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JM Cozzoli

A horror genre fan with a blog. Scary.

Monster World Issue 1
Part Two

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Here's the second half of Monster World Issue 1 magazine (aka Quasimodo's Monster Magazine). A few funny-photo-captions, a Find a Monster Puzzle, and  nods to screen vampires and Avco Embassy's television series, Nightmare Theater, fill this second half. Oh, and I shouldn't forget to mention the 70,000 Year Old Teenager, Korg, and the ad for Sun-Flower, the Chinese Handmaiden Doll every horror fan would want to own. At least this second half of the magazine has more ads suitable for monsterkids, like the Night Gallery and monster-sized Quasimodo posters, as well as the fine craft books on dress design and basic knitting. I wonder how many cosplayers started this way?

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Monster World Issue 1
Part One

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After reading Cranston Macmillan's Quasimodo's Monster Magazine chapter in the recently released 70s Monster Memories (yup, shameless plug here!), I dug out my first issue of Quasi's, which was called Monster World. At least for the first three issues, then it changed title to Quasimodo's Monster Magazine. It's a lot of pages if little else, but there's a charm to its simplicity (okay, poor layout and cheap printing). The covers were always to die for. In this first half of the magazine you'll read about Kolchak, The Night Stalker, The Monster Comics World of Jose Delbo, and Frankenstein, Through the Years. But nevermind that. What's really killer here are the advertising pages: you can drown your plants with love by giving them Water Stiks, stay healthy with Arco books on fitness, buy $20.00 sport action watches, plug in the miracle TV antenna (I can tell you from personal experience it sucked), and grab a fine collectible Chinese Doll (but that's in the second half of the magazine, which I'll post shortly). While other horror and monster mags had copious ads for fan-favorite merchandise, this first issue went for the wrong target audience. How terrifying!.

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The Monster Times Issue 20
March 1973

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Star Trek stays alive in issue 20 of The Monster Times.  An episode guide, coverage of the book adaptations by James Blish, a fan clubs yellow pages, and a smashing Keep on Trekkin' pullout centerfold make this an all warp speed issue.  Toss in Karloff's The Mask of Fu Manchu and a look at the stage play, Warp, with costumes designed by Neal Adams, and you've got your typical TMT smattering of 1970s pop culture nirvana. Warp began in 1971 at the Illinois Organic Theatre Company before moving to Broadway in 1973. A science-fantasy trilogy and space opera, it circulated before Star Wars hit the big screens in 1977.

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Mexican Lobby Card:
Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (1941)

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I've probably seen every Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movie at least four times. They'd pop up every weekend on local television (Sunday, I recall), along with Abbott and Costello movies. In this one, the natives truly are restless, causing much mayhem for Jane and Boy. I hear a new reboot of the Tarzan storyline is coming from Hollywood. I'm sure they'll muck it up with the usual flair for petulant-scripting you get from writers unfamiliar with how to handle a particular genre. Like jungle movies. Back in the 1940s, there was an aura of mystery and danger you could play with. Today, if Tarzan's not carrying a cell phone and selfie-stick, I'd wonder what the hell was wrong with him.


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Mexican Lobby Card:
El Hombre Que Logro Ser Invisible

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What confounded me when watching James Whale's The Invisible Man was how the formula ingested wasn't invisible itself. How could simply drinking a concoction turn you invisible? The 1940's The Invisible Woman side-stepped that by having the invisibility process induced by a machine designed by a slightly eccentric professor (John Barrymore). This imaginative Mexican lobby card is for 1958's Invisible Man in Mexico (aka The New Invisible Man), El Hombre Que Logro Ser Invisible.

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