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.

[Schadenfreude]

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.