CONAN THE BARBARIAN" 4 STORIES (POWER RECORDS 8180)

It's been awhile, but here's yet another Power Record from my vault....enjoy...

Download Link (Hosted By Megaupload)

The Rocketeer: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score (1991)

I just absolutely love and adore this film, stemming from my long-time admiration for the comic book work of Dave Stevens, whom I've always considered an amazingly talented artist and all around nice guy...

Download Link (Hosted by Megaupload)

Adam West- "Miranda" (Fox 627) 1966

Sadly, my vinyl copy of this is in sad shape, with multiple scratches on the B side, so I was only able to create get an mp3 of "Miranda" up and going....

Anyone out there that has an mp3 copy of "You Only See Her", drop me a line....I'd surely appreciate it...

Download Link (Hosted By Megaupload)

Captain America & The Falcon: "...And A Phoenix Shall Arise" (Power Records PR-12, 1974)

This particular Power Records attempt at bringing Marvel Superheroes to the audio realm holds a soft spot in my heart, for it was the first of these releases I ever owned. I believe an older relative purchased it for me, and over the years the comic lost it's cover and the record became warped and broken...a few years back I was able to find another copy at a local dirt mall.

Pay close attention to the vocal talent they used for the Falcon. I cannot help but giggle whenever I hear this incredibly white-bread sounding voice attempting "jive-talk"....plus Captain Melodramatic....I mean, "America", does the audio equivalent of chewing scenery...

"The Big War.....just claimed another victim, Sam....."

Track Listing:

01 Captain America and The Falcon - And A Phoenix Shall Arise

Download Link (Hosted By Megaupload)

Batman: The Musical (Unproduced): The Demos (2002)

Yes, Dear Reader....this travesty actually exists....well...kinda...

Take it away, Wikipedia:

While a parody of a Batman musical was featured in one of the most recent series' comics, in 2002, Jim Steinman, David Ives, and Tim Burton had worked on a theatre production called Batman: The Musical although it was ultimately cancelled. Steinman has recently revealed five songs from the musical. The first is the opening theme for "Gotham City" and the entry of Batman with his tortured solo "The Graveyard Shift"; followed by "The Joker's Song (Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?)", "The Catwoman's Song (I Need All The Love I Can Get)", "We're Still The Children We Once Were" (the climactic sequence) and "In The Land Of The Pig The Butcher Is King", sung by the corrupt blood-suckers ruling Gotham, recently covered on the Meat Loaf album Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose. These songs can be heard at the Batman: The Musical memorial site, Dark Knight of the Soul

Just the thought of Batman getting the "Phantom of the Opera" treatment makes me smile for all the wrong reasons. It's too bad that this'll never see the light of day, because it could be an unintentional humor value goldmine...

For download tonight....the entire demo session....

Track Listing:

01 THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT
02 IN THE LAND OF THE PIG, THE BUTCHER IS KING
03 NOT ALLOWED TO LOVE
04 Not Allowed (Pop Version)
05 Not Allowed (Dance Version)
06 THE JOKER'S SONG (WONDERFUL TOYS)
07 THE CATWOMAN'S SONG (I NEED ALL THE LOVE I CAN GET)
08 WE'RE STILL THE CHILDREN WE ONCE WERE
09 CRY TO HEAVEN

Download Link (Hosted by Megaupload)

The Marvel Superheroes (1966)

I've been a fan of the 1966 Marvel Superheroes cartoons since childhood, watching them on WXIX Channel 19 out of Cincinnati. "XIX" (as it's referred to by the locals) carried the syndication package of these things for years.....I can remember them popping up from time to time at extremely odd time-slots as late as the mid-1990s on the station, usually early Saturday mornings...."early" as in the 4:30 to 5:30 a.m. range, when no child in their right mind would be awake...LOL! Amazingly enough, one discovers after taking a gander at Marvel's in-hopuse ads for the show in the comics of the era, WXIX was one of the stations that carried the show during it's original 1966 broadcasts, making it one of the few stations (if not the only one) around to re-run the damn thing for nearly 3 decades....

Even though the animation is incredibly limited, it does possess a certain minimalist charm to it, and all the storylines are practically lifted from the comics themselves. Quite literally, seeing as how alot of the "animation" in the shows themselves is crudely cut-and-pasted artwork from the original comics!!!!

For download tonight, all of the classic theme songs, and the rousing Marvel Superheroes March, which was used as a "blanket theme" for the show itself....I've always been particularly fond of the Hulk theme....

"Doc Bruce Banner / Belted by gamma rays / Turns into the Hulk / Ain't he unglamorous?"


In this file, I've also included the classic 1967 Spider-Man animated theme, just for good measure....

Track Listing:

01- Captain America
02- Iron Man
03- Marvel Superheroes March
04- Spider-Man '67
05- Sub-Mariner
06- The Incredible Hulk
07- The Mighty Thor

Download Link (Hosted by Megaupload)

Spider-Man: The Mark of The Man-Wolf (Power Records, PR-8146, 1974)

I was a Spider-Man fan as a child, cutting my teeth on the double whammy of the (then-current) introduction of the original Hobgoblin storyline and the (then-current, again) monthly reprints of the entire Lee/Ditko run of the book via the reprint title Marvel Tales, circa the early 1980s.

But, after a downhill slide of over a decade in incredibly terrible storylines, Marvel Comics has finally provided the straw that has broken the Web-Headed camel's back in the form of "One More Day".....

From Wikipedia:

One More Day is a 4-part, 2007 comic book crossover storyline, connecting all of the Spider-Man comic book series. It will conclude the storyline of the fallout of Spider-Man's actions during the Civil War. It starts in Amazing Spider-Man #544, continues in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #24 and The Sensational Spider-Man (vol. 2) #41, and concludes in Amazing Spider-Man #545.

The last issue has been delayed until late December, according to Newsarama.[1]

Writer J. Michael Straczynski wrote this: "there's a lot that I don't agree with, and I made this very clear to everybody within shouting distance at Marvel, especially Joe Quesada... there was a point where I made the decision, and told Joe, that I was going to take my name off the last two issues of the OMD arc." Eventually Joe talked me out of that decision because at the end of the day, I don't want to sabotage Joe or Marvel, and I have a lot of respect for both of those." ^[1]

The story has been quite controversial and has been heavily criticised by areas of the fandom under the assumption the story will undo Spider-Man's marriage. ^[2] The story itself is still ongoing.

Spoiler Alert!!!!!!! The following is (for anyone who cares) the revelation in store for those reading "One More Day"

Just prior to the One More Day storyline, Peter publicly confronts the government's Scarlet Spiders who each wear redesigned "Iron Spider" armor; their appearance in battle against and alongside Peter raised public doubt

over whether Parker is the original and/or only Spider-Man, despite his previous public reveal.

Peter's attempts to save Aunt May by contacting such diverse characters as Mister Fantastic or the High Evolutionary fail, prompting the demon Mephisto to appear to him with a bargain; he will save May's life, so long as Peter and Mary Jane agree to have all memory of their marriage wiped from all but a small part of their souls, thus allowing Mephisto to enjoy listening to that part scream for all eternity. Peter and Mary Jane agree to the deal and the continuity for the past 20 years is wiped out. Peter and Mary Jane are no longer married, Aunt May is no longer shot, Peter's unmasking

has never occurred, and Harry Osborn is alive (with everybody celebrating at a party for him). Fan reaction is almost completely negative to these changes.

IMO, if Joe Q. likes stories that focus on deals with the Devil, then he can burn in Hell. I wash my hands completely of any and all Marvel titles

. My reasoning? The Pete and MJ marriage is one of the better things to come about within the last 20 years in the book, and Marvel decides to chuck it. For what? A poor excuse for cop-out and poor writing? Screw Marvel. I'll never buy another one of their books again.

Anyways....onward to happier times. Here's another Power Records Marvel Comics post.

Track Listing:

01- Spider-Man: The Mark Of The Man-Wolf

02- The Incredible Hulk: At Bay

03-Captain America And The Falcon: And A Phoenix Shall Arise

04-The Fantastic Four: The Way It Began

Download Link (Hosted by Megaupload)

Christmas Countdown 2007: Ground Zero!!!

Lon Chaney Jr.- "Monster's Holiday" (Tower Records, 1964)




This delightful little .45 single is actually fairly hard to come by, but it's charming little tale of monsters hi-jacking Santa's sleigh is too heart-warming not to share...

Download Link (Hosted by Megaupload)

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Golden Records SLP170, 1964)



Sadly, my scanner crapped out on me, so I couldn't include the scans of the actual comic, but here's the album...

Download Link (Hosted by LIX.IN)

Merry Christmas, everyone....hopefully Droppo Claus visits each and every one of you all.

Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit (1965/67)

Face Front, True Believers! Going through some old crap I had laying around after being inspired by a viewing of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, I came across my copies of Voices of Marvel (1965) and Scream Along With Marvel (1967), two promo vinyls given away to those lucky enough to have been around to join Marvel's officially sanctioned in-house fan club, The Merry Marvel Marching Society (or, M.M.M.S., for short).

Thanks to a former employer who used to own the comic book shop in which I worked during my college days of the early 1990s, I was lucky enough to score a vintage Marching Society membership kit, as well as the above mentioned vinyls.

Remember when Marvel Comics were fun? The current state of the publisher has led me to boycott their output, but at least we have stuff like this to remember the Marvel Age of Comics...

Track Listing:

Voices of Marvel (1965)
01- The Bullpen, 1965

Scream Along With Marvel (1967)
01- The Mighty Marvel March

Included with the music are scans of the contents of my kit, as well as some later promo stuff mailed to kids during the 1966 holidays.

Download Link (hosted by Megaupload)

Christmas Countdown 2007: Superheroes Christmas (Power Records/Peter Pan #8199)

I've owned this record since around the age of 6, and because of it, nothing says Christmas like Wonder Woman beating up a Germanic Nazi type and the image of Batman in a fake beard.

Track Listing:

01 Light Up The Tree, Mr. President (Superman)
02 Christmas Carol Caper (Batman)
03 Prisoner of Christmas Island (Wonder Woman)

Download Link (Hosted by Megaupload)

Justice League

One of the better animated adaptations of comic book properties of late was the (now-concluded) Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated shows that aired on the Cartoon Network, which, being a comic book fanboy, I absolutely adored. I especially enjoyed Unlimited, which explored DC continuity itself more so than past animated attempts....and any cartoon that finally brings one of my favorite DC characters to the screen (The Golden Age version of the Vigilante) is alright in my book.



Track Listing:
01 - Justice League (theme)
02 - Justice League (end credits)
03 - Justice League Unlimited (theme)
04 - Justice League (Starcrossed theme)
05 -Justice League (Starcrossed end credits)
Download Link (Hosted by Megaupload)

Swamp Thing OST- Harry Manfredini (1982)

One of the first really shocking moments I experienced as a young comic reader was due to Alan Moore. As an annual birthday gift, an older relative would provide me with subscriptions to an even number of DC and Marvel titles....

Around 1983, I was up to about 3 apiece from the two companies, and when said kin asked me what titles I'd like to try in that particular year's birthday go-round....(insert hyper-active 9 year old voice liberally)

"Well....I wanna keep getting Green Lantern and All-Star Squadron, I like those....um....Swamp Thing! I wanna try that...I like the movie (the Wes Craven film was in heavy rotation on pay cable at the time, so naturally I had seen it about 10 times by this point probably)...."
So...in eager anticipation, I awaited for my first issue to arrive via the postal service. Little did I know that the first issue I would recieve would be the infamous "The Anatomy Lesson" (Saga of the Swamp Thing #21, February 1984), which blew my nine year old mind. No wonder I'm so fucked up now (RFLMAO!!!), because around the same time I was reading Frank Miller's Daredevil and above-mentioned relative had introduced me to the works Howard Chaykin (of whom I'm still a huge fan), mainly the then-current American Flagg!....

Needless to say, I was a faithful subscriber until Moore ended his run....

Thank God my upbringing was fairly liberal....in the words of my father, around the time I was 13 or 14: "So...looks like yer gettin' old enough to wanna go runnin' around on the weekends. Well...be home for school on Monday....and don't bring the Law with ya..."

Anyways, here's the Harry Manfredini score to the film that started a long-time love for Moore's works, bog monsters, and probably alot of petty larceny...

Track Listing:

1. Main Title (3:19) - Harry Manfredini
2. Cable And Alec (0:56) - Harry Manfredini
3. Cable's Capture (2:30) - Harry Manfredini
4. Ferret Meets The Swamp Thing (2:01) - Harry Manfredini
5. SwampThing To The Rescue (3:42) - Harry Manfredini
6. At The Lab (3:17) - Harry Manfredini
7. Airboats, Guns, Grenades (3:49) - Harry Manfredini
8. Cable Escapes (0:59) - Harry Manfredini
9. Swamp Thing And Cable (3:53) - Harry Manfredini
10. Bruno's Transformation (1:37) - Harry Manfredini
11. Arcane's Transformation (5:08) - Harry Manfredini
12. The Final Battle (4:35) - Harry Manfredini
13. Swamp Thing's Farewell (2:44) - Harry Manfredini

This would also explain why I own a DVD of the laughably terrible Return of the Swamp Thing...LOL!

Download link (hosted by Rapidshare)