Michaels Craft Stores are always a big-deal visit for Halloween. Their focus is on the smaller, home-oriented decorations that dress up any party and decor with a retro, Gothic style. And this year is the largest selection I've seen. And of course, there's the Lemax Spooky Town Halloween Village collection, too. And they bring it all out before September! Lovely.
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So many skeletons, so many Halloween costumes. Here's another one: a large-eye-holes and white for nite variation for safety. (Listed by bc3697 on eBay.)
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Collegeville Skeleton Halloween Costume
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Big-eye safety mask and safety-sign on the back doesn't take the bite out of this Wolf Man Halloween costume from Ben Cooper.
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Cinefantastique explored the mechanics of genre movies, providing more production depth and more creativity-analysis than you would typically find in the monster magazines and fan publications of the day. In this second issue, House of Dark Shadows, stop frame fantasy film animation techniques part one, and John Carradine's movie comeback are covered. And similar to the Frankenstein TV Movie Guide in Castle of Frankenstein, there are many movie reviews to ponder, too.
Here's the comic book reader version: Download Cinefantastique Issue v1-2
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From the March 1966 issue of the industry magazine, Playthings. It's never too early to get ready for Halloween.
Issue 11 of Castle of Frankenstein, "The Magazine of Psychotomimetic Monsters," is glowing with monster-goodness. Start with a little-seen Dracula photo for the front-inside cover and end with a back-inside cover with Raquel Welch and a T-Rex, then in-between add: The Star Trek Story by Allan Asherman, an endorsement for Star Trek, "the best dramatic TV series ever made," and part two of Christopher Lee's interview. There's more! CoF returns to Hammer Studios, Donald Phelps praises The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus, and Steranko is given his due. Oh, wait, there are some topless shots (you know what I mean) of The Brides of Fu Manchu, too. Here's the comic book reader version: Download Castle of Frankenstein Issue 11
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This illustration of Dracula would make an essential blacklight poster. Or maybe even a vivid velvet painting to hang next to Elvis. Or both! Seller thissales4u offered this on eBay.
With Some Thoughts on Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, John Stanley's Interview with Ray Bradbury, and How They Filmed The Planet of the Apes, this would be a great issue already, but there's more. There's also An Interview With Basil Rathbone, fan magazines reviewed, and a fun on the set picture with Glenn Strange and comedian Ole Olsen on page 5. Here's the comic book reader version: Download Castle of Frankenstein Issue 13
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usa7296 listed this Ben Cooper Big Foot Halloween costume on eBay. I wish the seller had unfolded the satin costume (and is the illustration vinyl?) so we could see how Big Foot is drawn. I bet the illustration is fantastic. If I find a full picture of the costume I'll add it.
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An interview with Stan Lee, The Avengers' Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee, some comics, part three of Christopher Lee's CoF interview, and a Farewell to Basil Rathbone are highlights in this issue 12 of Castle of Frankenstein. This is the first issue to also have a page width less than 8.5 inches.
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Here's a Roswell-type alien to brighten your science fiction oriented Halloween. Box art on many costume boxes is quite a blast off, and this one provides a good example of how a simple retro feel can be good marketing (that is, bubble helmet, rocket backpack, and giant outer space bug against the more traditional men on the moon). Seller evsowinsk-O listed this on eBay.
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Interesting gimmick to sell a Halloween costume. The Skull for this Ben Cooper design is good, but the costume lacks imagination, and the skull mask would have been more appealing if it matched the chest illustration. (Rallye340 listed this on eBay.)
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Ben Cooper Chattermouth, The Skull
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