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!

Monday, September 27, 2010

1976 "Logan's Run" article

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"Logan's Run" was one of the last of the big-budget science fiction films before Star Wars hit the scene and changed everythin...

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet

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(Click on images to view full size-scans.) Written by Eleanor Cameron in 1954, this charming children's book is one that holds good mem...

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Monday, August 2, 2010

1978 TV Sci-Fi Schedule

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From the collection cabinet comes an article from the first issue of the low-class magazine "Space Trek," one of many genre exploi...

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Forbidden Planet: Entry Two

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Part 2 of the "Forbidden Planet" posts, imported from my other blog "My Monster Memories." Here's a special bonus fo...

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Forbidden Planet: Entry One

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(Reader take note: this entry was originally posted on my other blog "My Monster Memories," but now that I am also doing one on Sc...

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

1979 article on "The Star Wars Holiday Special"

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From issue #19 of Starlog Magazine, published in February of 1979, comes this cover article on one of the darkest chapters in Star Wars hist...

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

1973 Mad Spoof On Apes Movies

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The collection cabinets open this time to bring forth issue #157 of Mad magazine, published in March of 1973. By this time there were four f...

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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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