Fantastic Flashbacks

Memories of the fantastic movies, TV shows, books and comics of my youth. Lots of clippings from my scrapbooks and articles from my magazine collection, as well as some vintage advertisements just for fun!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

60's Space On The Brain

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(Click on images to enlarge.) I'm still wondering what a "drogue" chute is. Continuing with the look back at the period in Ame...

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

1962: Astronaut In A Can: Updated!

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(Click on image to view larger.) To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing in 1969, here is a scan of a Life magazine f...

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Monday, July 13, 2009

1978 This Island Earth article

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(Click on images to view larger.) The article this time comes from the June 1978 issue of Science Fantasy Film Classics, the cover to which ...

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

1974's Shazam TV Show

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(Click on images to view full-size.) (Note: This is a post I already made some time ago on another of my blogs, "Held Over!" ...

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Thursday, July 9, 2009

1975 "Cracked" Planet Of The Apes TV show spoof

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In 1975, I was 16 years young, and the biggest thing in my life at that time (aside from Star Trek) was the Apes movies and the new TV serie...

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Monday, July 6, 2009

1978 Battlestar Galactica set design article

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(Click on images to view larger size.) This article from the Miami Herald TV listing insert was published on August 5th, 1978, before the se...

1978 article on Battlestar Galactica SFX

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(Click on images to view larger size.) Scanned from Rona Barrett's Hollywood Super Special: Winter 1978. Considering the magazine, you ...

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Frederick: Born in the late 50's, a kid in the 60's, a teen in the 70's, I'm "forever-fourteen." Monsters, spooky stuff, sci-fi and Star Trek captured my imagination as a youth and the memories made will never fade. The profile photo symbolizes the efforts of my stepdad to rid me of my "childish" interests, as he called them; at which, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed.

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