Science Fiction takes over the magazine for issue 9 of The Monster Times, leading off with This Island Earth. Disappointingly, the coverage for this memorable movie is not an insightful review or revealing production history; just a novelization-styled story article. TMT would do this too often. Perhaps it helped save time and money by being easier to do than researching material? Perhaps TMT felt newbies would be enthralled by a detailed literary take on the movie? Whatever the reason, its use was already worn thin by issue 9. Saving this issue from total annihilation is Science Fiction in the Comix, The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the continuation of Mushroom Monsters or: The Day the World Ended & Ended, Part 5. The Monster Market also tests The Monster Fan Club, another one of those cheap items from the magazine ad pages monsterkids wish they still had. (Read issue 9.)
More Monster Times Issues:
1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48
TMT Star Trek Specials 1, 2,
TMT World's Greatest Monsters Giant Poster Issue