{"id":14674,"date":"2013-10-23T06:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T11:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=14674"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:38:10","slug":"bag-full-of-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/23\/bag-full-of-horrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bag FULL of HORRORS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COMICS-HEAD\"<\/a>\"BAG-FULL-OF-HORRORS-det\"<\/a>They’re TERRIFYING! SCARY,<\/strong> too!<\/em> AND<\/strong> they obey your commands!<\/em> Can you imagine it?<\/p>\n

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\"MoonBank\"<\/a>I used to drool over ads like this in the comics and would have gladly drained my moon bank of it’s contents to have a BAG FULL OF HORRORS, <\/strong>but cooler heads prevailed. My sensibly frugal parents and cynical older siblings assured me that it was all too good to be true. My insistence that a promise of chattering skulls, blinking third eyes and everything that was needed to put on your very own spooky horror show was all there in black and white was met with smirk or a sad smile. Bag of Horrors DENIED!<\/p>\n

\"BAG-FULL-OF-HORRORS\"<\/a>Oh, well.<\/p>\n

\"CA-No-164\"<\/a>This appeared in Captain America and the Falcon<\/strong><\/em> no. 164 published by Marvel Comics in 1973.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They’re TERRIFYING! SCARY, too! AND they obey your commands! 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