Forget Rolling Stone & The Music City News...

...I want my face on the cover of The Monster Times!

Why? Here's the first 3 dozen covers so you can see what a geek paradise it was...

Yeah, we'll be going inside. But if you can't wait, you could pop on over to Frederick's My Star Trek Scrapbook for a look inside their second Star Trek special. (Thanks again for reminding me of TMT's existence!)

covers from The Monster Times #s 1-36 (1971-1974)

Un-Teaser

I've come to the conclusion that we haven't run enough Un-Comics lately. (Un-Comics is what we call comics that come from sources other than comic books) Fortunately, we can do that and continue the teaser from the previous post.

Oh - before i forget, let's get this out of the way...

That'll answer questions that may arise further down the page.

So, anyway - this cool old paper i used to enjoy not only provided excellent posters, they also covered comics. In fact, occasionally the two overlapped, like with this centerfold poster -

Not only did they cover comics on a regular basis, they routinely ran their own short strips - usually two pagers. And they drew in some top talent along the way - note some of the names in the credits below - Brunner, Byrne, Starlin, and Wolfman, to name just a few...

So, the Kong pic at the top of page only kinda partially answers questions that might have arisen from the intro to The Sacrifice. Allow us to further elucidate...

Okay. I know Rip knows this old paper - how about the rest of you?
I promise - we'll actually name names next time.

comics by Dave Gibbons, John Byrne, Frank Brunner, Jim Starlin, Martin Pasko, Bruce Jones, Berni Wrightson, Greg Theakston, Marv Wolfman, David Izzo, Rich Buckler, John Simons, Steve Hickman, Gil Kane, Steve Ditko, Roacho Rizzo, Tom Armstrong, and Dez Skinn (1971ish)

Groovy Age Walls

I recently had one of those dark spots where memory has dropped through one of the gaping holes in my head unveiled, much to my delight. We'll get into details a bit more soon, when we get to the title itself.
But this is going to be another one of those annoying tease posts heralding more to follow, so let's skip those important details for the moment.

Instead, like the title says, let's go to the walls and what covered them in my room way back then. In the early 70s an oversized newspaper publication emerged, and from the first issue they used that size to cool purpose - providing big posters for the readers. And, even better, being an un-stapled newspaper centerfold, you didn't even have to destroy the issue to display them.

After being reminded of the existance of this publication, i went digging into the forgotten archives with much joy as i rediscoverd over a dozen posters that used to hang upon my wall. (And a treasure trove of cool stashed inside the pages)

So, here's some of what covered my walls back in the later days of the Groovy Age. (A few have been edited to remove identifying text.)

This was way back in 1971, before Wrightson's famous Frankenstein work.

Star Trek by Gray Morrow!

Wendy Wenzel's rocking this Valley Of Gwangi poster - an old favorite film.

posters from... but that would be telling (1970s)

Chastity En Blue

This week's Blue Monday feature is Ron Embleton's comic, Sweet Chastity...

...featuring artwork from Azpiri, Milo Manara, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo, Michael Lopez, Horatio Altuna, Luis Royo, and, of course, Ron Embleton.

As all Blue Monday posts, this one is located in our Back Room for adult content, The Other Voice Of ODD!  Please follow the link past the age checking 'security guard' to enjoy the pics.

art by Ron Embleton, Azpiri, Luis Royo, Milo Manara, Horatio Altuna, Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo, and Michael Lopez for Penthouse & Penthouse Comix (1981-1988, 1997)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 14

While technically nothing is shown, the only thing worn by the model in this week's lovely Gil Elvgren painting is soap suds. To be on the safe side, we're posting Bubbling Over, from 1951, in our Back Room for adult content.

As always with Elvgren's work, the painting is lovely - but don't take my word for it.