Tag: Bela Lugosi

Super Mates 108: House of Franklin-Stein Part 4

October 23, 2023

This episode BITES! It’s the final trip to the House of Franklin-Stein for 2023 as Chris and Cindy end the Halloween season with a look at the classic movie that started the Universal Horror cycle proper, 1931’s Dracula, starring the legendary Bela Lugosi!

Then the Prince of Darkness returns to bedevil Storm and the rest of Marvel’s Merry Mutants in Uncanny X-Men Annual #6, by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz!

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Dracula (1931) directed by Todd Browning

Theme from Pryde of the X-Men by Rob Walsh

Theme from X-Men: The Animated Series by Ron Wasserman

“The House of Franklinstein” by Terry O’Malley, of Stop Calling Me Frank https://www.facebook.com/rockSCMF

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Super Mates 97: House of Franklin-Stein Part 1

September 13, 2021

Return to the House of Franklin-Stein! The annual Halloween celebration begins with Chris and Cindy discussing a Universal Monsters classic, The Ghost of Frankenstein! Lon Chaney, Jr. puts on the flat top and the neck bolts, while Bela Lugosi returns as the sinister Ygor!

Then it’s off to the comic crypt, and X-Men (Vol. 1) # 30 “Mark of the Monster” by Roy Thomas, George Tuska, and Don Heck! The original mutant quintet meets Mary Shelley’s monster…or do they?

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Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) directed by Erle C. Kenton

“The House of Franklinstein” by Terry O’Malley, of Stop Calling Me Frank https://www.facebook.com/rockSCMF

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Super Mates 93: House of Franklin-Stein Part 3

October 12, 2020

The Super Mates keep it in the family by discussing the 1939 Universal Monsters Classic, Son of Frankenstein! Boris Karloff returns as the Frankenstein Monster, joined by an all-star cast featuring Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, and a scene-stealing Bela Lugosi as Ygor!

Then, via time hypnosis (!) we travel to the past with Batman and Robin to discover “The True Story of Frankenstein” from Detective Comics #135 (May 1948) by Edmond Hamilton and Bob Kane!

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Son of Frankenstein (1939) directed by Rowland V. Lee, music by Frank Skinner

“The House of Franklinstein” by Terry O’Malley, of Stop Calling Me Frank https://rumbarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/haberdashed

“Frankenstein” by The Edgar Winter Group

“The Electric Brain” from Batman movie serial (1943) by Lee Zahler

Batman Main Title March (1966 movie) by Nelson Riddle

“House of Frankenstein” by Big Bee Kornegay

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Super Mates 82: House of Franklin-Stein Part 1

September 13, 2018

Come back to The House of Franklin-Stein! The spooks are after Bud & Lou…and Chris & Cindy! It’s an all-time classic: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (and the Wolf Man, and Dracula!) With Chaney, Lugosi and Strange!

Then it’s over to the comic vault of horror to review Super Friends #28 (1979), featuring the World’s Greatest Super Heroes vs. a monster rally all their own: Solomon Grundy! Bizarro! Man-Bat! Etrigan the Demon! Swamp Thing!

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein directed by Charles T. Barton; music by Frank Skinner

Opening wedding march by Marc Shaiman from Addams Family Values

World’s Greatest Super Friends theme and incidental mustic by Hoyt Curtain

“(It’s A) Monster’s Holiday” by Buck Owens

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