{"id":619,"date":"2015-12-18T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=619"},"modified":"2015-12-18T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T10:31:36","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-santa-claus-conquers-the-martians-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;Santa Claus Conquers the Martians&#8221; (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPP ORIGINAL ART MAKES JUICY GIFTIES! Martian children stop eating their hamburger &amp; asparagus \u201cfood pills\u201d after watching Santa interviewed on earth-TV, building dolls that look just like them! Mars\u2019 prez sez it\u2019s confusing his kids &amp; consults an 800-year-old \u201cancient\u201d for advice! \u201cThey\u2019re born with electronic teaching machines attached to their brains &amp; by the time they can walk they\u2019re adults,\u201d he laments, &amp; \u201cnow they\u2019re rebelling &amp; wanna have fun\u201d! So: Mars needs Santa! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2011 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201cSanta Claus <em>Colonializes<\/em> the Martians!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-620 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians-673x1024.jpg\" alt=\"santa_claus_conquers_the_martians\" width=\"627\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians-673x1024.jpg 673w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians-768x1169.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/santa_claus_conquers_the_martians.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPP ORIGINAL ART MAKES JUICY GIFTIES! Martian children stop eating their hamburger &amp; asparagus \u201cfood pills\u201d after watching Santa interviewed on earth-TV, building dolls that look just like them! Mars\u2019 prez sez it\u2019s confusing his kids &amp; consults an 800-year-old \u201cancient\u201d for advice! \u201cThey\u2019re born with electronic teaching machines attached to their brains &amp; by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}