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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,593Chief of Staff

    This must be coincidence- a documentary on Hammer's Sci Fi movies (including the above) has just appeared on YouTube-

    The Sci-fi of Hammer Films - A Retrospective (youtube.com)

    If a third reference appears, it will of course be enemy action.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    I must give that a look - thanks, Barbel!

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Moon Zero Two - Part Two:



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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent
    edited December 2023

    Van Helsing’s Terror Tales #5 - Artwork and script by Martin Asbury:

    AJB members may be interested to know that Martin Asbury storyboarded all the Bond films from GE through to SF inclusive.




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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,593Chief of Staff

    I didn't know that, thanks!

  • IstvanTheHun007IstvanTheHun007 Posts: 75MI6 Agent

    If you are ever in Scottsdale,, Arizona USA, then stop by Fantastic Worlds Comics, we have a decent selection of these magazine comics; they are still popular with collectors.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    I’d love to visit that shop, whether I will ever be in Scottsdale is another matter.

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent
    edited December 2023

    The Saint - The Sinister Castle - TV Tornado Annual 1969

    I think this is an original story - it’s definitely in the Seasons 5 & 6 style of the television series.




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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Dracula - Prince Of Darkness - Chapters One & Two:

    John Bolton drew this adaption of the second Christopher Lee Hammer Dracula movie. He was one of the forerunners of the style termed photorealism and his superb artistry is evident here…


    Chapter Three tomorrow.

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,593Chief of Staff

    Thanks CHB for this, one of my favourite Dracula movies. The artwork is as you say photorealistic, and it follows the film apart from opening very abruptly about twenty minutes in. Dracula has more lines here than he got in the movie where he got... let me count (pun intended) them again... oh yes, none whatsoever.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Dracula - Prince Of Darkness - Chapter Three:


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    I’m not sure CL would have been able to do some of those poses - that’s the beauty of art, you can draw what you want!

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,593Chief of Staff
    edited December 2023

    ....and that's what his stuntman Eddie Powell was for! 😁😁😁

    (Game for Hammer fans- much like we watch Bond movies trying to spot where a stuntman is covering, try spotting which shots in a Dracula pic are Eddie rather than Sir Chris.)

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Was Eddie Powell a relation to Nosher Powell, Barbel?

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent
    edited December 2023

    Van Helsing’s Terror Tales #6:

    Drawn by Brian Lewis with a script by Chris Lowder.

    It’s the old haunted mirror trope but nicely done, all the same.



    And a preview of tomorrow’s strip…


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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,593Chief of Staff

    Posthumous Lugosi? Did Ed Wood have a hand in this?

    No idea re Powell, sorry. I can add one piece of totally useless info, though- Universal's equivalent was one Eddie Parker who doubled for Lugosi, Chaney, etc and once officially played the Mummy (okay, that was when the Mummy met Abbott and Costello but it still counts). Eddie Powell had a similar career at Hammer including once officially playing the Mummy, too.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Oh, very much posthumous Lugosi, and Wood too - his image being used by permission of the Lugosi estate (along with a nice pay check, no doubt).

    Interesting about Powell and Parker - the sort of useless information I love!

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Bela Lugosi’s Tales From The Grave ran for 4 issues and was an anthology comicbook with various artists and standard of stories. This first one has a lot of reading, but you will find that it is worthwhile putting the effort in as the artwork and story are very good…


    Bela Lugosi’s Tales From The Grave #1:




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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    After yesterday’s mammoth read - a one-pager today.

    Van Helsing’s History Of Horror #1:



    Artist Dave Gibbons worked extensively on 2000AD and for DC Comics and collaborated with Alan Moore on Watchmen.

    This was the only entry under VH’s History Of Horror - no more found their way into the pages of HoH.

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    It’s no secret that I love horror movies and one of my favourites is 1972’s Tales From The Crypt. Made by Hammer rivals Amicus they specialised in anthology movies and all five stories in this film were based on the famous EC comics from the 1950’s. Here is the first segment and the movie followed it very closely…



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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,593Chief of Staff

    "Tales From The Crypt"! Yes, that one indeed looks very like the opening story with Joan Collins. I enjoyed those anthology movies.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Twins Of Evil - Parts One and Two: Artwork by Blas Gallegos.



    To be continued…

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Twins Of Evil - Part Three:


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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Bela Lugosi’s Tales From The Grave #2:




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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,593Chief of Staff

    Now that I liked! That would have made a better Lugosi movie than some which were actually made.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    This is the comic strip for the second segment of the movie Tales From The Crypt which starred Ian Hendry. The basis of the story remained the same but the lead character was leaving his wife for his mistress in the movie instead of being about two friends.

    This was the weakest segment of the movie - there were scores of other stories that could have been made instead of this.



    This thread is taking a break now for the holidays, but it will be back soon.

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Van Helsing’s Terror Tales #7:


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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,593Chief of Staff

    That one would have made a good short film in one of the anthologies, I think.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent

    Yes, the whole series was in that sort of horror movie anthology vein.

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 6,994MI6 Agent
    edited December 2023

    Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974):

    Drawn by Steve Parkhouse began by drawing the back cover superheroes on the Power Comics Fantastic and Terrific. He later turned to writing, with work in 2000AD and Doctor Who.

    Kronos was a bit of a letdown for me, poorly directed and once again budget restraints meant that the original screenplay, as portrayed here, did not appear in the finished movie. This is how it should have ended up…




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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,593Chief of Staff

    The film has some fun elements but does feel unsatisfatory and unfinished. That comic strip is better!

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