For you halloween reading pleasure -- Frankie, Raymond and the birth of EC

[A Mippyville repost]

At least the birth of EC's horror line which was inspired by what was thought of, even in the Fifties, as old time radio horror shows like Inner Sanctum (which featured the creepy, pun-loving host, Raymond) and Light's Out (which had stories every bit as violent and disturbing as anything EC ever published as well as a progressive political viewpoint similar to that of Gaines). Sanctum has dated badly but most of Light's Out remains effective to this day (listen for yourself here).

With that out of the way...

For your Halloween viewing pleasure -- Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. in Route 66

 Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing

For your Halloween listening pleasure -- Orson Welles in Dracula

The debut production of the Mercury Theatre of the Air.

Accoring to Terry Gilliam this is one of the ten best animated movies of all time.

The Mascot - Stop Motion Animation by Vladislav Starevich (1933)

Proof that the Roomba is the technology of the future

Science Fiction Theatre's adaptation of Jack Finney's short story, Such Interesting Neighbors.

Volto from Mars

Reposted from A Statistician Walks into a Grocery Store...

Briefly, in 1945 and 1946, Volto was all over the funnies, both in comic books and the Sunday paper, drawn by two very well established Golden Age artists (Al Plastino and Frank Robbins), then he disappeared without a trace...

until God invented the internet.

Captain Marvel discusses the issues of the day (in 1945)

Which turn out to be a lot like the issues of the day seventy years later.

From Captain Marvel Adventures number 39.