Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine #202

UPDATE: Thank you, kind reader. I removed a lot of "Mad" magazine material. I don't want to break any copyright laws.

mask ad

1965.

Vintage Monster Magazine Ad 04 www.jasonwillis.com

I couldn’t begin to tell you why The Monster Times failed in only four years. It seems like a great idea—a sci-fi/horror/comics tabloid newspaper with poster quality cover art? It’s not like horror fans are so small a niche, but the paper launched in New York in 1972 as a bi-weekly, then soon went monthly, then sporadic, until its quiet death in the summer of 1976, when an all-poster issue failed to revive its fortunes. You can hardly blame it staffers for its demise—it was helmed by people…

This Topstone monster mask ad ran in the Fall 1964 issue of Horror Monsters magazine. The ad itself featured several of the Topstone classic...

Cover by Ken Kelly.

Trying to find copies of Famous Monsters when domiciled 3,000+ miles away from the action was a tad frustrating, more so when the series jumped from #69 to #80 in one month. It was only years later I discovered that the jump was to help the magazine reach #100 sooner. I would suggest … Continue reading "The Horror, The Horror! Classic Covers to Famous Monsters of Filmland"