Showing posts with label STARBURST. Show all posts
Showing posts with label STARBURST. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
WEREWOLVES! (PART 1)
This is a special werewolf issue of STARBURST (June, 1981), a Marvel Comics magazine published in the UK by Stan Lee. For the werewolf section, there is a story on THE HOWLING and a retrospective of werewolves in the movies. Other features are on THE MONSTER CLUB, SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, and lots more.
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
SEA MONKEYS: A BOWL FULL OF HAPPINESS
Anybody who read comics in the 1970's was bound to come across an ad for the "Amazing Sea Monkeys". Created by Harold von Braunhut, a German-Jewish White Supremacist (!), the kits were wildly popular. I even got sucked into buying one myself and was flabbergasted by the result of "just add water" -- tiny little white things floating around in the bowl.
Turns out that the "monkeys" were actually brine shrimp that could be "brought into life" by the addition of water. The add was drawn by none other than Warren's Joe Orlando. Braunhut wasn't quite done with his inventions, though. He also created one of the most recognizable ads ever with his X-ray Specs.
From STARBURST (December, 2018):
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