Get hexed by the swamp witch, have A Nightmare in Blood and lose your head (exciting close up, flowing art by Antonio Reynoso), and more monstrous art in Black Light Terror to savor. Just remember to always keep a flashlight handy. Wait, do I hear Call of the Monsters? Gotta run.
Comic reader version: Download Witches Tales V6-4
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With wonderful artwork from Cirilio Munoz for The Ogre From Space, and with lines like "You mustn't go, Flora! Tonight all the intelligences of the stars are favorable for contact!" and a new cover, how can you pass it up?
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More to savor from Zombos' Closet's magazine morgue.
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Wade into The Murder Pool and lose some weight, spend a Night of Terror by mistake, and don't take finger rings from ghouls with big eyes. Your eyes don't deceive you: Ghoul Without Pockets was printed with pages 47 and 48 out of order. So read page 48 before 47. You may also notice that the cover is a poor cut and paste job from previous issues. Weird. Very weird.
Comic reader version:Download Weird V6-7
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Eat the Flesh! Drink the Blood! gets my vote for the Creeper Keeper Award. "Hey! Get a load of that spider! It's like, HUGE!" Mike Howlett in his The Weird Indexes of Eerie Publications believes this story may be an original because he couldn't find a precursor. It would make an awesome radio horrordrama.
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One of my favorite stories, Never Curse a Corpse, reappears in this issue. Great artwork (Cirilio Munoz), great ending. This is the last issue that "Chilling Picto-Fiction" appears on the cover.
Comic reader version: Download Weird Issue V11-1
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In this issue of Weird you'll find shrunken heads, floating hands, annoying corpses, wicked witches, and all of it nicely delivered in bloody black and white: a perfect treat for your Halloween swag bag.
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In the first issue of the short run (3 issues) of Monster Mania, the first part of The Peter Cushing Story, a great on the set (House of Dracula) photo with Lon Chaney Jr. and his sons, and The Reptile snag some paper. A way too short interview with Jack Pierce only whets the fangs, but the abundance of photos without corny captions does satisfy. A shame that Monster Mania didn't last for a longer run.
Comic reader version: Download Monster Mania Issue One
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One astute reader's Mania Mailbag entry summed up Monster Mania's coverage pretty well: "…just the absence of corny puns in the picture captions is enough to gladden the heart of one like me who has grown up with horror movies and is sick of seeing them treated as kids stuff. Thank you." No kid stuff in this issue 3, just more Hammer coverage, a lengthy blow by blow description of The Wolf Man by Richard Bojarski, followed by production information, and lots of unmarred photos. The Monster Record Jamboree ad page will bring back memories for some of you, as well as The Sorcerer's Shop of goodies. How many of you ordered the Spyscope Pen (I did!) or the Haunted House Mystery Bank (I did!) or the miniature camera (yup on that one, too!) The Cobweb ad page shows more nifty swag: there's the Spooky Lite (yes, got that one), and the awesome Pin the Monster head (hung that on the back of my bedroom door and loved it).
Comic reader version: Download Monster Mania Issue 3 (see more monster magazines in the morgue)
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The Monster Times went out with a whimper when issue 48, the last issue, hit the magazine racks. Not that the Six Million Dollar Man and cyborg coverage was poor, but at only 25 pages, with 5 full page ads, it was a slim issue to go out on. The teaser for issue 49, which never happened, would have entertained us with more Mexican monster movie coverage, It Came from Beneath the Sea, interviews with Vincent Price and others, and an "eye-opening treatise on horror stamp collecting." And…a look at the eeriest amusement parks! I wonder if any galley proofs of that lost issue exist?
Comic reader version: Download Monster Times Issue 48
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Monster Mania was one of the more worthwhile reads in monsterkid horror magazines from the 1960s. Russ Jones, in his Editor's Desk entry for this issue, laments how tough it is to find fresh material and photos. "How many more times can the Frankenstein story be told? How many more times will the same stock shots of the immortal Bela Lugosi as Dracula be printed?" Indeed. And he didn't have the Internet to contend with, where pictures and the same material are shared (and ripped off) faster than a cold. I liked Monster Mania's simple but efficient layout and coverage, and this Tribute to Hammer issue is a keeper. Terrence Fisher talks horror, One Million Years B.C. gets reviewed, Chris Fellner explores The Intriguing World of Hammer Films, Christopher Lee is spotlighted, and Peter Cushing, too. And…the product ads are to die for. How many did you send away for? Take that, Amazon.
Comic reader version: Download Monster Mania 2 (More magazines in the morgue over here.)
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Monster Mania No. 2, 1967
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This issue of Mad Monsters, No. 7, has lots of pics, not too much text, and good coverage, from The Preying Mantis and Corridors of Blood, to I Married a Monster From Outer Space and an article on Lionel Atwill. Not too shabby for 35 cents. Charlton did cut corners by printing the magazine as cheaply as possible, so the photos aren't crisp. But their covers were eye-catching.
Comic reader version: Download Mad Monsters 7 (and see other monster mags in the magazine morgue)
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Lon Chaney Sr. explains why he prefers grotesque characters in this 10th issue of Monster World. The punny Batman, "battier than a ball park," flitters while The Reptile slithers, and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini brings us to the beach.
Comic reader version: Download Monster World Issue 10 (and more monstrous reading in the magazine morgue!)
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