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Uncle Forry

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Forest J Ackerman only appeared in the best films!

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Ray Bradbury’s short-story “Tyrannosaurus Rex” was originally published under the title “The Prehistoric Producer” in the June 23rd, 1962 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. As with Bradbury’s “The Fog Horn” (a.k.a. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms), this dinosaur story also quickly received an unofficial and unauthorized 8-page comic adaptation written and illustrated by Tom Sutton and appearing in the comic horror magazine Eerie #11  (Warren, 1967) as “The Monster from One Billion B.C.” 

Here the character of Joe Clarence has become C.B. Goodheart and Terwilliger has become Fenster who seems to be an amalgamation of not only stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen but Universal Studio’s makeup artist Jack Pierce as well. The twist in this version is that Fenster is no special-effects artist but rather a mad scientist with a stable of real monsters! When C.B. Goodheart’s abusive demands for a more realistic T. Rex grow intolerable, Fenster kills him and puts his brain inside an animatronic Tyrannosaur’s body - thus anticipating the shlockiest of all dinosaur movies, TAMMY AND THE T-REX (1994, Dir.  Stewart Raffill) by nearly thirty-years (which really isn’t a compliment). Sutton originally hoped to sale “The Monster from One Billion B.C.” to Forrest J. Ackerman for publication in Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, but it was rejected. After its appearance in Eerie, Ackerman reconsidered and the story was eventually printed in Famous Monsters of Filmland #48, (Feb., 1968).  Above: Selection from “The Monster from One Billion B.C.” pages 1, 2, 7 & 8

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Extended Preview: Dynamite Comics' 'Vampirella' #23

Extended Preview: @DynamiteComics 'Vampirella' #23

Covers by Lucio Parrillo (A) Written by Christopher Priest Art by Ergün Gündüz, Chris Graves “RED MASS, PART 1: The countdown to the most unholy union in history begins here! Having finally returned to Earth from her Interstellar adventure, Vampirella rescues a child from certain death while unwittingly giving life to the greatest evil the world has ever seen! The epic run of CHRISTOPHER…

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"Houston, We Have A Problem": 'Vampirella' #20 Extended Preview

“Houston, We Have A Problem”: ‘Vampirella’ #20 Extended Preview

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Extended Preview: Dynamite Returns To The Heady '90s In 'Vampirella 1992' One-Shot

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Order Vs. Chaos: Dynamite's 'Vengeance Of Vampirella' #18 Extended Preview

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Cover by Lucio Parrillo (A) Written by Tom Sniegoski Art by Kewber Baal “Writer Tom Sniegoski continues to weave a post-apocalyptic tale featuring a literal hell on earth as a reborn Vampirella fights against the literal forces of chaos to save humanity from its ultimate destruction! Vampirella verses Nyx . . . Order verses Chaos . . . the fate of the world and all humanity hanging in the…

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