THE BARBARELLA YOU'VE NEVER SEEN

Before her infamous trip to North Vietnam in 1972, where she incited enough rancor among American troops to be dubbed, "Hanoi Jane", Jane Fonda was a big deal in Rome when she was filming Roger Vadim's (her then-husband) BARBARELLA in 1968.

The film was heavily promoted and there was no shortage of publicity and photos and articles were abundant in newspapers and magazines.

The set of photos seen here today are considered scarce, and as far as I know were never generally distributed. They were shot by Alfonso Alvincola, the uncredited stills photographer for the film.

The set was sold by Heritage Auctions on October 15, 2023 for $875.00.

HELP! MONSTERS

While I was putting together the post of Gahan Wilson's cartoons earlier this week, I also ran across a number of monster-related images from various issues of Jim Warren's humor magazine, HELP!, including more 'toons by Wilson.

You'll notice that several use the fumetti style of cartooning that had become quite popular with humor magazines. They are also a foreshadowing of Warren's later use of the form for his full-length photo stories of HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, HORROR OF DRACULA and THE MOLE PEOPLE.

"ONE LOOK IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS"

Ad man Fred Barnard is said to have coined the phrase, "One look is worth a thousand words" back in 1921. There are a number of versions of the phrase from different eras, but I think Mr. Barnard's fits the bill here.

Doug, WoM's longtime correspondent from Horrorwood, Karloffornia, was kind enough to provide this photo of the lovely Susan Denberg from CINE WORLD magazine ca. 1966.

I'd go on, but I've used as many words as I've needed to.

See more about Susan Denberg HERE.