R Pond wrote:
Selling the great monsters down the river to Abbott & Costello even further painted them into a corner. Once the monsters had become a laughing stock in a comedy, no one could ever be truly scared by them again.
I read this all the time and I have to respectfully disagree.

I never (as a kid or as an adult) thought the monsters were made a laughing stock out of in A&CMF. If anything, they were scarier than ever to me.