Lower the flags into a mass of zombies.

[gridlore]

R.I.P. Bob Wilkins. Thanks for teaching me to truely love bad movies.

He also did this show, and I so want to do the costume. Captain Cosmic introduced a lot of us to the concept of Japanese animation.

So, what's your favorite bad science-fiction/horror movie of all time? For me, The Creeping Terror is the best of the best. Bad acting, a monster that looked like a shag carpet with occasional glimpses of sneakered feet under it, and the best part? The completed soundtrack was dropped into Lake Tahoe and the entire movie had to be re-dubed.

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[johno.livejournal.com]

I didn't grow up in the Bay Area, so Bob Wilkens is not my bad movie guide.

Sir Graves Ghastly in Detroit was my guide in my youth, followed up by The Ghoul in my teen years.

However, I will always love the giant monster movies from Japan. Bad acting, bad dubbing, bad monster suits, visible zippers and all.

[kshandra]

As I noted on klwalton's post yesterday, St. Peter no doubt greeted him with a box of really, REALLY long cigars.

I have two really clear memories of his shows - staying up to watch The House That Dripped Blood because Jon Pertwee was in it (fannish crossovers FTW!), and telling my seatmate in 3rd (4th?) grade that his name had come up in Captain Cosmic's drawing...and seeing him come in with his brand-spankin'-new copy of the Soccer Fever game a couple of weeks later for show-and-tell. :D (And it abruptly occurs to me to wonder if the classmate in question is on FB....)

Oh, yeah...

[kshandra]

...who else watched the fight scenes in Ultraman with the sound turned down because you were afraid to hear the alarm stop on his power light?

[kshandra]

(And it abruptly occurs to me to wonder if the classmate in question is on FB....)

He is - and I just sent him the WEIRDEST friend request he's likely to ever see. "Hi, I thought of you because somebody died." Surrealism FTW.

For a memorial

[capplor.livejournal.com]

There should be a good cigar & a bad SF flick. I'm not certain where would be best, but it must have those two.

Oh! & a picture of Captain Cosmic looking ... well ... Cosmic.

I remember when he showed the Invisible Man and he was not on camera, just a suit, his glasses & a cigar moving around as if he were there. While his droll voice explained the obvious as if it were something which couldn't be helped.

BTW: Joe Medina told me last night on FB.

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

The Crawling Eye - the Swiss Alps are invaded by giant, tentacle-waving eyes. Starring Forrest Tucker....