SHORT-LIVED MAGS - MOVIE MONSTERS...

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Remember, when young, you'd think back 3 or 4 years and it seemed like forever?  As you get older, it seems to work in reverse.  Think back 50 years and it seems like only a few years ago, if not months.  Can never get my head around that.

Anyway, today's post is yet another which is sure to bring in a deluge of comments (ever the optimist, despite evidence to the contrary with the last three entries) as we focus on a mag that was published in 1975 and lasted, as far as I know, for only four issues.  Movie Monsters (by Atlas/Seaboard) was devoted to (you mean I actually gotta tell you?) monsters from the movies and it was a mixed bag affair.

Some nice photos, though sometimes wrongly attributed, and loads of typos, spelling mistakes, and words that made me think I had dyslexia.  I can only conclude it was produced in a hurry and the editor and proof-reader were too busy 'goofing off' playing poker to pay proper attention to what they were doing.  However, if you could overlook such irksome obstacles it actually wasn't a bad wee publication.

I've just purchased all four mags, two of which have arrived, the other two I'm still waiting for.  I was reminded, while leafing through #2, that I still have a couple of articles I clipped from my original issue way back when, so now I have the complete contents again.  I'm not exactly sure I had all four of them at the time - maybe only two, possibly three, but 50 years on I have the full set (unless there was a #5).

Did any of you buy this title back in the day?  What are your memories of it, effendis?  (Like, did the last two covers give you nightmares?)