Cool Halloween Shit #3

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Jack T. Chick's Halloween Tracts

Boo!

The Little Ghost

The Little Princess

Happy Halloween

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Cool Halloween Shit #2

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Cool Halloween Shit #1

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Hot Jack o' Lantern Action

Tonight I carved those freak conjoined siamese pumpkin twins I mentioned a few posts down -- not too shabby, if I do say so myself.

If I could have just one Halloween wish this year, it would be that people stop writing "Hallowe'en."
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Evel Knievel + Halloween = Scare Cycles!

After Ideal shitcanned Evel in 1977 for beating up Sheldon Saltman with a baseball bat, the toy company sought a replacement figure on which to base their popular "Gyro-Powered" motorcycle toys. They settled on three: Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Grim Reaper (or somebody like him -- why not the Wolfman, or the Mummy?).

In any case, Ideal rolled out the Scare Cycles line in 1978, featuring the Frankencycle (driven by a Fonzie-like Frankenstein)...

...the Dracucycle (with Dracula splayed across a coffin)...

...and Boneshaker (a three-wheeler piloted by the Grim Reaper guy)...

The Frankencycle had glow-in-the-dark parts and a "Haunted House Winder," and I suppose the others did too. Read more here, and if you understand Japanese, here.

Then Ideal shitcanned the monsters for their 1982 line of Gyro-Powered Team America motorcycle toys, which I might write about around Independence Day.
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At the Pumpkin Patch!

After today's trip to Carpinito Brothers, we now have ten pumpkins in the house (eleven, if you count both halves of the freak conjoined siamese pumpkin twins I found -- looks kinda like this).

We passed on the vampire corn maze.
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It Was Three Days Ago Today

For our Saturday night, pre-Halloween parties, Eliza dressed as mustard...

...and I "dressed" as a witch.

Then it was two days ago today that Kris and Jennie came with us to pick some pumpkins at the Washington Corn Maze (which I wrote about last year). That night we carved these bitchin' jack o' lanterns -- Kris did the Jesus one, Jennie made the one with the stars, Eliza made the one with the sinister grin, and I did the other two...

Happy Halloween!
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