MEET FRANKENSTEIN JR.

It may be hard to fathom, but before Young Frankenstein there was a Frankenstein Jr. The helpful robot created by boy scientist Buzz Conroy was a crime-fighting super-hero in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon show, FRANKENSTEIN JR. AND THE IMPOSSIBLES. It ran for 18 episodes in one season in 1966-1967.

The show spawned one issue of a comic book from Gold Key with a cover date of January 1967. The cover and Frankenstein Jr. stories were drawn by Phil De Lara and The Impossibles strip was illustrated by Pete Alvarado.

THE GREEN SLIME ARE HERE!

This is what you get when you team up the Italians, Americans and Japanese for a science-fiction monster film in 1968: THE GREEN SLIME. With a nod to Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds is Coming" tagline, the title portends something green, something slimy is coming to theaters. When we finally see what these alien creatures are and what they can do, it gives "I've bee slimed!" an entirely different meaning.

The plot is super simple and echoes many of its kind in science-fiction movies such as IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE and ALIEN. The story is explained in the article from the September 1969 issue of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #57 below.

LOBBY CARDS

STILLS

THEATRICAL POSTER BY VICTOR LIVOTI

THEATRICAL TRAILER

THEME SONG

JOHN LANDIS ON THE GREEN SLIME

A publicity shot in a theater lobby. Dig those crazy costumes!