Cover
Pages 1, 12-15: THE MEN WHO SAVED… KING KONG
Page 2: EDITORIAL, CREDITS, INDEX, AND INDICIA
Pages 3-5: nosferatu …what ever happened to the vampyr?
Pages 6-8: DER GOLEM THE FIRST FRANKENSTEIN
Pages 9-11: BUCK ROGERS: His rockets roared thru
Page 15: THE MONSTER MARKET
Page 16, 17: MONSTER TIMES POSTER BONUS! Frankenstein, by Bernie Wrightson
Page 18, 30: THE GHOULS, A BOOK REVIEW
Pages 18, 19, 31: MUSHROOM MONSTERS
Page 18: FAN CLUB INFO…
Pages 20, 21: NOSFERATU, A GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION
Page 22: A LEAF FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIA FILM-FANNICA
Pages 23-28: THINGS TO COME
Page 28, 29: The Monster Times Teletype
Page 29: A Clockwork Orange review by Denny O’Neil
Page 29: CON CALENDAR
Page 30: The Old Abandoned Warehouse (Advertisement)
Page 31: THE MONSTER FAN FAIR
Page 32: SUBSCRIPTION INFO
Staff:
Almighty Editor:
McNaughton, Chuck A., 2
Managing Editor:
Kane, Joe, 2, 19
Associate Editors:
Asherman, Allan, 2, 23
Seuling, Phil, 2, 29
Vertlieb, Steve, 1, 2, 15
Art Direction:
Brill, 2
Waldstein, Larry, 2
Columnists:
Feret, Bill, 2, 28, 29
O’Neil, Denny, 2, 29, 32
Richards, C.M., 2, 6
Contributing Writers:
Asherman, Allan, 2, 23
Clerk, Jessica, 2, 19
Izzo, Dave, 2, 3
Latimer, Dean Alpheous, 2, 9
Naha, Ed, 2
Richards, C.M., 2, 6
Vertlieb, Steve, 1, 2, 15
Wnoroski, Jim, 2
Contributing Photographer:
Jackson, Jack, 2
West Coast Correspondent:
Waldstein, Larry, 2
European Correspondent:
Clerk, Jessica, 2, 19
Contributing Artists:
Buckler, Rich, 2
Colon, Ernie, 2
Garzon, Carlos, 2
Green, Dan, 2
Hickman, Steve, 2
Janes, Jimmy, 2
Jones, Jeffrey Catherine, 2, 30
Kaluta, Mike, 2, 30
Morrow, Gray, 2, 16, 18, 30, 32
Sams, B.B., 2
Todd, Larry, 2, 18
Wrightson, Bernie, 2, 16, 17, 30
ISSUE 1: INDEX
2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 23, 29
7th Voyage of Sinbad, The, 15
A Clockwork Orange (film), 29
A Clockwork Orange (novel), 29
Abbott and Costello, 31
Abominable Dr. Phibes, The, 28
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865), 28
ABYSS 1, 30
Airboy Comics, 29
Alexander the Great (356 – 323 BC), 11
Alyn, Kirk (1910 – 1999), 30, 32
Amazing Colossal Man, The, 18, 31
American International Pictures, 31
American Museum of Natural History, 12
Andromeda Strain, The, 28
Art Students League of New York, 22
Asimov, Isaac (1920 – 1992), 29
Barbour, Alan, 30
Barry, Dan (1923 – 1997), 31
Barrymore, John (1882 – 1942), 15
Batman, 29
Bava, Mario (1914 – 1980), 19
Beast in the Cellar, The, 28
Beast with Five Fingers, The, 18
Beatles, The, 31
Beauty and the Beast, 12
Beery, Wallace (1885 – 1949), 12
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 – 1827), 29
Bela Lugosi (1882 – 1956), 4, 30
Bela Lugosi Pictorial, 30
Bewitched (1945 film), 19
Bierce, Ambrose (1842 – 1914), 18
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, 5
Bimbashi Baruk of Egypt, 31
Black Sunday (1960 film), 19
Bliss, Arthur (1891 – 1975), 28
Bode, Vaughn (1941 – 1975), 31
Bradbury, Ray (1920 – 2012), 10
Braddell, Maurice (1900 – 1990), 23
Bride of Frankenstein, 28
Bronson, Charles (1921 – 2003), 28
Browning, Tod (1880 – 1962), 19
Burden, William Douglas (1898 – 1978), 12
Burgess, Anthony (1917 – 1993), 29
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875 – 1950), 31
Bwana Devil, 19
Byron, Lord (1788 – 1824), 3, 4, 6
Caesar, Julius (100 – 44 BC), 11
Calkins, Dick, 9, 10
Campanella, Joseph, 28
Captain America, 31
Castle of Otranto, The, 3
Cauldron of Blood, 28
Chaney, Lon, 15, 18, 19
Chapman, Edward, 23, 26, 27
Charles Stanton Ogle, 15
Clarke, Arthur C., 23
Clements, John, 24
Collected Works Of Buck Rogers In The 20th Century, The, 9
Collector, The, 31
Comics Code Authority, 32
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 12
Cooper, Merian C., 1, 12, 13, 14, 15
Coriell, Vern, 30
Corman, Roger, 32
Corvinus University of Budapest, 22
Crabbe, Buster, 32
Crabbe, Byron L., 14
Creation (unfinished film), 13
Creelman, James Ashmore, 14
Creepy (magazine), 30
Crepax, Guido, 31
Crucible of Horror, 28
Culver Studios, 13
Daly, James (actor), 28
Dark Domain, 30
Dark Shadows, 5
Day the Earth Stood Still, The, 31
DC Comics, 31
De Marney, Derrick, 25
Delgado, Marcel, 14
Dell Comics, 31
Deluge (film), 25
DeMille, Cecil B., 14, 25
Deutsch, Ernst, 7
Devil in a Convent, The, 19
Dickinson, Angie, 28
Dillman, Bradford, 28
Dracula, 4, 5
Dracula (1931 English-language film), 5, 19
Dracula (1958 film), 5
Dragon Lizards of Komodo, The, 12
EC Comics, 31, 32
Edison Studios, 19
Edison, Thomas, 6, 15
Eerie (magazine), 30
Elizabeth II, 28
Empire State Building, 1, 12, 14
Fantastic (book), 30
Fanzine, 18
Feiffer, Jules, 30
Feret, Bill, 2, 28, 29
Finlay, Virgil, 30
First National Pictures, 12, 13
Five (1951 film), 19, 31
Flying Man, The, 22
Foster, Hal, 30, 31
Four Feathers, 12
Frankenstein (1910 film), 6, 19
Frankenstein (1931 film), 7
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, 4, 6, 16
Frazetta, Frank, 30, 31, 32
Freaks (1932 film), 18, 19
Freberg, Stan, 28
Galeen, Henrik, 5
Gemora, Charles, 14
Ghouls, The, 18
Godzilla vs. Hedorah, 28
Gogol, Nikolai, 18, 19
Gold Key Comics, 31
Golem (1915 film), The, 6, 7
Golem: How He Came into the World, The, 6, 7
Gone with the Wind (film), 22, 25
Gothic Blimpworks, 31
Gould, Chester, 9
Grand Coulee Dam, 31
Grand Guignol, 18
Grant, Donald M, 30
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, 14
Great Comic Book Heroes, The, 30
Green Lantern-Green Arrow, 29
Grosset and Dunlap, 14
H.P. Lovecraft, 18
Hachette Book Group, 30
Haining, Peter (author), 18
Hammer Film Productions, 19
Hardwicke, Cedric, 26, 28
Harryhausen, Ray, 15
Harvey, W.F., 18
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 18
HERO PULP INDEX, The, 30
Herodotus, 11
Histories (Herodotus), 11
Hitler, Adolf, 7, 28
Hotel Pennsylvania, 29
House of Wax (1953 film), 28
Illustrated Tarzan Book 1, The, 30
Incredible Shrinking Man, The, 18, 31
Irving, Henry, 4
Izzo, Dave, 2, 3
Jackson, Jack, 2
Job For Superman, A, 30
Johnson, Van, 10
Jones, Bruce, 30
Karloff, Boris, 7, 15, 18, 30
King Kong (1933 film), 1, 12, 13, 14
King of Kings (1927 film), The, 14
Kirk, Phyllis, 28
Korda, Alexander, 22, 25, 28
Korda, Vincent, 22, 25, 28
Korda, Zoltan, 22
Kubrick, Stanley, 23, 29
Lancer Books, 30
Land Ironclads, The, 22
Langan, Glenn, 31
Larrinaga, Mario, 14
Latimer, Dean Alpheous, 2, 9
Laughton, Charles, 28
Lee, Christopher, 5, 18, 19
Leroux, Gaston, 18, 19
Life (magazine), 30
Little Nemo In Slumberland, 30
Livingston, Pickles, 24
Loew, Judah ben Bezalel, 6, 7, 8
London Films, 22
Lorre, Peter, 18
Lost World (1925 film), The, 13
Lost World (Doyle novel), The, 12
Love, Bessie, 12
Lovelace, Delos W., 14
Lugosi, Bela, 4, 5, 30
Lunacon, 29
Madam Satan, 25
Madison Square Garden, 14
Mahler, Gustav, 29
Man Who Could Work Miracles, The, 28
Mann, Francis Oscar, 19
Mann, Ned, 25, 26
Manning, Russ, 31
Marvel Comics, 31
Marx Brothers, 31
Massey, Raymond, 23, 26, 27, 28
McCay, Winsor, 30
McDowell, Malcolm, 29
McKinstry, Lohr, 30
McKinstry, Robert, 30
Menzies, William Cameron, 22, 25, 26, 28
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 12, 14
Metzger, George, 31
Meyer, Russ, 28
Midnight People, The, 18
Milland, Ray, 28
Moore, C. L., 31
Most Dangerous Game (1932 film), The, 13
Most Dangerous Man Alive, 18
Motion Picture Association, 29
Murnau, F. W., 5
Mussolini, Benito, 28
Muthel, Lothar, 7
Naha, Ed, 2
New York Times, The, 29
Nielsen, Leslie, 28
Nimoy, Leonard, 18
Nowlan, Philip Francis, 10
Nude In Mink, 31
O’Brien, Willis H., 1, 13, 14
O’Hara, Jerry, 29
O’Neil, Denny, 2, 29, 32
Oboler, Arch, 19, 31
Pace, Judy, 28
Pal, George, 28, 32
Paramount Pictures, 25
Phantom of the Opera, The, 18, 19
Poe, Edgar Allan, 6, 18, 19, 32
Polidori, John William, 4, 6
Price, Vincent, 18, 28
Princess of Mars, A, 31
Private Life of Helen of Troy, The, 22
Private Life of Henry VIII, The, 22
Pruitt–Igoe, 29
Raboy, Mac, 31
Radio City Music Hall, 14
Raymond, Alex, 31
RCA Records, 28
Reid, Beryl, 28
Rembrandt (1936 film), 22
Rennie, Michael, 31
Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, The, 28
Richards, C.M., 2, 6
Richardson, John (actor), 19
Richardson, Ralph, 24, 28
RKO Pictures, 1, 12, 13, 14, 15, 25
Road to Mandalay (1926 film), The, 15
Robbins, Tod, 18, 19
Robe, Tom, 29
Rockwell, Norman, 30
Rohmer, Sax, 31
Rolling Stone, 31
Romance of Sorcery, The, 31
Rose, Ruth, 14
Rudolf II Holy Roman Emperor, 8
Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, 22
Russell, Ken, 28
Salmanova, Lyda, 7
Sanders, George, 28
Saturday Evening Post, The, 30
Schoedsack, Ernest B., 12, 13
Schreck, Max, 4, 5
Schuster, Al, 29
Scott, Margaretta, 25, 28
Selznick, David O., 12, 13, 14
Selznick, Myron, 12
Sennett, Mack, 26
Shakespeare, William, 26
Shape of Things to Come, The, 22
Shatner, William, 18, 32
Shelley, Mary, 4, 6, 16
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 4, 6
Shrine Auditorium, 14
Sinister Madonna, 31
Skywald Publications, 15
Song of Bernadette (film), The, 31
Steele, Barbara, 19
Stein and Day, 18
Steiner, Max, 1, 14, 15
Steinruck, Albert, 7
Steranko History of Comics Volume 1, The, 30
Steranko, Jim, 30
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 18
Stoker, Bram, 4, 5, 18
Stone, Lewis, 12
Sub-Mariner, 31
Superman, 29
Tarzan-Two Great Adventures, 30
Them (1954 film), 18
Thesiger, Ernest, 28
Thief of Bagdad (1940 film), The, 22, 25
Things to Come, 22, 23, 26, 28
Twonky, The, 19
UFA GmbH, 6
Universal Pictures, 7
Vampyre, The, 4, 6
Virgil Finlay (book), 30
Vlad the Impaler, 4
Vonnegut, Kurt, 28, 29
Wallace, Edgar, 14
Walpole, Horace, 3
Walt Disney Company, The, 31
War in the Air, The, 22
War of the Colossal Beast, 31
War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama), The, 19
Warner Bros., 18
Wegener, Paul, 6, 7
Wein, Len, 18
Weinberg, Bob, 30
Welch, Raquel, 31
Welles, Orson, 19
Wells, H.G., 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28
Wnoroski, Jim, 2
Yale University, 22
Yankee Stadium, 14
Yellow Dog (comics), 31
Yu’an Hee See laughs, 31
Zech, Harry (1875 – 1944), 26