Back in my middle school days, we used to get copies of Dynamite Magazine at school. Whoever edited Dynamite must have been a Monster Kid because they occasionally ran whole issues dedicated to monsters; they even published a Scholastic book on the topic that I still have. The puzzle section was hosted by a vampire called Count Morbida.
I remember having a really cool, pull out 3D poster of a werewolf that I'm pretty sure I got from Dynamite. It came with 3D glasses. I think they also did a King Kong 3D poster.
I'd just love to see that poster again. Its image is etched in my mind, but I'm having trouble finding it on the Internet. Does anybody here know what I'm talking about? Feel free to discuss Dynamite Magazine and its monster connection as well.
Issue #28 from 1976 had a King Kong poster and iron-on . . . I remember it like it was yesterday.
The first three of four years of that mag were indeed very monster-centric.
Quote from: Radioactive Rod Whitenack on July 19, 2010, 06:03:21 PM
Back in my middle school days, we used to get copies of Dynamite Magazine at school. Whoever edited Dynamite must have been a Monster Kid because they occasionally ran whole issues dedicated to monsters; they even published a Scholastic book on the topic that I still have. The puzzle section was hosted by a vampire called Count Morbida.
I remember having a really cool, pull out 3D poster of a werewolf that I'm pretty sure I got from Dynamite. It came with 3D glasses. I think they also did a King Kong 3D poster.
I'd just love to see that poster again. Its image is etched in my mind, but I'm having trouble finding it on the Internet. Does anybody here know what I'm talking about? Feel free to discuss Dynamite Magazine and its monster connection as well.
I HAD THE KONG!! Man, I would KILL for that today.
Lol, I have the Kong poster somewhere.
BK
Kong as well....it was sweet!
Wasn't there a 3-D werewolf poster done by Neal Adams? I don't know if it was Dynamite or not.
Rob
Quote from: monsterphile on July 19, 2010, 10:22:20 PM
Wasn't there a 3-D werewolf poster done by Neal Adams? I don't know if it was Dynamite or not.
Rob
Bingo, Rob!
http://www.nealadams.com/portprint.html (http://www.nealadams.com/portprint.html)
Here is the Kong poster:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RzoMdt1Ecgo/S98kSdTV0II/AAAAAAAABPM/Ko8GAH-hs3U/s1600/3DKong.jpg)
AWESOME!!!!
I guess it was a Neal Adams Werewolf poster according to that link! Now I just need to find an image of it. Thanks for posting that King Kong 3D poster. That's pretty awesome. I miss Dynamite Magazine!
I used to read all kinds of magazines as a kid; Ranger Rick's, Electric Company (for the Spidey Super Stories), Highlights (they had Tintin strips!), etc. Dynamite was always my favorite.
Wow, I totally remember that poster!!
I don't remember the Werewolf poster, but when I was 10 I got a Dracula 3D poster drawn by Neal Adams (from a school book fair of all places) which hung on my wall until that fateful summer at camp when my mother cleaned my room. If I remember right Dracula looked like he did in Adams' Frankenstein-Dracula-Werewolf graphic novel (which I have the comic/33 1/3 record set of).
I miss that poster.
The 3D Poster book is probably out there (I do not believe the poster was in an actual regular issue).....here is a guy that helped work on it. Maybe he has a photo?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4XHIrRFcinwJ:rickjbryant.com/rjbResume2010.doc+%22dynamite+3d+poster+book+1979%22&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4XHIrRFcinwJ:rickjbryant.com/rjbResume2010.doc+%22dynamite+3d+poster+book+1979%22&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)
Here is the cover of the book:
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/f6/82/b8dfa2c008a014a4f82c8010.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
It sounds as if Neil did all 6 posters in the book.
I seem to have confirmed that the Werewolf poster was included with issue #46 with Kate Jackson on the cover, but it's near impossible to find a copy that still has the poster inside. It was reprinted in the poster book mentioned above with 5 other Neal Adams 3-D posters. We'll find it!
Thanks for the help everyone. Memories like this really make life today more fun. Long live Dynamite!
WOW ! I loved Dynamite magazine!! I started with the first issue.
Quote from: Radioactive Rod Whitenack on July 20, 2010, 02:52:34 PM
I seem to have confirmed that the Werewolf poster was included with issue #46 with Kate Jackson on the cover, but it's near impossible to find a copy that still has the poster inside. It was reprinted in the poster book mentioned above with 5 other Neal Adams 3-D posters. We'll find it!
Thanks for the help everyone. Memories like this really make life today more fun. Long live Dynamite!
Cool! It might be difficult. The ones with their posters are usually the non-3D. However, we only have to find you one. You have an Army working for you!
Here is the cover folks:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51igWj-ZN9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Let's get busy! ;D
I remember the early years of Dynamite very well... and I remember the Kong poster very clearly!
The Unimonster
http://unimonsterscrypt.blogspot.com (http://unimonsterscrypt.blogspot.com)
Holy cow, does this bring back memories! I had that Kong poster up on my wall for years. I loved Dynamite -they always had articles about super-heroes.
Good luck with the hunt Rod. I'll keep an eye out for ya!
Quote from: Mitchellmania on July 20, 2010, 02:57:27 PM
WOW ! I loved Dynamite magazine!! I started with the first issue.
So did they.
I can't believe this image hasn't surfaced yet.
Oh, I used to Looooove Dynamite Magazine. They did have a lot of monstery sci-fi kind of stuff. I remember the 3D Werewolf poster well. I had that on the wall, it disappeared a long time ago. Issue 28 had Laverne and Shirley and Kong on the cover--that one had a poster reproduction of the DeLaurentiis Kong poster art. Awesome poster! I believe the 3D Kong poster was in a different issue?
Dynamite mag issues are really hard to find with all their pull-out stuff intact. If you were a kid and you had an issue, it was usually irresistible and you had to remove the stickers, posters, 3D glasses, etc. and use them. Every issue had some sort of interactive thing to pull out and use--it was a perfect kids' magazine.
Is this the poster you're talking about?
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4880654148_1d4f9228fb_o.jpg)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4096/4880044879_11ebf3b9e6_b.jpg)
Rob
That's it! That's it! Thanks, Monsterphile! I didn't think this would ever show up. Ah, I remember getting this at school on Friday in the sixth grade, and staring at it over a friend's house Friday night. We were inspired to create a haunted house in his basement the next day.
Thanks for the memories!
I loved Dynamite magazine when I was a kid. I had the werewolf and Kong posters.
Quote from: Radioactive Rod Whitenack on August 10, 2010, 05:48:19 PM
That's it! That's it! Thanks, Monsterphile! I didn't think this would ever show up. Ah, I remember getting this at school on Friday in the sixth grade, and staring at it over a friend's house Friday night. We were inspired to create a haunted house in his basement the next day.
Thanks for the memories!
I thought I had the image somewhere. I had copied a bunch of images off of my computer some time back, but I had to find the disc (and then the images). I just wish I had the poster itself. I do have a bunch of Dynamite (and Bananas) magazines...somewhere.
Rob
Aw yeah...that's the poster all right. Gosh, it takes me back. Thanks to all for posting these pics! Dynamite Magazine did encourage a "do it yourself" approach and I think it inspired a lot of people to get busy creating their own artwork, haunted houses, and suchlike.
Quote from: monsterphile on August 10, 2010, 07:39:57 PM
I thought I had the image somewhere. I had copied a bunch of images off of my computer some time back, but I had to find the disc (and then the images). I just wish I had the poster itself. I do have a bunch of Dynamite (and Bananas) magazines...somewhere.
Rob
Either way, you'd da man, Rob! Nice dig-up!!!
Hi guys! Sorry to drag up a thread that is a few years old but I was hoping to see if Monsterphile, had an image of the 3d "Vampire" poster that Neal Adams did? Again, my apologies for the thread resurrection but I've exhausted every way of searching (including the library at Ringling College of Art & Design where I teach) and nada. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
I always peruse the piles of Dynamite when I see them at sales, shops etc. I recall the awesome C Lee Drac poster too, haven't lucked out yet!
Quote from: jimm on October 02, 2012, 09:01:28 PMI always peruse the piles of Dynamite when I see them at sales, shops etc. I recall the awesome C Lee Drac poster too, haven't lucked out yet!
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3nc867scP1qf83cro1_500.jpg)
I'm glad somebody dug up this link! It might be one my favorite links I ever started on the UMA, and since the last time somebody commented on it, I found my childhood copy of The Dynamite Monster Hall of Fame! Behold!
(http://imageshack.us/a/img10/6513/1001569s.jpg)
Question...when we find a nice issue intact do we keep it whole or display the cool insert...tuff call
Artistbrock,
Here's the guy to ask:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DYNAMITE-MAGAZINE-NEAL-ADAMS-3-D-POSTER-BOOK-Werewolf-Vampire-Sorcerer-Clown-vtg-/290784412214?pt=Magazines&hash=item43b41a0236 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/DYNAMITE-MAGAZINE-NEAL-ADAMS-3-D-POSTER-BOOK-Werewolf-Vampire-Sorcerer-Clown-vtg-/290784412214?pt=Magazines&hash=item43b41a0236)
He's selling a copy of the rare Dynamite Posters book that includes the Neal Adams vampire poster. I can see part of the poster in his photos. If the pages aren't stapled, and you asked nicely, he might take a photo for you. Or you could always buy it and I'll buy the Werewolf poster from you to subsidize your project. lol
Hey, guys.
Artistbrock, who is my best friend, actually posted his request on my behalf after I had asked him to help me track down the Neal Adams "The Vampire" 3-D poster.
Like Ormsby, I had one as a kid which I had purchased at a school book fair in the '70s. It hung proudly in my room and I never grew tired of staring at it with the set of paper red-cyan glasses that came with it. But like most childhood things, it's either buried in the stored leftovers at my parents or has long since passed into oblivion.
I've looked high and low with no success of finding an onlline image of it. And I can't really see myself shelling out hundreds of dollars for a collector's copy of the Dynamite poster book, so I guess I'm just out of luck until someone decides to post a hi-res scan.
I recently acquired a copy of "Neal Adams Treasury 2" which I was hoping against hope at least had the original line drawing for "The Vampire," but that was a dead end as well. The only monster poster of the Scholastic series in there is "The Werewolf."
So, for those of you who remember and admire these posters as well, here is a fairly hi-res scan of "The Werewolf" line drawing I thought I'd share.
(http://www.daleankrum.com/NealAdams_TheWerewolf.jpg)
Maybe if in the future anyone here happens across a source for "The Vampire" (either the 3-D or even the line drawing), they'll hopefully share it.
I'd really like to have it back, even if it's in digital format.
Wow! Thanks so much for posting that high rez image of Neal Adams' "The Werewolf"! The purpose of this thread is now complete, but I hope it stays alive until somebody finds an image of "The Vampire" poster!
This post jogged my memory on these posters. I went down to a closet in the basement and dug out my big art portfolio case and sure enough I found the Adams 3-D posters for The Werewolf, The Vampire, The Sorcerer, and Skateboard. I can't remember exactly but I think I found the poster book at a flea market in the '70s and kept the 4 cool ones. I probably gave away the other two...I think a clown and a horse. These things hung on my wall for years and then were put in the case. They have tack holes and tape residue (I used to put tape at the corners to strengthen the paper so it wouldn't tear when you put the tacks in). The tape came off years ago so now there is just dry brownish spots. It sounds bad but the posters actually still look great. Adams stuff is incredible. Thanks for the memory jog. Now that I found these things again I've added them to my other monster posters. I'm not sure what they would be worth in their current condition, but they're worth a small fortune to me so I plan to keep them. I would take some pics but I currently don't have a good camera or scanner. I keep spending all my sheckles on monster stuff instead of cameras and printer/scanners.
I had started to beg for a hi-res scan, then re-read your post about not having access to a scanner.
*Sigh!*
Such is my luck, I guess.
All the same, congratulations on re-discovering your collection of the Adams posters!
Let's all hope horrorhunter runs to Kinko's or gets someone to take a photo of The Vampire, because right now there doesn't appear be a picture of Neal Adam's vampire poster anywhere online. Do a Google search for The Werewolf poster. Every hit you'll find will link you back here to the UMA! We're doing a service to the Monster Kid community here!
Apologies for bumping the thread. I just thought I'd take a shot and see if by any chance horrorhunter (or anyone else for that matter) had yet managed to get near a scanner with the Vampire poster.
I still scour the web periodically, but so far...still nothing. The closest I can get is a partial photo of the poster footer from the Tenth Letter of the Alphabet blog:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S1wk_GJj5X0/T7G3M_nNlPI/AAAAAAAADhw/tIlZ9N-2Vt8/s1600/03Dynamite3D.jpg)
Again, sorry for beating this poor dead horse, but I'd really like to have a full, hi-res image of "The Vampire."
Thanks for indulging me.
Every time I see a pile of those magazines the pull out goodie is almost always missing!
Hey, guys.
I'm going to dredge this up one more time since it's been a couple of years and because I just found one online image of The Vampire, though it's far from a high res scan. It's from an old Worthpoint listing for the Dynamite poster book.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/peppersghost/The_Vampire.png)
So I'll ask...beg...plead...again, does anyone on here still in possession of this poster have access to a scanner who would be willing to scan and post a high resolution copy of it? It would be deeply appreciated!
Thanks. And sorry for bumping such an old thread.
I was able to nail down the King Kong one for less than 10 bones. That Drac is sweet!
Wow, thanks so much, witttiger93! Now there is at least an image of Neal Adams' 3D vampire poster online for all of us to see. We can continue to hope someone will post a high resolution scan, but you're image is a big step up from nothing!
Since I already re-opened the topic, I thought I'd share a recent exercise for anyone interested. I took the copy of Neal Adams's original black and white line drawing posted earlier in the thread and brought it into Photoshop to attempt a reproduction of the red-cyan 3D printing.
I was working from very poor reference, so the accuracy is maybe 85-90% of an original print, but I tested it with a pair of red-cyan 3D glasses and there's definitely some degree of a successful 3D effect.
Interestingly, it wasn't as simple as a straightforward offset of the line work in two colors. Looking at an image of an original issue, you can see where only certain parts of the image (background, head, claws, lower torso, back leg) had the red-cyan offset applied to them and even then it appears there was stretching and enlargement in some areas. All accomplished easily enough in PS, but I can only imagine the actual photographic overlaying process back in the day that produced these.
Anyway, grab your red-cyan 3D specs and enjoy (unless you have an original poster, in which case I envy you! ;) )
(http://www.bluegridstudio.com/The_Werewolf_3D_Red_Cyan.png)
That's Dynamite!
Quote from: Radioactive Rod Whitenack on July 20, 2010, 02:52:34 PM
I seem to have confirmed that the Werewolf poster was included with issue #46 with Kate Jackson on the cover, but it's near impossible to find a copy that still has the poster inside. It was reprinted in the poster book mentioned above with 5 other Neal Adams 3-D posters. We'll find it!
Thanks for the help everyone. Memories like this really make life today more fun. Long live Dynamite!
As of today. I just purchased a complete copy. 2/18/2023. Took me twenty plus years to actually locate a complete copy of the magazine. Including the poster and 3D glasses
(https://i.postimg.cc/SR0BC0Bf/120048969-3619883644710277-2268666138325402581-o.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VrRZPhLJ)
I still have my Dracula, but have never seen one of these in person. Congratulations on finding one.
Quote from: John Pertwee on February 27, 2023, 10:35:11 AM
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I still have my Dracula, but have never seen one of these in person. Congratulations on finding one.
Thank you. Book and poster arrived a few days ago.
I will definitely be looking for the other ones, thanks to this thread.
Quote from: John Pertwee on February 27, 2023, 04:29:16 PM
I will definitely be looking for the other ones, thanks to this thread.
Hope you find one
Was Dynamite Magazine a publication specially marketed and distributed through schools in the States?
???
There is an article on Wikipedia about it, but they did have limited distribution through newsstands but mostly through schools.