Saturday, May 22, 2010

Monsters and Things


A lot of magazines stopped publishing in 1958 when distributor American News Company went out of business. Included amongst the casualties is a personal favorite of mine, MONSTERS AND THINGS. Mom wouldn't let me buy it in 1958, no matter how bad a tantrum I threw. I waited 40 years and found a copy. So there, Mom!

This issue, #2, was the last issue. Too bad. Bob Powell cover and illustrations, monster pin-ups, horror comics reprint, and some cool fiction. I still like it.

Copyright © 1958 Magnum Publications, Inc.









































8 comments:

  1. awesome, Monsters & Things is one monster magazine i had yet to see the inside of, thanx!

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  2. “Magnum Publications” has been misread as “Magazine Publications”. Magnum Publications was Stein's successor to Royal Publications. And the successor to Magnum publications was Lancer Books.

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  5. I think that page 12 needs to be included to complete “The Story of Frankenstein”.

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  6. Daniel, typo corrected from Magazine to Magnum, and page 12 inserted. Thanks for catching both mistakes.

    To everyone: I can't put my hands on the exact quote, but I recall Silverberg, writing in one of his autobiographical introductions in a volume of his collected early work, saying he got a monthly retainer from Larry T. Shaw to provide stories and novelettes for Shaw's science fiction digests. I remember he wrote that he also wrote stories for Shaw's short-lived monster magazines, and if so, these stories could very well be early Robert Silverberg, written under pseudonyms.

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  7. I would bet environmentalists would go nuts today if someone created a monster "from Green Hell"!

    Cheers!

    Steven G. Willis
    XOWComics.com

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