Famous Monsters:What Was Your High School Yearbook Like?
Hey gang did your high school or college look anything like this including the students and teachers. Those crazy science teacher or Prof trying to come up with a way to jazz up say the basketball or football team
or one of your chums or
a classmate perfecting some “nutty” Victorian Russian scientist theory on invisibility.
I wanted to share my high school yearbook with everyone..I just can’t seem to remember who was voted as “most likely to succeed “ I think it was some guy by the name of Frankenstein, didn’t know him that well always sneaking off to the science lab ….
If it wasn’t for Famous Monsters I don’t know where I’d be right now …..probably in some off beat roadside diner drinking a cup of coffee and wondering where my next donut would be coming from… bumming a newspaper saying what am I going to do with my life …well that is not the case because I had “monsters” in my life and Ackerman, Forrest J. That meant every month I could get my fill of celluloid thrills and chills and if I needed to take a break I could and close the mag like I did when I was reading the plot to Night of the Living Dead which scared me silly .. took me a week to get thru the article. Sometimes there would be ghoulish short stories..one I remember distinctly involved the Wolfman or a werewolf and just as he was about to be caught by angry villagers descending on his house,he was able to escape his demise thru a time machine. But like the old saying goes “out of the fire and into the frying pan”… just as he is about to attack someone in this new time period a shot rings out and next thing he knows his blood is on fire as he feels the bullet tear thru his flesh …at that moment prior to his passing on, he hears someone shout “Hi oh Sliver away!!” And off rides the masked man. Peter Cushing once said he would prefer the term Fantasy rather than horror-Horror was something we tended to see day in and day out on the news and in the headlines ..world wars and skirmishes, Vietnam and such. He viewed these films as an escape from reality, everyday life, even if for a short period of time.
***Trivia-These were the magazines that “kids” back in the day kept under their beds to pull out to read late at night….why do think all these kids had flashlights to begin with. Late nite reading… lockers filled with other things including comic books and Playboy…oops…we used to go to W.A.B Drugstore in Irondequoit, NY to garb all our reading material -comic books,Mad Magazine and yes Famous Monsters.
Anyway here is a way if you never had the chance to see what Famous Monsters was all about and another place for great marketing ideas and inspiration or maybe you are just a fan of the glorious days of yesteryear … just click on the link below to read the full 1965 Famous Monsters Make-Up Book in digital format
and while your there exploring ISSUU.COM you will find there’s more, much more thrills and chills awaiting you including The Living Dead magazine, Cinema Papers and Monster Times …
plus everything else from Essential Horror Movies: Matinee Monsters to Cult Classics full edition, The Horror Show Catalog preview, The Story of Disneyland (Van Eaton Galleries- 300 pages)
and what’s most amazing of all -it’ FREE !!!!!
So when your there just tell’em Doc sent you and the next time your in one of those “off the beaten path” roadside diners .. if you accidentally happen to leave a piece of gum behind ..would be much appreciated, haven’t had any in awhile …
Related links and material-
Monster Mash- a book devoted to that special era when kids were monster crazy… the ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s from Television to the Cinema and everything in between …Radio, Comics and toys. I actually was able to have Butch “Eddie” Patrick of The Munsters sign my edition a couple of years back and there is a chapter on the TV series with a picture that Butch had never seen before. That is where I have his autograph. (one of the nicest guys in the business) Thanks Butch.
Published by Two Morrows Publishing
The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze In America, 1957–1972
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