HE & WE LIKE EVERYTHING!
Dear Monsters:
I am hoping that you will run a letter column in future issues, so I will tell you a little about myself.
In your ad in ERBdom you mentioned all of the things that I collected; AMAZING! Your publication is the first to cover all the fields that I am interested in. Comics, Large-size Horror Comics, SF Books & Magazines, Pulps, Original and print art, EVERYTHING!
THANKX.
Sincerely yours,
Sean P. Kendall
San Jose, Ca.
You’re welKong, Sean.
R.F…. REALLY FRIGHTFUL
Dear people at Monster Times,
I’ve just bought the 1st & 2nd editions of your newspaper and loved them. My name is Ronald Fleischer. My initials are R.F., so all my friends call me Rat Fink. I couldn’t survive without monsters. I made spook shows & showed 8mm, films on monsters. I buy every model that comes out on monsters. All I think is monsters. I saw every Horror Movie, on stage, in the movies, or on T.V. I used to buy junky magazines until your newspaper came out. It’s fantastic!
To show how much I love monsters I wrote a song, all about monsters, to the tune of (The Man of La Mancha’s) “The Impossible Dream”. (I’m only 12.) I want to ask you to do me the favor of printing this song in one of your papers.
Your fiend,
Ronald Fleischer
P.S. Don’t forget to read the song.
P.S.S. I’m also enclosing my picture.
“THE MOST HORRIBLE DREAM”
To The Tune of “The Impossible Dream”
To dream, the most horrible dream
To see, the most horrible sight
To live, in a cave with Godzilla!
Where man, cannot live without fright
Rodan, in the air flying high
With Mothra, flying right by his side
Monster X, getting ready to battle
Gammera, getting ready to hide!
This is their quest:
To be our friends,
To make very sure,
Our hair stands on ends,
To be very cruel,
And to fight all the time,
With Godzilla, Rodan, Gammera, Mothra and the Green Slime.
Memories, we will surely keep,
And remember them well,
Even when, the time will come
When we’re all fast asleep
And we all, will be thankful for this,
That we cry, and we shake and we scream
And know, when the time has COME!
To dream, the most horrible DREAM!
You know, Ron, that new lyric could become a hit record … but we can’t think of anyone who’d have the courage to hit it. Readers may find interesting the monster pasted onto Ron’s envelope, which, amazingly enough, arrived in good condition, What’s even more amazing, is that the stamp on Ron’s letter didn’t get canceled. Somebody “down there” (in the Postal Department) must like us … enough to contribute stamps to our cause. Readers are encouraged to write monster song lyrics like Ron’s. If they are as good and we get enough of them, we may run a special pageful of them, some time.
A MODEL MISTAKE
Dear Sirs,
I was extremely impressed with issue No. 2 of THE MONSTER TIMES and would like to take this opportunity to express thanks for the gracious mention of my models and equipment.
There were a couple of items that someone must have misinformed Chuck McNaughton about. The text gave the impression that I had built the ENTERPRISE that was pictured; I didn’t, that was the model actually used in THE CAGE’ and ‘REQUIEM FOR METHUSALA’. Also, the craft I built pictured in the lower left-hand corner of the article was the ROMULAN, not the KLINGON. Also, if you ever want a better picture of the shuttlecraft model, take a picture of the second one, now in Allan Asherman’s collection. (A shot of it is enclosed.) The lines are more outstanding and it won’t require retouching.
Thanks to Chuck also for suggesting to the fans to write to AMT in hopes of getting a shuttlecraft made. They refused my repeated requests (that’s what got me started on the models) but they at least sent me enough decals to finish another shuttlecraft or two. I will try again, emphasizing how fast the ENTERPRISE models sold at the Con.
Thanks, and BE SEEING YOU!
Rich Van Treuren
Yes, Rich, someone misinformed Chuck McNaughton about the ship; the fellow who exhibited it at the STAR TREK-CON, But no matter. What’s a letters page for, but to cop to goofs in preceding issues? Good look with AMT.
WANTED: JAPANESE MONSTERS!
Dear Sirs:
I think the Monster Times is the best newspaper on monsters in New York, and I really like the article on the Sci-Fi picture “Them”. But I wish you could put some more Sci-Fi articles in the Monster Times. Like some Japanese monsters. I have never seen Toho monster articles in Monster Magazines. Like Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Barugan, Gamera and others. I hope I find Toho monsters in one of your issues. Thank you.
Yours Truly,
Miguel Ramos
New York City
Very soon, Miguel, we will be doing a super article on the life of GODZILLA (as told by himself). Watch for it in issue No.7! Here’s Toho your health!
Send us so many letters, postcards, boosts, detractions, bomb threats, etc., that the Post Office will have to deliver our mail with a bulldozer. Address all correspondence to: THE MONSTER TIMES, Box 595, Old Chelsea Station, NY, 10011.