More 'SCREAM' comic advertisements

'SCREAM' Comic advertisements

Here is the first 5 advertisements all from the 1980's comic 'Eagle' in which 'Scream' merged with soon after the last issue in 1984. Another 4 ads coming shortly.

Vincent Price talks about The Monster Club (1982)

Monster Club (1980) - trailer

The Wicker Man - Trailer

MORE SAMPLE SCRAPBOOK PAGES

MONSTER MASK FROM ICE CREAM VAN

I remember getting the above cardboard mask from an Ice cream van back in the 1970's. Not sure what I had to buy to get one unless the Ice Cream seller gave them out to what ever Ice cream or Ice lolly you bought; I recall buying either Fab Lollies, Screwballs, 99s, or possible Dracula's deadly secret Lollies. Anyone else remember getting one of these masks?

'Pages from some of my scrapbooks'

I began putting together scrapbooks way back in the late 70's/early 80's of all things connected with horror films, TV series, ghosts, vampires etc etc. Anything I could find connected with the genre I cut out and pasted in my scrapbooks. I still have many more clippings that are loose and need to be sorted out. I don't do it so much these days, probally because I don't seem to see many decent articles etc in non-genre publications such as sunday supplements as I used to do. Anyway hope you see something on these few pages that interest you, I tried to choose clippings that are more relevant to The Cobwebbed Room.

HORROR DOUBLE BILLS/HORROR SEASONS ON TV Contd.

Continuing from the previous post here are some more photos that Greg sent in from his scrapbooks. This time from BBC's 'Master of Terror', ATV's 'A Date with the Devil', Channel 4's 'Monster Horrors', ATV's 'Creature Features', and ATV's 'Prince of Menace'.

HORROR DOUBLE BILLS/HORROR FILM SEASONS ON TV

Remember the time when TV stations would put on a horror double bill or have a season of classic horror films on late at night? These were quite a regular thing during the 1970's and 1980's especially BBC 2 and ITV stations such as Anglia [ATV], I mention Anglia because out of all the ITV channels this region seemed to put on quite a lot of the horror double bills/horror seasons and according to Greg whom sent me the photos you see above really did a great job in presenting these classics of the macabre. Remember when ITV had interval captions that popped up before and after the advert breaks which gave the title of what was on and were usually nicely illustrated/designed?, the horror double bills were the highlight of a usually friday night for most horror film fans, myself included; and if you were one of those that were really too young to watch these films or had to go to bed early, then it was either creeping downstairs while Mum and Dad were asleep and putting the TV on and tuning the sound down very low so you wouldn't wake your parents, or hopefully persuading them to let you watch them anyway [after all there was no school the day after]. Anyone else also tried to tune in the TV to other ITV regions? If you did then you know what it was like you see in the TV Times that another channel that you don't get in your area are showing a horror film that you really want to see and so you try and tune the TV in to hopefully get that channel, more than likely when you do it is either a very poor snowy picture, poor sound or both. This didn't deter you though, no matter how bad the picture or sound was just having that channel on with the film you wanted to see was good enough, as you know this was before video recorders [or they were too expensive to buy]. It was more of a thrill back then because you never knew when these films would be on again, if at all. The above photos that Greg kindly sent are pages that he put together in several scrapbooks of clippings from various horror double bills and horror film seasons during the 1970's/80's [The ones above from BBC 2's Horror Double Bill] fantastic that he kept a record of these memorable TV highlights. Should hopefully have a few more to put on soon too. If there is anyone else that kept a scrapbook or 2 of clippings, pictures, articles etc about horror films/TV/fiction etc and are willing to share here then please do feel free to send some pictures, I'll get some of mine scanned or photographed too and post them here in this dusty old cobwebbed room.

'DRACULA LOLLIES'

Anyone that fondly remembers the 'Dracula's Deadly Secret' Ice Lollie back in the 1970's [See my post on these] will be pleasantly surprised that they are back again but it seems only from the freezer shop 'Iceland' and 6 Lollies for £1 they are a bargain. The only difference that I can make out compared to the original Deadly Secret Ice Lollies is that the blood red gooey stuff in the middle is now only strawberry ice but everything else is the same, the black cola ice and ice-cream at the bottom and they taste very nice. The only gripes I have is that I don't think that the Dracula illustration is as good as the original and that the Lollies don't have illustrated wrappers just clear plastic. There are a couple of nice touches on the box - 'Produced in Darkest Netherlands' and 'If you have any complaints or comments then please contact the Count at Castle Belfield...' In Spain they have been making the Dracula lollies for a number of years and they come in a nice illustrated wrapper. So put in your non-sensitive fangs and get down to Iceland for a nostalgic treat.

'SCARE BEARS MONSTER PARTY BOOK'

Following on from the previous post here we have a beautifully illustrated Scare Bears book published in 1988 by Cartoon Aid. I haven't read the actual story yet but the bits I have read do seem to be quite funny and ghoulish at times. There are 60+ pages of story and illustrations. Each 2 pages has the story on the left and picture opposite. The pictures has you can see above are really nicely illustrated by Mike Gibas and Caspar Williams, these are wonderful to look at as there are so many different things going on in the pictures, not sure what the age this book is aimed at but some of the illustrations are quite grisly; It does say on the back cover 'Not Suitable for Adults!', which I think is a nice comical addition to the book as well as having comments on the back from such creatures & Macabre know-alls as Christopher Flea [like it], Graverobber's Quarterly, Doctor Inthahaus, Werewolf World, etc. 'The Scare Bears Monster Party Book' is devised by Graham Cooke and words by Leslie Kett.

'THE SCARE BEARS' Sticker book

Anyone remember these bears in the form of classic movie monsters like Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolfman, Quasimodo etc? Not sure of the actual names of the Scare Bears apart from Frankie Bear [See above]. The pictures you see here were kindly sent by a visitor to the Cobwebbed Room, thanks Pete. This sticker book came out during 1985/1986 and was available from 'Zodiac' toy shops, not sure if they were also avalible from newsagents as well. The stickers of which over a hundred had to be collected were available on the counter at the Zodiac toy shops for 24p a packet; also included with the Scare Bears stickers were stickers of the Zodiac bears which could be stuck in reverse side of the sticker book, the Zodiac bears were the signs of the Zodiac but apparently the artwork wasn't has good as the Scare Bears ones. I think it does now seem likely that the stickers were only available from Zodiac toy shops giving the subject matter of the other bear stickers. I think that the illustrations in the sticker album are nicely done, like the werewolf one [Wear Bear?] and the Skeleton with the bear ears. Would be nice to see what the stickers were like if anyone has any then please do let us know. I am guessing that the album and stickers may be difficult to come across if they were originally only available through 'Zodiac'

When I manage to get my scanner working I will scan some pages from another Scare Bears related item, a book called 'The Scare Bears Monster Party Book' which was published in 1988 which is nicely illustrated in colour of the Scare Bears and guest appearances of the real movie monsters [well in cartoon form]. Anyone know of any other Scare Bears Wares?

The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Trailer

Dr.Terror's House Of Horrors(1965) trailer

FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE - 1973 - TRAILER

VAULT OF HORROR - 1973 - TRAILER

Tales From The Crypt 1972 trailer

'SPOOKS' A spooky 'Snap' card game

Waddington's 'SPOOKS' spine chilling card game [as it says on the box] is a nice take on the classic card game 'SNAP' in which the players have a share of cards that are face down, the players each take a turn and place a card on the table face up and continue to untill another card with the same picture is revealed on the pile, the first player to shout "SNAP' wins those cards and then the game continues again untill a player wins all cards or no matches can be made. Anyway I'm sure a lot of you knew that already. 'SPOOKS' is basically the same game except that the game has a spooky theme of a fold out board with Vampire with bat wings and creepy castle in the background for the cards to be placed upon, and the wonderful spooky cards featuring cartoon monsters - Mr.Ghost, Mr.Hyde, Mrs.Vampire, Mrs.Gorgon, Mrs.Witch, Wolfman, Mr.Vampire, The Mummy, King Kong, Mr.Frankenstein, and Dr.Jekyll. Instead of the winning players shouting "SNAP" in this game they blow a whistle which I think is more fun. Nice game with ghoul...I mean cool graphics.

'HORROR BAGS SCARY TALES' #2 Flyer

Here is an interesting and unusual peice of Horror Bags memorabilia, it is a A5 peice of paper of which as you can see below:one side is a short comicstrip entitled 'The Uninvited Guests' and on the reverse is an offer for a 'Horrible' Horror Bags T-shirt. The 'Scary Tale' comicstrip #2 is basically a promotion for 'Fangs' in the horror bag range, there is no date on this promotional flyer but going by the new Fangs snacks [2nd in the range] it must be round about 74/75. Love to see what the first 'Scary tale' was like and if there were also any more. The Horror Bags Dracula T-shirt offer looks wonderful, for 4 empty packs of Bones or Fangs and 69 pence you could send for this stunning and Scary T-shirt of Horror Bags token vampire going "AAARRRAGH!" Boy I would love one of these. As far as I'm aware the promotional flyer were slipped into particular comics such as Fleetway's 'Buster', 'Whoopee' etc.

Sorry for the lack of posts

I thought I should say that for those that have been re-visiting the Cobwebbed Room in the last few months and not seeing any new posts for quite some time, please except my apologies. I am planning to begin some more new posts soon with hopefully somethings that I hope interests some if not all. I have a few ideas of things I would like to post about but also would be interested in any ideas of of yours too such as British horror books, toys, TV series, magazines, sweet and crisps etc that you remember from the 1970's and 80's.
Please do keep visiting this old cobwebbed room, you are most welcome and I shall hopefully posting very soon.
Best wishes.

'THE BLACK BOX CLUB' -Network video magazine article

I did a post sometime ago regarding the audio cassette magazine 'The Black Box Club' of which I still have been unable to find anywhere that as any copies of the tapes that were made during the 1980's, there also doesn't seem to be anywhere on the net that has anything about this either. Surely there must be someone who remembers the Black Box Club besides myself. Anyway here is a short article that appeared in the newspaper style publication 'Network Video' that came out during the late 1980's/early 1990's regarding the Black Box Club.

'HOUSE OF HORROR' [Bassetts] Mail away poster

Here we have the mail away poster that you could send away for from Bassetts for sticking the 50 card set of 'House of Horror' cards on to. I don't think I would of wanted to stick the cards to it but I am sure they would of looked really good on it. Really love the artwork on this. I suppose it makes a nice change having a poster rather than an album to stick them into and at least you can see all the cards in their glory on your wall.

'WEETABIX SCARY STICKERS' Ad

I did a post of the Scary stickers that you could collect from boxes of Weetabix a while ago but this is the first time I have seen an actual comic ad for them.

Thanks to Peter for this.

'CREATURES OF LEGEND' - PG Tips cards & Album

I used to really like it when my Mum many years ago now used to buy PG Tips[Brooke Bond] tea bags and the simple reason was because of the cards they had in which you could collect and also send for an album to stick them in. The bigger the box of tea bags or tea the more cards would be inside [usually 1 to 3 cards]. There have been a large variety of card sets that could be collected; but for the benifit of this blog here we have a set called 'Creatures of Legend'. The set was introduced in about 1993/94 and there were 24 cards to collect. All were illustrated by Mark Longworth. These wonderful cards covered all manner of classic creatures of legend, mainly from Greek legends but as you see from the 3 cards above the set included 3 of the classic movie monsters Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and King Kong, all beautifully illustrated. On the backs of each card you could read about the creatures/monsters. Missing from the cards above are the following:

#1 Pegasus

#2 Centaurs

#4 Scylla

#11 Cyclops

#12 Ogres

#13 Trolls

#14 Fairies

#21 The Yeti

#24 The Loch Ness Monster

Also you can see a picture of the album cover also beautifully illustrated.

I wonder why PG Tips stopped including cards in their boxes of tea bags/tea? Its such a shame, the same can be said for cereals too. There just is no fun in buying food products no more, especially for the kids.

'HORROR BAGS - CREEPY CLUTCHERS' - Contributed photo

Here is a photo of a few very well worn and played with Creepy Clutchers. In a way it is nice to see that these were not just stored away and forgotten about, these were certainly played with as they were intended...well to a certain degree.

Thanks Daz, very much appriciated.