Here are the centerfolds for 47 issues (complete run was 48 plus specials) of The Monster Times magazine from the 1970s. Not familiar with The Monster Times? Read all about it. Issue 23 was not printed in tabloid format but was magazine-sized, so didn’t have a centerfold. Instead, it had three color pages spread throughout the issue. Issue 39 also did not have a centerfold, but focused on the classic monsters. I included the page for Frankenstein’s monster, though it wasn’t in color, as an example. Issue 44 reprinted the centerfold from issue 7. If you’d like to read the issues, you can find them here. Just do a search on them. At one point Fangoria was looking to rekindle the brand name and post the issues, but that never materialized.
I highly recommend Welcome to the Monster Times, another, more insanely organized, archive for TMT. A final note: TMT was printed on newspaper, a cheap and highly acidic medium. Combined with some iffy printing, the images are hard to capture in their original glory. I did work on these to present the best visual quality I could muster without ruining the original vibe, so I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. And if you decide to grab a few issues off of eBay, make sure to hang up the centerfolds in your man cave or she shed or whatever you call your cave. Be cool like a monsterkid.
The Monster Times 1 Bernie Wrightson Frankenstein MonsterThe Monster Times 2 Star Trek Centerfold
The Monster Times 3 King Kong CenterfoldThe Monster Times 4 Jeff Jones A Gnawing ObsessionThe Monster Times 4 Jeff Jones A Gnawing ObsessionThe Monster Times 4 Jeff Jones A Gnawing ObsessionThe Monster Times 5 Creature from the Black Lagoon CenterfoldThe Monster Times 6 Zombies CenterfoldThe Monster Times 7 Godzilla CenterfoldThe Monster Times 8 Chris Lee Dracula CenterfoldThe Monster Times 9 Metaluna Mutant CenterfoldThe Monster Times 10 Tales from the Crypt CenterfoldThe Monster Times 11 Planet of the Apes CenterfoldThe Monster Times 12 Gorgo Centerfold.The Monster Times 13 Spidey Centerfold.The Monster Times 14 Lon Chaney Jr Wolf Man Centerfold.The Monster Times 15 Valley of Gwangi Centerfold.The Monster Times 16 Godzilla for President Centerfold.The Monster Times 17 Forbidden Planet Centerfold.The Monster Times 18 Monster of Piedras Blancas Centerfold.The Monster Times 19 Tarantula Centerfold.The Monster Times 20 Keep on Trekin’ Centerfold.The Monster Times 21 Boris Karloff Frankenstein’s Monster Centerfold.The Monster Times 22 Mount Monster Rushmore Centerfold.The Monster Times 24 Rodan Centerfold.The Monster Times 25 The Fly Centerfold.The Monster Times 26 Destroy All Monsters Centerfold.The Monster Times 27 Neal Adam’s Centerfold.The Monster Times 28 Lon Chaney Puppet Centerfold.The Monster Times 29 Glenn Strange Centerfold.The Monster Times 30 I Drink Your Blood, etc. Centerfold.The Monster Times 31 War of the Worlds Centerfold.The Monster Times 32 Beast from 20,000 Fathoms Centerfold.The Monster Times 33 Planet of the Apes Centerfold.The Monster Times 34 Star Trek Keeps on Trekin’! Centerfold.The Monster Times 35 Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster Centerfold.The Monster Times 36 Mutations Centerfold.The Monster Times 37 Gammera Centerfold.The Monster Times 38 Golden Voyage of Sinbad Centerfold.The Monster Times 39 Sort of Centerfold.The Monster Times 40 Frank Brunner Centerfold.The Monster Times 41 It! The Terror from Beyond Space Centerfold.The Monster Times 42 The Incredible Shrinking Man Centerfold.The Monster Times 43 Curse of the Demon Centerfold.The Monster Times 45 Jaws Centerfold.The Monster Times 46 Dracula Centerfold.The Monster Times 47 Flash Gordon Centerfold.The Monster Times 48 Six Million Dollar Man Centerfold.
