Automania 2000

50 year old animated cartoon from John Halas looking at the technology of the next century--this one.

1968 Jerry Lewis Show Episode

Jerry was huge in television in the fifties with Dean but had bad luck with his early sixties talk show and late sixties variety series, both of which are considered amongst the worst television ever offered. That said, time has made them fascinating curios. Here's a whole episode in context.

Ultraman Ginga

Here we have the opening credits for the new ULTRAMAN GINGA TV series. The original ULTRAMAN was a favorite of mine and I've enjoyed the various big-budget ULTRAMAN movies in recent years but this is essentially a modern kids show wit more POWER RANGERS influence than I like. Still, a great looking character!

Jack Davis TV Commercials

Jack Davis is alive and well in spite of a rumor to the contrary on Facebook this morning! Yay! Here's some commercials he worked on, mostly from the seventies it looks like.

Dave Bunker

Someone on Facebook posted a picture of this guy with the unusual musical instrument he invented and I had to find out what it sounded like. Here ya go.

Young Booksteve

Fans of my High School Journal blogs might like this forgotten glimpse of me circa 1978 as posted by my cousin  on Facebook this evening--a pic that I sent her at the time. I'm sitting at the same desk I'm sitting at now (not that it's visible in the pic). You can see my autographed pics of Karen Valentine and Marlo Thomas on the wall as well as Farrah and Marilyn Monroe on the art desk behind me and the 2 volume book club edition of John Toland's ADOLF HITLER (a bizarre Christmas gift from an Aunt a year earlier). I still have the Peanuts stickers, some of the large binders (filled with comics) the Sherlock Homes volume, and my high school senior English book (the big green one on the shelf). Jeez, those curtains were ugly. 

The Splashing Joke # 9

Here we are already at the end of the sixties and the end of our series. Once we hit the seventies, the Joker becomes a much different character than the one who had evolved since the first issue of BATMAN.