Since Halloween is coming up, I thought it was appropriate to post this for everyone’s enjoyment – a downloadable PDF of Famous Monsters of Filmland’s first issue. Famous Monsters magazine influenced hundreds of filmmakers, from Joe Dante to Steven Spielberg,…
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Geek, Movies, Neglected Cinema
Son of Dracula has great Nilsson songs, bad Nilsson acting
Some obscure films need to remain obscure. I’m a huge Harry Nilsson fan. HUGE. And when I found out many years ago that he starred in a movie called Son of Dracula, with Ringo Starr… well, I had to see…
Geek, Geek Ephemera
Star Trek: The Motion Picture toys!
Star Trek: The Motion Picture toys? Yup, they made them and they… kinda sucked. The action figures were small and lacked detail, they didn’t make any toys of the ships – very Meh. The two highlights: The McDonald’s Happy Meals (which…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, Movies
Go Ape! With Planet of the Apes belt buckles!
God, I loved the seventies. Only in that mixed-up decade would this product idea exist in real life. Ladies and gentlemen… Planet of the Apes belt buckles, with matching belts! And matching western tie!!
Geek, Geek Ephemera
G.I.Joe Fan Club Certificates!
I’m a G.I.Joe collector and fan – mostly of the 12″ figures, though I have quite a few of the 3 3/4″ figures as well. Way back in 1968, the original Joe toy line changed to “explorers” in reaction to…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, TV, Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks TV Guide Ads!
From 1990/1991. Enjoy.
Geek, Geek Ephemera
From the 1979 Sears Wishbook… SPACE TOYS!
I have been spending a ridiculous amount of time looking through Christmas catalog scans on WishbookWeb.com this week… The nostalgia! The FEELS! I’ll be sharing some of the pages scanned from the toy section over the next couple of weeks…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, TV, Twin Peaks
Some more Twin Peaks ephemera for ya…
Since this is National “Twin Peaks is Coming Back” week, I’m gonna just keep posting cool paperwork and articles from when the show first aired. Here’s a great satirical portrait that was in an issue of Entertainment Weekly: Here’s the…
Geek, TV, Twin Peaks
It is happening… Again. Twin Peaks return to TV in 2016!
Social media is exploding with this story today, and rightly so: Twin Peaks, the series that inspired much of the great TV drama that we have enjoyed for decades, will return to the airwaves on Showtime in 2016. Not to go into too…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, TV, Twin Peaks
A letter from the mayor of Twin Peaks
The Twin Peaks nostalgia continues, this time with a scan of the letter from the Mayor of Twin Peaks the Honorable Dwayne Milford. This letter was sent to members of the Twin Peaks fan club along with the free Twin…
Geek, Trek, TV
How to play “Trek God”
Blatantly ripped off from Drew McWeeney at HitFix, earlier this year I started doing a Star Trek “party game” with some of my Trek fan friends. The premise is simple: If you were “Trek God” like Q and could take…
Geek, Geek Ephemera
Star Wars: Jedi Arena for the Atari 2600!
I love the Atari 2600, for many reasons. The biggest one is, of course, it was the first video game system I ever owned… and I played the crap out of it. I still remember spending HOURS trying to beat…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, TV
The Warrior’s Battlejacket from Battlestar Galactica!
If you were a fan of Battlestar Galactica in the late 70s, there was one thing you coveted (OK, two things, if you count Jane Seymour or Maren Jensen) – that flight jacket. And you could actually buy one! You,…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, Movies, TV
Celebrating Pizzazz magazine
Anybody remember Pizzazz Magazine? It was an attempt by Marvel Comics to enter the teen magazine market in the late seventies, and I was a subscriber. I LOVED Pizzazz, because it was a lot more geeky than other magazines (it had a…
Geek, Geek Ephemera
Starlog previews the new show “Quark”
Hindsight being 20-20, we know that the sitcom Quark was an obscure failure in the late seventies, a show that attempted to capitalize on the Star Wars fever that gripped America by doing a sci-fi sitcom. It had a good pedigree (Buck…
Geek, TV
Happy 50th Anniversary to The Man From U.N.C.L.E.!
“Open Channel D.” This is a heck of a week for spy fans. Last week was the 50th anniversary of the release of Goldfinger, and today marks the 50th anniversary of the first episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. U.N.C.L.E.…