Over 500 TV Show Episodes To Her Credit!

Barbara Luna!

The Leo Carrillo Ranch

Part 4

The  2008 Friday Night Film Festival Continued!

Last night Tina and I once again went to the Leo Carrillo Ranch in Carlsbad, California to take in one of the special Friday Night Film Festival shows starring Leo Carrillo! The Film Festival ends September 12th, 2008.

Last night's festivities started with wine and a picnic dinner, (bring your own or buy a Carrillo Combo consisting of hot dog, chips and soda), then a showing of a Cisco Kid TV Show episode from the early 1950's, and then the Main Feature!

The Cicso Kid episode last night was a more serious one, with two female ranchers who also had a lunch room in town. A couple of 'con men' rode into town, and came up with the idea of a staging a rodeo and making off with the prize money. Well, the Cisco Kid had other ideas on how to distribute the prize money! It was a pretty good episode and of course shown in color as all of the Cisco Kid TV Shows were filmed in during the b&w days of early TV!

The 'Main Feature' for this Friday Night  was the 1941 Film 'HoRRoR Island' where Leo was acting with Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, and Fuzzy Knight. 

Others in the cast were: Foy Van Dolsen, Iris Adrian, Emmett Vogan, John Eldredge and Hobart Cavanaugh.

The title of the film was a misnomer, as it wasn't a 'HoRRoR Film', but instead a play on the 'Ten Little Indians' where one after another the adventurers to the island were bumped off!

This was another short 'B' film, (60 minutes long), and this time Leo played a one-legged sailor with a treasure map to Morgan the Pirate's buried treasure...

Or at least half of the map, as 'The Phantom' took the other half of the map early in the movie and thus it was more of a semi-thriller with comedic scenes instead of a 'HoRRoR' film!

Dick Foran, the lead actor, was a good 'B' Film actor who also was in several TV Shows later including Laramie, Bonanza, Rawhide, Death Valley Days, and more.

Tina thought it was a good play on 'The Ten Little Indians' angle, and the film reminded her of her Aunt Anne's talking about going to see 'B' Films during the time period of this film with her Aunt.

I enjoyed seeing the film, with Leo playing a comedic swashbuckler. The outdoor showing was more heavily attended last night, with approximately half of the audience being 'newbies' to the Film Festival.

There are only two films left for the 2008 Summer Friday Night Film Festival.  I am looking forward to the 'A' Film running 127 minutes, The 'Lillian Russell' film from 1940, where Leo Carrillo also had a big role in it!

BTW, We don't show films here, although we do have an occasional DVD for sale here, but we do have an ongoing Comic Con  and Pop Culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Michael

Continual Interest

In Mister Seven's Cat 'Isis'

 As Pictured In Human Form!

That Was Victoria Vetri's

(a.k.a. Angela Dorian) 

Role on The Star Trek: TOS TV Show!

It Was Her Death...

 That Was Immortalized In
The Commemorative Issue Of Conan The Barbarian #100!  

I was just listing several more Conan The Barbarian Comic Books from Marvel Comics in our eBay Featured Store.

Issue #58 was Belit's introduction to the Marvel Comics Universe of Conan, and she lasted in the series until issue #100 which is shown at the top right when her death was the special issue's cover feature!

Robert E Howard, (REH), created Red Sonja, Conan The Barbarian, King Kull, Solomon Kane and others during his short life in Texas!

Marvel Comics included Belit in the Conan The Barbarian Comics in the 1970's culminating in the Death of Belit in Conan's issue #100!

Belit was first published in 1934 when REH had his 'Queen of the Black Coast' story printed in the May 1934 issue of Weird Tales!

Basically, Conan found Belit as follows: In the seacoast kingdom of Argos, after a brush with the Hyborian legal system, Conan hops aboard a southward bound ship. Off the coasts of Kush the ship is boarded by black corsairs under the Shemitish she-devil, Bêlit. Conan joins her crew, becomes her consort, and for a long time they harry the Hyborian and Stygian ports. During this stage of his career, Conan gains the name of Amra, the Lion, which is to follow him throughout his later life!

Check out our newest listings from the Age of Conan, including the Pocket Books reprints, Red Sonja, Conan the Barbarian Comics and more Sword & Sorcery Comics listings by clicking the top right comic book cover!

BTW, we have an ongoing Comic Con  and Pop Culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!

Michael

Originally They Were

 Classics Comics...

Then Classics Illustrated!

However by the Spring of 1971 these novels in illustrated format ceased to be published!

I was asked this because of yesterday's blog post where I blogged about the issues we picked up at the Comic Con, read, and then listed for sale.

When clicking on the photo of the issue shown to go along with the blog post, a new window popped up, showing more recent issues of Classics Illustrated.

If the Classics Illustrated had stopped being printed... then what were these I was asked via email?!

Well there have been a few attempts to revive this format.

First Publishing printed 27 issues, starting in February of 1990 and ending in June of 1991. I read a few of these, but found the artwork too modern for my tastes.

Acclaim printed 62 issues, starting in February of 1997 and ending in February of 1998, somewhat flooding the market...

Jack Lake Productions printed 4 issues in Canada during 2005.

Marvel Comics printed a 'Marvel Classics Comics' series from 1976 to 1978 consisting of 36 issues, which were similar to Classics Illustrated... These were some of my favorites and have been popular with our buyers in the past.

There have been other international editions published during and since Gilberton was publishing Classics Illustrated.