toys, science fiction, ads, models, robots, artwork

    Today's Monster Memories are of:"Lost In Space"(Click on images to view full size.)Scanned from a comic book in my collection.When I was six years old, the coolest, most awesomest thing on TV was "Lost In Space." I was watching it during it's first r...

  • Haunted Mansion Hobby Kit Ad

    Posted on Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 07:44 in toys, comics, disney, ads, models, artwork, RECORDS, haunted mansion

    Today's Monster Memories are of:The Haunted Mansion Hobby Kits(click on images to view full size)In the early to mid 70's, the ads in the comics for the model kits and such were as interesting and entertaining to me as the comics themselves. And alth...

  • The Monster Magnet

    Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 14:19 in toys, comics, ads

    Today's Monster Memories are of: The "Monster Magnet" by Wham-O! (Click on images to view full size.) "Yeah, I gets around pretty good for a guy dats got ta walk around on my hands!"It was a simple toy, really. No sound chips, no lights, no moving pa...