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Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy)

Movie Pressbook:
The Land That Time Forgot (1975)

I picked up my first Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks at Phil Seuling's comic shop in Brooklyn. The pages were tanned, the stories exciting. Also snagged a leather-bound set of Charles Dickens works. Oh, yes, and I bought a lot of comics, met Roy Thomas and other comic and Warren magazine notables, and had the time of my life. I would ride my bike to the shop after school just about every day. And yes, my bike had the chrome bullet headlight, fox tail, banana seat, and long handlebars. Somebody stole it one day and I've not been able to fully capture the magic back ever since. Of course, now that I'm all grown up, my Mustang helps soothe the loss. Maybe I should tie a fox tail to its antenna. 

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Movie Pressbook: The Crawling Hand
and The Slime People (1963)

Somehow, the partial female nudity doesn't make me wonder where that crawling hand has been; instead, I do wonder how much it sold the theaters on showing this "jolting space shocker." While this is not a double bill pressbook, it does also contain promotion for The Slime People. The ad campaigns for both movies do not showcase the films together as a double bill, so this pressbook is something of an oddity.

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British Pressbook:
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

This 11 by 14 inches British pressbook for To the Devil a Daughter is printed on heavy stock paper, has a full-color cover, and the interior page layout is well done. In other words, this pressbook wasn't cheap to produce. Please note there is one picture showing Nastassja Kinski nude from the front.

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