Comics and The Silver Surfer

Jess and I visited the Wolf Flea Market today. It's right off I 90-94 in the AllState Arena(formerly Rosemont Horizon) parking lot in Chicago.
Sadly it was the last weekend of the market till April 2008. I have been coming on and off throughout the last couple of months. There are plenty of odd treasures to be found. I was actually contemplating on purchasing a Colombo Detective Board Game. For me the real deals were in these comic book vendors. I have found old back issues of the Amazing Spider-Man where he discovers his cosmic powers and other issues such as Stan Lee/Jack Kirby Silver Surfer, X-men etc. all for $1.00 The stories seem to be much better way back when. The larger city comic stores have these but for a hefty price.
On our way out I came across a Silver Surfer Toy. It was pretty dirty but had some charm. The Surfer came with his trademark Surfboard which his feet could slide in (Snowboarding?) The lady screamed two dollars, I.. of course not hearing her well said one dollar? Sold!! The figure almost looks like a bad silver Oscar, but it's well articulated and has happily found a place among many of my Japanese monsters and heroes. Made by Toybiz 1994

Martin Harris (Featured artist for November)

The Lost Kaiju is pleased to announce Martin Harris as our next featured artist.
Please check back in November to see this artist's fantastic world of imagery! What comes to mind is Roald Dahl meets Eiji Tsuburaya.
If you don't already know Martin was in a issue of Super 7 magazine He also has an outstanding toy collection that is said to be legendary!

October Halloween Movies

One of my favorite days of the year is October 31st Halloween. As a kid I would decorate the outside of our house with grotesque beings and add some eerie music to scare the trick or treaters.

My favorite pastimes is also collecting horror posters, lobby cards etc. I'm especially
into most of the Hammer Horror films of the sixties and seventies, as well as the Amicus movies. I'm getting ready to pull out my collection of dvds and watch them over this month. Here is the rundown of the films I'll be watching and hope you'll find them somewhat frightful but nevertheless entertaining!

Horror of Dracula (Lee and Cushing at their Best!)
Curse of Frankenstein (Christopher Lee's portrayal of the Monster is pretty creepy)
The Mummy Karloff/Lee (original and Hammer remake)
Warhol's Blood for Dracula (Criterion)
The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Eyes without a Face (Criterion)

Horror Express
The Creeping Flesh
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper Original)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter)
Phantasm
Shockwaves (Blue Underground) "The Best of all the Nazi Zombie movies!"
Dawn of the Dead (George Romero original)
Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)
Return of The Living Dead

Reanimator (Anchor Bay)
Vampyros Lesbos (Jess Franco) Search out the soundtrack, "Sexadelic Dance Party-groovy
A Clockwork Orange ( Kubrick)
Evil Dead
Destroy All Monsters!
And the one I cannot miss-out on the Halloween season
It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!


Added 10/10/07
Halloween 3
Dr Phibes (Vincent Price)
Haunted Palace (Vincent Price)
Witch-finder General (Midnight movies)
The Thing (John Carpenter) (Original Howard Hawks)
The Shining (Kubrick/ Stephen King)


Thanks to Martin Harris for his scary movie contributions! :)
I'm sure I've might have left a few out. We will be updating The Lost Kaiju in the next few days, so please check back for some new items!

Stay Tuned

The Lost Kaiju has some great new figures arriving soon, please stay tuned. We will be updating the storefront shortly. Please enjoy the new Iron Man trailer. Robert Downey Jr's portrayal of Tony Stark looks to be fantastic.

In Touch with ToyKarma

Rotofugi's ToyKarma show is already here and will be opening it's doors this Saturday September 8 in Chicago on Chicago Avenue. I met up with Carlos Enriquez one of the many big talents presenting works at the gallery. He introduced me to Mark Nagata curator of ToyKarma. This show looks to be one of the biggest and first of it's kind I believe. A lot of the figures have already sold out on Rotofugi's preview list. Kirby and Whitney did a great job handling the masses as they drove the server to meltdown. Congratulations on the folks who were lucky enough to get some of the great figures, Their are sure to be more on opening day!

Coming

In the upcoming weeks/months The Lost Kaiju will be selling you Anraku, Exohead, CCP Meltdown Godzilla and much more. Stay tuned for more information soon.... Also upcoming is the latest addition to our gallery section is from Pickeloaf. You can check out his fascinating and informative blog called Assorted Loaf (random musings on dirty little habits)

Out with the Old & In with the New

The Lost Kaiju is moving some old inventory onto ebay to make room for some new items. Please check our ebay store now for aged or fresh new Wonderfest goodness and then back at The Lost Kaiju store page for new figures next week!