Beware Of The Crosseyed Cyclops !: 2009-02-15

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Magazine : National Geographic - 1888

Not sure if this is the first issue ever or the first issue from 1888 - either way it is a cool retro magazine I thought.
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Comic: Rawhide Kid #17-20

Here we have some pre Marvel Jack Kirby and Stan the man lee - Atlas comics

1960
#17 - 20 in a zip - download at megaupload
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MAGAZINE: Monsters and Heroes #1

Larry Ivie's odd little magazine from the 60's. M&H was like an amateur fan-zine that made it to the supermarkets and drug stores! It was like a csombination of Castle of Frankenstein and Screen Thrills Illustrated only nowhere near as good as either. Larry did all the work on these mags. He did the art, wrote the articles and supplied most of the photos. The mag was good but could have been so much better. I think his art is very good and the photos were all interesting but I came away with the feeling that it wasn't really that good an effort. I think that there were a lot of wasted pages in the small magazine. He could have fit all the important stuff into 30 pages, not the meager 50 that he did use. He also tackled too many subjects for the small amount of space he used. The series lasted 7 issues before it died. It was soon forgotten and not remembered by many these days. Worth a read for nostalgia's sake!

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Comic : Mystery in Space

Classic DC scifi - #1
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Thanks to Gary for these.

Magazine : Mad #4

classic humor

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Magazine : TV Century 21 #105-118

More issues of the retro pop culture British fanboy mag!
#105-110 download
#111-118 download
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Movie: Beneath the twelve mile reef

From 1953 comes action and adventure under the waves!

Tagline:You see it without special glasses !

Nominated for a Oscar
Stars Robert Wagner
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys brothers, Mike decides to take his men to the dangerous 12-mile reef to dive for more sponges.

find it here

Review by bobs lucky cat : Set,in technicolor and wide screen, in 1950's Tarpon Springs and Key West Florida, this is not so bad. A very young Robert Wagner gives a stellar performance and woke up a lot of people at the time at 20th Century Fox with it. Gilbert Roland as his father is subdued (for him) and effective. Terry Moore was her usual sexy self, and quite good. Richard Boone and Peter Graves were just coming into their own and also quite good as well, mis-cast to some degree, especially Mr. Boone. They had star quality and it showed. Harry Carey Jr. was wasted in a small part of no consequence. However, plodding doesn't equal suspense and this film lumbers along in spots and the happy ending doesn't quite ring true. Great color and location shooting however, as well as superior (for 1953) stereo-phonic sound. It has a lot to recommend it. Worth a look.

thanks to the internet archive for this classic.
find more info and a ogg option here
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