VAMPIRES #1 is in stores everywhere today! Mr. Karswell (editor) returns to print with 30+ pages of blood draining tales of Golden Age, vintage vampire terror! Available with multiple cover variants too! Get your copy --before it gets you!
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It's Valentine's Day once again, so here's another cute assortment of vintage greeting cards that I found over the last year, and they're all from the 40's and 50's, highlighted by adorable cartoon illustrations and funny puns and other silly stuff. Have a great holiday, everyone! And remember, the VD doesn't stop today though-- lots more coming up all month!
Friday Frights time again, and here's a great lookin', sinsational stunner from the October 1978 Charlton Comics Group issue of Haunted #38, with art by the ever underrated, Jorge Galvez. Also FYI, with the recent revival of The Horrors of it All blog, I might limit the frightful delightfuls around AEET just to maintain a more horrorly packed archive over there, but always fear, --we will absolutely still see a few chillers on this site every month as well! I guess, if anyone has a solid opinion on this matter, please make it be known in the comments. Thank you! --K
Because of a certain holiday, February seems to be the month that a lot of couples tie the kooky 'ol knot. In fact, I know a few people who actually have Valentine's Day marriages on the 14th. And this pre-ramble point of it all now brings us to another great, recent Karswell find: a 15+ inch tall counter display bride from --guessing-- the 40's or 50's. Apparently "one-of-a-kind", and hand made out of a very lightweight painted plaster, plus the beautifully, and meticulously made floral themed wedding dress and veil, --well, she hopefully did her job back in the day selling a few wedding dresses! I inquired with some friendly Facebook folk who know more about these things than I do, and she could also possibly be a salesman's wedding dress sample, which is basically the same thing as a bridal store counter display, I guess. Time has indeed been fairly kind to this rather fragile blonde beauty in her baby blue eye shadow, though once you lift the veil you'll begin to notice a few things that could send her packin' her bags and heading on over to The Horrors of it All: a gouged nose, a rather gnarly slit across her throat, and one hand missing the fingers-- AIEEEE!!! I blame the mob. (Ohhh, this equally calls for a rousingly related Dwarves song too-- CLICK HERE!) And for you clearly curious people, underneath her dynamic dress she is, alas, but a hollow, cardboard cone. This at first seemed kind of disappointing, but then turned out to be a good thing because like most dolls that can't even stand up on their own, this Bride will stand on practically any surface without toppling over --even after the kegger reception! Looks a little like Barbie, doesn't she? I wonder if she had a matching Ken? Did they say their vows in Vegas? Ahhh, so this cleverly brings us to the end of the post which features a cute vintage matchbook from Circus Circus Casino that I recently dug up as well. You may now kiss the bride...
I found this old 1940's copy of US Camera magazine last week, and lo and behold simultaneously found an article detailing my one true calling. Yes, I'm not sure why I spent half my life working in record retail and video rental shops, and then more recently doing graphic design and healthcare tech / medical assistant work (I don't really count publishing horror comics as a job, fyi!) But here it is, laid out with action packed photos, and to call it my dream job would be the understatement of the half century+ that I've been alive. Lucky 'ol Zoltan Farkas, hardly even looks like work, eh?
