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May 28, 2015 - 6:03 AM
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Jim Phelps
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I thought that the resident monster model kit and toy maniacs of this board may be interested in this upcoming publication:
Run for your life! The monsters are coming!
TwoMorrows Publishing's new book Monster Mash digs up the dirt on the Monster Craze in America (1957-1972)!
Time-trip back to the frightening era of 1957-1972, when monsters stomped into the American mainstream! Once Frankenstein and fiends infiltrated TV in 1957, an avalanche of monster magazines, toys, games, trading cards, and comic books crashed upon an unsuspecting public.
This profusely illustrated full-color hardcover covers that creepy, kooky Monster Craze through features on Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, the #1 hit “Monster Mash,” Aurora’s model kits, TV shows (Shock Theatre, The Addams Family, The Munsters, and Dark Shadows), “Mars Attacks” trading cards, Eerie Publications, Planet of the Apes, and more! It features interviews with James Warren (Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella magazines), Forrest J Ackerman (Famous Monsters of Filmland), John Astin (The Addams Family), Al Lewis (The Munsters), Jonathan Frid (Dark Shadows), George Barris (monster car customizer), Ed “Big Daddy” Roth (Rat Fink), Bobby (Boris) Pickett (Monster Mash singer/songwriter) and others, with a Foreword by TV horror host Zacherley, the “Cool Ghoul.” Written by Mark Voger.
http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=133&products_id=1202
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My cherished memory is collecting "Creature Feature" cards - they would all feature a still from a classic monster movie (sometimes retouched) with a gag line underneath. Released in 1973, a year after this author's cut-off date, they served as a humorous retrospective of that era.
http://www.mysteryisland.net/creaturefeature
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May 28, 2015 - 9:53 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Though even 1972 is a bit before my time, the Monster Craze went on until at least 1980. In 1976-77, our local independent station, WCIX-Miami would air Creature Feature on Saturday afternoons (Ray Faiola will remember the name of the host; though I don't remember there being one). I can still see the foggy graveyard and hear that disquieting music of the title credits. Creature Feature aired every classic horror (or "monster movie", as I called them).
I had brand-new toys of the Mummy, Dracula, and Frankenstein's Monster. I remember them being rubbery and highly detailed. There were also some Remco 3 3/4" sized action figures and a monster design toy for boys, called Mighty Men and Monster Maker, a horror counterpart to the fashion design plate-making sets that girls played with, where a potentially twisted boy could mix and match various monster segments: dragon torsos, wolf man heads, and dinosaur legs to create your own hybrid monster. You would place a sheet of paper over the assembled plates and make an impression by embossing it onto the paper when you sketched over it with a pencil. Guaranteed to provide minutes and minutes of fun!
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