We now return you to "The Return of the Datajunkie"!

Q:I didn't know you were planning a come-back?
A:I hate that word! It's a RETURN!!!
From the film "Sunset Boulevard" (1950)

Oh, yes, it's me.... I'm back, for better or worse - No plan, no back-up, and oh yeah... I've got nothing to lose....
Took a nice long break from this, filed some reports, did a whole bunch 'o' interesting stuff, but all the while i've been scanning and collating and doing the due diligence in the definitive datajunkie manner.

OK cats & kittens, here we go, and as I said on the dance floor earlier, you might want to find something to hang on to....

First up - themed compilations! If I can't get these published as real paper type books, the virtual e-book is da next best thang! First up, two collections of horror stories from Eerie Publications by Dick Ayers and Chic Stone (a couple of these came from some Skywald mags).


Dick Ayers Eerie Horror Compilation


Chic Stone Horror Datajunkie Compilation

These should be obvious from the covers...


Satan's Greatest Hits


Squishy Swamp Stories


Jungle Jitters


Weird SF 1

Enjoy!

Mo' Horror!

More thrills and chills for you gals and ghouls from that bone-chilling blogger, Mr "Hair-raising Horror" himself, Mr. Hyper Dave. More Charlton, more from Fass, more audio.... what's not to love?

Weird Vampire Tales 1 from 1979 is the usual nasty, vile, putrid, icky low-rent slush we all know and love....so don't ask! Just download! At least in this digital age the newsprint doesn't make your fingertips go all smudgy and black.... just your mind!



Weird Vampire Tales 1

Two Steve Ditko stunners from "The Big C", and the scripting for both the Gorgo and Konga stories (by Joe Gill I assume) are handled with a light whimsical touch. Mr. Ditko picks up on this, and the Konga story is a real treat, including a running gag featuring a picture of the (obligatory) scientist's girlfriend acting as a Greek chorus (look, just read the darn thing, it will all make sense). The aforementioned scientist gives our ape protagonist a shot of shrinky-dink juice, so he can get a dose of his own medicine... sort of a simian version of "the Incredible Shrinking Man". The Gorgo story is also pretty neat as it features an intelligent bottle-nose dolphin, making this a weird hybrid.... kind of like "Flipper" meets "Godzilla"...... and people wonder why I have such a soft spot for these old Charlton books.


Return Of Gorgo 3


Konga's Revenge

Plus more audio full of spooky radio ads, three for "Bloodfiend", plus "Blood-O-Rama Shock Festival", and my favorite - "Chiller Carnival of Blood". But wait! There's more! How about three radio spots for Dario Argento's classic "Suspiria"!

Coming next week - I think i'll round up some "Buccaneers" and we'll dig up some kind of "Buried Treasure" since we're still living in a world full 'o' pirates....

The HORROR of it ALL - Now in Spook-a-phonic sound!

Well, I hate to say it, but you are a predictable lot. Horror comics, horror comics, horror comics.... that's ALL I hear. OK then, if it's horror comics you want, then horror comics you shall have.

First out of the gate, is the OTHER "Tales from the Crypt" from Myron Fass' Eerie Publications. For some strange reason, old Bill "E.C." Gaines was none too pleased with this one, so this is the one and only issue bearing this title. Nice try Myron. Pre-Code reprints of stories "Skeleton In The Closet","Experiment In Terror","Blood and Old Bones", "Forever Dead","Thief of Souls" & "The Beautiful and The Dumb" (both omitted from the Contents page!?!) and "Horror Harbor". All this in the new cbz format no less!


Tales from Myron's Crypt

Now, for those of you who have been asking and asking and asking for me to re-post some of my greatest Charlton hits... OK! Enough is too much.
Here's two for now, more later (re-posts are such a drag, man).

Creepy Things 6 has "Vampire of Hanover" with art AND story by Pat Boyette. Cover & cute 1-pager "Turned-Off"by Mike Zeck and the hirsute cover story "The Hairy One" by Tom Sutton.


Creepy Things #6

Ghostly Tales 99 starts out with cover and story "Here Comes The Bride" by "Sturdy" Steve Ditko, plus two tales by Wayne Howard - "The Statue" a nifty 1-pager, and also the very droll "Meeting of The Damned".


Ghostly Tales #99

Now what's this Spook-a-phonic sound thing all about? It's simple - here's a whole bunch of classic "Spookshow" radio ads, plus one for "Monsters A-Go-Go", and six great ads for one of my favorite SF films of the 70's, "Zardoz". Put 'em in the music player of your choice and listen to the scary sounds while you read the spooky comics! Neat-o!
Get 'em here!


OK... I gotta go - I'm starting to creep myself out here!


PS. Download link for Capt. 3D works fine for me...

Way-out west!

Well folks, your old pal Hyper Dave is finally starting to feel like his old self again, but i'm not gonna push my luck. Still takin' it easy with lots of home-made chicken soup and fresh juice sounds pretty good.
Here's some western-style re-post to keep you happy while I get some convalescence, with ads!

Wyatt Earp 65

TV Time!

I know there's some great pun or fabulous observation or some kind of "Days of Future Past (or Passed)" thing lurking in here, but it's been a long day and i'm just too pooped to see it.
Suffice it to say that these are two really good comics, with great art and interesting stories. Korg has story and art by the under-rated Pat Boyette, while Nicola Cuti and John Byrne do a swell job with the Gerry Anderson adaption.
Many people seem to have a low opinion of Charlton Comics, but these two books are pretty darn enjoyable (in my humble opinion). Read 'em and see!


Korg-70,000BC #9


Space:1999 #4

Semper Fi and all that jazz.....

Fightin' Marines 108


Fightin' Marines 113


Fightin' Marines 114


Fightin' Marines 116


Fightin' Marines 118

War from the "Big C" - with excellent art by the usual suspects, Pat Boyette, Tom Sutton (cover to #116), what looks like an inking job by Wayne Howard, and surpisingly, a cover by Marvel Comics stalwart Dan Adkins (for #118).
Enjoy - just don't forget to keep your head down!

And in the interest of equal time ("The Great Debate" and such) here's a bunch 'o' longhairs with another viewpont!



Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines



When someone makes a move
Of which we don't approve,
Who is it that always intervenes?
U.N. and O.A.S.,
They have their place, I guess,
But first send the Marines!

We'll send them all we've got,
John Wayne and Randolph Scott,
Remember those exciting fighting scenes?
To the shores of Tripoli,
But not to Mississippoli,

What do we do? We send the Marines!
For might makes right,
And till they've seen the light,
They've got to be protected,
All their rights respected,
'Till somebody we like can be elected.

Members of the corps
All hate the thought of war,
They'd rather kill them off by peaceful means.
Stop calling it aggression,
O we hate that expression.
We only want the world to know
That we support the status quo.
They love us everywhere we go,
So when in doubt,
Send the Marines!


Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army



Don't start me talking
I could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking
While I'm putting the world to right
Called careers information
Have you got yourself an occupation


Oliver's army is here to stay
Oliver's army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today

There was a checkpoint charlie
He didn't crack a smile
But it's no laughing party
When you've been on the murder mile
Only takes one itchy trigger
One more widow, one less white nigger

Oliver's army is here to stay
Oliver's army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today

Hong Kong is up for grabs
London is full of arabas
We could be in palestine
Overrun by a chinese line
With the boys from the mersey and the thames and the tyne
But there's no danger
It's a professional career
Though it could be arranged
With just a word in Mr. Churchill's ear
If you're out of luck you're out of work
We could send you to johannesburg

Oliver's army is here to stay
Oliver's army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today

And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today



Midnight Oil - U. S. Forces



U. S. Forces give the nod
It's a setback for your country
Bombs and trenches all in rows
Bombs and threats still ask for more

Divided world the C. I. A.
Who controls the issue?
You leave us with no time to talk
You can write your own assessment

Sing me songs of no denying
Seems to me too many trying
Waiting for the next big thing

Will you know it when you see it
High risk children dogs of war
Now market movements call the shots
Business deals in parking lots
Waiting for the meat of tomorrow

Everyone is too stoned to start emission
People too scared to go to prison
We're unable to make decisions
Political party line don't cross that floor
L. Ron Hubbard can't save your life
Superboy takes a plutonium wife
In the shadows of Ban the Bomb we live

Sing me songs of no denying
Seems to me too many trying
Waiting for the next big thing

Oh No! It's A Giant Monster!!

He's GORGO-riffic!

The first issues of these two titles are reprinted in FANTASTIC GIANTS #1 - Possibly one of the best all-Ditko books you'll ever read.


This was the first book that Steve did after his acrimonious departure from Marvel... a parting of the ways with Stan Lee over "creative differences" regarding certain elements of Spiderman. Just look at these pages below -


Simply amazing!
This 64 page stunner reprints Konga #1 and Gorgo #1 plus 2 short "weirdies" done right after his leaving Marvel! Chip on his shoulder? Could be....
64 pages of Steve Ditko & Joe Gill! This pdf is sooooo big I hadda upload it two parts! Yowza!

Fantastic Giants Part 1
Fantastic Giants Part 2




Gorgo 3

Issue 12 [non-Ditko] features an appearance (guest shot, crossover... hmmm - do monsters "cross-over"?) by "Reptisaurus" (AKA Reptilicus).


Gorgo 12

Steve's back on board with this one... Look Out!

Gorgo 15


Even though Steve Ditko DIDN'T do the artwork on issue 20 it has something great going for it. Pure weirdness.


Lookin' good, Oh Green One!



Gorgo 20


But WAIT! There's MORE!


Gorgo's Revenge

Don't let the cover fool ya, it's pure Ditko inside!

Return of Gorgo 3

Everybody KONGA!


These monster books [Gorgo and Konga] are among the best comics Charlton EVER produced - taking an almost ridiculous format and investing it with more depth than the material deserved.

Konga #4


Konga 5


Konga 8


Konga 9

Another gem by Ditko and Gill as Konga gets shrunk to bite-size....
It's the [incr]edible shrinking Konga!

Konga's Revenge 2

OK, so this isn't by Ditko, but it's still a fun book. Interiors by Montes and Mastroserio, cover by Giordano, script by Joe Gill (I would assume).

Konga's Revenge 3

Some of these are re-posts, but a few are here for the first time. 13 monster books from your old pal, "Hyper" Dave. Share and enjoy!

Coming next... a BIG surprise for all you Charlton fans!
Stay tuned!

¡Viva La Difference Del Charlton!

Hey cats and kittens, once again it's your old pal Hyper Dave with more stinky old comic books (in the new improved electrical-type format). As usual, i'm pressed for time, so let's get cracking!


This Ditko weirdy was featured as a back up in E-Man...
Think Mr. A on nitrous oxide and you've got it!

Killjoy


'Nuff Said on THIS gem!
Space Adventures 36

These two are pretty schlocky... but we like drek too, right gang?

Unusual Tales 47


Space Adventures 57


Master Of Kung Fu? Who he? Yang ROCKS!
Yang 5


Pat Boyette at his best!
Korg 1

PS. To all that asked me stuff - Vincent Price post coming up soon, also Part 3 of The Spectre, NatLamp re-post in the works, and i'm sorry Vince, but that's all the Bill Ward stuff I have....