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[ChristineBCW]

You're making the mistake...

No no... you're sounding just like my husband.  Chained to the dungeon walls.  Forget your logic and sensibility.  I MUST be right!! 

And besides - I have the key to Hubby's manacles!  So there-!

I do admit your one argument opens up an new pandora's box - perhaps those errant shoulder straps are merely a lure to creatures who truly aren't capable of planetary destruction, and the Rick Grimesian logic of "Destroy them now rather than wait for Bob to lose more legs" is appropriate.

I mean, there's a reasonableness to this - after all, these '50s films were filling the drive-in and B-movie niche for the baby boomers.  What would have happened if those shoulder-straps had remained in place all thru the '50s and into the '60s? 

MY generation of '70s types surely didn't deserve sole access to radioactive giant monster appearances.  Our older siblings and parents would be soooo angry if that'd have been the case.

[Hepcat]

I mean, there's a reasonableness to this - after all, these '50s films were filling the drive-in and B-movie niche for the baby boomers.  What would have happened if those shoulder-straps had remained in place all thru the '50s and into the '60s? 

Most likely a catastrophic plunge in the birthrate which would have threatened our survival as a species.

[Hepcat]

Flower too is getting into the Halloween spirit. Here she is captured by Carl Brenders:

[horrorhunter]

Neal Adams' Werewolves:

[Hepcat]

Mmmmmm, Neal Adams! Great stuff!

[Hepcat]

Fire Maidens From Outer Space(1956)

This is one great poster with all of it's fantastic blurbs!

But that timeless "See the dance no man has seen!" promise/threat should have pulled in a lot of 12-year-olds.

But I thought twerking didn't become part of the dance scene until the 21st century!



Maybe they were talking about the mashed potato:

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[ChristineBCW]

You guys are SOOOO silly.  You're NOT gonna get the Dance That No Man Has Seen on YouTube.

Don't you believe these posters, silly?  NO MAN HAS SEEN IT.  It says RIGHT THERE.  So NO MAN HAS.

It's gotta be the truth!

They couldn't print it on a movie poster.

Right?

[Flower]

You guys are SOOOO silly.  You're NOT gonna get the Dance That No Man Has Seen on YouTube.

Don't you believe these posters, silly?  NO MAN HAS SEEN IT.  It says RIGHT THERE.  So NO MAN HAS.

It's gotta be the truth!

They couldn't print it on a movie poster.

Right?

I'm a woman, so I've might of seen it, the movie poster didn't mention women or little girls.

If you believe everything that you see printed on a movie poster ... I have a great bridge for sale.   

[ChristineBCW]

A big THANKS also for identifying Neal Adams' artwork.  I just knew I'd seen that style before.  I'm doing more research into Kirby and Ditko right now, and have simply lost track of Neal's style for a couple of years.  His actually a great blend of Kirby's lighting, Ditko's lines and Romita's relative adherence to the human form.  I've usually considered his the best artwork in comicdom, although I still like the stylized Kirby and Ditko work.  Not real, but so impactful in style.  Since I couldn't match Neal's work - without copying (sacrilegious!) - I tend to study more Kirby and Ditko.

Flower, I'm rather fearful of what dance men don't see, frankly.  And NO, it's not the damp skin-tights-on-bed dance, either...

[horrorhunter]

Bernie Wrightson's undead from his Color The Creature book:

[Hepcat]

Is that a colouring book?

[horrorhunter]

Is that a colouring book?

You betcha, and an oversized one too. I bought mine back in the '70s from.. Bud Plant, I think it was. I had the good sense not to color the pages, but I bought a print of the Ax Murderer page at a comic convention in Chattanooga around 1980 for 8 bucks that a fellow was coloring there at the show. He used colored markers and did a fine job. That piece is framed and on one of my walls along with my House Of Mystery Cain & Gregory centerspread from the HOM oversized edition and the rest of my Wrightson art.

Here's a pic of the Ax Murderer illustration from Wrightson's Color The Creature book:

[Hepcat]

I'm doing more research into Kirby and Ditko right now.... I still like the stylized Kirby and Ditko work.  Not real, but so impactful in style.

What? You don't like Joe Kubert's ghostly lines?

[Hepcat]

I had the good sense not to color the pages, but I bought a print of the Ax Murderer page at a comic convention in Chattanooga around 1980 for 8 bucks that a fellow was coloring there at the show. He used colored markers and did a fine job. That piece is framed and on one of my walls along with my House Of Mystery Cain & Gregory centerspread from the HOM

Post a scan!

[horrorhunter]

Post a scan!

I'd have to dig it out of the frame... maybe sometime. That's really why I posted that pic of the illo off the net, so I wouldn't have to do that (lazy). 

What? You don't like Joe Kubert's ghostly lines?

Dude, DC did some awesome War comics in the late '50s thru mid '70s. I always loved those Haunted Tank stories in G.I. Combat... Russ Heath w/Kubert covers.. great stuff. Sadly, I got rid of my War and Western comics back in the late '70s and never replaced them. Now the nice ones from that period are pricey.

Funny, I remember the really excellent DCs from back in the day being the genres other than superheroes (except for the Adams stuff featuring Batman, Green Lantern, and Deadman). Most of the non-Neal Adams DC superhero comics struck me as not very interesting in the '60s and early '70s. Conversely, the DC Mystery (Horror), War, Westerns, and offbeat stuff like Tomahawk, Metal Men, and Challengers Of The Unknown was usually pretty great IMO.