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The World’s
First

Newspaper
of Horror

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Some of the strangest monsters ever to
grace this world of ours (or any other we’ve
ever caught wind of) have been gracious
enough to put in an appearance in this issue
of THE MONSTER TIMES. Among them
will be the one and only GWANGI, an
oft-neglected Allosaurus who, in his love
starring vehicle, THE VALLEY OF
GWANGI, not only had the usual
pterodactyls and brontosauri to battle but
also had to contend with a bunch of greedy
mwhn ys. power-mad gypsies, a meddling
—
paleontologist, -and a 3ertpt-- that would
scare anyone. Buddy Weiss will be bringing
you all the high-voltage excitement and
low-brow dramatics that conspired to bring
Gwangi down in the valley. PAGE 18
GODZILLA GRUNTS AGAIN:
Plus we’ve got monsters of the dead The "Big G” is back again with more news, lore, and gossip galore
variety, of the interracial variety, and even related in high style as Monsterdom's most candid creature takes on THE SMOG MONSTER.
of the garden variety . . the last being the
.

part of Jim Wnoroski’s two-part series

first GWANGI GETS IT ON:
on those perverse plant monsters who have In our centerfold is an enraged Gwangi engaged in mortal combat
been trying to take over the world ever 16 with a Forbidden Valley foe and may the beast man win.
. . .

since the invention of celluloid.

Actor-make-up-maven Alan Ormsby tells LOVECRAFT LOVERS:
Have we got a magazine for you. Gary Brown tells all about HPL,
what it was like to design the make-ups for
the recently released horror epic,
18 deluxe fanzine dedicated to the living memory of H.P.

CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH VEGETARIANS’ REVENGE:

DEAD THINGS. With trusty vegematic in hand, Jim Wnoroski recounts the history
Further mining the vampire vein, we 19 of Horrordom’s plant monsters in the first of a two-part series.

have a comprehensive history of the

Vampire in comics by Jeff Wasserman. Also TMT MAILBAG:
More missives, messages, and miscellaneous comment^
for comics fans is another MT superstrip
and a visually evocative review of HPL, a
21 and queries from our highly curious readers.

deluxe fanzine devoted to the works of BLACULA!!!:

H.P. Lovecraft. Plus we’ve got the latest
reports on the sightings of a real
right ... a REAL monster. Momo’s the
. that’s
. . 22 The first black vampire grits his fangs as he prepares to change
the long and mostly insulting role of blacks in the horror film.

name and scaring the humble townsfolk of TMT TELETYPE TICKS ON!:
a small Missouri town has been his game of
late. The story of this Unidentified Hairy
24 Bill Feret’s back with another grab bag full of hot flashes, scary scoops, and
inside info to make the Phantom of the Opera sing our Teletypist’s praises.
enough

Beast has been receiving a great deal of play

in the overground media and we’ve
compiled what we think is the most
comprehensive story to date on the subject.
26 1
(one “Momo” by name) and TMT brings you the up-to-date story of the strange affair.

After all. Monsters are our business our

. . .

MONSTER MASH:
only business. And you can bet that no TMT’s Consumer Protection Dept, presents a strip that takes you
matter where monsters are happening, all
they have to do is look over their
27 behind the scenes on the development of a modern washday miracle.

hunchbacks and THE MONSTER TIMES

will be there.
sn Alan Ormsby. a make-up- man-artist-actor. is responsible for this issue's
Remember: If you don t see it here then
’ , ^ cover— a loving rendition of one of the ghouls he designed for a new fright flick
CHILDREN SHOULDNT PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS! Sound advice, that.
it probably means we don't have it.
called . . .

3OCT THE. MONSTER TIMES. No. 15, Sept. 6 1972 published every two weeks by The Monster Times
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Anytime an Allosaurus
couldn't give a Brontosaurus what-for
would be a dark day for dinosaurs indeed.
Here GWANGI illustrates that contention
with no grouble whatsoever. . . .

and without even using his hands.

But there are more hassles in store for our hero,
including a power-crazed gypsy,
a gang of greedycowboys,
and a pterodactyl
who doesn't know the meaning
of the word 'quit' . . . o
for that matter,
of any other word you
might care
to mention.

Consider the possibilities. Here you screenwriter William E. Bast to ^he year was 1912. Gypsy leader approached him.
one film, a Wild West show, figure out and for animation ace Carlos Dos Orsos stood staring at his “If you take that animal from this
have, in
band of Ray Harryhausen to put into dying brother who lay near the entrance valley,” she warned him, “you too shall
a British paleontologist, a
action which they did. The to the Forbidden Valley in a remote pay as your brother did.”
Mexican gypsies led by an elderly . . .

was an offbeat section of Mexico. As he watched the Carlos snorted.

blind witch, an Eohippus, a result
death throes of his brother, though, his “You’re an old superstitious fool,” he
pterodactyl, a Forbidden Valley, western-dinosaur epic called THE
train of thought ran down different rails. hissed. “This animal will make me one of
and an Allosaurus named GWANGI. VALLEY OF GWANGI, presented In his hand he held a burlap bag men in the world.”
the richest
What do they have in common, you down to the last stirring detail containing a tiny struggling animal. He With a gleeful look crossing his
ask? herewith by our own Allosaurus was about to leave the valley with it when swarthy face, Carlos rode off to start
Well, that was up to expert Buddy Weiss. . . .
the blind gypsy witch Tia Zorina earning the fortune he’d so long dreamed
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here a fossilized print of a creature that’s Breckenridge’s tent.

been extinct for over 70 million you
“Carlos,” said T.J. anxiously, “are
years ... a small three-toed horse called me about the money 1 owe
here to talk to
an Eohippus.” you?”
Tuck became thoughtful. “Listen,” he “No,” Carlos assured her, “1 am only
asked, “it’s not possible an animal like thinking of the creature 1 found in the
that could be alive today, is it?” Forbidden Valley. He will make mucho
The professor laughed as if he owned money for the two of us . . . Madre de
the world, and had just been offered a Dios! What was that?”

of, while the wise old gypsy thought of •you alright?”

the inevitable terror that would soon be
“Yes,” responded the old man. “I
unleashed on that unsuspecting village.
Meanwhile, in the middle of that very
think so. My mule threw me. Could you
possibly give me a ride back to my
village, another man, Tuck Kirby,
camp?”
watched as T.J. Breckenridge and her
“Sure,” said Tuck aggreeably, “let me
Wild West Show entered town. Watching
help you up.”
the colorful procession, he couldn’t help
A short time later at the man’s
reminiscing about the time he had once
campsite, he and Tuck got into a
spent with the show and with the . . .

discussion that was very interesting

pretty T.J.
indeed.
“I was
probably a fool for not
“What in the world were you doing good price for it. Just at that moment a scream from
marrying her while I had the chance,”
out there,” Tuck wanted to know, “Of course not. Tuck,” he roared, outside pierced the thin walls of T.J.’s
Tuck thought, “but that’s life, I guess.
“hunting for gold?” “that would be quite impossible.” tent. Investigating, T.J. sees a bull chasing
Well, let me attend to business and then
“No, young man, hunting for bones Tuck grew deadly serious. one of the village boys around the ring
get outta here before I’m tempted to see
would be more accurate. I'm a “Hmm,” he wondered aloud, “I and the boy is unable to escape. Tuck,
T.J. again.”
paleontologist. My name is Professor wonder.” who has returned to see T.J., quickly
As Tuck sauntered down the street, he
swore he spotted a familiar face. Upon
Bromley.” THE RETURN OF rushes to the boy’s rescue. He jumps over
“And mine is Tuck Kirby, Professor.
closer inspection, Tuck knew he was not CARLOS DOSORSOS the fence, grabs the youngster, and leaps
What have you been looking for over the side just as the bull’s sharp,
mistaken.
anyway?” Tbe_ following day, as the rehearsals deadly homs smack solidly against the
“It can’t be, but . . . wait a minute.
“I’ve made an exciting discovery, show continued, Carlos
for the wild west fence. T.J. runs swiftly to their aid.
Champ. Champ!”
Tuck,” Prof. Bromley exulted. “I have Dos Orsos strode purposefully into T.J. “Tuck,” T.J. panted, “are you hurt?”
Champ Connors, T.J.’s show manager,
turned towards the caller but was not at
all happy when he saw who it was. “Tuck

Kirby,” he nodded. “Where in blazes did

you come from and what do you want
here?”
“Now, Champ,” spoke Tuck
disarmingly, “what happened between me
and T.J. was way in the past. You still
can’t be sore at me. Look, you wouldn’t
mind if I just said hello to her before I
left?”
Champ looked at him sullenly. “Of
course, I’d mind but there doesn’t
. . .

seem to be too much I can do to stop

With that, Tuck headed for T.J.’s tent.

As T.J. caught sight of Tuck entering
her tent, her reaction was slightly more
aggravated than Champ’s. A piece of
pottery came hurling at Kirby, and
narrowly missed smashing him in the
face.

Tuck greeted T.J. with a wry smile.

“Now, now, my dear,” he grinned, “is
that any way to treat an old friend?”
“Oh, so now we’re friends again. Get
out of here! never want to see you
I

again!”
“Come on, T.J.," Tuck said, “I just
came here to make you an offer you can’t
refuse for Omar the Wonder Horse.
Buffalo Bill thinks he can use him for his
act and, besides, I know you’re not
making enough money to pay your feed
bill.”

“That’s where you’re wrong,” T.J.

told him. “Next week in Villarosa I’ll
have the greatest act there ever was. Now
please just leave me alone.”
“I’m going, sweetheart, but I’ll be
back to see that great act of yours.”
As Tuck was riding through the plains,
he kept wondering about that new act
T.J. was talking about. His thoughts were
rudely interrupted, however, when he
spied an old man lying on the ground.
“Hey,” asked Tuck, dismounting, “are
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“Pm surprised you even care,” said Breckenridge Circus to take the little me to my trusty steed, let’s get after
Tuck “Look, there is one
sarcastically. horse back to the Forbidden Valley from him!”
thing you can do for me. How about whence it came. The professor had tipped At the entrance of the Forbidden
letting me see that new act of yours.” them off as to where the animal was Valley, the gypsies let the little horse
T.J. looked resigned. “I suppose if I
caged so he could trail them and thereby escape. Several yards away, and under the
don’t show you you’ll never leave me discover the location of the valley. Lope, cover of the rocks, watched the professor
alone about it. Come with me.” a local village boy who knew of the and Lope. Tuck Kirby came riding up and
T.J. led Tuck to a tent with a very professor’s plan, tipped off Tuck in turn, spotted them.
small cage inside it. The cage was who quickly rode to the circus an in “Well, professor,” Tuck greeted, “I
Bromley (LAURENCE NAISMITH). who
completely covered by a cloth. T.J. lifted effort to stop the gypsies. As Tuck should have known you were behind all
happened to be wandering around Mexico at
it, revealing a perfectly proportioned arrived, he saw the gypsies knock out of this.”
the time. Together they approach Tia Zorina,
miniature horse . . . with three toes. Tuck the gypsy witch, who refuses to divulge to them Carlos Dos Orsos and make off with the At this point, T.J., Champ, and Carlos
guessed it was an Eohippus. the whereabouts of the Forbidden Valley. Eohippus. Deciding to trail them. Tuck came riding up to join the others. Upon
Later that evening. Professor Bromley took off while T.J. and Champ Connors spying Tuck, T.J. screamed: “I’ll have
viewed the little animal, identifying it Prof. Bromley eyed the old gypsy came running to Carlos’ aid. you put in jail for this, you horse thief!”
beyond a shadow of a doubt as a genuine thoughtfully. Tuck responded quickly to the unfair
“Tuck did this to me,” Carlos lied. “I
Eohippus. The problem now was to Find “Return him, eh?” he said, an idea threat.
saw him steal the horse.” A grin spread
out where had come from.
it forming in his old but brilliant brain. “Now you minute.
jusj wait a
across the face of Carlos, who knew he
“Tuck,” stated Prof. Bromley, “we Gorgeous,” he spoke, “I had nothing to
DOWN IN THE had just done a bad thing.
must find out the origin of this animal.” do with this. The gypsies brought it back
“T.J. told me that Carlos brought the FORBIDDEN VALLEY “Tuck did it?” Champ bellowed. here.”
horse here,” Tuck volunteered. “Let’s go “Oh .I’ll get even
. . with him alright!” All of a sudden, Champ spotted the
find out from him.” That evening three gypsies came to the Champ motioned to the others. “Point Eohippus running inside the valley.
“There goes the horse. Get him!” he
shouted.
Tuck told Champ, “See! There’s a
whole valley in there. If part of this wall
can be broken down, the horses will be
able to fit through. C’mon, what are we
waiting for?”

And so the party began their search

into the unknown wilds of the Forbidden
Valley. Tuck headed in first in hopes of
finding a whole herd of the little horses,
but stopped cold when a broken cry of
help was heard from deep within the
valley. Tuck recognized the voice—it was
Lope! Tuck looked up to see a giant
swoop down and grab the
pterodactyl
boy, and Tuck lept from his horse onto
the pterodactyl and smashed it to the
ground.
As soon- as Lope has been saved from
the grips of the grotesque predator, Tuck
sees a small prehistoric creature
resembling a plucked ostrich. It is an
ornithomimus and Tuck promptly gives it
chase, trying to rope it while the others
offer their aid. Rounding the bend they
witness the terrifying sight of the creature
being picked up and summarily destroyed
by ... a huge monster as big as a house, a
beast technically known as an Allosaurus
and commonly called by the gypsies
GWANGI!

Continued on page 29

But Tuck and company find it soon enough

anyway a valley untouched by time and full of
stiange dangers, not the least of which is an

Allosaurus the gypsies call GWANGI.

Tuck Kirby and the Professor went to

talk with Carlos.
“No, I will not tell you where it came
from,” said Carlos, standing his ground.
Never one to look a gift Eohippus in the
mouth, Carlos continued: “It is my secret
and mine alone. Tia Zorina and the rest
of those old gypsies would laugh”—Carlos
paused to imitate the sound of
laughtei— “if they only knew how rich I
am to become.”
The professor winced. “Gypsies? Tia
Zorina? Come on, Tuck, I think I know
where to find what we’re looking for.”
Tuck and the professor arrived at the
gypsy camp in search of Tia Zorina.
Finding her. Prof. Bromley tried to
persuade the old sage to tell what she
knew of the Forbidden Valley.
“Tia Zorina, you must tell us where
that horse came from ... for the good of
science and mankind.”
“It is forbidden to speak of the
valley,” the wizened old woman spat.

“The horse should be returned there as

soon as possible to stop the curse.”
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Although the vampire legend has Comic book protagonist Jeffrey Code Authority outlawed vampires faithful to the vampire cult.
prospered in literature and legends H. Wasserman examines all the and other related ghouls and
for many years, the fang-toothed
But enough talk, Mr.
aspects of vampirism in the comic continues throughout the learly
Wasserman's biting critique
demons haven't fared quite as well book in a special presentation for 1970's when variations of the
proceeds directly, and we're sure
in the four-color aberrations we call all TMT readers. He covers the vampire legend returned to comic you'll enjoy this blood-curdling
comic books. They've had a spotty period of the early years of comics books. He even discusses Marvel's
article.
history the comics, alternately
in when vampires roamed the pages newest vampire book, TOMB OF
being persecuted from its pages and unfettered, the lean years of the DRACULA, a new comic which
being touted as their saviours. 1950's and 60's when the Comics apparently is seeking to remain by JEFFREY H. WASSERMAN

irom the advent of the COMICS “Midnight Mess” from a 1953 issue
CODE on October 26, 1954 to of TALES FROM THE CRYPT.
February 1, 1971, the date of its (This story was reprinted in the
first revision, vampires were hardcover HORROR. COMICS
expressly forbidden to appear in LIBRARY OF THE 1950’s.)
any magazine published by a The story tells of a young man
member comics group of the who starts to gag on a bit of food at
COMICS MAGAZINE a restaurant his girlfriend
ASSOCIATION. The establishment recommended to him. Said
of the code, which was demanded girlfriend tells him that the guesses
by the general public, was carried he has made are right: he is choking
out by the comics companies so on blood soup and fricasseed blood
that they could avoid censorship clots. She continued to explain that
from a source outside of the just as normal people go to places
industry. Comics companies had to to eat prepared food, so do
cut back on all stories involving modern-day vampires. This she
vampires and other human calmly relates to him as the
deformities (along with violence vampires present drive a spigot
and crime) in order to have their through his neck and drink his
magazines distributed by the blood .fresh from the tap! It is
. .

national distributors and to receive no wonder that the public criticized

the seal of approval from the such stories.
COMICS CODE AUTHORITY. Stories like "Midnight Mess” still
One final example of
a story that cannot appear, for the revision of
could not repeated after the
be the COMICS CODE only allows
establishment and before thi vampires in the old traditional sense
revision of the COM ICS CODE wa; to appear since these ancient

A depiction of a Victorian vampire at work; i

page from "Varney the Vampire" by Thomas

Prescott-Prest as it appears in Anthony Master's
Morbius compensates for his lack of traditional
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE
vampire powers with a sharp mind and a quick
VAMPIRE, one of the books always found on
pair of hands, which he often puts to good use
any TMT Required Reading list.
against that suffering superhero. Spider-Man.
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“That reminds me of the one about the vampire hunter who

was so scared that he got rope burns from his rosary But . . .

it’s hot easy being a vampire hunter They’ve got a heavy . . .

cross to bear Speaking of vampire hunters, a funny thing

. . .

happened on the way to the crypt ... A vampire hunter came up

to me and said he hadn't had a bite in three days ... so I
bit him But seriously folks.
. . . .

cure himself by using a machine Since Morbius owed his existence

that employed the bodily fluids of as a vampire to a bat, it was only
a vampire bat. His treatments did natural that he resemble a bat more
not work out exactly the way he than a human. His skin was
expected them to, or have you not chalk-white, the whites of his eyes
yet guessed
since he was pink, and his other facial features
experimenting with his pet bat? By were that of a bat’s. His cute
cutting out the middle man, turned-up nose and shocking white
Morbius made himself into a face scared the living daylights out
vampire. of a cargo freighter's crew, a crew
A dose-up of Marvel's version of DRACULA reveals that the Stan Lee mob were going after the
real thing this time: a vampire devoid of frills and redeeming social values.
Jimmy Olsen and Clark "Superman" Kent had to deal a guy
who turned into a vampire at a result of watching too many movies!
vampires are well-known to the code appeared, the vampires made
public and are present in theirtriumphant return.
established reading matter, movies
and folklore. Basically, the new RETURN OF THE VAMPIRES
COMICS CODE only allows to
One of the first vampires of the
comics what has been allowed to
seventies appeared in the Marvel
appear before the general public for
Comics Group’s flagship magazine,
over a hundred years. The COMICS
CODE is not one for pioneering in
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN.
the realm of vampirism, spiritualism
The vampire’s moniker was
Morbius, and even though he was
and the occult.
the ancient vampire in one sense, he
However, either way you look at
was not in another. The vampires of
it, vampires (along with ghouls and
the olden days owed their
werewolves) are now permitted to
interesting past-time of sucking
appear in the comic books we all
blood from living victims to being
love and read. This permission was
bitten by another vampire. While
exactly what the comics companies
Morbius fulfilled the vampire’s
were looking for in order to boost
their sagging sales. The companies
characteristic of seeking warm
blood, he was not initiated into this
did not take long to act after the
fellowship of blood-drinkers by a
sixteen year prohibition on the use
fellow vampire. Originally a sufferer
of vampires was ended. Five
of a dread disease of the blood,
months after the revision of the
Morbius attempted to treat and

If this looks familiar to you, chances are it's because we already printed it back in TMT No. 10 (EC issue).

We really dig this Joe Orlando strip from TALES OF THE CRYPT #35, back in 1953. Choke. . .
who fell victim to his eternal thirst
for blood. Although he claimed to
be a vampire, Morbius could not
IN THE OLD DAYS. HUMANS HUNTED turn into a bat or become a
THEIR OWN FOOD. ..PREPARED IT THEN- DISHES... LIKE A VEGETARIAN shapeless gas. Much unlike the usual
SELVES.' VAMPIRES TOO, IN THE LE8ENDS. RESTAURANT SERVES VEGETABLE vampire (now just how usual is a
HUNTED THEIR OWN VICTIMS BUT NOW, DISHES. BLOOD- JUICE-COCKTAIL- vampire anyway?), he hated being
WE, JUST LIKE MODERN MAM, LEAVE THE . HOT BLOOD -CONSOMME-. ROAST one and was disgusted at the needs
HUNTING TO THE PROFESSIONALS f A BLOOD- CLOTS- FRENCH- FRIED of his body for fresh blood.
WE LEAVE THE PREPARING TO THE . SCABS ...BLOOD SHERBET— Morbius was to fight Spider-Man to
PROFESSIONALS TOO a stand-still and then to an
inconclusive final battle (a typical
Marvel plot which appeared in THE
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 101
and No. 102) before his stay in that
magazine was over.

THE UNIVERSAL VAMPIRE

HEH.HEHf AND THAT’S THE STORY,

'
K DD ES< THAT'S WHAT CIVILIZED
I I

VAMPIRES DO THESE DAYS.' THEY

DINE IN BLOOD/TAR/AN RESTAU-
RANTS, OPEN SUNDOWN TO SUNRISE
WHERE IS THERE ONE IN YOUR TOWN,
YOU ASK? WELL, SOME NI6HT IF YOU
FEEL UP TO IT, LOOK FOR IT • YOU
CAN TELL IT BY THE SIGN INSIDE'
IT'S IN RED... AND IT SAYS .“POSITIVELY
NO NIPPING THE WAITERS" THE
GUY WHO STARTED THIS CHAIN OF
DRINKERIES IS A VAMPIRE BARNUMi
HE KNOWS THERE’S
A 'SUCKER' BORN
EVERY MINUTE.' Any relationship between the vampire on the
NOW I'LL TURN YOU cover of this Jimmy Olsen comic and Vincent
BACK TO THE Price is anything but coincidental (Phew!).

T-KEEPER.'
Jack Kirby, while he was the
editor of N a t io n a -D C 's
I
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SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY coffin . . . that of Count Dracula’s.

OLSEN, introduced a world that
Within the pine box, he finds the
consisted of a wide array of
vampire's skeleton pinned down by
refugees from the old
a wooden stake. Inquisitive, Drake’s
Universal-International movies.
friend removes the stake and revives
These weirdos were commandeered
the menace of Dracula.
by a vampire who was more of the
In this adaptation of the original
old Dracula set than Morbius was;
vampire, Count Dracula retains all
this vampire, Count Dragorin by
his former powers that were cited
name, could turn others into
in the past. Here, Bram Stoker's
mindless slaves and become a
favorite vampire is portrayed by
gaseous mist or a bat at will.
comic veteran Gene Colan as having
However, Count Dragorin parts
a white-grey-blue complexion, a
from his similarity with the
widow’s peak hairline, pointed
traditional vampire here. Dragorin,
fingernails, fangs, and a thin
like Morbius, did not owe his
moustache. As in the original
membership in the kingdom of the
version,' Dracula shies away from
dead to a love-peck from another
crosses, silver and mirrors. Ol’ Drac’
vampire. Dragorin and his
henchmen of Boris
Karlof/Frankenstein monsters and
Lon Chaney/Werewolves were
creatures of a world whose life-style
was directed from constant viewing
of the horror movies of Hollywood.
These creatures developed into the
human deformities they were from
a desire to be like the only society
they knew: the celluloid world of
monster movies.
Jimmy Olsen, with the aid of the
Man of Steel, traced Dragorin from
the Daily Planet building to
miniature world that existed in
laboratory deep beneath
graveyard. There they found
miniscule planet, defeated the
invaders from the monster world
and reversed its life-style by
projecting to them the musical
movies of the 1930’s and 1940’s
instead of the horror movies that
had been their sole diet.
So far, the vampires that both
the Marvel and National comics also enlists followers by his inviting
groups had released were pledge by the strange powers which have bite and searches out his coffin
watered-down versions of the become mine to fight against the injustice,
corruption, evil and greed which fills this earth
when daylight breaks. It is this
original thing. The Warren in the hopes that somehow my example will be latter characteristic of the average
Publishing Company tried the an example to all men." So says Dell’s version vampire on the street that results in
vampire scene with a different of Dracula, a patriotic pussycat in superhero Dracula travelling to London; for
twist. Their leading vampire garb and a sacrilege of the first order! We hope
Frank Drake has sold the Dracula
that comic artists and writers don’t follow this
character was a femal Dracula’s example, voted by the TMT staff as estate and has removed his vampire
appropriately named Vampirella. the worst comic ever produced and (speaking of ancestor’s coffin to England.
greed) one of a long list of artistic crimes Dell In the pages of today’s comics,
has to answer for. mean, look at that
I
vampires of traditional, scientific
guy he’s even worse than ours!
and cultural origins now abound.
. . .

They are now but one ^>f the

devices the comics industry is
employing in their search for
many other ploys that could be
grace, if not good manners. Here better-selling magazines. Along with
called upon to create a new
too, this was not the true vampire. relevance, sword-and-sorcery, pulp
vampire. However, eleven months
The final Dracula imitation was a characters, and mystery tales, the
after the COMICS CODE revision,
strange perversion foisted on comic occult is becoming a substantial
Marvel Comics decided to return to
readers by the Dell Publishing part of the comics scene.
basics ... to cut out all the tricks,
Company. Starting in 1966 they Yes, vampires are here to stay!
all the gimmicky set-ups. The
published a comic called
obvious train of thought was that
DRACULA. However, since Dell
there was a shining example of
did not subscribe to the oft-times
vampirism in literature that had
pantywaist Comics Code, they
already captured a world-wide
could have played this Dracula
reputation, so why not capitalize
rather big, replete with lots of
on it? After all. the COMICS CODE
biting and all the things that go
did state that the traditional
along with it. But, instead, they
vampire could be used.
chose make this Dracula a
to
superhero, fighting for the
DRAC'S BACK
traditional truth, justice and the
American Way. This is all rather And so, the original vampire
strange, since he is described as a became a comic character. With the
She premiered in her own middle European in the original banner screaming that Dracula
magazine; first as the hostess to the story. Lives!, Marvel released the first
stories within her book, and then as DRACULA, or at least this issue of THE OF TOMB
the star of her own series. In this long-johnned imitation of Bram DRACULA. Thunder crackles and
series, her origin was revealed to be Stoker's version, didn't sell and rain pours heavily upon the
a planet where the inhabitants lasted less than a dozen issues. darkened hills of Transylvania as
drank freely from creeks and rivers Much to the chagrin of comic fans, Frank Drake returns to his ancestral
of blood just as you or would cup I
however, Dracula is back with Dell homeland to claim his inheritance:
water from a running mountain in a reprint version. Apparently the'Castle Dracula. Paying no heed
stream. On her own planet, Vampie they feel what didn’t sell in the 60's to the townspeople's warnings
was a normal girl and her need for will sell in the 70's. about venturing into the dreaded
blood was considered a necessity. With the angles of creating castle, Drake and friends explore
On Earth, she was hardly a normal vampires by use of machines and the Dracula homestead. One
girland her yearning for blood was from social determining already member of the party falls through a
deemed to be lacking in social used, there did not seem to be rotten floor and comes upon a
 .

page 10 The Monster Times

"Please excuse my twisted only rented it for the evening."

and make-up Since the MONSTER TIMES has

When actor, producer
kindly relinquished this space for a few
maven Alan Ormsby told us he
comments on the demonic art of Monster
wanted to do an inside piece about Make-up, I’ll try to fill it with some
monster make-ups, we told him to practical and, hopefully, useful
go ahead and do it. Following this, information on that subject, at least on
he went home and wrote it and my approach to it. Who am I, you may
came back and gave it to us. So we ask, and what are my qualifications? I
turned around and put it in the designed and built the make-up for a new
paper. This is only one example of horror flick called CHILDREN
the fascinating intrigues that go on SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD
behind the scenes in the publishing THINGS!—a flick in which I also acted.

business; heart-pounding incidents

But as for my qualifications—Well, scan
the following list of questions —you may
like the above go on all the time
be qualified yourself!
around here. But, having neither
the time, space, or inclination to go DO YOU POSSESS-A lifelong

into any of them now, we will turn fascination with the horrific, the
grotesque?
our attention instead to the subject
at hand:Monsters and how to make ARE YOU OBSESSED WITH-A mad
attempt to visualize the UNKNOWN, the
them. Alan recently designed the
UNNAMABLE?
make-ups for a slew of gory ghouls HAVE YOU ALWAYS-Admired the
in the about to be released fright the greats, ancient and modern,
work of
flick CHILDREN SHOULDN'T who have tried to depict their personal
PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS nightmares? Take a look at the paintings
(which he also stars in) and wants from Goya’s ‘Black’ Period; check out
to share his forbidden knowledge DaVinci’s caricatures; Kley’s bitter
with TMT readers. So, in his own anthropomorphic anomalies; delve into
words, here's ALAN ORMSBY. .
the gruesome, gangrenous—and more

CONFESSIONS OF
A MONSTER MAKER
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Cultivate an awareness of the effects

of LIGHT and SHADOW. Remember,
make-up ( and especially horror make-up)
is ANIMATED SCULPTURE. Half of
your work’s effectiveness will be
dependent on the way it is lit. Bad
lighting can ruin it. Design for the lights.

Consider what the source of the light will

be in the scene; whether it is stationary or
will move during the action. For practice,
model a clay face. Turn it from side to
side, up and down, under an ordinary
table lamp—work with it, modelling the
most effective areas. For examples of the
effectiveness of light, take another look
at Karloff’s Frankenstein Monster ... a
work obviously designed to take greatest
advantage of the light. You might even
say that the shadows it casts are what
creates its fantastic effect that and . . .

Karloffs acting, of course. (For a review

of another of Kehoe’s make-up tests,
PHOTOGRAPHIC MAKE-UP FOR
STILLS AND MOVIES, see TMT
12—Ed.)
DESIGNING YOUR DEMON
DONT COME IN WITH TOO MANY
PRECONCEIVED IDEAS-Study the
actor’s face before you start. Study
photographs of him. Draw him in
caricature. Distort his features on paper,
deciding which areas of his face can be
used to your advantage in creating a
terrifying effect. Half the job is what you
do with what is ALREADY THERE.

AIM FOR MAXIMUM EFFECT WITH

THE MINIMUM OF MEANS-You don’t
have to have a million dollars and a bevy
of assistants to create a good piece of
work.AFTER YOU'VE MADE SURE
THAT NONE OF YOUR CHOSEN
INGREDIENTS ARE HARMFUL IN
THEIR EFFECT, there are millions of
inexpensive things you can use to create
great effects. For instance, in CHILDREN
SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD
THINGS, we searched for an effect that
would make the Ghouls’ teeth look
rotten. We didn’t have time to build false

Continued on page 26

An early rendition of yet another of Alan's

monster masks.
(probably bad breath too!) are dead
to the alert monster maven. And a
MT readers who identified
creature correctly. Yea gang!

recent—work of the EC group: Davis, HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER

Ingels, Wood, Evans, Craig.
If your answer to the above questions •

ARE YOU FASCINATED BY-The isa solid yes, you may be on your way to
classic works of make-up, from Chaney’s becoming a monster make-up man (or an
prong-nosed Phantom to Pierce’s great inmate at a mental hospital). What you
Frankenstein-Monster creation? need next is some instruction on how to
HAVE YOU SPENT apply all this grotesque enthusiasm. The
HOURS— Plugging up your nose with best book on make-up that I know of is
hairpins in imitation of Chaney’s Vincent J-R. Kehoe’s THE TECHNIQUE
masterpiece? Covering the iris of your eye OF FILM AND TELEVISION MAKE-UP
with boiled egg-membrane, attempting to (Revised Edition $16.50 from Hastings
,

match Chaney’s blind beggar of ‘Road To House Pub.) Buy it. Read it. Study it.
Mandalay’? Mummifying your face with Memorize it. It will provide you with all
Karo Syrup and Kleenex? Weighing your the practical knowledge you will need to
back down with 6-lb weights? Flattening begin. As for aesthetic considerations,
the top of your head with pounds of here are a few general observations ( All
nose putty? that space will permit):
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FLASH...SHOIILD
I ZAP THEM TMT proudly presents ... an
interview with that Master of
Suspense, Maven of the Macabre,
FOR TELLING Wizard of Weird, and High Prince of
Horror himself, Alfred Hitchcock.
Hitch discusses the origins of his
THE WORLD astonishing art, his views on
violence, his latest flick, FRENZY,
ABOUT us?r and a host of other matters of vital
interest as MT media man R. Allen
Everyone this side of STAR TREK Williamson, Flash Gordon’s greatest Leider asks, "What's it all about,
knows about the world’s most fan. And stills? Like you wouldn’t Alfred?"
reknown sci-fi character, FLASH believe.
GORDON. Flas"h and And in case you’re worried that this
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on super-heavy, super slick stock
made the scene just about everywhere. month gig in London where he produced
bound to last several lifetimes. The
Starting off as a comic strip, then and directed his fifty-third picture,
transferred to the serials, it even made cover is illustrated in full-color by the
original Flash delineator, Alex
FRENZY. The mere mention of the name
television and comic books. 01’ Flash
has sure been around, and now to Raymond. And' the cost? Fifteen THE 39 STEPS,
Hitchcock brings to mind
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HITCHCOCK: I was work! in the no quality in television films. Or in n any

advertising department of a stuci was I of the films I've seen in the cit ma
originally a layout man, I would paste up recently either.

the pieces of the advertising copy. Then I

TMT: What do you think cbout the
became a junior technician, then scenario
new wave of cinema directors and
filmmakers?
writer. My first three films showed a
HITCHCOCK: don't think they've I

marked influence of the German theatre,

learned the business thoroughly. I think
or rather German cinema because was I
to learn this business you've got to go
working in the same studios with Murnau,
back to the early silent films. A lot of
Lang and Jannings. The German cinema these new people copy each other. They
of those days is now no longer with us. must first learn how to tell a story
My first noteworthy film was THE people must be
visually. I'm sure lots of

LODGER, was about

which was silent. It bored watching scenes with out of focus
JACK THE RIPPER. There was flowers or something in the foreground.

something very fresh about making those All art is supposed to create emotion.

movies When I first went into art

. . .
This is where a lot of these new wave
directors fall short. They sacrifice the
school I was taught that drawing a figure
story and the visual rhythm of the film
in outline was entirely wrong. learned I
effects and gimmicks which don't
for
that there is no such thing as a line. Lines
convey emotion as well as the proper
are shorthand. Only light and shadow method would have.
exist. And I have always been very aware TMT: Getting back to the question of
of the light and shadow of the scene violence for a minute, how do you justify
rather than the figures themselves. the violence? I'm sure that PSYCHO is
the best known of your films because of
the violence and grisly doings.
HITCHCOCK: That may be so. but
again let me repeat that never use blood I

for blood's sake. I’ve always preferred

understatement. I have been called a
ghoul. I know when an audience is going
to scream and I enjoy it. But, in my own
opinion, the scenes in PSYCHO are not
my most shocking. My favorite is in THE
39 STEPS where Robert Donat is being
entertained in a man’s home and he's
describing the master spy he is after.
Donat says that the only thing he knows
about this spy is that he has the little
offend anyone, I had the girl covered finger missing from the right hand.
investigator climbing the stairs to his doom,
ailant lashes out and camera follows victim with a bikini made of potatoes. It was a Whereupon his host holds up his hand
large triangle of full size potatoes wired with the little finger missing and says,
around her abdomen. And as he got "You mean the left hand." THAT shook
nearer he pulled the body out of the sack the audience rigid. THAT IS SHOCK.
of potatoes both hands were covering the
breasts until he got down to the fingers
So at 72 Alfred Hitchcock brings to us
another inwhat we hope is a long series
that held the evidence. I went to all that
of genuine cinematic entertainments.
trouble to avoid showing something that
FRENZY is not his greatest, but after a
might be offensive and was not directly brief absence from the screen it is a
related to the point I was trying to make. welcome sign that the master is coming
In PSYCHO some thought the violence back to the medium he knows so well.
was excessive, but itwas necessary to tell
the story as well as to build the mood. All The Master of Suspense as he appears today. At
age 72, Hitchcock plans to add more celluloid
of this type of picture is a combination of
shockers to his already incredible roster of
story and mood. The art of telling the
story' is in the editing of the film. You
have to cut and arrange a montage of
images to produce an EMOTIONAL
effect. That's why I never do whodunits.
They are puzzles and lose the emotional
effect I like to create. They are content,
not style." TMT: Do you invest your own money
TMT: But how do you do this, say, in in your films or do you use backers?
FRENZY? How do you create this HITCHCOCK: I've always believed
that the money from the previous film
emotional punch?
should go for the following efforts. If the
HITCHCOCK: Well, there is this one previous film doesn't bring in enough,
scene where you know who the murderer well then, there are other sources. never I

is. He up a girl. We have already

picks invest my own money movies in my
because that would be the craziest thing
seen him murder one girl and we know he
to do. Once you've made a film you're in
has killed others. And he takes this girl he
the hands of sales people, publicity
has just picked up to his apartment. He
people. It's all very well for one to
takes her up the stairs into the room and make
conceive an idea, it into a film, but
closes the door and he says, "You know, later on that very film, that germ of an
you're my sort of girl." I then retreat the idea which came out of your
camera away from the door, down the head . . .when it's finished you hand it
stairs, as though to say to the over to the sales department and it be-

audience ... I leave the rest to your comes their film. So the most foolish
imagination. And I take the camera right thing one could do is to invest one's own

down the passageway, into the street and

money in the film.

I purposely bring up the traffic noise. TMT: Why did you leave television?
Then move up and you look at the front
I
Your show was very successful.
windows of his apartment. Subconciously HITCHCOCK: I was in television for
I hope you will say to yourself, "He's ten years. made 273 half hour programs
I

going to kill her, but no one will ever hear and 90 one hour shows. These are still
It." playing now. If had made any more I

TMT: How did you get started in television films I would eventually be in

films? competition with myself. Besides, there is

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When our favorite green dinosaur assignment to him. The Big G will
heard we were doing a piece on his just have to wait until next
latest film, GODZILLA vs. THE time . and if we hear any grunts
. .

SMOG MONSTER, he immediately of discontent from his corner, we

volunteered his services, might just have to lean on him a
maintaining that the story should
be told straight from the dinosaur's
mouth, so to speak. But we felt
we'd get a slightly more objective;
view of the film from one of our
other writers, Gary Gerani by
name, and so we handed the

by Gary Gerani

UESTION: How does a middle-aged

monster with atomic breath come to grips
with today’s relevant, socially-enlightened city. In its process of development it

society? ANSWER: He stars in AIP’s becomes able to fly and, as it soars

latest GODZILLA VS. THE

classic, through the smoke-filled skies, it spreads
SMOG MONSTER, and battles air a sulphuric acid which damages all living

pollution nobody has before ... by

as things, turning them into fiery, glowing

socking it the mouth! Yes, monsters

in optical effects.

may come and monsters may go, but Deeply affected by the panic about
sludge can always be found, so join us as him, Ken dreams that Godzilla will come
TMT covers “Mighty Mouth’s” latest to save his city. When he awakes, he is
little war, this time against the evils of convinced that Godzilla will help and tells
ecology. his mother, Mrs. Toshie Yano, who is

Our story begins innocently enough as deeply concerned about her son’s sanity.
Dr. Yano (a scientist of sorts) discovers a
strange tadpole-shaped creature that MIGHTY MOUTH VS.
comes to life in polluted water. SUPERSLUDGE
Accompanied by his son, Ken, he heads The young people of the city decide to
for the nearest rocky shore to investigate. hold a mass rally on Mount Fujiyama
Then IT happens something almost. . . against Hedorah. While there, the monster
too terrible to discuss ... A appears to protest their action and
MONSTROUS RED-EYED BLOB soars proceeds to murder them all. But he is
out of the ocean and frightens the poor stopped when Godzilla finally manages to
defenseless child! The good doctor make the scene. The pair immediately
surmises that Hedor ah / the blob's name) engage in a mighty struggle.
Meanwhile, Dr. Yano has designed a
massive machine consisting of two giant Hedorah. the Smog Monster, tries do his bit to reduce Tokyo's traffic problem but. <
electrodes spread a good distance apart usually the case with monsters, his a ons are misinterpreted and his efforts go unrewarded.

with enough power in them to send

subdues his adversary and the electric saved, Godzilla lumbers off to rest until
massive electrical charges across the gap
charge strikes, transforming Hedorah into the next catastrophe.
and completely dehydrate any living
thing trapped in that area. Ignoring the a tremendous, out-and-out total "waste."
fact that Tokyo City is within the radius, (Hmmm .) Suddenly, out of the dried
. .
AND NOW ... A WORD
the doctor desperately works to complete filth emerges a small Hedorah. Godzilla FROM OUR MONSTER
the weapon in time. It isn’t long before grabs the reborn creature, breathes on it all certainly know by now, Mr.
As you
the struggling behemoths find themselves and destroys what is left of the Smog “G” column for THE
writes a continuing
between the electrodes. Godzilla finally Monster. His work done and the world MONSTER TIMES, and I was fortunate
enough to catch him in a good mood
Hedorah's name is mud as he is reduced to a mound of
down here at TMT Headquarters. Believe
same when Dr. Yano’s electrode dispenser is activated it or not, Toho Films plans a sequel to
by Godzilla’s rays, causing current to penetrate the THE SMOG MONSTER, sans Hedorah
smog monster's body, thereby dehydrating it. and involving a completely different
pollutive pachyderm. There is no definite
date for release yet, so we’ll all just have
to sit back and wait. Godzilla also
mentioned that “Hedorah” in English
When the Smog Monster stops for a smoke, he means “pollution,” and that SMOG’s
merely fastens his mouth to his favorite
producers gave the monster that name to
smokestack and inhales. Not only is it bad for
disprove accusations that the film is far
the lungs, but it is also reported to induce mild
hallucinations and promote delusions of too removed from reality. "No danger of
grandeur. that now," said the 500ft tall
fire-breathing dinosaur.
is a product of man’s ecological folly and
smell the earth to death.
Well, readers, we hope that in our own
may someday
unique way we have given you a clear
HEDORAH STINKS picture of what you can expect from
Suddenly the monster bursts upon the
GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER.
populace in a dramatic attack on two
As a final enticement, it’s worth
papier-mache battleships in the harbor.
mentioning that the film is currently
The vessels are destroyed and photos of
making the rounds with AIP’s FROGS,
the creature show it to be a giant,
which features Ray Milland being
animated mass of garbage. To feed its

beast now gummed to death by a hoarde of angry

rapidly -growing body, the
amphibians, (but you read about that in
takes to the land, inhaling the poisonous
last ish . . .).
smoke pouring from factories and
Well, that’s ecology for you, folks!
spewing dangerous mud-balls all over the
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mythos slowly began to be printed once

again and his brilliance as a writer
recognized. A whole new generation was
continue to be enjoyed today by a finding out about H.P. Lovecraft.
whole new generation of readers. Lovecraft has inspired numerous
Such great pulp heroes as The writers, had a rock group named after
him, and his stories adapted into movies,
Shadow, Doc Savage, The Avenger,
television and comic books, and most of
The Spider and many others have all has thrilled countless readers with his
been reprinted in paperbacks and vivid writing.
are now receiving tremendous In keeping with this revived interest in

popular support all over again. the works of Lovecraft, there is now a

One of the most obscure of the magazine out called HPL. It is a 144-page
tribute to the writings and visions of H.P.
writers, even in his heyday, was
Lovecraft. Published by Meade and Penny
H.P. Lovecraft. He had fans, to be
Frierson, the book contains an excellent
sure, but the group was quite small.
He was all but forgotten when he

died in 1937, his masterful tales of

gore and horror lying dormant.
Even when the pulp revival was
started in the early 60's, Lovecraft Herb Arnold's masterfully done back cover for
was ignored. It was not until a half HPL answers the musical question, "Who's that
peeking in my window, who's that knocking at
dozen years later that people
re-discovered his writings. Today,
due to this re-birth of Lovecraft Lovecraft perfectly. The crowning effort
is Arnold’s stunning back cover from
fandom, his works have been
“The Haunter of the Dark.” It’s enough
adapted to fit every popular to make you want to crawl under your
medium, and TMT correspondent blanket and never come out.
Gary Brown reviews a brand new Besides spot illustrations throughout,
magazine on the horror master, there is a special 1 5-page center section of
full-page drawings all based on Lovecraft
entitled simply HPL.
writings.

From midnight dreams, oft

credulous.
Of indifferent Fates he speaks to
us;
Real terrors may spell our ultimate
end
He makes us shudder uiithJiis pen.
Prime mover of the Cthulhu cult. BY GARY BROWN
Lore of the cosmic to the occult
On hints and glimpses he has
brought.
Veering only to peer into a vault.
Eerie illusions he frequently
weaves
Crypts must yawn as spirits leave
Rats beckon down from limitless
heights.
And things unnamable haunt the
nights. The nice thing about this book is that
From dead lines of this one so great it will be useful to both the Lovecraft
Tales, like maggots, proliferate! expert, as well as theyoung reader who
wants to learn more about H.P.L.
—Meade Frierson III
Marvelously put together and slickly

the
Yuname have undoubtedly
H.P. (Howard Phillips)
heard
printed,it is a book which comes highly

recommended.
If reading about the mystical
Lovecraft mentioned more than once unknown, monsters and demons is your
thing, then H.P. Lovecraft surely should
This illustration by underground artist Richard
Corben is definitely not gut-grabbing. Neck-
be on your reading list. To supplement
clutching, maybe, but never gut-grabbing! that, there is no better way to learn about

mixture
Lovecraft than by seeing his worlds come
lately. If you are not quite sure who or of articles, stories and
based on the tales of to life through the eyes of others in HPL.
what he is, don’t feel bad because you are illustrations

far from being alone. The fact that you Lovecraft.

are reading The Monster Times, however, Professional and fan writers such as
proves that you should indeed take note Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Brian
of who he was and what he created. Lumley, Stuart Schiff and Bill Wallace
Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a offer their memories and tributes to
CoftBeN

semi-obscure author who wrote for Weird Lovecraft. The text material is neatly
Tales and many of the other pulp balanced, giving the reader an equal
magazines which flooded the market in amount of fiction, fact, memory and a

the 1920’s and 30’ s. Lovecraft wrote of fine survey of current fan publications
the unknown and of what it brings to dealing in the Lovecraft cult.
those who fear it. The monsters he wrote The outstanding feature of the book
of were the most gruesome and horrifying lies in the fine illustrations which are well
ever created. His stories were wrapped in spaced throughout the book. Such
a world of eerie mysticism and terror, well-known fantasy artists as Richard

unmatched by any other author. Corben, Tim Kirk, Dany Frolich, Virgil
Although Lovecraft had a small, but Finlay and John Adkins Richardson give
devoted following while he was alive and us their interpretation of the Lovecraft
writing, he was almost totally ignored and monsters, beasts and dark horror. The real NOTE: copies can be ordered for $3 each

forgotten after his death and the eventual star of this lot, however, isartist Herb from: Meade and Penny Frierson, P.O.
folding of the pulp market. It was not Arnold, who contributes 36 separate Box 9032, Crestline Heights,
until the mid-sixties that the Lovecraft drawings in a classic style which fits Birmingham, Alabama 35213.
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Rock fans will remember that

Frank Zappa and his Mothers of
Inventiononce sang: "Call any
vegetable and the chances are good
that the vegetable will respond to
you." Well, the vegetables and
other forms of plant life discussed
in this article not only respond,
they positively overreact. That's
justthe thing with vegetables-give
'em a garden and they'll take the
world. Well, Jim Wnoroski puts
those uppity plants back in their
place in the 1st part of his 2 part
article on monsters of the garden
variety.

E ver
next
wonder why that mean
door religiously waters
little old
her
group of scientific Arctic explorers. With
the power to grow back an arm or leg in
lady
petunias every night and day—well it’s seconds, the being was almost a
just possible they might not be petunias super-vege-man that could not be killed
after all, but a much more deadly variety with a gun—since, as one of the scientists
of plant life. For if we trace the history puts it, it would be just like drilling small

of horrible plants that have appeared over holes in the leaf of a tree.
the years in fantasy films, it’s easy to see The Thing, as portrayed by Gunsmoke
why the inanimate life creeping from the veteran James Amess, was fought and
ground may be the most terrible type of finally destroyed with electricity by a
all. bevy ofHollywood’s most famous
For sheer thrilling action-adventure, character actors, including Ken Tobey,
Howard Hawks’ THE THING FROM Douglas Spencer, and Robert
ANOTHER WORLD is perhaps the best Comthwaite. And aside from being one
interpretation of intelligent plant life ever of the finest examples of vegetable
portrayed on the screen. Coming to earth horror, the film is considered by most
in a flying saucer, no doubt fashioned in critics to be one of the best
the shape of an onion, The Thing went on science-fiction motion pictures ever
to astonish and almost demolish an entire produced.

populated with memorable but slightly

over the hill pin-up girls—with the likes of
Mamie Van Doren in the former and
So now in reverse order, we must go Andrea Kay and Shelley Stevens in the
from the sublime to the utterly ridiculous latter. Nice to look at . .
.
yes, but on a
in probably two of the worst plant garage calendar, not in a horror film.
movies ever filmed, NAVY VS. THE Thirdly and gratefully last is the
NIGHT MONSTERS and INVASION OF “great” expense the producers went
THE STAR CREATURES. Now although through to give their pictures scientific
these two monstrous mishaps were detail. For instance, NAVY VS. THE
produced almost 5 years apart, they still NIGHT MONSTERS had a ridiculous
have a wealth of things in common with looking tentacled plant constantly trying
each other. to pull the blouse off of Ms. Van Doren,
Firstly, both were obviously written while STAR CREATURES had two
by minds of kindergarten drop-out goons dressed in green flannel “plant
intelligence since the plot lines have the men” suits constantly trying to pull the
same well-thought-out hardened structure wool over the audience’s eyes. But the
as a bowl of cold Franco-American most they could do was evoke a latent
spaghetti. sense of perverted sympathy by making
Secondly, both films are well laughable growling sounds, picking up
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“Take me to your leader! On -second though

papier-mache boulders, and— horror of all

horrors— having the nerve to stand around
quietly while the producers spliced in
stock footage from ROCKY JONES,
SPACE RANGER. Has ever a more
serious sacrilege been committed? We
think not!
Getting back to a better treatment of
our green-leafed garden friends, action
adventure director Don Siegal, who just
recently completed the tremendously
successful DIRTY HARRY, turned out
one of the most famous of all plant
stories in 1956 with his version of author
Jack Finney’s INVASION OF THE
BODY SNATCHERS.

TAKE THE BODY AND RUN

Even without the presence of ray guns
or monsters, the film no doubt injected
more terror into unsuspecting audiences
than any other sci-fi fright film to that
date. For here the main ingredients are
the human reactions to the loss of
emotions—their ability to laugh, cry,
make love, or enjoy a glass of cold beer
on a hot day. Pretty frightening, eh? Well
that’s what strange unearthly seed pods
were doing to the population of a small
suburban town. One by one the people
were taken over by the mind-dissolving
plants until only one man was left to
“stem” the tide of ever increasing horror
as the pods moved ahead with plans to
silently infect the entire world with their
strange malady.
Done with a minimum of special
effects, INVASION OF THE BODY
SNATCHERS relied more on direction
and taut plot structure for its audience
appeal; and as such deeply affected a
much larger and sophisticated contingent
of American movie goers— not just the
dyed-in-wool teenage horror flick crowd.
Today, almost sixteen years since the
flick was first seen, it still commands one
of the highest of all rental fees and is

continually being re-run on television to

the tune of consistently high ratings.
So you can see from just these few
films mentioned that plants can be quite
malicious when they get starring roles.
Yet sometimes, in certain special cases,
they have also accepted character parts as
well. As in the classic WEREWOLF OF
LONDON where Henry Hull travels to
Tibet to find the nubs every time the

moon is full.
TRIFFIDS TAKE OVER
And surely we must not forget the
very rare silent horror film made in 191 6, In essence, producer-writer Milton
BLACK ORCHIDS, where the title is the Subotsky had fun lifting sections from
only place that plant life appears. John Wyndam’s classic novel of vegetable
Then there was 1964’s MUTINY IN horror, THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS,
OUTER SPACE, in which a deadly little and then passing it off as his own effort.
Martian spore was originally signed for a Then with all the stick figure acting and
brief “grow-on” part. The director was so first grade primer dialogue, it’s no wonder

impressed with the germ’s performance, audiences everywhere actually began

however, that he let the spore kill off half rooting for the vile vines rather than the
the human stars before the end of the harried humans.
third reel, with the organism going on to One would expect this to be the height
become the main attraction in the film’s of mediocrity for everyone involved, but
rousing finale. Unfortunately, the growth Messrs. Francis and Subotsky were not to
became typed in his role and so sadly was be outdone in poor taste as three years
relegated to just playing shrubs and later they were back on the scene with
tumbleweeds in grade B westerns. He is the wonderfully imitative TORTURE
now, however, awaiting a triumphant GARDEN. This time the gimmick
comeback as producers ready SON OF designed to lure crowds was a package of
MUTINY IN OUTER SPACE for release “torture seeds” given away to each
sometime in the near future. theatre patron as they bought their
Speaking of a SON OF . English . .
,
tickets. On the cover of each packet a
director Freddie Francis is probably one glaring announcement proclaimed:
of the worst offenders when it comes to “Warning: you plant these torture seeds
re-working countless old, tired, and at your own risk. What may grow ... we
hackneyed plots into new, tired, and just don’t know!” Well our MONSTER
hackneyed films—and his 1964 anthology TIMES product testers were brave enough
DOCTOR TEPROR'S HOUSE OF to dare the deadly statement and can
HORRORS is no exception to the rule. attest with no small amount of certainty
The only reason we dredge it up here is that the seeds didn’t amount to a row of
because a plant story is embodied (or beans—and neither, of course, did the
should it be disembodied) in the feature. film.
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southern distributors for not carrying

issues of GREEN LANTERN AND
GREEN ARROW comics because they
featured blacks. And for further proof,
Returning again for a moment to importantly, is the overly quick wrap-up
look at our masthead. There’s nary a

serious motion pictures in the

plant of the story during the last reel. Without
WASP on the staff. And that’s
discrimination.
fantasy genre, the most obvious title to explanation, the hero’s voice is heard
“crop” up would have to be the 1963 talking over one dissolve after
British shocker THE DAY OF THE another—each showing elaborate special
TRIFFIDS, which is based on English effect shots and camera set-ups. This
Dear Monster Times,
sci-fi author John Wyndam’s best selling would seem to imply that somewhere
Some sort of congratulations are in
1951 novel of the same name. And along the line the production got away order since I had misgivings about the
although an excellent story in book form, from them; with the end result being a quality of MT when I first heard of it and

the film failed in many ways to equal the three hour film of epic magnitude. Then remembered some of the other, ah,
printed page’s high standard. the job of cutting it down again to the publications which have tried to cover
Obviously hampered by a low budget, ever popular90 minute “double-bill” horror/sci-fi. The quality of MT so far has

screenwriter-novelist Philip Yordan had running time was obviously put into the been a blessing to all fantasy fans looking
for a (semi) serious covering of their
interest areas. Keep it up
I read with disbelief Jim Wnorski’s
article on the limbo state of Christopher
Lee’s new Dracula. At Noreascon I heard
him describe it to an eager gathering and
could not wait to see what sounded like
certain classic in the American theatres.
Now this. . . It seems as if Dracula has run
into something that would horrify even
him: the United States court system
snarl. I’m sure all Lee fans are incensed
Dear MT Folk, and will watch for further developments
THE MONSTER TIMES is the best in the hassle. (Meanwhile, how about
horror, fantasy zine around. It beats some great pictures of Lee in the Hammer
C.O.F. which doesn't honor their issue?)
subscriptions or publish on a schedule Your on TV Spacemen of the
article
that’sworse than the L.l.R.R. time table 50’s omitted a show called “Satellite
and that's pretty bad. Police’’ which was shown in the
There are a few things I would like to Philadelphia (I’m not sure where
area
see in M.T. How about doing more else) and starred Ed Kemmer as Buzz
articleson recent releases as well as future Cory. He had a ship named the Terra 5. a
ones. Mini reviews of recent films also cadet friend named Happy and fought a
A no-nonsense naval officer socks it to would be very nice, this way I wouldn’t crystalline menace called Monza. Others
a 6 foot walking tree in NAVY VS. THE NIGHT
MONSTERS, one of the more forgettable plant pictures that was already put to the TMT torch get stuckseeing some of the horrid I’ve asked whether they had seen the
back in issue No. 11. movies 1 have seen. Also it makes for show came up with blank looks. Do you
good reference on directors when have any remembrance of it?
to delete many of the book’s finer details hands of incompetents. Needless to say,
comparing films. I find some of the Looking forward to the issue
leaving only a skeleton of the original what may have been one of the finest articles in M.T. too short, it seems I just containing stuff on Day the Earth Stood
plot. As a result the final cut of the film sci-fi efforts ever conceived is now only start reading and it’s over. Two examples Still, one of the greatest films ever made,
is a stranger enigma than the Triffids shown as a shadow of its former self—and of this are the articles on the Living Dead and more info on new films and old
themselves. For one thing the producers that’s too bad! and The Navy vs. The Night Monsters. classics. How about more on individual
seem to have post-filmed several They would have been much better if you Star Trek episodes and other facets?
sequences on a lighthouse set where a Well, that's all for now . . . but be sure would have had a little more meat on
couple discover a potent way of to tune in next issue for Jim's wrap-up on them. While I’m on the subject how Live long and prosper,
Horrordom's victorious vegetables. about a nice in depth article on Night of Marsha Rader
destroying the plants. These sections bear In the
The Living Dead. Also how about some Southhampton, Penna.
no relation to any character found in the meantime, keep your vegematics
behind the scenes looks at movies both
main body of the film however— and were handy . . you never know when some
.
old and new. would like to see some
I
We’ve never heard of “Satellite Police.”
never mentioned or even hinted at in the surly, seedy plant will turn its tenacious interviews in M.T. with various directors, Marsha, but we’ll see what we can dig up.
literary version. Secondly, and most tendrils on YOU! stars, and writers, in the fantasyfield. As far as the new Chris Lee Dracula that
The biggest complaint I have with too is still snarled in the judicial system
your zine as well as all the other major with no apparent release date.
ones is that you are too LILY WHITE.
Nowhere in your pages have I yet to see
an article with a black person, or for that
matter with any person of a minority
group in it. I realize that not many if any Dear Sirs,
fantasy movies have a minority group I love THE MONSTER TIMES and I

person as its star or co-star, but what is think it is the best monster magazine in
the reason for not having one in one of the world. am 12 years old and I am a
I

your comic strips? Are you afraid that Japanese monster lover. Godzilla was my
saleswill drop when word gets ’round favorite Japanese prehistoric monster,
that M.T. has a minority group person and Camera was my brother’s favorite
starring in one of its comics. Let’s one. MONSTER TIMES No. 7 was a
remember that WHITES aren’t the only fantastic issue of Godzilla. 1 hope you can
people in the U.S. print an article on Japanese monsters
Peace, battling Ghidrah, the three-headed
Mark Otter monster in the movie called DESTROY
ALL MONSTERS. It had eight monsters
Your request for more recent reviews of named Godzilla, Son of Godzilla, Rodan,
horror films will soon be granted. In Mothra, Spiga, Wonda, Ungeala, and
addition to the recent preview of BEN Gorgosaurus who all team up against
that we ran several issues back, Mark
Ghidrah. Please, can you also print an
Evanier will soon be commencing a
article on Gamera vs. Monster X for my
column on new horror films. Interviews
brother. Hope you have best luck with
with many of the stars in the fantasy field
THE MONSTER TIMES.
will also be coming up very soon, as will a
Shiu Fai
long feature on THE NIGHT OF THE
N.Y.C. N.Y.
LIVING DEAD (we ran a short piece
about it in issue number 6). See. all you
Glad you Shiu and rest assured
like us,
have to do is ask.
that we'll get to all the Japanese monsters
As far as your castigation of us on the
eventually. We may even be starting a
matter of lack of minority groups, we
series on them soon, but there are so
plead not guilty. It isn't our fault that
many we hardly know where to start!
horror film makers do not feature blacks,
and we cannot put blacks or minorities
where they aren't. As far as our comic
strips, well,it never really mattered to us

whether our heroes were black or white. Send us so many letters,

We just left it up to the artist and postcards, boosts, detractions,

whatever he drew we accepted. And, bomb threats, etc., that the Post
since you ask. articles which featured Office will have to deliver our mail
blacks appeared in Issues one. six. nine with a bulldozer. Address all

and ten. We have a feature on BLACULA correspondence to: THE

upcoming in this issue and a feature on MONSTER TIMES, Box 595, Old
blacks in comics upcoming soon. And Chelsea Station, N.Y., 10011.
check out issue four where we chided
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“bad” blacks to avoid the pitfall of

Over the years we've had animal .
casting blacks in the roles of the
monsters, vegetable monsters, monsters— in this case,
mineral monsters, elderly monsters, vampires—alone. We’ve already seen
teenage monsters, lady monsters, a Puerto Rican monster in a recent

alien monsters, even hippie film called THE POSSESSION OF

monsters more monsters, in
. . .
JOEL DELANEY, during the course
of which the stray soul of a
fact, than you could shake a
psychotic Puerto Rican decapitator
crooked stick But you know
at.
infiltrates the mind of an otherwise
what we haven't had? That's un terrifying honkie., Hopefully,
right ... aBLACK monster. Well, BLACULA will be a better film than
all that's changed now as JOEL DELANEY, which was just
American-International is getting plain offensive, dumb., and shrill as a
set to release the first black week-long T-group encounter.
monster— a vampire, no less— who
goes by the name of (uh-oh!) . . . AND DRACULA BEGAT
BLACULA, and whose anti-social BLACULA . . .

antics should raise an existential

BLACULA opens with the real
eek from the lumpy throats of even
Dracula (Charles Macauley) putting
the most horror-hardened fan . .
the curse of vampirism on an
African Prince named Mamuwalde
and his wife Luva (played by
The history of blacks in the
horror film has been, unsurprisingly
enough, a pretty ignominious
Usually they were depicted as
voodoo-hexed slaves of some
Fiend or as wide-eyed
reliefs, ala Charlie Chan’s sidekick
Birmingham Brown or the East Side
Kids’ “Sunshine Sammy” Morrison,
shaking in fear before imaginary
terrors and shouting, “Feets don’t
desert me now, or mah body’s
gwine ta be abused.'.” Occasionally a
black actor would find himself cast
in a fairly decent role
Belafonte in THE WORLD,
FLESH, AND THE DEVIL, con
Lee in Arch Oboler’s FIVE, for
example), but these were definitely movies), documentaries (BLACK COMEDOWN), so it was no surpri
the exceptions to Hollywood’s RODEO, SOUL TO SOUL), that a black horror -film woul
racist rule. Only in George comedies (WATERMELON MAN), finally hit the market. The blac
Romero’s independent, protest films (SWEET westerns in particular have been
Pittsburgh-based production of SWEETBACK, THE FINAL long overdue, since it’s been
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
did a black actor (Duane Jones) get
to play the “hero” in a horror film.
With the recent rash of black
films being released and scoring big
boxoffice dividends, it was
inevitable that a black horror film
be produced. Already we have seen
a surge of black films of other
genres: black westerns (BUCK AND
THE PREACHER, THE LEGEND
OF NIGGER CHARLEY, SOUL
SOLDIER), detective films William Marshall and Vonetta
(SHAFT, SHAFT’S BIG SCORE, McGee respectively) way back in
COTTON COMES TO HARLEM, 1815 . . . which sounds like a pretty
COME BACK CHARLESTON likely way for the Count to spend
BLUE, Sidney Poitier’s Virgil Tibbs his African vacation at that. Why

A CANDID
estimated that roughly 30% of the
real cowboys were, in fact, black. CONVERSATION WITH
Actually, a few black Grade B WILLIAM
westerns were produced on
shoestring budgets as far back as (BLACULA) MARSHALL
the late 30’s and early 40’s, but,
BY R. ALLEN LEIDER
with titles like BRONZE
BUCKAROOS and HARLEM
RIDES THE RANGE, it was \Afilliam Marshall, a distinguished
obvious that these were not Shakespearean actor, has had a long
designed to make serious and varied career. remember him I
statements about the role that
mostly for his role of Glycon, the
blacks played in the “winning” of
the West. Nubian King and friend of Victor
Many of the recent black films Mature, in the spectacular sequel to
have been written and/or directed by THE ROBE, DEMETRIUS AND
blacks (Christopher St. John’s TOP THE GLADIATORS, and for his
OF THE HEAP, Gordon Parks’ Othello, which he has performed in
SHAFT, Melvin Van Peebles’ both straight Elizabethan style and
SWEET SWEETBACK anC in an unorthodox Rhythm'n'Blues
WATERMELON MAN, Poitier’: version. Marshall has a direct,
BUCK AND THE PREACHER, easygoing manner and has a lot he
among others) and BLACULA too wants to say ... a part of which is
shares this distinction. The film is
said below.
yet another product of the prolific
American-International (who else?) TMTHow does an actor with such a
:

film factory and it is careful, by the distinguished background prepare tor his
first vampire role?
way to balance “good” blacks with
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were the African Prince and care, also marks the return of funky, Mr. Arkoff. Very funky
Princess cursed with the dread veteran character actor Elisha indeed.
affliction? Because, according to Cook, Jr. to the screen. Elisha, We at TMT haven’t seen
scriptwriters Joan Torres and who’s been bumped off in an BLACULA yet and although a
Raymond Koenig, they were uppity imaginative variety of ways in minor detail of this nature would
enough to ask the visiting Prince of horror films like VOODOO
Darkness to sign a petition calling ISLAND and the BLACK ZOO and
for the abolition of slavery! in gangster flicks such as THE
Apparently, the Undead One’s MALTESE FALCON and Stanley
social conscience isn’t worth the Kubrick’s THE KILLING, plays the
warped mind it’s buried in and part of a hook-handed morgue
Dracula seems as anxious as anyone attendant named Sam and is done
to keep the African upstarts in their
place.
Through the usual plot
machinations, however, BLACULA
(nee Mumawalde) and his spouse
are revived, the better they might
run amok through the streets of
Los Angeles, a city, like Tokyo and
New York, that has over the years
witnessed more than its share of
unearthly urban problems. To put a
littlelowhrow contemporary icing
on the “ topical ” cake, the film has
BLACULA being accidentally
resurrected by an unwitting pair of
gay interior decorators (Rick
Metzler and Ted Harris) who are
quickly initiated into the fearful
fraternity of the Undead. As the
film flies on, Blac seeks to recruit
still more members, including a
number of blacks, in an admirable
attempt to integrate previously pale
white ranks of Vampiredom.
In pursuit of the bloodthirsty
BLACULA are black doctor
Gordon Thomas (Thalmus Rasulala,
last seen in COOL BREEZE where,
in this time by the fatal bite of not normally stop us from praising
you might remember, he hit The “
out of
Juanita Jones (Ketty Lester) ... a or cond .mning the film
Man where it hurt—in the
hand,” this time we will hold fast
white homicide black lady cabdriver who’s been
diamonds) and
(Gordon transformed by Blacula into a and reserve our judgment until such
detective Jack Peters
plague-carrying member of the time as we do see it. The Count
Pinsent). BLACULA leads them on
Dracula Society has seen it, though,
League of the Living Dead. Very
a chaotic chase in and around the
City of Smog until he finally falls
and according to them,
prey to the usual drastic fate. To
“BLACULA is the most horrifying
film of the decade,” and they
tell you more about the details of
oughtta know from vampires, right?
the film would be unfair, we think,
as we might very well ruin it for BLACULA, by the way, was filmed
in Deluxe Color and directed by
you. And since AIP does that chore
William Crain, with music
so well themselves, we’d just as
composed and conducted by Gene
soon leave it to them.
Page.

COOK COMES BACK! BLACULA, the first black

vampire, should be drawing his cape BLACULA puts the bite on blacks and whites
alike in his noble effort to integrate the ranks
Suffice it to say that BLACULA and baring his fangs any day now in of the living dead, previously populated by
packs a lot of bloodletting and theaters all throughout the country. people with pale complexions only.
suspense into its 92 minutes and, if The times they sure are a-changin’,
the film does well at the boxoffice, alright. We at TMT applaud this will find every man, regardless of
we can expect countless sequels and attempt at relevance and look race, color, sex, creed, or national
variations on the integrated horror forward to that day destined to origin, being exploited equally.
film. BLACULA, for those who golden horizon that Until then ...

MARSHALL: didn't.
I didn't see I
role in films or theater?
any of the other Dracula films, the Lugosi MARSHALL: most enjoyed the part
I

or Lee versions. didn’t read up on it.

I I of Henri Christophe, the first president of
was trying to show Blacula as a patriot of Haiti. Ihave done it on stage and would
his nation who made a great sacrifice for like to make a movie of his life based on
what he believed in. His initial mission the stage production. I know that one
was to go to Count Dracula, whom he did such picture is being made now, but with
not know was a vampire, and ask him to a white actor (Anthony
Quinn Ed.) —
help in the banning of slave trade from playing the lead. think the I

Africa to Europe. As it turns out, Dracula entertainment field has reached a point
is a bigot and a would-be slave trader where producers and directors should let
himself. To punish Prince Mamuwalde, blacks play blacks and whites play whites.
Dracula curses him as a vampire and There are plenty of talented ethnic actors
pejoratively renames him Blacula. tried I around being put out of work by ethnic
to bring out the suffering of this noble
MARSHALL: Type-casting only hurts imitators. This has got to stop. It’s
man who sought only to help his people. you if the people in your business believe ridiculous.
it. The people in my business know me,
TMT: Are you afraid of being typed TMT: Was making BLACULA an
as a horror actor like Chris Lee and
so I am not worried. As for what the enjoyable experience?
press and portions of the public think,
Vincent Price?
well, there are always a number of people
MARSHALL: We had a lot of fun
who see you only in terms of one role. with it. However, I must admit it is a bit
Bill (Blacula) Marshall meets the press and TMT macabre to get into that coffin. It isn’t
photographer Mike Berger during an AIP Some think of me only as Othello.
the sort of place one wants to spend too
publicity luncheon held recently. TMT: understand that you also
I

teach. much time, if it’s not absolutely

MARSHALL: That’s right. I teach Before playing BLACULA, Wtarshall was noted necessary. It’s a bit grim even for an actor
Drama in several universities around the for his portrayals of Shakespeare's Othello. He vampire. You can’t help but realize as
country. is also one of the few actors ever chosen to play you lie there that someday that’s
TMT: Do you believe in vampires and God, in the BBC production of GREEN going to be it!
such things? PASTURES. TMT: Well, it’s been a pleasure
MARSHALL: think that all people
I
meeting you and I’m looking forward to
believe in something supernatural even if be vampires and, in fact, identified with seeing BLACULA.
they don’t want to admit it. We discussed vampires. It is interesting to note that MARSHALL: So am I. All have seen I

this question on the setr and it was almost every civilization has had some of it so far are a few minutes of the
amazing to find that a large number of legend about these creatures. think I
rushes. I’ve been so busy since the
people involved with the making of this there must be some basis for the belief. shooting stopped on the film that I never
picture admitted that they would like to TMT: What has been your favorite got to see it fully edited!
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Hal Wallis and Universal have acquired

PANIC.
rights to the Bill Bronzini novel,
Robert Bloch will write the screenplay
from his own novel NIGHT WORLD.
MGM will produce.
SILENT RUNNING’S producer.
Douglas Trumbull will take the helm
. . Prints news, reviews, previews,
.
again on the sci-fi epic PYRAMID.
It's time for
grues-flashes ferreted out by BILL Richard Matheson, who wrote the
to pick up a script
FERET, Monsterdom's answer to again as he prepares
classic NIGHT WALKER ABC's for
Rona Barret. Bill is in show-biz; a for his encounter Movie of the Week, pen another, will

singer, dancer, actor and has many with the Monster utilizing the same and production
stars
from Hell. But staff, it's called TIME KILLER and deals
contacts domain
in of the
don't worry, chances
Entertainment; films, TV, live with a villain 120 years old.
are he's seen it

stage, and all like that. Where other before . . . the ABC's renewed series, THE SIXTH
monsterpubs get news to you script, that is. SENSE will have Joan Crawford in a
months after a film's already been guest-starring role in an episode written

released. Bill Feret's TELETYPE Hammer films, though now producing hope there will be a title change, that especially for her entitled DEAR JOAN,
a string of comedies, will continue the doesn't quite sound like it's up to WE’RE GOING TO SCARE YOU TO
lives up to its name, and reveals to
Terrorthon with FRANKENSTEIN AND Hammer's par) and still another DEATH.
you info of horror flix & cetera
when they're only
THE MONSTER FROM HELL. (Let's Dracula-riser.
Seems there are Film Festivals
still in
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fiend alike with inside info on At the Sitges InfI Fantastic & Terror
monster movies that haven't even This seems to be the year of the Jekyll. amok across the U.S., and we're to be Festival, to be held in Spain in October,
Not only are we to be treated to the confronted with yet another member of some of
been made yet! Gosharootie, gang! the entries. already registered are:
musicalization (planned) for the Timex the dan with Heraldic Production's THE For the U.S., Bert I. Gordon's
T-V Special starring Kirk Douglas, but NIECE OF DR. JEKYLL Some previous NECROMANCY and Curtis Hanson's
Mennis Patrick, recently of the DOC AND SISSY HYDE are running relations have been THE SON OF MR. SWEET KILL, from Britain comes
Broadway bomb, CHILDREN, HYDE with Louis Hayward and THE
CHILDREN, takes the starring role in DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL with
soon-to-be-released DEAR, DEAD Gloria Talbot. Looks like there'll be no
DELILAH. The inimitable Agnes place to Hyde . . . much less Jekyll! (In
Moorhead will co-star. Public?)
Clayco Productions, also new, opens Another Italo production will be Carlo
with the suspense film THE LOST Pond's NEST OF VIPERS with John
WORLD OF LIBRA. Marley (currently starring in THE DEAD
Max Von Sydow has been cast in the ARE ALIVE^, Chris Mitchum (soon to be
role of Father Merrin in the Warner Bros, starring in BIG FOOTJ and Louis
filmization of William Peter Blatty's Hayward (star of the old SON OF MR.
best-selling chillder, THE EXORCIST. HYDE (again?))
Max, always in top form, should do There'll be an MGM production of
justice to this classic of Satanic BLOOD SONG. Dack Rambo will
possession. Filming starts soon in topline.
Washington. A newly formed company called
The Grand Prix award at the 1972 Camera Two Productions has on the
Melbourne, Australia Film Festival went docket as their first film a little horror
to the 13 minute Belgian short entitled number titled THE SILENT SHRIEK
SCARABUS, "for the intensity of its Filming will take place entirely in Dallas.
fusion of macabre wit and surreal Perhaps "Deep in the Heart of Texas"
horror. " If it's ever shown as a trailer, be will take on a new connotation.
sure to catch it. . . (Let's Scarabus to The unlikely couple of master-musician
death) ... (a bus?) Stephen Sondheim and actor Anthony
Carroll "Booby-Doll" Baker will star in Perkins have collaborated on a screenplay
a Spanish production entitled SILENT to be filmed by Warner's called THE
HORROR. (Couldn't be her performance LAST OF SHEILA. Location shooting on
maybe?) the thriller starts in France in September.

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these hair-brained affairs, we recommend it. copy of Airboy Comics (God alone knows why) those conventions. We dare yal PLACE in September.
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MOMOTHE MONSTER! ST
Look out, there's a nftMsfgr ?eatt her mother. Her father arrived
coming! So say several inhabitants kotoe !W*k found neither hide nor .

of the small town of Loui^iaoa; ^^3 onster But he said

‘ bcate " d
^ ^
™ ^,^ -

Missouri, at any rate, awl reports of

these UHB lUmdentmea
th«e "IJHB" (Unidentified na»ry
Hairv
'
where
°,r
crea^ ure supposedly had f
and thaiftifere were some faint
Beast) sightings have been ^fdotprints -in the. dust with black
numerous that even „

newsmen are taking: the situatioaftj Since then, this quiet Mississippi
seriously. And if t^e tOWnsgeop^^^aivd^jta^it^i^^J®. has been alive
are being carried away by£ t&69li with '£repQ^^>f^the:j“Monster On

<p -ja£$ 'r °

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* .Ife^robst recent
UHB (Unidentified;
sightings which started as fax back w Kite>, the oi
as frte l$60*s (in Burope) occufcfted ’
^jgjpgk'iiia:
recently jo the small southern gt
of Louisiana, Mo. louder and
About 11 miles southeast of closer. My ft
Bowling Green, Missouri, a -young car art d peg-
pregnant housewife stood angered 0ff/’ he said,
in front of a small, two-story frame Harrison;,
house. She refused to give her years for the
name. “We’re church-going Works, said
people,” she said. “We got no need have moved
to lie. I’m not crazy and I’m not told him,
‘

afraid of those who’ll say I am. I back.” The

know what 1 saw.” Marzolf Hill :

She said she had been washing the newsme

the dishes the night of July 22nd monster hurt
and smelled ''something dead.” She to the heavilj
said she went outside where she saw “I went uj
-
two balls of fire and thought one of for ftW ‘ **
them landed ip the cow pasture. Hacks?’ Had
iad make-up man's workbench, cluttered with the accoutrements of that perverse pro-
/‘Then we heard grun^^nd like a pne jioinl;^ A little practice, perseverence, and Karo syrup, and someday it could all be yours.
.Just think:
scream,” she. said/ .jgl¥e’ve got four toes anti
coyotes around here^a^^’ve heard were teal ^g
wild hogs -but never anything like bear tracks, film! Play around with some of these
that.” Harrison wei things: Food color, flour and water, karo
One man who thinks he might sa (j it ran c
j
syrup and kieenex, black eye-liner, even
know what is haunting Marzolf Hill mn on four .
lipstick And always remember your goal:
!

is Hayden C. Hewes, founder of the huge ape. So To match the Actor’s face in front of you
International Unidentified Flying a magazine with the Nightmare image in your head:
Object (UFO) Bureau based in tracks of a h When these two come together, you’ll
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hewes near here a have your MONSTERPIECE!
and an assistant camped out one look, a lot Hk<
night on the hill hoping to record (CHILDREN SHOULDNT PLAY WITH
the growls of “Momo.” The next FISHE DEAD THINGS is slated for a New York

morning he said, “we did not see or BIG E release at just about the same time this
snfcsll or hear anything. But from Ellis Mine From what we've
issue hits the stands.
the several reports, it’s apparent spends sumir seen sofar, CHILDREN may be giving
that something had been sighted.” river.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, another
The hairy biped is said to have a About 8:!
Continued from page 11 independent fright film production, a real
large pumpkin-shaped head, he was sittin
run for its blood money. At any rate,
glowing orange eyes and an ape like alone while teeth for all thirty of them, so we settled
and yellow food we'll have a review of the adventures of
growth of hair. It walks upright, has attended a 1 on a mixture of blue, red
Ormsby's ogres next issue. Stay
clawed hands and arms that reach Hill. “My wf color used as a mouthwash. Voila! It’s
growl,” Min one of the most horrifying things in the tuned
the knees and the intelligence of a
chimpanzee. According to Hewes, shone a lighi

hairy bipeds emit an odor like feet up the

sulphur and react violently if there, hair bl
disturbed by humans: He added
-
see its eyes
that if Momo is not a biped, it nearly down
might be a Troglodyte. A as I threw th

Troglodyte is an ancient and took off

cave-dwelling creature which, some time I ever
believe, is the missing link. Hewes thing like tha
said the Abominable Snowman of damn fool tc
the Himalayas is said to be a thing,” the fi
Troglodyte. absolutely 1
At 3:30 p.m. on July 11th, Terry thing I’ve eye
Harrison, 8, was playing in the Spaceman,
backyard of his home when he whatever, M
spotted “a big, hairy thing with a news and it

dog under its arm.” the true natr

Terry ran to the house and question beii
hoBered for bis sister, Doris, 15. they capture
Doris looked out the window and century old r
saw “a tall, black hairy thing As TMT
standing in 1 the ditch/* Sfee ibdn question at days together, stays together." This family portrait
'The family that
proceeded to lock the doors and monster raw depicts Alan (with beard), his wife Anya Ormsby (without bearc
. -.v- •
. .
spending a quiet evening at THE NEIGHBORHOOD CEMETERY.
The Monster Times page 27

Maybe he ain't no Mr. Wizard, but Unde Freddy's been hard at work on a new product that should tickle the collective brain box
of all those mad admen just dying to package and sell it. Unfortunately, Unde Freddy seems to be running into some unforeseen problems. . . .
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Tuck spots GWANGI and decides that the fyoup must capture the mighty monster

and gets some unexpected help from Tuck who pierces the monster’s natural armor. . . .

. . . and the giant beast becomes their captive to be carted away in defeat.

VA*J-EY °*= As soon as he caught sight of the FEET DONT DESERT US NOW! When the professor notices the
enormous, salivating creature, he changes
beast. Tuck rushed back to warn the
others while Gwangi followed in swift “Don’t be silly. Tuck,” came his mind and jumps on back of Tuck’s
Bromley’s inordinately calm reply. “I’ve horse in a manner more befitting a bolt of
pursuit. He found the professor studying
the remains of the late pterodactyl. got tomake notes on this animal.” lightning than an elderly intellectual.
“C’mon, Bromley,” said Tuck in a Tuck sees Gwangi gaining ground All turn tail for the high ground as the

breathless shout, “we’ve got to get out of behind him and hastily. tells the engrossed monster rages wildly through the valley.
Continued from page 5 here!” egghead, “Okay, prof, have it your way.” Soon the group spots another outsized
 page 30 The Monster Times

as Gwangi continues his orgy of violent

revenge.
Some of the townspeople, along with
Tuck, T.J. and Lope, take refuge in an
old cathedral. Before long, however,
Gwangi’s tremendous strength enables
him to crash through the bolted doors
make his way inside. As the people
start running out the back way, Tuck
grabs a lance and throws it at Gwangi,
piercing the monster’s thick skull. While
the huge beast writhes in pain, Tuck takes
a burning torch and heaves it at the
monster, setting both the cathedral and
Gwangi on fire. Tuck, T.J., Lope, and the
rest make their way out safely, just as the
walls begin collapsing, consuming the
awesome Gwangi in the bright, deadly
flames!
Outside the smoldering ruins of what
once had been the stately cathedral, T.J.
and Tuck stood staring at the spectacle,
safe in the knowledge that the village and
its people would be bothered no more by

the terror and havoc spawned by the

A loyal elephant attempts to fend off GWANGI's attack but is no match for the aggressive Allosaurus
who quickly disposes of his opponent and seeks his revenge against his human tormentors.
Valley of Gwangi.

beast emerging from the depths of the

valley to do battle with Gwangi. The
menacing monsters grapple with each
other and take turns throwing each other
to the ground. Their thunderous roars can
be heard for miles in every direction.
Finally, Gwangi bites voraciously into
the exposed neck of the other beast,
killing him. He now turns his angry
attention to the pitiful humans looking
on in awe gruesome spectacle from
at the
their precarious perch. Tuck and friends
light torches and toss them at Gwangi to
divert the bellowing beast until they can
reach their horses and ride to safety.
Through the billowing clouds of smoke,
Gwangi manages to continue tracking
them as T.J., Tuck and the others make a
mad dash for the opening of the valley.
The humans speed through the
opening and fortunately for them the
space is too narrow to allow for the
passage of the huge dinosaur. As Gwangi
attempts to force his way through, he
crashes and is hit by rocks and falling
debris that promptly render the
behemoth unconscious.
Champ goes over to examine the
stunned dinosaur.
“Forget about that little horse,” he
announces, “now we’ve got us a real main
attraction!”
T.J. gives Champ a doubtful look.
“I don’t know if we should take
something like this back with us,” she
says.
“Are you kidding?” exclaims Champ.
“This will make us a fortune!”
And so a huge cart was constructed to
carry the fallen Gwangi back to the wild
west show.

A FRIGHT AT THE CIRCUS

The capture of Gwangi received a lot
of publicity and a big crowd was on hand and Tuck me* i head-on inside the church, but Tuck is quicker than his adversary. Swiftly, he grabs a lance and with it penetrates the
on the fateful opening day of T.J.’s show. beast's skull. Then, burn ng torch in hand, he sets fire to the old cathedral and GWANGI both, and the monster is consumed by the raging flames.
Practically everyone in the village was
there, including the gypsies who knew
what the
consequences would be if
Gwangi was not set free. To insure their THE HISTORY OF animation would be his bag as well. At
City College and USC. Ray studied
prophesy, one of the gypsies—just as JAMES FRANCISCUS Tuck Kirby HARRYHAUSEN photography, dramatics, sculpture and art
Gwangi is about to be revealed to the GILA GOLAN T.J. Breckenridge
The work of Ray Harryhausen, associate direction and landed his first film job
crowd—sneaks through and opens his RICHARD CARLSON Champ Connors producer and creator of visual effects on shortly after graduation, working on
cage. In a blaze of pure terror, Gwangi
LAURENCE NAISMITH Professor Bromley
THE VALLEY OF GWANGI, is well George Pal's animated "Puppetoons.”
FREDA JACKSON Tia Zorina
known and widely admired by fantasy After a service stint during World
bursts loose as cries of fear erupt from War
GUSTAVO ROJO Carlos Dos Orsos
film freakseverywhere. In addition to II, Ray worked under monster master
the cowering crowd! DENNIS KILBANE Rowdy
GWANGI, animation expert Harryhausen Willis O'Brien on the production of
The monster wreaks havoc at the MARIO DE BARROS Bean
was the man behind the monster in MIGHTY JOE YOUNG before being put
CURTIS ARDEN Lope
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (to appear in the
circus, destroying everything in sight. A in charge of special visual effects on his
loyal elephant bravely engages the beast next issue of TMT, by the way). BEAST next film. THE BEAST FROM 20,000
in mortal combat, but he isno match for
Produced by Charles H. Schneer. Directed
by James b’Connolly. Screenplay by
FROM 20.000 FATHOMS. FATHOMS. Along with producer Charles
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. THE 7TH H. Schneer, Harryhausen developed the
the rampaging dinosaur and is killed William E. Bast. Associate Producer and
VOYAGE OF SINBAD. and JASON AND Dynamation process used in THE 7TH
instantly. Gwangi cuts a wide path of Creator of Visual Effects— Ray Harry hausen.
Music Composed and Conducted by Jerome
THE ARGONAUTS, among many others. VOYAGE OF SINBAD. shot in
horror before him, creating chaos in the Bom in Los Angeles, Ray supposedly Spain ... as was GWANGI. Ray now lives
Moross. Filmed in Dynamation. Color by
town by smashing houses and crushing received his initial inspiration from in London with his British wife and young
Technicolor. A Warner Bros.— Seven Arts
buildings with his deadly feet and paws.
viewing KING KONG ... the special daughter. As the saying goes, behind every
Production
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The inhabitants flee to the hills in terror and he decided then and there that special often his name is Ray Harryhausen.
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