Here is the Family Circle magazine from December 1956. It has a very nice Christmas story by Pearl S. Buck and visualized by Walt Disney and staff.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024
The Human Fly, the wildest costumed hero of all (because he's real!), is coming back!
Back in the 70's when I first started reading comic books, I had a few early favourites. One was our own Canadian costumed hero Captain Canuck. Another was Marvel Comic's The Human Fly. As soon as I saw the cover of issue #1, I was hooked. I don't think I ever realized he was also a Canadian super hero, that part was completely lost on me, but the "wildest costumed hero of all (because he's real!)" part always seemed really cool!
The original series ran for 19 issues before being cancelled and disappearing into the comic back bins forever... or so it seemed!
The Human Fly, the real-life Canadian stunt-man phenomenon from the late 1970's – and start of a 19-issue run at Marvel Comics – will be returning to color comic-books for the direct market, and collections for the book trade! Canadian company Human Fly International (HFI) has entered into an agreement with IPI Comics (IPI), that will allow the Human Fly to return to exciting new stories in color comics.
The Human Fly is a truly dynamic unique property that will come to stand with our first comics releases as something fresh and unusual. We know such a powerful concept, anchored with fascinating real-life history and a captivating design, will get readers and superhero fans' attention ion a big way. So, we are going to work very closely with HFI to produce something memorable, that will make both new fans and those who have any of the old Marvel Human Fly comics in their collections very pleased indeed to see the concepts re-examined and revamped for comics and graphic novels today. So, if you liked aspects off the Marel material we'll make sure you won't be disappointed, but I must emphasize this WON'T be a retro-book; this will be an adrenalin-charging comic-book for readers of today, that envelops the amazing truths and remorse of this scenario, but is also a perfect new book for readers who have never heard of this character before.
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Scooby Doo on Gilligan's Island
I saw this image of Scooby Doo and Shaggy with Gilligan and the Skipper. It got me thinking how much fun it would be if they appeared together in something, and then I remembered that the current Scooby Doo series is called Scooby Doo and Guess Who, with each episode featuring some famous guest. Why not an episode where the Scooby gang ends up on a deserted island where they meet the cast of Gilligan's Island! I threw on a Scooby Doo and Guess Who logo onto the image, and now I'm super excited to see this happen!
Friday, June 23, 2023
Walt Disney's The Adventures of Mr. Toad
I picked up this book recently at a thrift shop. I love the artwork inside and decided to scan a few of my favourites including the inside front cover (also inside back cover) two page spread of a map of Toads adventures, and also the title page with a great image of Toad Hall. Enjoy!
Sunday, June 04, 2023
Cap'N Crunch's Captain Canuck Cereal
Back in 2021 I saw a limited edition Canadian version of Cap'N Crunch cereal called Cap'N Crunch's Canuck Crunch. But to me, something was wrong, it's called Canuck Crunch, but there on the front of the box was the old Cap'n Crunch. Shouldn't this box have Captain Canuck on the front!? So, I took it upon myself to correct this mistake. And here you have the real 'faux' Cap'N Crunch's Canuck Crunch. And of course on the back of the box you can cut out your Captain Canuck membership card, and somewhere deep down inside the cereal box you can find one of four Captain Canuck mini figures... Or at least you could if this really existed!
Friday, March 17, 2023
Hitchhiking Ghosts in 3D... Kinda
I have been playing with the DittoPro 3D printer we have at work. When I noticed one of the colours of filament we had was a semi transparent aqua, it immediately made me think of a ghost, and of course that lead me to looking for a Haunted Mansion ghost that I could print. I found was this Hitchhiking Ghosts silhouette file which I printed out and it now lives in my collection along with my faux Sleeping Beauty animation cell and Tinkerbell in a lantern.
Monday, March 13, 2023
Big Bang Babies Official Merchandise T-Shirt
In the early 90's Big Bang Babies was one of my favourite bands! They were very similar in style to Poison and Warrant, but sadly they never broke out like those bands did. Along with a long list of demos, they released two albums, a 6 song self titled EP and a 10 song album titled Black Market. With songs such as Everybody Needs a Hero, Saturday Night, 8 Arms, and Stop the Clock, these guys should have made it big.
After Big Bang Babies, lead guitarist Kerry Kelli went on to play with other bands including Slash's Snakepit, Skid Row, Vince Neil Band, Ratt, Warrant, L.A. Guns, Pretty Boy Floyd, Tuff and Alice Cooper.
Pictured here is the front and back of a very cool concert shirt I ordered from the band back in the days of mail lists and order forms through the mail pre internet sales! Such a great logo that most never got to see!
Monday, February 13, 2023
That's a Lot of Missing Cartoon
I was happy that on my DVDs, they had the original sound. But then I noticed that the DVD seems to be a pan and scan of the cartoon, where they cut the ends of the picture off to make it square like an old TV screen and sometimes they just cut the two ends off, or sometimes they pan and scan which means they move to where the action is and cut out the rest - sometimes (such as in this case) losing crucial animation. Shown here you can see the original wide screen version I taped off of TV back in the 90's and then the letterboxed version from the DVD. Odd that the one shown on my old TV is the wide version and the one on DVD is the reduced version.
I had been excited that I could finally throw away all of my old VHS copies of Tom & Jerry that I can collected over the years now that I had this complete collection on DVD, but now that I see there is actually cartoon missing from the DVDs, now I think I will keep my tapes along with the DVD collection.
Monday, March 21, 2022
Little Golden Book Monday #184
Mickey's Walt Disney World Adventure has been repurposed 25 years later as Walt Disney World celebrates its 50th anniversary. 25 years ago in 1997, Little Golden Books released Mickey's Walt Disney World Adventure in conjunction with WDW's 25th Anniversary. Although most of the book has remained the same, some things in the park have changed in the past 25 years, and those changes are reflected in updated artwork as you will see below.
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Little Golden Book Monday #183
Here is the most recent Disney related Little Golden Book. It is It's a Small World! adapted by Lauren Clauss, illustrated by Steph Lew and designed by Winnie Ho, with a publication date of 2021. I love seeing Disneyland attractions being adapted into Little Golden Books, and am excited about the upcoming Jungle Cruise and Haunted Mansion books coming out later in the year. Shown here are the front and back covers, along with a few of the wonderful interior illustrations.
Friday, March 26, 2021
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
David Letterman - The Morning Show Episode
I've been watching my old Beta episodes of Late Night with David Letterman that I recorded back in the early 80's and into the early 90's. So far, I've seen the "International Night" episode, "The Reverse Episode", the "Build Your own Episode", the "Monkey-Cam" Episode and last night I watched "The Morning Show" episode. And how about throwing stuff off of a 5 story building or crushing stuff with a steam roller, the suit of magnets, the suit of Alka-Seltzer, the Top 10 List, Larry "Bud" Melman, and the Guy under the Seats... they don't make television like that anymore!
Here are a few screen grabs from The Morning Show episode with Dave and Tawny.