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October 26, 2020

Witches Tales Vol.1, Issue 9
December 1969

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How could any self-respecting monsterkid pass up on such a cover? Of course, once snatched from the magazine rack, one would need to be vary careful around one’s mom and employ subterfuge and guile to keep such a magazine carefully hidden. Just saying. I learned my lesson with Vampirella No. 1. My mom outsmarted me THAT time. She threatened to dial up Warren Publications and organize all manner of mayhem against them. No telling what she would have done if she saw this issue of Witches Tales. Speaking of witch (hey, a pun!), this issue is gruesomely drawn and vile in its depictions of victims and sinners. Perfect!

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River Gang (1945) Pressbook

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Here’s another pressbook courtesy of director Joe Dante (Trailers from Hell).  What makes this one rather special is the inclusion of a cost sheet, typed on onion paper (you young whippersnappers can Google onion paper). The cost of 8000 pressbooks (six pages for this one) for this movie was a stiff .13 cents per pressbook (rounded off).

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Phantom of the Paradise (1974) Pressbook

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By the 1970s, pressbooks became rather dull affairs, usually black and white, and with an emphasis on poster art (for the newspapers) than pre-canned articles. This 8.5 x 14 inches pressbook shows all its pages, but I placed them out of order to move the poster pages toward the end. If you download the reader version, it will show the pressbook’s pages in their correct order. Phantom of the Paradise is one of those odd movies that, while fetching, doesn’t quite make sense, but just go with it for the rock horror opera aesthetics wrapped around a Faustian bargain and the dread of Dorian Gray. Of course the box office didn’t know what to do with it, at the time, but it’s now a cult movie and rightly so. Brian De Palma went wild with it and it has Paul Williams music. And that works for me.

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