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Post by MDG on May 26, 2020 10:34:20 GMT -5
Maybe it is because the art is a bit cartoony but I find the covers from this series great. Have never read any though to know if the interior content is good.  This and similar magazines were published by the infamous Myron Fass, the king of the sleazy horror comics in the 60s and 70s. He mixed reprints from defunct pre-code horror comics from such publishers as Harvey and Farrell with some new stuff. The covers were the attraction for those who like this kind of thing: the grosser and gorier, the better. .... Fass was a legend. An @$$hole, but a legend. I first bought a couple of Fass pubs when Creepy and Eerie went to 40 cents and Weird was still 35, but even then I tried to hide them from my mom, which I never felt I had to do with the Warrens. 30 years later Fass books were the only ones I didn't keep accessible to my kids (and I had plenty of things like undergrounds and American Flagg laying around).
In college, there was a bookstore that sold back issues of Fass UFO/paranormal magazines for a quarter apiece--we got a lot of enjoyment out of them.
Fass Pubs were a necessary part of the magazine food chain in the 60s and 70s--if it wasn't him, it would've been someone else. Though I imagine folks like Dick Ayers and Chic Stone didn't trumpet that they were working for him.
A great history of Fass pubs came out a few years ago:
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Post by Rob Allen on May 26, 2020 15:28:23 GMT -5
Even at the height of my completist phase, I couldn't bring myself to spend money on Fass magazines. I looked thru them a couple of times and put them back on the rack. They just looked dumb.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 26, 2020 15:58:42 GMT -5
Even at the height of my completist phase, I couldn't bring myself to spend money on Fass magazines. I looked thru them a couple of times and put them back on the rack. They just looked dumb.Sometimes appearance is reality. |
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Post by profh0011 on May 27, 2020 10:49:38 GMT -5
What little I've seen of Dick Ayers' work in these made me laugh. Over-the-top brutal gory violence. I was inspired to quip... " Gee, I used think Dick was such a NICE GUY!"  He HAD to have been having fun. Comments I've read elsewhere have suggested that many found most of the interiors TAME compared to Warren. |
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Post by profh0011 on May 27, 2020 10:54:52 GMT -5
5 more... SELECOES DE TERROR 11cover by JAYME CORTEZ MARTINS (Editora Continental / Brazil / 1960) " THE ANCESTRY OF DRACULA"  SELECOES DE TERROR 12cover by JAYME CORTEZ MARTINS (Editora Continental / Brazil / 1960) " THE EMISSARY OF DRACULA"  SELECOES DE TERROR 13cover by JAYME CORTEZ MARTINS (Editora Continental / Brazil / June 1960) " DRACULA AND THE MONSTERS OF MIDNIGHT" "DIABOLICAL PACT" "THE BLACKSMITH SHIP!" "THE STRANGE STORY OF MR. PARKINSON" "THE HEAD HUNTERS" 
SELECOES DE TERROR 14cover by JAYME CORTEZ MARTINS (Editora Continental / Brazil / July 1960) " THE NEW ALLY OF DRACULA"  SELECOES DE TERROR 15cover by JAYME CORTEZ MARTINS (Editora Continental / Brazil / August 1960) " THE SPIRIT OF DRACULA"  |
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Post by MDG on May 27, 2020 11:41:07 GMT -5
Comments I've read elsewhere have suggested that many found most of the interiors TAME compared to Warren. I don't know who would've felt that way, especially during the times Archie Goodwin was at the helm for Warren. A lot (all?) of Fass's stories were redraws/retouches of bottom-of-the-barrel pre-code horror, sometimes with the gore ramped up. |
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He HAD to have been having fun.