Western Electric forgot that you don’t want to have to check how you’re dressed and if your hair is in shape just to make a phone call.

What company predicted the fall of phone calls and the dominance of short messages such as “hey d00d im at th store and im typig on tiny keyboard just to avoid talking to you laterz”

Baldios - Japanese movie opening

I love this song. Sadly the English dub (titled variously BATTLE FOR SPACE STATION S-1 and SPACE WARRIOR BALDIOS) jettisoned it in favor of opening with a dubbed version of the ending theme of the film.

Ah.  

I didn’t even know about the EVENING WITH BATMAN AND ROBIN release until I read THE BATCAVE COMPANION from TwoMorrows.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Batcave-Companion-Michael-Eury/dp/1893905780  

I’ve only seen the first episode of the 1943 BATMAN serial and wasn’t impressed. The SUPERMAN serials are far more entertaining.

“A wise government rounded up the [IMMORAL HOODS]” - Goodtimes’ not so good BATMAN dub.   I’ve never seen this version until now with the “new” narration - glad I waited for the real thing.  Goodtimes’ redub narrator sounds like the narrator from SUPERHUMAN SAMURAI SYBER SQUAD.

Was this a cleaned-up dub of the 1943 BATMAN with the WWII anti-Japanese sentiments bowdlerized? I’d heard there was one floating around. No mention of Dr Daka or “a wise government rounding up the shifty-eyed J*ps” [actual dialogue from the narration - aargh] in this poster.

ryuuseipro:

celamowari:

I’d read that this happened in 1965, but this is the first ad I’ve seen for it.

Same here!  I read about this for many years.

Mogera looks OK, but I prefer the sentai-colored Mysterian costumes from the film itself to the dull gold outfit the poster alien wears.  A lame attempt at “realism”? Bah.

greggorysshocktheater:

Lobby card for Toho’s The Mysterians (1957)

The top is Silver Mask regular; the bottom Silver Mask Giant (when he was turned into an ULTRAMAN clone in a last ditch effort for ratings).      

I think BCI has the rights to the show, but didn’t release it before their collapse. Oh well - just glad I have IRON KING, RED BARON and FIGHT! DRAGON.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi0Gwqn2dLA&feature=related

ryuuseipro:

Notebook covers of Silver Mask (Nippon Gendai/Senkosha; 1971)!

I would actually watch that cartoon if Leopardon were in it.

vintagehenshin:

Spider-Friends and Leopardon by ~flaviosoares

But a beautiful personality is much harder to find than a beautiful face or body…

katskinx:

:)

My comic haul today…another triumph of a little money and absolutely no sense.

http://www.amazon.com/Young-Romance-Simon-Kirbys-Comics/dp/1606995022 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Batcave-Companion-Michael-Eury/dp/1893905780 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Jack-Kirby-Volume/dp/1566850061 

http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Jack-Kirby-Collector-Volume/dp/1893905004