"THE MONSTER TIMES" MAGAZINE FULL RUN W/SLIPCASE.
Item Description
Full set of 52 11.5x16.75" newsprint magazines, touted as the "World's First Newspaper Of Horror, Sci-Fi And Fantasy!" Title ran for 48 issues and also included two Star Trek Specials, a poster issue, catalog and rare slipcase. This set has them all, published between 1972 and 1975 by The Monster Times Publishing Company. As publicized by cover tagline, issues covered a wide and expansive range of horror, sci-fi, comic books and fantasy themes and properties, including Godzilla, King Kong, Gorgo, Star Trek, Spider-Man, Green Lantern and Green Arrow, Tales From The Crypt, Universal Monsters, Dark Shadows, zombies, Tarzan, Batman, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, EC Comics, Planet of the Apes, This Island Earth, Night of the Living Dead, Superman, Conan and much more. Features images of Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Christopher Lee, Bruce Lee, Leonard Nimoy and more. Creators include - Roger Corman, Edgar Allan Poe, Stan Lee, Marv Wolfman, HG Wells, Gene Roddenberry, William Gaines, Bram Stoker, Lee Falk, HP Lovecraft and others.Artists include - Jeff Jones, Rich Buckler, Tom Sutton, Frank Frazetta, Dick Calkins, Berni Wrightson, Gray Morrow, Al Feldstein, Joe Kubert, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Jerry Robinson, Johnny Craig, Jim Steranko, Esteban Maroto and others.Characters include - Frankenstein's Monster (Boris Karloff), The Bride of Frankenstein (Elsa Lanchester), Captain Kirk and Mister Spock, Toho Kaiju, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Fritz the Cat, Blacula, Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.), The Phantom and others. Moderate scattered aging and edge wear. Overall issues are VG. Slipcase has overall aging/wear and features logo on spine. VG. Very scarce complete set and first we've offered.
