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[Hepcat]

   FM's # 16 - 20 :

What makes me smile looking back at those days is that at the age of eleven I used to think that Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine was for older kids!

[dlhenderson]

The Bob Burns / Paul Blaisdell effort was a lot of fun. I never saw them at the Atlanta magazine shops back in the day. I know they had some distribution problems. I liked their interior use of duotone, and the Blaisdell covers are amazing.

[Hepcat]

I remember those! I like the "Horror guaranteed to shock you dead or your life refunded!"

Here are scans of three more Eerie mags from my collection:

[dlhenderson]

I know this ain't Warren (I'm soiling the thread!), but it was an interesting also-ran. I noticed that the inside back cover had a nice Mort Drucker illo.

[dlhenderson]

The Charlton titles were obviously lower quality that the Warren publications. Even at that early age I could see that the "black level" (to use modern parlance) was weak in the black and white interior images. But, heck, I'd buy anything with a monster on it! This was my first monster magazine. My older brother had a few such things when I was a bit younger (we're talkin' 1958 or so). I recall being frightened by one of them and tearing it up. I threw the pieces in the woods behind our house to make it "go away"! Jeez, it musta been one of the earliest issues of FM. I was around six years old. As the early 60's dawned I became fascinated by what had initially scared me. I asked my Dad if he would buy me a "monster magazine" (he worked downtown, near the bookstores). This is what he brought home.

[Hepcat]

I know this ain't Warren (I'm soiling the thread!), but it was an interesting also-ran.

Not so. Other horror mags have been welcome in this thread from the start:

Showcase your Warren and other horror/sci-fi mags here!

Interesting. How many issues of Monster Mania were published?

I asked my Dad if he would buy me a "monster magazine" (he worked downtown, near the bookstores). This is what he brought home.

You had a cool dad!

[dlhenderson]

Yea, he was pretty cool for sure. 
I only had the one issue of Monster Mania, but I think it may have lasted another issue or two.  Reminded me a bit of Shriek; which I think was British. I've got three issues of that one. Higher quality paper, etc. Of course, Castle of Frankenstein was the high water mark. The first issue I found of CoF was the "Special Vampire Issue". I remember the Saturday afternoon. A downtown book / magazine store. I scored three mags that day. I left the store feeling like I had just found buried treasure (and indeed I had!). CoF opened up a whole new world of art and cinema. Those full page repros of the work of Virgil Finlay and Hannes Bok had a profound affect on me (as a budding young drawer). That's also where I read about European films I wouldn't see until a few years later...

[Mr. Mxyzptlk]

Here are some of miscellaneous monster mags - enjoy!!















Mr. M

[CreepysFan]

   

  Dad had his newspaper, and I read my own newspaper growing up.  Bought every regular issue until it's end with issue 48.  There were also two extra all Star Trek collectors special and one extra all Godzilla collectors special (like yearbooks maybe), but those I missed.  Here's the first three issues from 1972.

   

   

   

   

       

[Hepcat]

Here are some of miscellaneous monster mags - enjoy!!

That 3-D Monsters magazine was on the newstands at exactly the same time as Creepy 1! With my strictly limited financial resources, I had to choose between the two - and I wisely chose the Creepy which of course went on to be a runaway success while 3-D Monsters proved to be an unsuccessful one-shot experiment.

I scored a seemingly unread copy with the 3=D glasses still attached at Dragon Lady on Queen Street West some twenty years ago though!

[Hepcat]

Dad had his newspaper, and I read my own newspaper growing up.

It was this issue that helped make me a big fan of Christopher Lee's Hammer Studios Dracula flicks:



I'd only seen Horror of Dracula and Scars of Dracula to that point. For reasons I can no longer recall though, I clipped the Christopher Lee picture from the cover at the time. Bummer. It would be a really nice copy otherwise.

[CreepysFan]

  I liked the Mayfair horror magazines, though they didn't last for long.  Here's the first issue of each.

 

   

   

   

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of my run of photo cover Vampirella mags with actress Barbara Leigh in the title role:

[CreepysFan]

   

During the time Barbara Leigh appeared on these Vampirella covers, negotiations were going on between Warren and Hammer Studios to make a Vampirella movie.  Barbara Leigh was suppost to be the star.  For some reason, it never came about.  Hammer would have produced a better version truer to the Warren vision plot wise, than the one we finally got in 1996.

[CreepysFan]

   

The first three issues of Warren's  The Spirit magazine, which contained classic reprints of Will Eisner's stories from the `40's.