Well, fellow monster humor lovers, I guess I should continue with a series of posts that I started way back in 2011! Those of you who are familiar with the earlier issues of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND and especially those that scrutinized the Captain Company ads will remember this for sale. For a measly buck you could get a hardback -- that's right, a hardback -- book filled to the brim of the cauldron with monster photo-jokes. You can't even come near buying a comic book these days at that price!
I landed a copy (on eBay, as I remember) about a dozen years or so ago in my attempt to buy some of the odder stuff that was sold in the usual 15-20+ page Captain Company "catalog" found in the back pages of every issue of FM. I had absolutely zero idea on what to expect and when I opened up the package I realized I was holding an early monster joke book -- from 1960 no less. As I mentioned back then:
With a publication date of 1960, THE BRAVE GHOULS, however, beat Marvel to the punch(line), as it predates MONSTERS TO LAUGH WITH by four years. One might even surmise that the idea for MONSTERS TO LAUGH WITH (1964) and its progeny, MONSTERS UNLIMITED (1965) and MONSTER MADNESS (1972) was drawn, not entirely obliquely, from its predecessor. Another magazine with funny captions on film and TV photos that has been covered here at MONSTER MAGAZINE WORLD was TALKING PICTURES, published in 1964 and 1965.
So, finally, here are a few more pages of puns penned by Bob Reisner.
See more of THE BRAVE GHOULS HERE.
Just adjusting for inflation that $1.25 would be over $13 bucks today, so I guess that tracks. Though I suspect a hardback book like this would be twenty or more on the Amazon. I am pleased that I can recognize most all of these images. Great find!
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to have found this. It's been so long ago, but I think I found it on eBay. There's been a few around off and on . . .
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