Here Be MONSTERS!!!

[RCMerchant]

I finally got my copier working! So I thought I would load up on some old photos of some unusual monsters from my collection of old Famous Monster mags and share. Most are from B-Movies. Enjoy! 

Not a B-Movie...but an unusual pic...a Pig-man from the old 1932 ISLAND of LOST SOULS....
Looks like my old drunken Uncle Joe....



Here's a Vampire Woman from an early Mexican monster flik-WORLD of the VAMPIRES...
Dig all the eyeshadow...!



Is it the DeNiro Frankenstein? Nope. It's the Monster from the 1972 film FRANKENSTEIN 1980-from Italy!



From a Coffin Joe flik! Looks like a ghoulish Gilligan!



This came from a 1962 issue of HORROR MONSTERS...the closet monster strikes from the infamous the BRAIN that WOULDN'T DIE!


Mae (FRANKENSTEIN) Clarke! Reading her favorite mag!


Lon Chaney Jr.---from the TV version of Frankenstein!!!



Guess who? It's ZACHERLE!!! The Cool Ghoul...sans make-up! From the JOURNAL of FRANKENSTEIN magazine #1,1958!!!


Dwight Frye! In rare form in a stage version of DRACULA!


And last...but not least...Bela...from the book LUGOSI:the MAN BEHIND the CAPE by Richard Cremer.published in the 70's.

   

[Rev. Powell]

Cool pics.  I wonder what script Bela's reading (BRIDE OF THE MONSTER?) and what he's "recovering" from at the hospital... he looks a little haggard.

[Doc Daneeka]

Cool pics.  I wonder what script Bela's reading (BRIDE OF THE MONSTER?) and what he's "recovering" from at the hospital... he looks a little haggard.

I believe he was on painkillers, what he was recovering from I mean

[RCMerchant]

Cool pics.  I wonder what script Bela's reading (BRIDE OF THE MONSTER?) and what he's "recovering" from at the hospital... he looks a little haggard.

I believe he was on painkillers, what he was recovering from I mean

Bela was a moriphine addict. He was also an alchoholic. I can identify. (Not the morphine...the struggle with addiction...alchohol,in my case. Though back in the 80's I did every drug that was given to me...pot,LSD,mushrooms,...tried coke,,speed,opium....never did herion-though opium is a direct kin to it. Nothing I'm proud of.....just a fact.

[Allhallowsday]

Hey BELA, is the new avatar one of your drawings?  I enjoyed yer pix.

[RCMerchant]

Hey BELA, is the new avatar one of your drawings?  I enjoyed yer pix.

As a matter of fact...it's an old sketch I did of Bela! I got my printer/copier back running! I also downloaded a lotta my art( ?) onto my fliker page. People think I'm nuts over there....I don't know why...

heres a larger pic of my Bela sketch...

       

...and for fun...a pic from my copy of the book Pictrial History of horror Films by Denis Gifford...from yhe film the BLACK CAT (1966)



and a silly ass drawing I did about ten years ago...

[Scott]

Loved those old Horror fan magazines. Use to also like those old Pro Wrestling Magazines.

[RCMerchant]

My mom's father in law used to collect Wrestling mags....I used to enjoy reading about Bruno Samartino,Killer Brooks, George(the Animal) Steele...all the old timers. Lotsa fun hours of mind warping reading! He also had a large collection of Detective mags. He couldn't speak nary a word of English  (he was Itailian).....but he could read it. Odd.

Heh heh...the Von Braumers...dam Narzi SOBS!!!! 




Does this chick look like Lauren Bacall? ...or am I crazy?

Heres the cover of that old HORROR MONSTERS mag...yeah...I'm obbsessed with these things....

[Rev. Powell]

Love the pics, but I'm still curious, in the caption that's cut off on the Lugosi pic, what does the text SAY he underwent?  I imagine he was in rehab, but how did they spin it?

[Raffine]

I vividly remember Famous Monsters publishing those rare manimal photos one per issue leading up to #100!

[RCMerchant]

Love the pics, but I'm still curious, in the caption that's cut off on the Lugosi pic, what does the text SAY he underwent?  I imagine he was in rehab, but how did they spin it?

It says "Bela reads a script while at Metropolitan State Hospital , where he underwent  tratment for drug addiction in 1955"

The book is a pretty straightforward ,no-holds barrred or glossing over of Bela's life. He was very old world in his ways,didn't like the Hollywood lifestyle,and spent his money as fast as he made it. He was generous with his freinds,and would give the shirt off his back. He lived for the day,and always thought tommorrow would take care of itself. He was a very proud man....and when times got rough,he worked his ass off-doing vaudville shows of Dracula skits into old age...mostly to jeering audiances. He rarely ever turned down a part after FRANKENSTEIN,for fear that he would pass up something good...and later because it was all he was offered. Karloff could take off the monster make up...but Lugosi could not. His was the face and voice of Dracula.

I vividly remember Famous Monsters publishing those rare manimal photos one per issue leading up to #100!

Yeah...I will have to look up some more of the 'Lost" manimals and post them. FM may have not had the most literate of writing compared to,say ,CASTLE of FRANKENSTEIN...but it always had the BEST COLLECTION OF MONSTER PHOTOS EVER! ( I also like how on the cover of every other issue it said "BEST ISSUE EVER!!!"  )

[akiratubo]

and a silly ass drawing I did about ten years ago...

Boobs!

[Allhallowsday]

...and for fun...a pic from my copy of the book Pictrial History of horror Films by Denis Gifford...from yhe film the BLACK CAT (1966)

Yeh, yeh, Blondie gets split ends...    I have that book, too. 

Boobs!

Boobs and gruesome drooling creatures!!!  Apparently, a recurring theme...