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| Scariest Vintage Halloween Ads |
Happy Halloween, everyone.
This undated Coca-Cola ad features a smiling pumpkin.
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Halloween Carnival -- October 30, 2024
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| San Francisco Examiner, 31-October-1924 |
Halloween is coming.
This looks like fun. The Chutes was a popular San Francisco amusement park. In 1902 the park was located at Ocean Beach in the Richmond District.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Halloween Frolic Dansant -- October 29, 2024
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| San Francisco Examiner, 31-October-1924 |
Halloween is coming.
This frolic at San Franciscan's Mandarin Cafe looks like fun. "Dansant" means "dancing."
Friday, October 25, 2024
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Comic Book -- Tales From the Crypt -- October 23, 2024
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| mutoscope.listal.com |
Halloween is coming.
EC was famous for its horror comics, The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear and Tales From the Crypt. This fellow is suffering from claustrophobia or something.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Pulp -- Terror Tales -- October 22, 2024
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| coverbrowser.com |
Halloween is coming.
Let's review this cover of Terror Tales:
-- Weird lettering in title, Check.
-- scary person behind that curtain, ... Check.
-- hand holding knife, ... Check.
-- which is dripping with blood,... Check.
-- and scantily clad woman. Check.
This should work.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Halloween 2023 -- October 31, 2023
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Happy Halloween, everyone. The 30-October-1954 cover of The New Yorker features a painting, clearly inspired by "Cinderella," by Charles Addams.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Monday, October 23, 2023
Favors for Halloween -- October 23, 2023
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| Casper Daily Tribune, 29-October-1923 |
Halloween is coming.
100 years ago this month, in October 1923, various stores in Casper, Wyoming offered "Favors for Halloween."
Friday, October 6, 2023
Comic Book -- Tales From the Crypt -- October 6, 2023
Halloween is coming.
EC was famous for its horror comics, The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear and Tales From the Crypt. These kids are about to learn a lesson about playing in the graveyard.
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Pulp -- Weird Tales -- October 5, 2023
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| coverbrowser.com |
Weird Tales published a lot of weird tales from 1923 to 1954. The guy needs a manicure.
Monday, October 31, 2022
Halloween 2022 -- October 31, 2022
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| coverbrowser.com |
Happy Halloween, everyone. The 27-October-1945 cover of The New Yorker features a painting by Edna Eicke of three little ghosts who are afraid to trick or treat at a creepy-looking house.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Pulp -- The Shadow -- October 5, 2022
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| coverbrowser.com |
Halloween is coming. The cover of the May, 1946 The Shadow looks pretty scary.
When I was a kid, Gene Nelson on KSFO played old radio shows at night. He often played episodes of The Shadow. At some point, I found a copy of Jim Harmon's The Great Radio Heroes in the library and read that the Shadow was a very different character in the pulp magazines. That character sounded more interesting. The whole "clouds men's minds" didn't make a lot of sense, but wearing dark clothes and hiding in the shadows sounded cool. Later still, I got to read reprints and found that they were pretty cool.
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Halloween 2021 -- October 31, 2021
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| coverbrowser.com |
Happy Halloween, everyone. The 31-October-1942 cover of The New Yorker features a witch who bears a certain resemblance to Adolph Hitler getting caught in an air raid defense spotlight.
Monday, October 25, 2021
Monday, October 11, 2021
Comic Book -- The House of Mystery -- October 11, 2021
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| coverbrowser.com |
Halloween is coming.
DC published the horror anthology The House of Mystery for many years. I read it for a while, but not when DC was pushing "Dollar Comics." Trick or treaters have come to a house that is a little spookier than I liked.
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Pulp -- Terror Tales -- October 7, 2021
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| coverbrowser.com |
Halloween is coming.
Let's review this cover of Terror Tales:
-- Weird lettering in title, Check.
-- scary faces in the shadows, ... Check.
-- bizarrely-shaped knife, ... Check.
-- dripping with blood,... Check.
-- and scantily clad woman. Check.
This should work.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Halloween 2020 -- October 31, 2020
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| coverbrowser.com |
Happy Halloween, everyone. The 02-November-1963 cover of The New Yorker features a Charles Addams cartoon of a duck hunter spotting a formation of witches.
Sunday, October 25, 2020
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