Prop collector and historian Bob Burns celebrated the release of Monsterscene Magazine’s epic cover story on his life and career with an afternoon of sci-fi gadgets and good will.
Burns displayed a treasure trove of iconic rarities, including the fabled Wolf’s Head cane from 1941’s The Wolfman, a rare latex alien head and miniature spaceship from Invasion of the Saucer-Men, the ‘Snake’ head of actor Arthur O’Connell from George Pal’s 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, a ‘Rocketeer’ helmet and, of course, the beloved stop-motion armatures from the original King Kong and Mighty Joe Young.
Friends and fans in attendance included Emmy-winning make-up artist John Goodwin, John “Arizona Gillman” Gilbert, actor Daniel Roebuck, producer Chuck Williams, artist Russ Jones and many others.
The afternoon also saw the earliest resurrection of Bob & wife Kathy’s Burbank-based Halloween shows as friends new and old signed a written petition offering their services to participate in what later became their final and most ambitious show paying homage to the 1951 chiller The Thing from Another World.
