Glad we could arrange Mr. Nakajima to attend Monsterpalooza, Eliot — this is going to be a great weekend at my favorite monster convention of all time! (BTW, the b&w photo used by Eliot, came from my blog — http://augustragone.blogs...o-nakajima-original.html ). The photo is owned by Greg Shoemaker and it originally appeared in an issue of his seminal zine Japanese Fantasy Film Journal in the early 1970s. Uncle Forry later borrowed the photo for his Editorial in the All Japanese Monsters issue of FM (#114) published in 1975 — so, there's a lot of monster kid history connected with this photograph, which is why I asked Greg's permission to use it in promoting Mr. Nakajima's appearance at Monsterpalooza!

Once I received the hi-res scan from Greg, I passed it along to FM cover artist, Bill Selby, to restore the photograph, and commissioned him to create a colorized version — like a hand-tinted lobby card — to help promote the event (I think he did a splendid job):


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