Ten Years of Blogging...

Today marks the ten year anniversary of this blog.

My very first post, on October 5, 2006, was about the 1973 G.I. Joe yeti.  So I decided to make things come full circle for the close of this blog.

It's been fun! So long, everybody. 

Now I've Seen Everything: KISS vs. Robot Yeti

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park was a film from 1978. In the flick, KISS battle robot yetis.

Read more here, here, and here.

Now I've Seen Everything: KISS vs. Robot Yeti

Kids Cartoon: Return to the Planet of the Apes

In the 70s cartoon, "Return to the Planet of the Apes", the mountain apes have a Tibetan style. Their god is Kygoor, who is basically the yeti.

• Battle of the Titans (aired November 1975)
• Terror on Ice Mountain (aired November 1975)

  

[Mammal Week] Menagerie

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Baby Seals

Apes

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 On December 26, 1979, a yeti and a yak visited the New York Zoo. Photos by Frank Leonard.

And does this count? Charlie from We Bare Bears on Adult Swim:

Thanks, Jonny!

Daffy Duck vs. Yeti

The year was 1975..

[Destination: U.S.A.] Pacific Northwest

It's time to drive north, up the coast to the states of the Pacific Northwest. It is a region known, of course, for another famous hairy hominid. But today we're looking for his cold-climate cousin.

Oregon Dreaming by Ryan Berkeley

See this window display on the pawn shop STUFF on 82nd street in Portland, Oregon:

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Or this swell painting on the walls of Seattle eatery, Annapurna Cafe:

And in the 1970s you might have seen commercials for Pacificbank featuring a yeti mascot that was mislabeled a Bigfoot. 

 From Steve Mandich's Bigfoot on Film:

During the '70s, the Northwest-based Pacificbank billed itself as "Bigfoot's Bank." Their articulate, white-pelted spokesquatch sported a bushy mustache and often toted an umbrella on his forearm. He appeared on T-shirts and buttons, as well as in the form of childrens' coin banks and plush toys, all presumably bank giveaways. This animated ad has Bigfoot explaining how the bank can help people new to the area, but doesn't include Bigfoot's catchphrase -- "See Ya!"

Previously blogged this piggy bank:

 But there are other paraphernalias:

Happy Father's Day to the Silver Surfer, the Father of Yeti

Today I want to wish the Silver Surfer a Happy Father's Day. Here's why...

The Defenders were a Marvel superhero team consisting of Doctor Strange, Hulk, Namor (Submariner), the Silver Surfer, and Valkyrie.

In the second issue of the series (October 1972, The Defenders, Vol 1 #2 - "The Search for the Silver Surfer!"), Silver Surfer hadn't yet joined the group and was suspected of being a villain. In the first issue, he seemed to be acting as accomplice to an evil necromancer.

As part of their adventure, the team (sans Surfer) stumble into a Himalayan valley filled with yetis (of the brown variety). And a fight ensues. 

(Thanks to blogger Patrick D Gaertner for posting about this issue and sharing these images.)

During the fight, the Silver Surfer suddenly appears to defend the "harmless" yetis, proclaiming them his children.

Namor bull-rushes the Silver Surfer as he wishes him a Happy Father's Day - the ultimate retort.

The Incredible Hulk fights and insults the yeti, as he is wont to do (see here, here, here, and here (wish list # 6, please)), when he's not dressing up as one.

I'll let Gaertner comment:

"Words cannot describe how much I love this scene. It just gets better and better. Silver Surfer appearing and claiming that the crazy yetis that Hulk has been beating up are his children is good enough. But then Namor just immediately socks him in the face and yells “Well Happy Father’s Day.” It’s just beautiful."

Namor and Silver Surfer do stop fighting long enough to have a conversation.  Namor asks him what's up with his whole "being in league with an evil necromancer" thing. Surfer claims innocence. Turns out he has been devoting his life for many years to fostering and teaching this tribe of simple-minded yetis.

That's right, folks. The Silver Surfer is a dedicated father of a flurry of yetis.

Wait - could these be the same yetis that Surfer encountered in Issue # 1 of Silver Surfer (1968)?  They were white-furred then, and Surfer vowed to leave that "place of madness",  so I'm not sure what happened in 4 years. Did he go back? Plus, weren't they supposed to be living in another dimension, not the Himalayas?

It's a mystery.

Anyway, here's the craziest part of the Defenders' story: the Silver Surfer's children (i.e. the yetis) suddenly reveal themselves to be evil warlocks in disguise.  This whole time they had been pretending to be his yeti kids so they could gain his trust and control his mind. They got him to mess with Namor for an evil necromancer's plot. Their leader's name is Calizuma and his minions are called the "Warrior Wizards".

The Defenders be all like "nuh uh" and, now united with a vengeful Silver Surfer, team up to soundly beat the warlocks. And thus the Silver Surfer is recruited into the Defenders.

And that's the end of that.

So I second Namor's sentiment to the Silver Surfer, and this time without sarcasm.  If you did indeed devote your life to being the father of a tribe of yetis, teaching them and fostering them, only to be horrifically betrayed by them as they unveiled themselves to be your mind-controlling warrior wizard masters in yeti disguises all along... then I salute you on this day.

I want to wish you a most:

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, SILVER SURFER.


You deserve it.

Yeti Loves Tattoos, Apparently

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Shaved Yeti

Comic: The PM Monthly (1977)

[Destination: Italy] Republic Day

Well, would you look at that, we're in Italy today. And it just happens to be Festa della Repubblica, the party to celebrate the End of Monarchy.  

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Yeti il Gigante del 20º secolo (1977) known as "Giant of the 20th Century" in English (why?) is widely considered a terrible, stupid film. It is an Italian rip-off of 1976's King Kong.

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The film was likely the inspiration behind this song by Italian band Boomerang called "yeti" (1978):

Only lyrics are "I'm the Yeti on the Mountain."

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On Milan, Italy this yeti was spotted at  "Torna Il Villaggio delle Meraviglie":

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Here's a commercial for Be-Total (an Italian medicine brand):

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And there was a comedic interview on Italian TV:

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Plus, famous artist Milo Manara made a comic:

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Ciao!