Did you actually READ Famous Monsters when you were a kid?

houseoftheunusual · March 29, 2009, 11:47:10 PM

I never read them just liked the ads..... A very sad story, I ordered a 6 foot by 6 foot poster of King Kong in black and white over the NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE...This is the poster where he is not holding Fay. In 1995 I had a storage fire and lost 40% of my collection there, but the poster survived. When I went to get my stuff someone broke into my bin and stole the poster along with 18 1970's Johnson smith catalogs. I have never seen this poster sold anywhere. I saw one behind this guy who posted in a forum and can't help but wonder if that is my poster he has???

Illoman · March 30, 2009, 11:01:35 AM

Quote from: Wich2 on March 29, 2009, 08:00:39 PM

Then, I admit, Forry's juvenalia wore thin, and I moved up to CoF and MONSTER TIMES (which still read well today, by the way...)

-Craig

My folks would always pitch my CoF when they found it!! I would hide my FM's and Monster Times after that. Man, Monster Times, great artwork by Berni Wrightson, Neal Adams, Jeff Jones, Frank Brunner, etc... I really miss that newspaper.

Mike

ChrisW · March 30, 2009, 11:49:20 AM

Re: sending letters and pictures - For some reason it never dawned on me to do that.
Mike - do you have any of the old Web of Horror Magazines? We discovered them in a back-date magazine shop, and I flipped! What a treat seeing these artists cutting their eye teeth on some fun B/W horror...

OldTimey · March 30, 2009, 12:19:34 PM

I read it cover to cover. I remember seeing the word 'macabre', learning it's meaning, then trying to work it into my conversations. I would ask my friends, "Did you watch Psycho last night?" "It was really mack-uh-bree".

Illoman · March 30, 2009, 03:20:07 PM

Quote from: ChrisW on March 30, 2009, 11:49:20 AM
Mike - do you have any of the old Web of Horror Magazines? We discovered them in a back-date magazine shop, and I flipped! What a treat seeing these artists cutting their eye teeth on some fun B/W horror...

Yes!! Wrightson and Jones and company! Great stuff. I've seen some of those stories reprinted over the years in various mags. Too bad mags like those don't exist today. I'm pretty much out of the comics loop any more, but when I venture in to a comics shop most of the artwork all looks too similar for my tastes. Are there no decent stylists like in the old days?

Mike

Inkfink · March 30, 2009, 03:51:02 PM

Quote from: Illoman on March 30, 2009, 03:20:07 PM
Yes!! Wrightson and Jones and company! Great stuff. I've seen some of those stories reprinted over the years in various mags. Too bad mags like those don't exist today. I'm pretty much out of the comics loop any more, but when I venture in to a comics shop most of the artwork all looks too similar for my tastes. Are there no decent stylists like in the old days?

Mike

A lot of artwork in mainstream comic books these days look as if they were traced directly from photographs but I will say one decent contemporary stylist is Mike Mignola. It's impressive what he's brought to comics.

Illoman · March 30, 2009, 04:11:40 PM

Exactly. Great example in Mignola. He's a throwback to Steranko, Starlin, Wrightson, Kaluta, Jones, Ploog, all those great old guys.

Mike

dlhenderson · March 30, 2009, 06:54:46 PM

The earlier FMs were a visual experience for me. I would skim the text but it was all about the pictures.
Then I discovered COF; that's when I really started reading all of the content...

Cinemacabre · March 30, 2009, 09:38:04 PM

Read them? I devoured them, much as I did with CoF in later years and Video Watchdog now!

Universal Steve · March 31, 2009, 01:33:24 AM

I would look at the picture and the Captain Company ads first. Then later I would skim through it and read the articles that interested me and the Fang Mail and Professor Gruebeard.(I have acutally talked to the real Professor Gruebeard from the original FM. I know his secret identity) hint: It was not Forry.

ChrisW · March 31, 2009, 12:01:33 PM

Quote from: Cinemacabre on March 30, 2009, 09:38:04 PM
Read them? I devoured them, ....

LOL That line reminds me of the original movie "The Producers"!

Cinemacabre · March 31, 2009, 02:05:36 PM

LOL That line reminds me of the original movie "The Producers"!

Look at me now... I'm wearing a cardboard belt.

Mike Scott · March 31, 2009, 02:52:56 PM

Quote from: Cinemacabre on March 31, 2009, 02:05:36 PM
Look at me now... I'm wearing a cardboard belt.

Ooo! I fell on my keys!

mike c · March 31, 2009, 03:12:56 PM

Quote from: Mike Scott on March 31, 2009, 02:52:56 PM
Ooo! I fell on my keys!

You're gonna jump on me!

depressedlarrytalbot · March 31, 2009, 04:23:14 PM

I read them front to back and always waded thru those 'coming soon' lists even though I could see 90% would never materialise. Boy, some of those titles .... a lot of them sounded like a movie-wish-list of Forry's with titles (and authors) sourced from his book collection ....

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Did you actually READ Famous Monsters when you were a kid?