VINTAGE MONSTERS 2025 CALENDAR

What better way to start off the new year by decorating your Monster Cave with a calendar? Asgard Press is offering a 2025 Vintage Monsters Calendar and it looks like one fine product. The large size includes images of posters from the Universal classic monsters, Kaiju and a few less-seen.

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From the publisher:

2025 Vintage Monsters Calendar

$24.95

16-month hanging calendar of frame-ready vintage monster movie poster art + commentary

Revisit the fearful fun of old horror films each month with the Asgard Press 2025 Vintage Monsters Calendar, a monstrous collection of faithfully reproduced vintage “creature feature” movie posters from the 1930s – 1970s. From The Curse of Frankenstein to House of Dracula, these classic posters showcase the monster horror entertainment of an earlier cinematic era. Monster movies captivated audiences with their larger-than-life creatures and thrilling tales of horror and suspense. These movies became cultural icons, showcasing groundbreaking special effects and exploring societal fears and anxieties in an entertaining and thrilling way. Each month of the 2025 Vintage Monsters Calendar presents a different movie poster featuring a fearsome and formidable monster foe, accompanied by expanded commentary detailing the story behind each film. With its large vertical format of 11×15 inches, our wire-bound wall calendar opens to an impressive 11×30 inches. The perforated design allows for easy removal of each month’s image, making them a perfect fit for standard 11×14 inch frames. Generously sized grid spaces leave plenty of room to keep track of all your appointments, reminders, and events. Bring some larger-than-life nostalgia to your home or office space while organizing all your important dates at a glance with this monstrously fun calendar.

• 2025 16-month wall calendar – Jan 2025-April 2026 – Use this calendar into the next year with mini-grid page of the first 4 months of 2026
• Features faithful reproductions of full color vintage monster movie posters accompanied by extended commentary each month detailing the story behind each poster’s film
• Large format opens to 11″x30″ with spacious grid pages for at-a-glance organization of appointments and events, and includes major US holidays and moon phases
• Includes 13 easy-to-remove prints that fit standard 11″x14″ frames for sustainable reuse
• Decorate affordably with trendy vintage artwork and photos
• Plenty of room to write in the grid spaces
• Heavy, archival paper vibrantly showcases each month’s image and prevents bleed-through of pen or marker ink on grid pages
• Perfect for hanging in home, office or classroom

Sample commentary

The Creature Walks Among Us; 1956; Studio: Universal Pictures; Director: John Sherwood; Cast: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer, Maurice Manson. In the 1940s and 1950s, Universal Pictures was the premier studio for monster movies, creating classic characters that have become pop culture icons. Universal’s creature features included the most recognizable monsters to ever lumber across the silver screen, including Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man. In 1954, Universal released a brand-new beast in the film Creature from the Black Lagoon, introducing audiences to the Gill Man, an amphibious humanoid who was living his best life in the Amazon until scientists showed up to disturb his peace. Creature from the Black Lagoon was well-received and spawned two sequels, Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956), often noted as the last of Universal’s original classic monster series. The Creature Walks Among Us was the only movie of the trilogy not filmed in 3-D due to budget constraints and a waning audience interest in the fad. As the film opens, a new team of scientists is preparing to recapture the Gill Man, who is loose in the waters of the Everglades in Florida. The misunderstood monster only wants to be left alone, but research is not done with him, particularly after he is injured and deranged Dr. Barton engineers the Gill Man’s treatment to make him more human-like. This film differs from its predecessors by presenting the Gill Man in a more sympathetic light, exploring the ethics of experimentation and the human manipulation of nature. The shift in focus divided critics and audiences at the time, some of whom appreciated the slant toward science fiction, while others longed for the old action-packed horror theme. The Gill Man was played by two actors for this film, one for land and the other for water scenes. The water creature was played by Ricou Ren Browning, a water show performer whose turn in Creature from the Black Lagoon led to subsequent underwater acting jobs and an eventual career in directing and scriptwriting. Gill Man on land was played by Don Megowan, whose 6-foot seven-inch height appropriately overshadowed everyone on set.

FREE MONSTER CALENDAR DAY!

This month's calendars feature MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS and Jane Adams from HOUSE OF DRACULA.

FREE MONSTER CALENDAR DAY!

This month's free calendars feature scenes from the south of the border vampire flick, EL VAMPIRO and a menacing shot of Carole Lombard in SUPERNATURAL.

APRIL FOOL!

This month's vintage monsters calendar shows Lon Chaney's Quasimodo as the King of Fools and Fay Wray getting a look at something large and hairy above her, and it's not the director!

FREE MONSTER CALENDARS!

Do these say "Happy Valentine's Day!" to you? If so, consider yourself a true monster fan! Download these free calendar pages and load 'em up as your scream -- er, screen background.

DON POST: MASKS REQUIRED!

Don Post masks were ubiquitous during the Monster Craze of the 1960's, but their popularity never really waned as they were one of the most coveted of monster collectibles. Sold widely, and especially ever-present in the back pages of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND and other monster magazines, they were more expensive than a lot of Monster Kids could afford, but that didn't stop them from being wildly popular, and later even becoming legendary.

Don Post with his beloved monster masks.

Founded in 1938, Don Post Studios was in business until September, 2012. That's over 70 years, folks!

By 1965, DPS was riding high after acquiring the licensing from Universal Studios to produce masks of their classic monsters. Co-owner, Verne Langdon took one of each of the masks and re-did the color and hair to make them more "photogenic". He had J. Barry Herron take a shot of each one (Herron ended up in a career as cinematographer and Director of Cinematography) and had 11" x 17" color posters printed up.

When Jim Matthews, publisher of MODERN MONSTERS visited DPS, he noticed the posters hanging up and asked if he could sell them in his magazine. Langdon had another idea -- he wanted to make a calendar out of the images. The trouble was, there were only 10 masks!

The solution was somewhat easy: the gorilla head from an ape costume based on the great makeup impersonator, Charlie Gemora and sold by DPS was used for one of the months. Langdon visited Universal and they allowed him to cast the original mold of the Metaluna Mutant from THIS ISLAND EARTH and he turned that into the 12th calendar mask.

Jim Matthews printed the 1966 calendars with his own money through his company, Prestige Publications, and sold them for a buck apiece in MODERN MONSTERS. Their were two versions of the cover; one was of the Frankenstein Monster and the other was The Wolf Man.

After the end of 1966, retailers go the idea of cutting off the calendar tabs and selling the two-sided photo pages as "art prints", which is how I got mine. 

Now, here they are, from my personal collection, in the order of the month that they appeared on the calendar.

DON POST 2016 MONSTER CALENDAR

It's not too late to espouse the virtues of a 2016 calendar -- in this case, the Don Post Monster Calendar for 2016. Introduced at Don Con (the Don Post monster mask convention last November), it is now available from several online retailers, here is a description from BlackSparrow:

"Created by Daniel Roebuck and Tammy Peralta, in conjunction with Dante Renta, this limited DON POST 2016 Monster Calendar pays tribute to the 1970s original mask designs that replaced the Universal Monsters on the 1966 Calendar. 2016 would be the 50th anniversary of the original Don Post Calendar. Using original 1970s Don Post masks that are foam-filled, the Roebuck-Peralta-Renta triumvirate spent long hours photographing and then adding Don Post, Jr.’s eyes to each image! Read Daniel Roebuck’s account of how the calendar was made here. This 9″ x 12″ calendar was originally a DON-CON exclusive."

 

Don Post masks and his famous 1966 mask calendar were a common sight in monster magazines and have become legendary as the quality monster mask of the time that every Monster Kid coveted.