I almost showcased this cool Monster the Lovers T-shirt at Amazon for this week's Monster Monday post. Instead, I'm spotlighting it for this week's T-shirt Thursday post. The image features Frankenstein's monster and his bride. Sizes are available for Men, Men's Big and tall, Women and Women's Plus while the fabric are available in seventeen colors including black, navy blue, pink and red.
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Frankenstein and his bride are on this cool Monster Love Tumbler at Amazon. You can get it in white (shown), black or brushed steel. It can be used to hold 20 ounces of hot or cold liquid.
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Need something cool to cover that bare spot on your wall? Then you might want to check out this cool Vintage Monster Models Ad Tin Sign at Amazon. It repoduces the black and white magazine ad featuring model kits of your favorite Universal monsters including Dracula, the Wolfman, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein and the Mummy.
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Start your New Year off right by picking up the Universal Monsters 2026 Calendar. It measures 12" x 24" when open and features all the federal holidays. The front cover features Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, the Mummy and Dracula.
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Need a special holiday gift for that horror lover in your life? Then check out these cool Christmas Monster Heads at Amazon. The set of three ornaments includes the heads of Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolfman. Best of all they can also be used for next year's Halloween tree too.
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Archie Comics continues to celebrate 80 years and the spooky season with Archie's Halloween Spectacular #1. This one-shot comes out today and the cover by Dan Parent features Archie as a vampire, Jughead as a mummy, Veronica as a witch, Betty as a prom queen and Medusa Doom (she doesn't appear in any of the stories inside this issue). There is an alternate cover featuring Archie along with Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Mummy. The original story is "Trick or Treat" featuring the South Side Serpents (Toni, Weasel, Termite, Fangs and Daisy). Other stories include "One Prank Too Far" with the Archie gang and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Betty and Veronica in "That's the Spirit!", "Ruff Halloween", "It Ghost to Show You", "The Ghostest with the Mostest". Here is the official summary:
"Archie’s Halloween Spectacular #1 (2025) : This ain’t no trick, we’re TREATing you with a Halloween spectacular that’s BIGGER than ever! Now packed with over 40 PAGES of content, including a BRAND NEW STORY! The South Side Serpents are trying to recruit new members — and what better time to start their initiation than Halloween? This story is filled to the brim with tricks! Featuring fan-favorite characters and returning new faces like MEDUSA DOOM!"
Vampirella: Armageddon #1 (2025) hits the newsstands today. Here is the official summery: "Return to the future world of Vampirella and Sepulcher City in Vampirella: Armageddon, from Vampirella writer Tom Sniegoski and artist Kewber Baal! Picking up from where our last series (Vampirella Strikes!) left off, Vampirella faces internal and external forces of chaos as a new threat arrives to stare her down! A threat… not of this mortal plane!"
Of course, there are several variant covers to collect. One of my favorite covers is the Universal Monsters cover by Mark Spears since it has Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Wolfman, the Mummy and the Creature of the Black Lagoon.
Universal Monsters: Frankenstein #1 from Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment was released in August while #2 hit the newsstands in September and #3 came out this month. The covers and interior artwork of all three are great with what I want to call dayglo coloration. The series is loosely based on the 1931 movie starring Boris Karloff as the monster.
The loading screen at SuperCity on Facebook is decked out for Halloween again this year. See if you can spot the witches, Frankenstein's monster, the Ghostbusters car, devil, ghosts, jack o'lanterns, haunted house and other scary and non-scary items.
The Headless Horseman Annual 2024 was released earlier this week from Dark Horse Comics. The cover features a headless woman and Frankenstein-like monster with a horse's head. There are five horror stories in this issue introduced by the female headless horseman. The first story is "Leech Lake" about three teen girls that usually goes trick or treating every year but two of them decide to go to a party instead. The second story is "Feeder" about a zombie just trying to survive after the zombie apocalypse. "Stingy Jack and the Cursed Lantern" is the third story that tells the origin of Stingy Jack O'Lantern (this is my favorite). The fourth story is "The Spice of Life (and Death)" that finds a couple not getting along with their new neighbors (this one is my second favorite). "Little Rabbit" is the fifth story about a girl escaping and running away.
Viola Davis will reprise her role of Amanda Waller in the Creature Commandos animated series. Frank Grillo will be the voice of Rick Flag, Sr. while Nina Mazursky (a scientiest turned into a Creature from the Black Lagoon-type monster) will be voiced by Zoe Chao. Other characters include Doctor Phosphorous (Alan Tudyk), Frankenstein (David Harbour), Bride (Indira Varma), G.I. Robot (Sean Gunn) and Weasel (Sean Gunn). The series will premiere in December of 2024 on MAX.
You can view the first trailer at First trailer for DC's "Creature Commandos" unveils Amanda Waller's monster hit squad.
I forgot to post the cover galleries for Elvira in Monsterland #2 and #4 when the issues originally came out. The fifth issue came out last week so I thought I would post all three cover galleries today for this week's Women Wednesday post. In issue two, she riffs on Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein movies.
In Elvira in Monsterland #4, she riffs on the kaiju movie Destroy All Monsters, which features Godzilla.
Issue five wraps up the mini-series with Elvira battles Vlad the Impaler and his army of monsters but she gets help from a super hero group that spoofs The Avengers movie.
Note: You can view Elvira in Monsterland #1 Cover Gallery here and Elvira in Monsterland #3 Cover Gallery here.
Mergest Kingdom started their annual Halloween Adventure on Monday, October 24th. I have played it a few times on Facebook but I don't think I'm going to be able to finish it in nine days. I have yet to finish any of the special events at Mergest Kingdom. Frankenstein's Monster is the first helper that you can get in order to collect lanterns (yes, they spelled it wrong):
You can even get Count Dracula to help out:
Other helpers include a witch (I have gotten her), a spooky skelton and a spooky scarecrow. There are also ghosts that will drop items when you click on them.
I've been playing WWE SuperCard game a lot this month on Facebook mostly because they have cards with special Halloween themes. Among my favorites are the Frankenstein cards where the wrestlers are made up to look like the monster. I don't know how many are in each set but I only have Big E, Bobby Lashley, Sami Zayn and Seth Rollins so far. The other Halloween sets include Day of the Dead, Deadly Dollhouse, Ghosts and Vampires.
You didn't think I would let this year's Countdown to Halloween pass without doing a post on the monster cereals from General Mills did you? The local Walmart's didn't stock the family size until October 18 but I had to take a road trip to see the out of town dentist on October 16. I found the normal size boxes at the Dillons Marketplace and picked up all three. All three has the same monster party scene on the back that also includes other cereal mascots and a certain doughboy from General Mills. Of course, none of the cereal boxes has a toy prize hidden inside.
I finished off Count Chocula cereal and still have a little Franken Berry left. Neither have that strong and sweet chocolate or strawberry taste that I remember from my childhood days in the 1970s. I haven't even opened the Boo Berry box yet.
Here is front and back of the Boo Berry Monster Cereal 2020 box:
Here is the front and back of the Count Chocula Monster Cereal 2020 box:
Here is the front and back of the Franken Berry Monster Cereal 2020 box:
Note: My scanner cut off the side of the Franken Berry box for some reason.
