Here's a particularly gruesome Tales of Voodoo for you. From careless corpses to slimy snakemen to deadly shoes, and a beautiful curse, it will curl your cinnamon sticks in your hot chocolate. Enjoy.
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March 1970" »
What says Halloween better than a cup of hot chocolate, sipped while reading a monster magazine as the autumn winds scuttle dead leaves throughout the gray day. Here are some Tales of Voodoo for you, printed in spendid black and white with heavy on the black; zombies, demons, and vampires, oh my!
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Issue 33 of The Monster Times really does go ape. The Planet of the Apes movie franchise gets most of the bananas--I mean coverage--in this issue, but other apes in movies aren't left with just the peel. I had hit a local theater with a bag of McDonald's, back in Brooklyn, circa 1970s, to catch a Planet of the Apes marathon. Ah, memories. I'd do it again faster than someone hitting the floor after slipping on a banana peel.
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Here's a monster matinee issue of Monster World for your Saturday morning coffee reading pleasure. Issue 7 has lots of those wonderful advertising pages we loved as kids (but now I realize how much page-space was taken up for them!), and a Son of Frankenstein filmbook, a note about Basil Rathbone's dislike for being known as a horror actor, and Ghidorah! wags his tail. There 's a wonderful two-page spread on Famous Monster's 3rd Fantastic Amateur Make-up Contest! too. A rather smart way to sell the 4.95 dollar kit. Of course, that kit, unused, would fetch a lot more money today. Then again, I wonder how many millennials are into monsterkid stuff?
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Here's another jam-packed issue for The Monster Times, issue 36. I get goosebumps when I read news blurbs like the one you'll find on page 25, in Trek Talk. A bloody sweet tw0-pager by Dez Skinn and Dave Gibbons provides the comic relief, and Jason Thomas brings us part 1 of Robots in the Cinema. The mysterious Howard Philips asks Why Super-Heroines Leave Home, and the monster movies are gravely covered with Tales From Beyond the Grave and, one of my favorite Donald Pleasence movies, The Mutations. Lots more to read, so I won't keep you any longer: jump right in!
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October 1974" »
Here's a monster timely issue for Godzilla fans. Issue 35 of The Monster Times covers Tokyo's eternal monster problem with a nifty rundown on the big nasties across the movies (up until 1974, of course). Howard Phillips (um, yeah) provides an overview of Supernatural Horrors in the comics, and the Science Fiction Book Club (gee, I was a member!) gets a shout-out in Bargains From Beyond. Not surprisingly, there's a full-page ad for the Science Fiction Book Club, too. Back then, the club was the best way to get your hands on copious genre reading material. John Tibbets provides an academic lecture on horror and Chosen Survivors gets a "worth seeing" review. Also noteworthy, Trek Talk provides Cleveland Amory's review of Star Trek, which originally appeared in TV Guide's 1967 issue.
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The Time Machine kicks off issue 34 of The Monster Times, with It Came From Out of the Underground (comix, that is), and Star Trek Lives! By 1979, Star Trek fandom would get their fix with Star Trek the Motion Picture (well, okay, sort of), and more ST to follow on the big screen. William Shatner also gives TMT a lengthy interview, too. Doug Murray pours over the slimy monsters to be found in comics, and a pondering over Zardoz ponders some more. Ladies of Fright explores female terrors in film beginning with Freaks, but of course needs to be added to by now, and a preview of Madhouse with Vincent Price is tossed in for good measure. Of special nostalgic and historical interest, you'll find on page 27, a half-page rundown on all the cool happenings planned for the 1974 New York Comic Art Convention, where fans mingled with the greats. Sadly, I didn't take pictures when I attended--I know, how stupid of me! But I was there, although my memories are more foggy than clear about the whole thing, but I swear, I wasn't doing drugs. I wasn't!
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In issue 26 of The Monster Times, Destroy All Monsters brings out the big guns, Metropolis, Illinois, gets super coverage, Richard Bojarski tells us all about Rondo Hatton in Horrorwood, and Star Trek lives! -- as a Saturday morning cartoon (which was pretty good, actually). Also not to be glossed over is the Ghoulie Glossies, wherein Gary Gerani reveals the dark side of movie stills traded on the hot convention circuit. Pressbooks are briefly mentioned in the article as "these are sent directly to the theater managers who in turn usually send them directly into the garbage can..." Bite your tongue! On the plus side, there's coverage (albeit too brief) of the 1973 New York Comic Art Convention, Ah, those were the days! Conventions were so much cooler back then. I wonder whatever happened to Heidi Saha?
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An all-Frankenstein (really they meant The Monster, for you purists) issue of The Monster Times, for number 21, makes for stellar reading. A Glenn Strange interview, Frankenstein in the Comics, Frankenstein's Castle, The Decline of Frankenstein (bite your electrode!), Frankenstein's Bloody Terror, and the usual TMT stuff to keep you busy. Whew!
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Issue 41 of The Monster Times has some monstrous coverage to sink your teeth into. There's the wonderful low-budget It! The Terror From Beyond Space, Werewolf comic books are howled at, Six Versions of Frankenstein (up till then, of course) are counted, a mostly I'm-disappointed review of Young Frankenstein (now generally considered a comedy-horror classic), and How to Make a Mummy for Fun and Profit (which, disappointingly, is actually about the actual mummification process). The best part is Looking Back With Zach: An Interview With John Zacherly. One annoyance though: during the interview they showed Zackerly a photo of him with a very young Richard Thomas, taken out on Long Island, New York. "They" didn't bother to actually include the photo, although Zacherly explains it. I'd love to have seen THE PHOTO. Space:1999 and How to Make a Monster Movie round out the issue.
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In Quasimodo's Monster Magazine issue 4 you have a whopping 100 pages of monster goodness. Roger Corman, Lon Chaney, Jr., Space 1999, classic horrors, Doug McClure and The Land That Time Forgot, and enough bloody merchandise to scream about--oodles of monsterkid goodness. You can find more of the Quasimodo issues in my magazine morgue too!
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The highlight for this issue 17 of The House of Hammer (volume 2, number 5) is the Vampire Circus comic, followed by Van Helsing's Carnival of Fear. Dangerous children and Castle of the Living Dead add the movie-related info, along with Fairgrounds of Horror and Media Macabre. The artwork by Brian Holland and Goudenzi is splendid.
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