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JM Cozzoli

A horror genre fan with a blog. Scary.

Fantasy Magazine Vol. 4 No. 5, May 1935

Professor Kinema received this Fantasy Magazine Vol. 1, No. 1 (Scientifilm Issue) from Forrest J. Ackerman. Note FJA's personal note, written in 1990, on the Contents page. A big thanks to Professor Kinema for sharing this rare and fragile magazine with us. (Here's the comic book reader version:  Download Fantasy Magazine Vol 1 No 4 . For more cool monster and scientifilm reading pay a visit to the Magazine Morgue.)

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The Three Stooges In Orbit (1962) Pressbook

Making comparatively little money during the original run of their highly popular Columbia short subject movies, the rebirth of the Three Stooges was ignited after their movies played on televisions across the country starting in 1959. Even Zacherley, the Cool Ghoul, hosted The Three Stooges Show for a short time.  The comedic trio still didn't get any money from the television airing of their 190 short movies, but their renewed popularity brought new movie deals and projects for a time, until Larry Fine and Moe Howard passed away in 1975.

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The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), The Cat Girl
Double Bill Pressbook

I love the folder-type double bill pressbooks with separate inserts for each movie (or campaign manuals as they were called, too). Here's one from American International Pictures touting a double bill of The Amazing Colossal Man and The Cat Girl. I have The Cat Girl waiting for me–on my DVR–courtesy of TCM. I don't think I ever caught that one. But who hasn't seen The Amazing Colossal Man?

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Gus the Ghost Halloween Costume

You'll see a bit of a similarity between another Ben Cooper Ghost costume and this Gus the Ghost version. The other ghost has the costume image in color, with slight alterations. Gus, here, looks a bit more naughty. I doubt the box the seller, bc3697, is listing this with is the original one: I say that because, usually when the costume is personalized with a name, that would appear on the box; so instead of just "Ghost" the box should read "Gus the Ghost." And that's one of the pitfalls of Halloween costume collecting: knowing if the costume is paired with its original box. And I don't mean to imply eBay sellers are doing it out of convenience. How many Halloween costume experts do YOU know?

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Day the World Ended (1955),
The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues
Double Shock Show!

Roger Corman directed fourth movie, Day the World Ended, starred Richard Denning, Paul Birch, and Marty the Mutated Monster courtesy of Paul Blaisdell. Double billed with The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues, the pair made a tidy profit. It was the first double feature offering by American Releasing Corporation, later known by horror fans as American International Pictures. Day is the better of the two movies.

Comic book reader version:  Download Day the World Ended Double Bill

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