Monster Monday

Frankenstein poster, 1972. Art by Jack Davis.




Strange Tales #73, February 1960. Cover art by Jack Kirby.



Weird Mystery Tales #21, August 1975. Cover art by Bernie Wrightson.




Godzilla, King of the Monsters. Lobby Card, 1956.

King Kong, Ken Kelly

Limited Print, edition of 600, published in 1991.

Monster Monday

Horror of the Blood Monsters, 1970. Art by Neal Adams.




Monsters Unleashed #5, April 1974. Cover by Bob Larkin.




Famous Monsters of Filmland #6, February 1960. Cover by Albert Nuetzell.




Demon illustration by Bernie Wrightson, circa 1970.




The Bride of Frankenstein, Aurora model box cover, 1965.




Mad #89, September 1964. Cover by Norman Mingo.

Monster Monday

Monster Parade #4, March 1959.




The Monster #2, 1953. Cover by Maurice Whitman.




Melvin Monster #3, December 1965. Cover by John Stanley.




Cover art by Frank Frazetta for Creepy #10, August 1966.




Ad for Aurora Monster Scenes models, 1971.

Monster Mania

I've been posting a lot of pinup pictures lately, and I appreciate all the folks coming by to see them. For a change of pace, here's some monsters!




Night of the Blood Monster, 1972.






Two cool drawings of monsters. No idea what they are, no date.




Monster #1, 1953.




The Giant Gila Monster, 1959.






The Legion of Monsters #1, September 1975. Cover art by Neal Adams.

Bubble-Gum Monsters

It's October, so I guess it is time to start getting ready for Halloween. Here's some art by Jack Davis for a series of Monster Tattoo Bubble Gum cards published by Topps around 1975.

Werewolf Wednesday

I Was a Teenage Werewolf movie poster, 1957.




Famous Monsters of Filmland #12, June 1961. Cover art by Basil Gogos.




Cry of the Werewolf lobby card, 1944.




Werewolves on Wheels movie poster, 1971.




Original art by Bernie Wrightson for House of Mystery #231, 1975.




Scream #4, February 1974. Yeah, the art kind of sucks for this one, but how often do you get to read the words "Blood-Hunt For the Cannibal Werewolf!"

Sea Monster!

Here's a really cool painting of a sea monster. I don't know anything about it.

Steve Bissette's "Vermont Monster Guide"

I stumbled across Steve Bissette's home page awhile back. It is full of art, news, and lots of art. If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend his story of the creation of the Saga of the Swamp Thing #20, which begins here.

The artist is selling signed copies of his and author Joseph Citro's book The Vermont Monster Guide. The book features one paragraph to a couple pages on different monsters purported to dwell in Vermont. Every state has stories like this, but Vermont seems to have a lot of weirdness for such a small state. In here you can learn about The Bennington Monster, The Hopping Horror, and the thing that seems to freak me out the most: "Giant Red-Eyed Rabbits." These rabbits dwell on an island in Lake Bomoseen. Since the island is thirty feet from the shore, only the biggest rabbits could make the leap, so they've been breeding on this island. The book says they haven't harmed anyone but the idea of them bothers me(and Bissette's illustration, only he could make a B&W sketch of a bunny rabbit look creepy).

Bissette's drawings are what really make this book, people familiar with his work know he can add an extra edge of creepiness to everything. Some of the beasts, like The Hopping Horror, are only depicted in silhouette, making them even more weird. Highly recommended.