Tag Archive: 1970s
What I Miss About Comics…Martial Arts Lessons on 12″ Long Playing Records
Learning the martial arts and becoming a Master of Men was within your grasp thanks to a correspondence course and a long playing 12″ 33 1/3 RPM instructional record which could be had for unbelievable price of 16¢ a lesson! I wonder if students taking the course had the problem of the record skipping due …
…From the Disco to the Outer Limits of Space!
It’s an ad from an old Creepy magazine which was a Warren publication. Warren also published Famous Monsters and Eerie which, like spinning racks of comic books in drug stores, are in the dustbin of history.
Dawn of the Home Video Revolution…Kingdom of the Spiders
This one is for frequent visitor and commenter JT who mentioned this cinematic marvel in the comments section of my last Dawn of the Home Video Revolution post. As luck would have it, Kingdom of the Spiders is one of movies featured in the VCI video brochure from the early days of home video. JT, …
Dawn of the Home Video Revolution or Ernest Borgnine Made Me Do It!
The great Ernest Borgnine as the devil in The Devil’s Rain from 1975. This was one of those typical 70′s films that featured stalwart veterans like Mr Borgnine and Keenan Wynn, up-and-comers like John Travolta and down-and-outers like Ida Lupino and William Shatner. This was also a pretty neat film in that it featured a …
What I Miss About Comics…Hippie Posters
Button, button…who’s got the button? This was the last thing Alice saw.
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