Pulp SW thread

[sumuderguy2]

I'm not sure if this has been posted before
The Bridge by Piers Anthony
https://archive.org/details/Worlds_of_T ... =shrinking

[Schadenfreude]

Rondo Hatton was a Tampa resident who was a victim of acromegaly. He went to Hollywood and appeared in low budget horror movies like this one. He died in 1946 at age 51, because of the acromegaly.

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http://www.camelotbooks.com/burn-witch-burn.html

(Surely there must be a cheaper edition of this book, like an old paperback edition. And the movie Burn, Witch, Burn! from 1962 was adapted from Fritz Leiber's novel Conjure Wife (1943), not this book. It was released in the UK as Night of the Eagle.)

More promotional material for the French film Girl in His Pocket (aka Nude in His Pocket) from 1957.

[Schadenfreude]

The artist has to be "Ghastly" Graham Ingels, who later became the top horror artist at EC. He drew the Old Witch's stories in all three EC horror titles, as well as in fourteen issues of Crime SuspenStories. And he drew some of the horror stories in Shock SuspenStories. Here's a really good one, from the second issue:

http://creepycomics.wordpress.com/2015/ ... halloween/

This issue is available at the Digital Comic Museum. There's no SW content in the cover story. (Though someone on Minimizer's board said that there's AR content in one panel, so technically she gets smaller.)

[Schadenfreude]

Not really SW, but.....
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That's cool, nice find! Monsters threatening normal sized women, or shrunken women in peril, it's all good fun stuff.

First time I saw THEM was when I was a kid. Loved it and watched it many times since.

From issue #7 (February/March 1955) of MAD's short-lived sister publication PANIC:

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2 ... those.html

Not a fan of giant spider movies though....or spiders in general.

What about The Black Scorpion (which I've seen), The Deadly Mantis (which I haven't seen) and The Beginning of the End (which I have seen)?

[ensmallen]

Rondo Hatton was a Tampa resident who was a victim of acromegaly. He went to Hollywood and appeared in low budget horror movies like this one. He died in 1946 at age 51, because of the acromegaly.

First time I learned about him was through a DVD of The Rocketeer. Lothar the heavy was explicitly a tribute to Rondo, though I was really into the movie because of Jennifer.

[Hand-Holder]

I just remembered one whole Comic Series with a famous Magician, he was not magical but used clever tricks to look like it was magical

He solved issues people had and crimes I think, and was good at heart, like one-man-Ateam

Ohh, gosh, I can´t remember his name but it was very famous - Mandrake the Magician ???

In one Comic he managed to capture and "turn" bad folks into little people and at than the reader finds out he is using looking-glass-windows, so people captured inside a room thought the outside folks were giants and vice-versa

[Schadenfreude]

Yes, Mandrake the Magician. Parodied by MAD, when it was still a color comic book. Drawn by Bill Elder, the star artist of MAD (and its short-lived sister publication PANIC). He tried to cram as many gags as possible into each panel:

http://davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.c ... nduck.html

[Little Sally]

Yes, Mandrake the Magician. Parodied by MAD, when it was still a color comic book. Drawn by Bill Elder, the star artist of MAD (and its short-lived sister publication PANIC). He tried to cram as many gags as possible into each panel:

http://davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.c ... nduck.html

Phenomenal encyclopedic knowledge!

What more could you ask for Hand-Holder.

[Schadenfreude]

How about Mandrake the Magician shrinking Blondie (and Dagwood and the rest of the Bumstead family, including Cookie)? I had forgotten about "Dagwood Splits the Atom":

http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comme ... s_the_atom

[Schadenfreude]

Just remembered this little "spoof" I did for a member here!

Spoof 8

The original cover. (Warning: SM) This is actually the first issue of Weird Science, despite the issue number on the cover. EC "straightened out" the numbering, starting with the fourth issue.

http://www.comics.org/issue/8293/cover/4/

Interestingly, the lead story in the first issue of Weird Science and the lead story in the final issue of Incredible Science Fiction are both shrinking-themed stories. And there's minor SW content in the latter:



The source of the title:

http://www.comics.org/issue/10704/cover/4/

[Schadenfreude]

Good finds SirLurkALot, are they mostly Italian?

Interesting how the artists combine basic porn with that element of B movie horror. These must have been really edgy in their day.

Yes, Italian comics were so popular in the 70s they got translated all over Europe. The horror element, I guess that was the zeitgeist since it was also the heyday of Italian giallo films and Hammer horror.

http://www.abebooks.com/Valentina-stufa ... 0761951/bd

(I think the title translates to "Valentina in a stew".)

There was a movie based on the "Valentina" comics by Guido Crepax, Baba Yaga (aka Baba Yaga the Devil Witch). But there's no SW content in the movie. (But who knows about this book, which I don't have.)

NSFW:



Guido Crepax also did a gender-swapped version of Gulliver's Travels, I viaggi di Bianca. I bought the book, which came all the way from Italy, scanned all sixteen pages of "Lilliput" and all sixteen pages of "Brobdingnag", and posted all of it on Minimizer's board. (Though none of it is in English.) But I don't know if anyone saved it.

[Schadenfreude]

I actually saw Zapped! when it was in theaters in 1982. It's kind of a comic sendup of Carrie, with references to The Exorcist and Taxi Driver. (Though those references went over my head in 1982.) It's pretty stupid, though I did like seeing Scott Baio's character use his newly acquired telekinetic powers to get revenge on bullies. But it was strange seeing people from family-friendly TV shows like Happy Days and The Facts of Life in a movie geared toward teenagers (including marijuana smoking). And it missed an opportunity for SW content:



There was a sequel, Zapped Again!, which I watched on the USA Network. (So it probably had stuff cut out of it.) The review in the book Terror On Tape said that the lead actor "makes Scott Baio look like Marlon Brando". In the original movie, a lab explosion gave Scott Baio's character telekinetic powers, apparently permanent. But in the sequel, the main character has to keep drinking a potion/formula to have telekinetic powers. And Linda Blair (who I share a birthday with) played a teacher in the sequel.

[Hand-Holder]

Yes, Mandrake the Magician. Parodied by MAD, when it was still a color comic book. Drawn by Bill Elder, the star artist of MAD (and its short-lived sister publication PANIC). He tried to cram as many gags as possible into each panel:

http://davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.c ... nduck.html

Thanks for the update, that was it !!!

[Hand-Holder]

Yes, Mandrake the Magician. Parodied by MAD, when it was still a color comic book. Drawn by Bill Elder, the star artist of MAD (and its short-lived sister publication PANIC). He tried to cram as many gags as possible into each panel:

http://davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.c ... nduck.html

Phenomenal encyclopedic knowledge!

What more could you ask for Hand-Holder.

This Man is amazing, you are right, and with several details...

[Schadenfreude]

There are other Betty Boop cartoons with better SW content, including at least four cartoons in which she jumps off the drawing board and interacts with the "real world":











Betty Boop as a very realistic doll that gets delivered to a toy shop. One of quite a few cartoons from this era that referenced King Kong:

[Schadenfreude]

Anyone ever read this story? I vaguely remember someone telling me about a movie or TV episode about astronauts returning to Earth and finding everything gigantic. Just like the blurb here says?

Maybe an early episode of Doctor Who? (Credit for this discovery goes to foreverlurk.)

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Maybe an early episode of Doctor Who? (Credit for this discovery goes to foreverlurk.)

No, they also said the story ends with the astronauts (a man and a woman) flying back into space to a planet where things were to their scale. Nice clip though, but I never really got Doctor Who. Whole thing just flies over my head until the ones with David Tennant, but that's maybe because he shows up in a lot of things.

[Hand-Holder]

Maybe an early episode of Doctor Who? (Credit for this discovery goes to foreverlurk.)

No, they also said the story ends with the astronauts (a man and a woman) flying back into space to a planet where things were to their scale. Nice clip though, but I never really got Doctor Who. Whole thing just flies over my head until the ones with David Tennant, but that's maybe because he shows up in a lot of things.

This Sixties vibe is so cool, it reminds me when Internet was not a thing and a few TV shows would LIGHT UP MY FIRE, regarding SWs

[Schadenfreude]

Nice clip though, but I never really got Doctor Who. Whole thing just flies over my head until the ones with David Tennant, but that's maybe because he shows up in a lot of things.

Including taking over as the voice of Scrooge McDuck after Alan Young died.

[Schadenfreude]

Nice ending!

Shame he didn't realise that water was the key earlier!

Certainly a better ending than the original. Yikesies!

https://archive.org/details/sciencefict ... 2/mode/2up

EC did an "unauthorized" adaptation of "The Diminishing Draft", "Something Missing!", in Weird Science #7, which kept the downbeat ending from the original story. Of course they made changes, like instead of a potion, it was a ray that turned the subject into whatever it was thinking about, like a mouse turning into a piece of cheese. (And they named the scientist's female assistant Sally.) I know that you linked to Weird Science #6 in the "Classic Comics" thread because of "Divide and Conquer", which is a really good story. (I bought an extra copy of the 1990's reprint of that issue to mail to Kajira, but she dropped off the face of the earth before I could mail it to her.) But I can't figure out how to "jump" to issue #7. I keep getting pop-ups. I don't want to give my Mom's Chromebook a virus.

I managed to find some panels from "Something Missing!" online. These must be from the hardcover EC Archives. These aren't the colors that I remember from the 1990's reprints:'

http://www.eroticmadscience.com/2010/08 ... ipates-me/

[Little Sally]

Good find. Well done maestro!