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Fifty Per Cent Prophet
Today I turn to Project Guttenberg for a public domain story written by Randall Garrett (1927-1987) under the pseudonym Darrel T. Langart. ”Fifty Per Cent Prophet” was published in the September, 1961...
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Hay Low Girl? (More Monster Cards)
When I posted last month about Leaf’s Spook Stories series of trading cards, I apparently only scratched the surface of a rather prolific and competitive industry that was exploiting a craze for...
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From the Necromantic to the Psychophantic
It’s always interesting to find out what the squares in 1961 were thinking of the trifles some of us obsess over half a century later. Thanks to Hammer Studios in the UK and AIP’s Roger Corman in the...
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My Greatest Adventure
My Greatest Adventure was a DC science fiction and fantasy anthology series similar to the ones that dominated the Atlas/Marvel line in the early Sixties. Along with two other DC titles, Tales of the...
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Coming Attraction: Mr. Sardonicus
Audiences fifty years ago would have to wait a little closer to Halloween to see William Castle’s new horror spectacle, Mr. Sardonicus and it would hardly befit my moniker to give anything away before...
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Nancy Ekholm Burkert and the Giant Peach
If you pick up a copy of Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach (1961) today it will likely be an edition illustrated with the wonderfully spastic drawings of Quentin Blake or pictures by a half...
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Mark Merlin and the House of Secrets
There were several comic books in the early Sixties that included tales of both magic and science fiction, but the two genres were rarely combined into an individual story. An exception was the DC...
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Marvel Monsters Roll Call for Sept. 1961
The Glob (Journey into Mystery #72) is an alien advance scout for an invasion from space. He lies in wait for years in an old Transylvanian castle disguised as a statue and can only be resurrected...
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Marvel Monster Roll Call for Nov. 1961
Sserpo! Amazing Adventures #6: When a frustrated scientist disposes of an experimental growth formula by tossing it into the ocean it is consumed by a tiny lizard-like creature living on the ocean...
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A Different Kind of Introduction
I don’t think I’m alone in the opinion that the Twilight Zone episode, “It’s a Good Life” (first aired 50 years ago on November 3, 1961) is the most terrifying and disturbing tale ever presented on the...
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