I think you don't really have time to read about the fascinating byways of old genre fandom, MB, but this is a short article about editor/publisher Calvin T. Beck and his Castle of Frankenstein:

http://21ca.com/flickhead/2_14_Beck_CoF.html

There's a long thread on the Monster Kids board from a few years ago when Little Shoppe of Horrors ran a two part survey/expose of Beck and CoF. Interesting discussion.

Apart from the legendary cult status of the magazine, Beck is best remembered now because his mother seems fairly conclusively to have been a major model for "Norman's" Mom in Robert Bloch's original novel Psycho. Reportedly, Helen Beck went everywhere with her son but perhaps not to the extent that "Norman's" Mom did.

Castle of Frankenstein was ahead of its time in treating horror films as objects of serious, adult film criticism. The mag ran stills and articles about European avant-garde films and the kind of pictures associated with serious art houses in New York, San Francisco, and one or two other cities back in the Sixties.

G.

Fans who were around for the 1970s may recall a tabloid-style monster mag called The Monster Times. Issue 27 was a vampire themed number and there are a couple of Barnabas pictures included if you scroll through.

https://www.zomboscloset.com/zombos_closet_of_horror_b/2017/04/the-monster-times-no-27-.html

cheers, G.

So, I'm guessing that at this point in the comic book, Roger has had a psychotic break and is ranting at an invisible Laura.

Thankfully, I presume there are only a few more pages to go in this trainwreck.

G.

May her spirit know peace. Wish they'd brought the character back for some more shows.

There's been speculation that she was the original casting for Julia... it's based on a very tenuous supposition, but is interesting to think about.

G.

I don't think DS Resurrected ever had a DVD release, which is a shame for fans of the 1991 series. There was some very cool material on it. Maybe it's available online somewhere.

cheers, G.

Interesting video made by a Depp Shadows fan back in May of 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2RPcrBmwVw

G.

I thought both series were dire. My only encounters of either was when I was home on visits from college since I did not own a TV set in my dorm room (or my own place when I finally got one).

I guess next will be a re-boot of Love Boat as something really horrific, like delegates to the Republican National Convention having a pre-convention cruise. Yikes.

G.