Happy Birthday Zach !

Today is the 92nd anniversary of the birth of "The Cool Ghoul", John Zacherle (aka Zacherley)!

Zacherley made his first monster mag appearance in FM #2, as Philadelphia's Roland, in an article about TV horror hosts. By June 1960, he was now New York's Zacherley and featured in this cover story in FM #7. By this time, Zacherley was a star (a phenomenon, really) and remains so in his 92nd year! Happy Birthday, Zach!

Cover by Albert Nuetzell

 

Marvel Monster Mag Miscellany pt.1

Monsters Unleashed
Publisher:  Stan Lee
Editor: Roy Thomas

Marvel (Curtis) had one honest to gosh movie monster mag in the '70s (Monsters of the Movies) and several monster comics mags. Some of the comics mags, however, did have some film content. A short article or two and a few of the old funny captioned photos. In this series we'll post the movie content of the Marvel monster comics mags.

First up, Monsters Unleashed no. 1 (with the rest of the MU issues to follow).

Cover by Gray Morrow

1 Year and Counting! (But Who's Counting.)

It's been just one year since the first post at Monster Magazines! If I'm lucky, there'll be enough interesting stuff to last another year? If not, it'll make a pretty good archive!

I'd like to thank Prof. Grewbeard, Mike C., John from MMW, Terry from UMA, Joe Jusko, Frederick, Cyberschizoid, Pretorius and all the other monster mag friends/fans/posters/visitors! Hope you have fun looking at all this stuff that most people would throw in the trash, if they found it in a box in their closet! LOL

I have something to post later in the day, so we'll see you then!

Amazing FM Montage

You have to check out this amazing FM cover montage by Stephen Morrison! I'll let Steve give you a little background.

"I've been playing around with it on and off for awhile now, a tweak here, a small change there. Then it just sort of grew and like Dr. Frankenstein's creation, took on a life of it's own. It's still a work in progress, with hundreds of parts and pieces the combination and arrangement possibilites are almost unlimited. All the images are taken from FMOF covers, except the "4SJ Of Karloffornia" sign being heldup, that one came from a photo of Uncle Forry holding the sign he had taken down after his move to the mini Ackermansion. It probably (won't) appeal to the "purists", because I have altered many of the images, changing an expression a bit, mixing the hands from one image with another image, things like that. I tried to inject a little humor along the way. It was a lot of fun, and I was sometimes surprised how the image from one cover seemed almost made to interact with the image from another cover."

Because of Blogger's size restrictions you'll have to download the huge 18MB file, here.

Almost Six FM Covers

Correspondence between James Warren and Dave (Photon, Gore Creatures) Ludwig on his potential contributions as an FM cover artist. (It didn't work out.)

Currently up for auction at Hakes.com.

Tales of Terror

The Day The World Ended

The Magic Sword

Invaders From Mars

From Hell It Came

Hands of the Ripper

Almost An FM Cover

Harold Shull (FM #81) painted this The Thing From Another World for a proposed FM cover, in 1969, but it wasn't used until 1972, as the cover of Photon #22.

Currently up for auction at Hakes.com.

Rarest Warrens pt. 4

An Illustrated History Of
Heidi Saha
Warren Publishing Co.
1973

This Warren mag only interests me (as I'm sure it does you) because it is one of the rarest Warrens. I'm also not terribly interested in the subject of the magazine, other than for the above same reason. (If you are more interested than I, you know where the Google is.) And lastly, I'm not especially interested in posting all 36 pages of this mag. If these thumbnails don't do it for you, go to my Photobucket album for a larger view.

The short version on this mag, is that Heidi was the daughter of sci-fi enthusiasts and friends of Forry Ackerman and enjoyed entering the costume contests at the sci-fi cons. The mag is mostly family photos of Heidi and photos of her in her con costumes. A short bio of Heidi written by Forry is full of his usual bad jokes and worst puns, some of which seem inappropriate, today. After wearing a Vampirella costume to a con, Warren returned the favor by publishing this magazine.

The mag had a print run of 500 and was only sold in the back issue pages. It is extremely rare and commands about 100 times what I'd be willing to pay for it.