New filmposter.net Postcards

By on January 23, 2026

For more than 20 years I have been printing give-away postcards, and if you ever ordered a poster from me you will have received one of them. In the past, they were usually based on vintage movie posters and they showed either the entire poster or sometime I used a partial image and played with it.

It got a little bored with this and decided I had to do something completely unique and use my own designs. Here’s the first set of new postcards, fresh from the printer:

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Rockin‘ H Boot Company

By on January 21, 2026

At the end of World War II, American soldiers not only brought chocolate, cigarettes, and blue jeans to Germany, they also introduced Hillbilly Music and the cowboy dress code to the German people.

Reknown Hillbilly artists like Bill Haley gained immense popularity. There was a lot of blues, and a lot to yodel away, so songs like Haley’s 1948 single YODEL YOUR BLUES AWAY (which can be heard HERE) became a major hit with German audiences. The artists Western outfit created the first wave of Western fashion in Germany, more than three decades before John Travolta‘s URBAN COWBOY.

Just like the Travolta movie in the 1980s, the hillbilly fashion of the late 40s created a vast demand for authentic Western boots, so in 1949 the Rockin’ H Boot Company was founded in Berlin. In the few years of its existence, Rockin‘ H produced some of the finest handmade Western boots in Europe.

Here’s a vintage newspaper ad from the early 1950s:


Unfortunately, the Western trend did not last. Bill Haley moved on to become a moderately successful Rock ‘n‘ Roll singer, and the hillbilly fashion trend vanished almost as fast as it had started. No exact details are known, but it is believed that Rockin‘ H Boots closed their doors sometime in the late 1950s.

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THE MYSTERIOUS POSTERCOWBOY Vintage Comic Book

By on January 20, 2026

Very few people know about this, but the original Postercowboy had his own comic book series once, aptly titled THE MYSTERIOUS POWERCOWBOY. This was an English language publication, produced and printed in Berlin, Germany by the Postercowboy’s own Rockin’ H Production firm.
The target group was mainly Allied soldiers stationed in Germany.

Unfortunately, the series was not a big success at the time, and the surviving copies are so rare, you will not find them listed in any of the big comic book price guides.

From the Rockin’ H Archives, here’s the cover of the very first issue from 1948:

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BERLIN OUTLAW BLUES – Soon to be a Major Motion Picture!

By on January 16, 2026

The Postercowboy has always been a fan of American International Pictures, the company who brought as landmark classics like I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (followed by I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN in the same year), INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN, or ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE. AIP mainly produced movies for a younger audience and the drive-in circuit, which may be one reason they never received the appreciation they deserved. Also, people tend to forget that during the 50s and the 60s American International Pictures was the biggest independent film studio in the US.

The Postercowboy remembers of course, and he also remembers a interview with Samuel Z. Arkoff, co-owner of AIP he heard a couple of decades ago. Arkoff vividly described the AIP approach to making movies: First of all, they would dream up a catchy title (see samples above), next they would commission a movie poster, and when that was done they would start thinking about a script.

With that in mind, and always willing to learn from the Best, Rockin’ H Pictures presents the International Style A Advance movie poster for BERLIN OUTLAW BLUES, starring The Mysterious Postercowboy:

In good old AIP tradition, we’re not much further yet, but I have a strong feeling that the biggest part is already behind us. I mean, we have a catchy title, we have a great poster, so what could possibly go wrong now? Hello, Hollywood, anybody home?

And that’s not even all there is, we also had postcards printed that came in today:


I don’t want to give away too much about the story, but it will show a strong influence of Jean-Pierre Melville. Instead of Paris, the film will play in Berlin of course, and instead of gangsters it will have cowboys. But that’s all I will say at this point.

I have a couple of ideas who should play the Postercowboy, but it’s a tad too early to talk about that as well.

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