Krazy Little Comics: Jester's League of America

My brother found a couple more of Topps Krazy Little Comics.

Jester's League of America

Type O Negative

I'm still in shock over the death of Peter Steele. 48 is way to young. He was only a few years older than me.

I still can't see YouTube videos on any blogs. I hope Blogger figues out what the problem is soon. If you can see the video, here's the full nine minute video for the song "Christian Woman".



Also, be sure to visit Amazon's Type O Negative store and pick up all of there CD's.

Peter Steele, R.I.P.

Wow! I love Type O Negative. I remember the first time I ever saw them. It was the video for "Christian Woman" from the album Bloody Kisses. It totally blew me away! I saw them in concert once, they opened for Queensryche. R.I.P. Pete.

From EW.com --

Peter Steele, singer and bassist with New York goth metal act Type O Negative, has died, reports CBS News. According to an email from the band’s manager, Mickey Renault, “Peter passed away last night. As of now it appears to have been heart failure. That’s all the details we have right now.”

Type O Negative put out their first album, Slow, Deep and Hard, in 1991. Subsequent releases included 1994’s Bloody Kisses—which cracked the Billboard Top 100—and the 2000 compilation, The Least Worst of Type O Negative. Steele gained notoriety in 1995 when he posed for Playgirl.

Free Comic Book Day 2010

"Free Comic Book Day is a single day - the first Saturday in May each year - when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books absolutely FREE* to anyone who comes into their stores. *Check with your local shop for their participation and rules."

Check the website to see everything that will be available, a store locator, creator signings and other news and events.

Here's some of the comics you may be able to find on Free Comic Book Day --

Meinhardt Raabe, R.I.P.

From the Florida Times-Union --

Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," is dead at 94.

Mr. Raabe died Friday at his home in Penney Farms, a Clay County retirement community where he had lived since 1986, said Bob Rigel, president of the Penney Retirement Community.

He had one speech in "The Wizard of Oz," pronouncing the Wicked Witch of the East dead: "I thoroughly examined her. And she's not merely dead. She's really, most sincerely dead!"

It was brief but it opened doors, he told The Times-Union in 2007.

"Twelve seconds and I made a living at it ever since," he said.

He was referring to his three decades working as a spokesman and salesman for Oscar Mayer, where he was known as "Little Oscar, World's Smallest Chef." In that job, Mr Raabe frequently traveled in the Weinermobile.

After moving to Northeast Florida with his wife, Marie, who died in a 1997 automobile accident, Mr. Raabe made frequent appearances at "Wizard of Oz" festivals and events.

"He just loved being around children," said Cindy Bosnyak, a long-time friend and travel companion in recent years.

He also liked being around other "little people," such as his fellow Munchkins, and hoped he was an inspiration to them, Bosnyak said.

In 2007 he was one of six Munchkins who went to Los Angeles to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Last September he was one of five Munchkins who went to New York for a 70th anniversary celebration of the beloved movie.

Mr. Raabe was born and raised in Watertown, Wis., the grandson of German immigrants.

As a young man, he put himself through college by working at the Chicago Fair and developed the habit of reading constantly, he told Bosnyak.

"He was a man with a head full of hair and he had everything upstairs," she said. "... He was a walking history book."

Mr. Raabe earned master's degrees in horticulture and in accounting, taught German as a substitute teacher and was a pilot with the Civil Air Patrol during World War II, she said.

Bosnyak said Mr. Raabe's remains will be cremated and returned to Watertown where his only surviving relative, a sister, Marion Ziegelman, lives.

A memorial service will be in Clay County May 1 at a time and place to be determined.

And The Rondo Goes To...

Here's the press release for this year's Rondo winners --

ARLINGTON, VA. -- District 9, the gritty Oscar-nominated science fiction film, Rue Morgue magazine, a bloody yet reverent compendium of horrors old and new, and Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, a revised history of the rivalry between two of Hollywood's greatest hissables, all shared top honors in the 8th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards announced Monday night.

The fan-based Rondo awards, named after Rondo Hatton, an obscure B-movie villain of the 1940s, celebrate the best in classic horror research, creativity and film preservation. This year's e-mail vote, conducted by the Classic Horror Film Board, a 15-year old online community, drew a record 2,973 votes, the biggest in genre history.

Among other winners for work in 2009:

A deluxe version of 1981's An American Werewolf in London won as Best Classic DVD; the BBC import Doctor Who took Best TV Presentation, and an eight-film set by cult director William Castle, including The Tingler and 13 Ghosts, was voted the Best Classic Collection. The fourth season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents grabbed the prize for Best TV Collection.

The futuristic allegory, District 9, was the choice for Best Film honors, beating out Zombieland and greatly outpacing Avatar, which surprised some observers by coming in fifth among Rondo voters.

The classic-oriented electorate honored the 84-year old silent German film, Faust, by director F. W. Murnau, in the Best Restoration category. The 1926 film was extensively restored by the Murnau Foundation and released by Kino Films.

The year's best documentary award went to American Scary, a loving tribute to horror hosts past and present in a very tight contest with very strong independent films and documentaries.

And Rondo voters for the fifth year urged that Island of Lost Souls, the 1932 thriller starring Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi, be released on DVD, hopefully in a restored version.

Longtime horror researcher Gregory William Mank was voted Best Writer of 2009. Mank's book, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration, was voted Best Book in a tough field that also included works by fan favorites Bill Warren, Mike Malloy and David Skal.

Many of the awards signaled a turn to more modern horrors.

Rue Morgue, a Canada-based magazine that often features grue and terror along with looks at horrors past, continued to take home Rondos: It was again named Best Magazine and Best Audio Horror Site. And its former editor, Jovanka Vuckovic and Jason Lapeyre won Best Article for their piece on John Landis' An American Werewolf in London. In addition, Rue Morgue Art Director Gary Pullin was voted Artist of the Year.

The combination of Rue Morgue and HorrorHound, another more modern-based magazine, increasingly dominated the voting, although a very classic portrait of Karloff from his 1936 The Walking Dead garnered the Best Cover prize (and second Rondo), for artist Daniel Horne and Monsters from the Vault magazine.

An additional fan artist award was added this year, and has been named in honor of Linda Miller, a painter of classic horror icons who died suddenly last year. The first Linda Miller Award for Best Fan Artist went to Robert Scott, whose black and white portraits of fiends new and old capture menace and whimsy in stark presentations.

Among other winners:

-- Beware the Moon, a documentary about the Landis Werewolf film, took Best DVD Extra.

"To win is beyond amazing,'' said Paul Davis, director of the documentary. "Not only did it take us nearly three-years to make, but my father also, very unexpectedly, passed away in February and he was my biggest supporter. So the win is for him.''

-- Director Fred Dekker was cited for his Commentary on the newly restored Night of the Creeps.

-- Dread Central, a daily roundup of horror news, was named Best Website, and the absurdist yet earnest Drunken Severed Head was voted Best Blog.

-- Pittsburgh's Monster Bash was named Best Convention for the sixth time in eight annual Rondo votes.

-- And an all-star tribute to the late Forrest J Ackerman, organized by his friend and caregiver Joe Moe in March 2009 at Grauman's Egyptian Theater, was voted Best Fan Event.

In a statement, Joe Moe said the tribute marked "the fulfillment of my final promise to Forry, to hold a tribute so we could all come together to laugh, cry, celebrate and say goodbye. Forrest J Ackerman shall never die!''

-- Longtime horror host Count Gore De Vol was voted Favorite Horror Host, the third winner in a new category that has in the past honored Penny Dreadful and Svengoolie.

-- Two well-known comic book creators, Steve Niles and Kelley Jones, won Best Horror Comic for DC's Batman: Gotham After Midnight. And Talking Tina, a replica of the sinister doll in a Twilight Zone episode, won Best Toy, Model or Action Figure. James Horner's score for Star Trek II won the Best CD category.

-- Favorite DVD Reviewer went to Kim Newman, a frequent contributor to Video Watchdog.

Finally, the honorary categories, based on suggestions from Rondo voters, included:

-- Eliot Brodsky, a California fan and convention organizer, was named Monster Kid of the Year for his creation of the Monsterpalooza convention in Los Angeles.

-- Hall of Fame Inductees were also named. They are the late Bill Lemon and Ray Meyer, sculptors of the Aurora monster model kits of the 1960s; Dennis Druktenis, editor and publisher of Scary Monsters Magazine (The Only 'Real' Monster Magazine!); longtime scifi fan Bill Warren, author of the definitive 1950s film study, Keep Watching the Skies; Midwest horror hosting legend Sammy Terry; and the late Frederick S. Clarke, whose Cinefantastique revolutionized the magazine world with its in-depth coverage

Many of the Rondo winners will receive Rondo busts, sculpted by Kerry Gammill, at the Wonderfest convention in Louisville in May..

Further information, including runners-up and all the nominees, can be found at rondoaward.com.

Shogun Cowboy Boots & Stormtroopers

Faithful Wonderful Wonderblog reader Chris Shary loves the Shogun Warriors. So much so, he had a pair of Mazinga cowboy boots custom made. He though I'd like to see them. He was right!

Here's what Chris had to say about them --

"Well here's what I can tell you, I'm an artist/high school teacher who has done loads of artwork for punk bands, most notably, DESCENDENTS (people seem to know them better than most), and a couple years back I sold off a lot of shirts on eBay to fund getting my own cowboy boots custom made. I found a great guy by the name of George Millward who I wanted to make a pair for me.
http://www.cowboybootsbygeorge.com/
I designed the boots to mimic the classic facing Indian heads motif, as I wanted to pay respect for the craft but have it say something about me. I love robots, comics, and toys and Mazinga was about my favorite toy as a boy, so I figured why not do that instead. George thought it was a bit nuts, but went along with it. It took a year and a half to actually get them, in fact the week before my school year started, but man was it worth it. I wear them all the time, and they by no means are a show piece. Well that's about it. In case you're wondering I paid $1000 for them (as I said I sold shirts on eBay to fund that because no way I could afford it any other way), and George has told me he has destroyed the pattern, as he has no intention of making another like them. I have designed an Ultraman pair and a Batman Beyond pair as well, and we'll just have to wait and see if I win the Lottery to get those made. Enjoy the photos!"

Chris is equally thrilled at the Super 7 Stormtrooper Shogun coming out very soon. Now, that is cool!
http://www.starwars.super7store.com/news/

Hoppy Easter!

Peter Cottontail - Peter Pan Records

Easter's almost here, so it's time for some Easter music. This album is simply called Peter Cottontail (8194). It is by the Peter Pan Orchestra & players and was released on Peter Pan Records. There's no date on it, but my guess is early/mid 70s. I ripped this album myself and there's still some snaps, crackles and pops on it. There is also a small skip on the last track.

Track Listing

1. Peter Cottontail
2. Betty Bunny's Birthday Day
3. Marshmallow Bunny
4. Jack Rabbit Hits A Home Run
5. Benny Bunny's Band
6. I'd Rather Be A Bunny
7. The Little Bald Bunny
8. Bunny Hop
9. Silly Easter Bonnet
10. Ozzie The Ostrich

Click the link below to download (link updated 3-24-2013) --

-- Peter Cottontail --

If you still need MORE Easter music, my Easter Mix 2008 is still available for download here.