Trashy Garish Over-The-Top Envelope Pushin' Monster Magazines!

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of a couple of my Scary Monsters magazines:

[neonnoodle]

Awesome covers, all.

[Hepcat]

Hammer Horror was a glossy publication that hit comic shops and selected newstands in the mid-nineties:

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[Hepcat]

Here's another good one:

[Hepcat]

Here are a couple of modern tomes that are invaluable if you are into the renegade monster mags of the nitty gritty '70s.

First up is The Complete Illustrated History Of The Skywald Horror-Mood by "Archaic" Alan Hewetson. Compelling and just plain fun. It's OOP so it might be a little pricey, but well worth it's weight in gore covered gold.

I strongly endorse that Skywald tome as well! I bought one over five years ago and I still refer to it on a regular basis.

[horrorhunter]

I received The Creeps #1 in the mail the other day. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys the original Warren publications. "Warrant" Publishing tries very hard to copy the style of the original Creepy and Eerie and they do a decent job of it, although the quality is a notch or two below Warren as would be expected. The biggest hit on the mag is the scant size- only 36 pages including covers. The cover price is only $4.95 though, which is considerably cheaper than the average monster magazine costs today. The cover by Ken Kelly is good, and there is a decent full page illustration by Frank Brunner. Richard Sala strains mightily to look like classic Wrightson and turns in a pretty good attempt. Overall a nice effort. Don't be too picky about getting a high grade copy though. These people have a lot to learn about proper packing before shipping.



http://www.thecreepsmagazine.com/

[horrorhunter]

Crypt Of Horrors (Gary Heilman, 1973-1977) is a monster fanzine containing mostly reviews of movies and books. The first two issues are digest size and the third issue is magazine size. Issue 1 is very amateurish with practically everything done by Heilman (his review of Vampire Circus called it terrible ?!). Number two (from 1974) is a big improvement, and issue three (1977) is pretty good. Fanzines like this are a real joy because we can look back at that time in monster fandom and experience it again in a small way. Fanzine creators back in the day remind me of the podcasting community now. They show(ed) up in each others product with contributions, reviews, and such.

Issues 1 ('73) & 2 ('74):


Issue 3 ('77) (numbering was restarted):

[BigShadow]

Here are scans of a couple of my Scary Monsters magazines:

Out of all the monster magazines on the shelf today, I only read Scary Monsters Magazine and Monster Bash Magazine.  Only once in a while, when they have an interesting article, will I read Famous Monsters.  I prefer the older FM mags when Forrey did them.

[ClassicMonsterCollector]

I've just started a new series on my blog where I deep-dive on magazine story by story from the days of the classic monster magazines-- today's review is Monsters Unleashed #5, April 1974

http://www.collectingclassicmonsters.com/collectible-books/monster_magazines/classic-monster-magazines/

[horrorhunter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA0O2K7GvCI&feature=player_embedded

[Haunted hearse]

I know there is another great thread for Warren Magazines, but this one is for the outcast, downtrodden, and demonized. So post your Eerie Pubs, Skywalds, Stanleys, or any other monster mag which falls into this broad and putrid cateGORY. Don't worry about condition. Most of these things were rightly beat to hell. It seems almost wrong to even have such wretchedness in pristine condition. We just wanna see the goods. 

I'll start us off with some exquisitely awful Eerie Pubs from that hogleg totin' nut-from-hell Myron Fass. Below are the Tales From The Crypt one shot, and some vomit inducing Tales Of Voodoo (including the 1st ish: Vol. 1, #11, even the numbering was screwed on these things).



Here's that 1st issue of Tales Of Voodoo. Notice the rat chews on the right edge. Eerie Pubs wear rat chews like a badge of honor. 

These pictures remind me of the bad and over the top artwork that would be done for one of those cheap carnival haunted houses.  Thanks for sharing these.

[horrorhunter]

These pictures remind me of the bad and over the top artwork that would be done for one of those cheap carnival haunted houses.  Thanks for sharing these.

You're welcome, Hh. 

Yes, Eerie Pubs are definitely classic Monsterkid cheezy gore. For years they were treated like trash and now they trade for big bucks. I usually prefer my Warrens and Skywalds, but I enjoy the Eerie Pubs and Stanleys just as much sometimes. Steak is usually preferable but once in awhile you just want a good greasy hamburger. 

[Hepcat]

Steak is usually preferable but once in awhile you just want a good greasy hamburger. 

An apropos analogy!

[horrorhunter]

The latest Monster Magazine World offers info on the first Eerie Pubs issue- Weird Vol. 1, #10, by that purveyor of putrid poopy, Myron Fass.

Clicky: http://monstermagazineworld.blogspot.com/?zx=18592063ec1567c




Have you noticed how my first five pages of mag cover pics posted in this thread fail to show? Thanks, Imageshack. 

It's a good thing I switched to Photobucket several months ago or all my pics posted on UMA would have been a waste of time.

[horrorhunter]

I just read The Creeps #4, and I have to admit that Rich Sala has done a helluva job bringing back some of that old Warren magic! Check out the killer covers by Ken Kelly, Frazetta, and Sanjulian for the first four issues (my fave, so far, is Sanjulian's cover for #4).



If you preordered these you got a free poster of those incredible covers!

Sala has signed on some Warren original talent besides the legendary cover artists; Don Glut, Nicola Cuti, Bill Black, and Roger McKenzie are now part of the Warrant bullpen. Most of the stories are very good, almost on par with the original Warren offerings. Some of the new blood artists do a fairly decent job of emulating the styles of some of the classic comic artists who worked for Warren over the years. Jason Paulos pays homage to Wally Wood, Henry Mayo reminds me some of Frank Brunner, Mikael Bergkvist has a touch of Neal Adams, and Rich Sala himself does a pretty good tribute to Bernie Wrightson's style (well, as good as could be expected when trying to emulate an illustration god like Wrightson was in his prime in the '70s). Most of the stories are written by Sala as Artie Godwin, an homage to the great Archie Goodwin who was editor and creative force for Warren starting with those first few classic issues of Creepy. The only thing conspicuous by their absence are the wonderful Captain Company ads.. but this is a different time, and we can't have everything. I'm a diehard Warren fan with every issue of Creepy, Eerie (except #1  ), and Vampirella (as well as FM and most of the other Warrens), and I get a little tingle when I get my hands on the latest issue of The Creeps. I'm sold, bro. Someone finally stepped up and started doin' it right, so board that Wayback Machine and spend a few minutes in the '70s with The Best In Illustrated Horror To Give You The Creeps. For real.

http://www.thecreepsmagazine.com/