1) INTRODUCTION
Welcome to MonSFFA’s March 2023 e-Meeting!
This afternoon, we welcome a special guest speaker, long-time Toronto SF/F fan, ’zine scribe, and now editor of the modern incarnation of Amazing Stories, Lloyd Penney! We’ll also be looking at the brief history of Canada’s wartime comic-book heroes, and this country’s homegrown SF/F pulp magazine, Uncanny Tales.
All of this and more is on the agenda today!
And so, let us begin.
2) JOIN THIS AFTERNOON’S VIDEO-CHAT ON ZOOM!
To join our ZOOM video-chat, which will run throughout the next few hours, simply click here and follow the prompts: This Afternoon’s MonSFFA e-Meeting on ZOOM
If you’re not fully equipped to ZOOM, you can also take part by phone (voice only); in the Montreal area, the toll-free number to call is: 1-438-809-7799. From out of town? No problem; find your ZOOM call-in number here: Call-In Numbers
Also, have this information on hand as you may be asked to enter it:
Meeting ID: 875 9870 4593Passcode: 552143
3) MEETING AGENDA
Here is the agenda for this afternoon’s get-together:
As always, all scheduled programming is subject to change.
4) PASSINGS
As noted right here on the club’s Website about a week ago, stuntman/actor Ricou Ren Browning passed away last month. He was 93. Browning donned the Gill-Man suit and performed underwater as the iconic Creature from the Black Lagoon in the enduring 1954 monster flick, reprising the role in the movie’s two sequels.
We also recently lost screen siren and movie star Raquel Welch, who came to the attention of film fans in 1966, starring in two SF/F pictures that year.
She played Cora Peterson in Fantasic Voyage, the story of a micro-miniaturized submarine and crew injected into the bloodstream of an important cold-war scientist, injured in an assassination attempt, in order to perform vital, tricky brain surgery not possible by conventional means.
As Loana of the Shell People in Hammer’s One Million Years, B.C., she wore an animal-skin bikini and scrambled about a savage landscape filled with Ray Harryhausen’s marauding stop-motion dinosaurs! A best-selling pin-up poster of her in costume is one of the most famous of the 1960s, and in all of fantasy cinema. The poster was instrumental in making of her an international sex symbol.
Raquel Welch died in Los Angeles at age 82.
Finally, February saw the passing, too, of one of Canada’s greatest thespians, Gordon Pinsent. Not usually associated with the SF/F genre, Pinsent, we will point out, did portray the U.S. president in the 1970 supercomputer-takes-over-the-world cult-classic Colossus: The Forbin Project.