Feb 08
Click for larger imageKlaatu Comments: Check out the Ting! on that bling!
Published 1972
(Average: 6.63 out of 10)
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Klaatu Comments: Check out the Ting! on that bling!
Published 1972
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February 8th, 2018 at 12:30 pm
“Get Morrow working on that Marrow cover”.
February 8th, 2018 at 12:59 pm
Oh, what a beauty!
I’ve never seen one as big as that before!
Oh, what a beauty!
It must be two foot long or even more!
Oh… wait, Americans don’t call them marrows, do they?
February 8th, 2018 at 1:13 pm
I bet there are a lot of marrow escapes in this book.
February 8th, 2018 at 1:37 pm
@THX – “Bone-sucking squash eaters” doesn’t sound as scary.
February 8th, 2018 at 1:38 pm
Looks like the monster is about to pluralize ‘eater’ so the title makes sense when compared with the blurb.
February 8th, 2018 at 1:40 pm
Even less scary: “The Zucchini Eaters”
February 8th, 2018 at 3:49 pm
Things that eat human bone-marrow come in two forms: tiny ant-like burrowing things (scary) and pastel-coloured disco-dancers (not scary). Atlanta Shore from ‘Stingray’ is being menaced by the less-scary kind.
February 8th, 2018 at 4:20 pm
Thomas Edison tries to sabotage rival Nikola Tesla’s work.
February 8th, 2018 at 5:33 pm
What does Frankenstein have to do with any of this, except for the Tesla coils of course?
February 8th, 2018 at 5:34 pm
Why is she more scared of her glowing jewellery than the fact that she’s naked and in some sort of mad science lab with a crocodilian monster behind her?
February 8th, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Put a backward cap on the monster and you’ve got a proto rap cover, what with the bling and the crotch grab.
February 8th, 2018 at 6:01 pm
@Tor—
M.W.A.?
Monstaz with Attitude
Straight Outta Rigel 4
February 8th, 2018 at 8:17 pm
Jackie O at Area 51?
February 8th, 2018 at 8:49 pm
The German cover is … interesting.
February 8th, 2018 at 9:00 pm
@Bibliomancer: so it’s a vampire as well as a Frankenstein monster and a pupa. That can only mean one thing… BLOOD BEAST TERROR
(it’s worse than this makes it sound http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061411/)
February 9th, 2018 at 1:58 am
That is indeed a mighty TING! Among the
bestlargest we’ve seen.English or German, it’s a big pale fat blob, innit? Menacing the attractive ladies
(insert your own Trump/Drumpf joke here).
“The Zucchini Eaters” could be a bit horrific, if you picture those summer days when other people try to force you to eat the excess squash they’ve grown. Like the old joke that you have to leave your parked car locked in August lest someone deposit overgrown zukes in it. And then you have the same expression as the damsel when you find it.
Let’s hope this monster can be kept away by Bling Ting! since the giant Van de Graaf generators aren’t helping.
February 9th, 2018 at 2:15 am
@Tat: I’m sure I saw that movie on the Saturday afternoon Creature Features, but I’ve mercifully blocked out any memory of it. If Peter Cushing said it was his worst movie, it must be completely dire.
Bonus: the Blood Beast herself is Benny Cummerbund’s mum! I like the poster that advertised this flick as being “in FRENZIED Color” and dear Mum as having “The blood lust of a FRENZIE’D vampire!!” You don’t see double exclamation marks on posters nowadays.
February 9th, 2018 at 6:56 am
Excuse me, but if the monster is torn from his “eternal” grave then it isn’t all that eternal, is it? Eh? Eh?
February 9th, 2018 at 6:57 am
Books that will horrify Frankenstein? Now what might they be about?
February 10th, 2018 at 2:32 am
“Crap. Why does my Monster Detector Gem (TM) always have to go off when I’m naked?”
February 10th, 2018 at 5:37 am
“Oh no! if Harold finds out I spent little jimmy’s college fund on this necklace, I’ll be in big trouble!”
February 12th, 2018 at 12:07 pm
Confession: as a teemager I had the hots for Benny’s Mum. Now that dates me. (Is that the UFO theme rising in the background). And now that I’ve established myself as an expert in Seventies culture i can say that this cover was retro in 1972.
February 13th, 2018 at 5:04 am
@Francis: The fonts are very 1972, but the art is retro. Although the damsel’s chest might have been a tad more covered back in the day (And at least Benny’s mum didn’t have to wear the purple wigs, she got to have a rank and all).
@Anna T: The jewelry warns her of monster approach by Ting!ing. But it doesn’t specify the direction. BEHIND YOU, lady! And put on some clothes!