Nice Collection of Astounding Science Fiction Covers

Link

Random (and rare) Looney Tunes

Buddy the Detective


Little Lion Hunter


Slightly Daffy

Halloween Countdown 2008

Those of you that have been following Cool-Mo-Dee for a while know that October is a special month for us (and much of the rest of the blog-o-sphere). This year there will be two featured attractions: rare vintage comic scans posted each day of the month at midnight and 31 days of Halloween Cartoons. This will be in addition to my normal schedule of postings which will all (or at least mostly) be related to Halloween. Enjoy!

The Jackson 5ive

Hugely popular in 1970, the series really only lasted one year (showing reruns in 1972). None of the voices were done by the actual Jacksons but they did use the actual songs during the musical segments.

ABC Promo Commercial


Rasho-Jackson (3 parts)

3D Stereograms as Animated GIF's

Cursivebuildings has posted quite a few Stereograms converted to animated GIF's. I really like this process and if I ever get more time I will digitize some of my 3D collectoin and share it with the world as well.

Link

Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else - 2008 Halloween Series

Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else is posting a nice series of Halloween music and is already up to the fourth installment (as of 9/28/2008). This isn't your standard 'Monster Mash' stuff here though - lots and lots of obscure little ditties that belong on the mp3 players of all fiends and fools who celebrate the season.

Link (to part 1, from there you can find the rest)

A Photo History of Batman

The Chicago Tribune has posted a nice photo history of one of my favorite comic characters - Batman.

Link

ABC Saturday Morning 1971

Another good year for Saturday morning cartoons as they started to come on as their own and prove to the advertisers that there was a huge untapped market of eager consumers just waiting to be tapped. It's not really that any of us were actual consumers but we did have a huge influence on many of the products our parents purchased.

I will skip the Bewitched reruns that aired in the middle of the Saturday morning block because they aren't animated.


One Minute Promo for ABC Saturday Morning


Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down? - complete episode with 'don't go away' bumper





Road Runner - Road Runner A-Go-Go


Funky Phantom - Opening


Jackson 5ive - Intro


Lidsville - Theme Song/Intro


Curiosity Shop - Intro


Jonny Quest - Intro


Lancelot Link - The Reluctant Robot

Salesman Sam (a comic strip by C. D. Small)

From Drop Box

ASIFA has posted a few 1927 strips from this series as part of their fundraising effort. Go check it out and definitely put this site in your bookmarks/RSS feedlist because they are always posting great stuff.

Link

Oops! There Comes a Smile! - Jim and Tammy and Friends

More like HORRIBLE than weird. This thing is a train wreck as Tammy sings in her 'puppet' voice. Jim joins in on the narratives.

You do know who Jim and Tammy are don't you?

Link (thanks to Way Out Junk! for this turkey)

The Thunderbirds in TV21 Comic (from England)

Remember the old Gerry Anderson show from the early 70's? Well it was much more popular in England so they had all kinds of tie-ins, including this comic book.

Link

Public Service Cartoon Announcement

The Saturday Morning blog has posted youtube/Veoh links to lots and lots of collections of Saturday morning series.

Link


Here is a clip from Batman (1968) - Batman Vs. Joker

Timothy Leary - You Can Be Anything This Time Around

Another really weird album that goes well with our theme this week - in fact it probably fits in better than anything else I have posted so far! Thanks to the Musicology blog for posting this one.

Link

Easy Tempo - a Collection of Vintage Italian Film Songs

In keeping with our 'weird' music theme for this week, Fat City Cigar Lounge has posted this really great collection of Italian film music from the 60's and 70's. Don't miss it if you like your music a little left of the dial.

Link

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp

Watching these shows now makes me really wonder why my generation isn't even more screwed up! In case you have never seen the show (it did go through somewhat of a revival in the mid 80's) it was a spy based spoof interspersed with 'groovy' music videos, with an all chimpanzee cast. It is as strange as it sounds.


The Great Plane Plot


Evoluation Revolution - Music Video


The Surfin' Spy

Uncle Funny Bunny and Chumpy

According to Cartoon Brew this is the worst comic strip ever. I have to admit that it is bad but in it's defense it was taken out of the Weekly Reader series of newspaper/magazines that kids got in school to encourage them to read. Of course this may not have actually helped but follow the link for about twenty more strips.

Link

Commercials Aired During Motor Mouse and Autocat

I found lots of these on youtube while I was preparing this week's post. I think that they are all from 1970 and they are all really good exampled of vintage animation advertising.

Wyler's


Frito Bandito


Beefaroni/Beefageti


Burger King

Weird Stuff!

The Happy Hammond Goes POP! - Even the guy who runs the blog calls this 'cheese' and he is really into this stuff. A good list of 60's hits all 'Hammondified' for your pleasure! Link

Harvey Records Presents The Harvey Comics Singles - Children's Records and More has reposted this collection of records based on some of our favorite Harvey Comics characters. Link

Yor, The Hunter From the Future OST - I think I liked this movie but I can't really remember but it did come out in the Apocalypse science fiction wave of the early to mid eighties. From the World of Soundtrack blog. Link

Shel Silverstein - Freakin' At the Freakers' Ball - Interesting title and a good collection of humorous songs from this long-time Dr. Demento favorite. Posted at Fat City Cigar Lounge. Link

Space Adventures Comics

Datajunkie has another great post up, this time it's three issues of Space Adventures and one Golden Age Captain Atom.

Link

ABC Saturday Morning 1970

Some live action stuff crept in to the lineups of all of the networks as the parent groups had their way and had the 'violent' superhero shows expunged from the lineup.

Hot Wheels and Skyhawks were still on in 1970 but I couldn't find any new video other than the intros that were posted last week.


The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad Show - Open/Close


Motor Mouse and Autocat - Opening


Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp - Opening


Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down - Open/Close


Here Come the Double Deckers - Open/Close


Hot Wheels - I can't find any video (other than the opening and closing from last week) so click here to download the original soundtrack



The Hardy Boys - Sha La La

Read-A-Long Books With DRACULA

Today's Music Monday bonus post was taken from the Secret Cavern of Read-A-Long Treasures.



Side 1 - the story of Dracula
Side 2 - Music




Audio
.PDF of the Comic

Vintage Hot Wheels TV Commercials

Hot Wheels Grand Prix set - 1960's


1968


1969


Johnny Lightning - 1970


Hot Wheels Landlord offer - 1982

Around the World in 79 Days (a Cattanooga Cats segment)

Another segment in the Cattanooga Cats show.
You should be able to easily recognize the studio that produced this one!

The Race Is On



Arabian Daze



And a bonus video from Cattanooga Cats... 'Johnny Johnny Jump Up'

COOGY Sunday Strips from 1952

Here is another 'lost' strip that has been posted by the Fabulous Fifties blog:

Link

Comics Fanzines - Fantasy Advertiser #70

Here is a nice example of a Uk comics fanzine from 1981.

Link

It's The Wolf! (Cattanooga Cats segment)

The Cattanooga Cats aired for one year on ABC and was very similar to the Banana Splits Show with the live action segments being substituted for animated segments. One of the cartoons broadcast in this show was It's the Wolf!


It's the Wolf - First Episode


Any Sport In a Storm


Super Sheep Sitting Service


and a bonus music video from the Cattanooga Cats - 'Sleep Tonight'

Cat With Bow Golf

A fun and quirky flash game in which you control a cat and his bow and arrow. Try to hit the target to go to the next hole. I promise that it is much more fun than it sounds!

Click here to start.

Disney's THE STORY OF MENSTRUATION

Learn all about this natural event through the magic of Disney!

Silent Star Wars

I was scrounging around for Halloween related clips on youtube and came upon this hilarious vision of Star Wars as a silent film. It is really quite good.

Halloween Warm-Up

Halloween is a special time at Cool-Mo-Dee! We will once again be joining the HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN in which a number of blogs celebrate Halloween for the entire month of October. So today I post a little preview of the month to come.


Link (a concept album from 1969, only three tracks are posted but they are pretty interesting - from The Strange Experience of Music blog)



Link (from the Mostly Ghostly Music Sharing blog and a repost from the Scarstuff blog)



Link (from the Mostly Ghostly Music Sharing blog again - don't forget to grab both volumes!)



Link (Danny Kaye narrates some Grimm classics)

Gilligan's Island Collectibles

Floating bathtub toys:

Autographed photos:


Books and coloring books:


TV Guide covers (and related local tv guides):




Original animation cels from the cartoon series:


Of course we had trading cards but these weren't very common even back in the day (but there was a reprint set created a few years ago):