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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jul 14, 2010 18:49:10 GMT
Dez Skinn's entertaining website has some fascinating insights into the behind the scenes stories on 'Monster Mag' and 'House of Hammer/Halls of Horror' (as well as tons more stuff from several decades in the comics industry). There's even a nice 'Father Shandor' illustration from a certain Vault dweller. dezskinn.com/warner-williams/It also looks like HoH is being tried out for a revival, with a one-shot classic reprints package set for release... dezskinn.com/blog/2010/05/05/horror-mags/
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Post by killercrab on Jul 15, 2010 4:05:23 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jul 15, 2010 9:50:51 GMT
Thanks for the link.
Interesting article. In this day and age of instant avaiability one tends to forget that this wasn´t possible back then and writers and artists had to work double hard to do movie adaptions.
And what lovely adaptions these were. I am turning into a real Hammer fan, buying the DVDs and docus, but I donßt have many of the comics. Now that would be a nice reprint instead of marvels next shitty crossover.
And I really would love, love to see the Sindbad adaption done by Dave Gibbons.
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Post by killercrab on Jul 15, 2010 23:13:19 GMT
Actually the Sinbad was drawn by Ian Gibson who drew the Captain Kronos back up strips in House of Hammer too ! Also Dez is planning a reprint called Halls of Horror featuring 4 strips with commentaries. Also I've seem some pages of Van Helsing's Terror tales that have been newly coloured that looked rather nice.
KC
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 16, 2010 8:38:09 GMT
I still have my House of Hammer magazine collection. Well, issues 1,4 and 7-30 which was all I ever managed to collect. I think I even have a few Monster Mags, the covers of which used to terrify me when I went with my Dad to the newsagents (and no I bought them several years later- I think 'Adults Only' wouldn't have extended to six year olds).
The comic adaptations were great, especially in an age before video, when all you might be able to do was tape the soundtrack onto a C90 cassette direct from the TV. Paul Neary's Dracula and Blas Gallego's Twins of Evil I remember being especially good. What was also fun was that sometimes I think the artists were given the original scripts to work with, which differed from the final film.
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Post by marksamuels on Jul 18, 2010 1:10:15 GMT
Yep, those Hammer mags were great. Did you have Halls of Horror, too, Lord P? With Ramsey's often scathing columns and scarce reprints of things like this: Mark S.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 18, 2010 7:25:08 GMT
Hi Mark - yes I do! That particular edition came, if I remember correctly, with a full colour poster in the middle, which was John Bolton's wraparound promotional artwork for The Monster Club at ?Cannes where they used that comic book adaptation for publicity!
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Post by marksamuels on Jul 18, 2010 11:42:26 GMT
Yes, it's a brilliant piece of artwork. I might see if I can upload it here later on.
Mark S.
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Post by stavner on Jul 19, 2010 13:36:38 GMT
The links don't work, at least not on my computer.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jul 19, 2010 19:27:58 GMT
The links don't work, at least not on my computer. Odd. Working fine for me on both my home and office computers. Might be worth copying and pasting the links into the address bar if it's not opening up for you otherwise?
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Post by killercrab on Jun 13, 2016 1:10:29 GMT
Attached is a scan of my copy of the first official American issue of House of Hammer ( renamed House of Horror to appease Warren Publications). Whilst sporting Lalla Ward's vampire acrobat on the cover ( originally printed on the Vampire Circus comic adaption issue 17) - Dez re-used it here whilst the interior strip used was John Bolton's excellent Curse of the Werewolf from issue 10. The rest of the issue is made up of various previously published articles from the UK mag. There was subsequently only 2 more U.S. editions - House of Horror # 19 and a further name change to Halls of Horror #20. These issues were exact copies of the UK publications barring a $1.00 price tag. In contrast the UK comic became House of Horror for issues 19 and 20 before becoming finally Halls of Horror for the rest of it's run. Attachments:
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on May 21, 2018 20:32:17 GMT
Dez Skinn has compiled 21 of House of Hammer's one-off, short sharp shockers in a rather nice hardback volume, Van Helsing's Terror Tales. These nasty little tales range from voodoo curses to cannibalistic butchers, cursed mirrors and homicidal grannies, vampires, mummies and witches, usually leading to a sting in the tale, and all introduced by a certain Professor who bears an uncanny resemblance to Peter Cushing. More info, including ordering details, can be found here; lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/van-helsings-terror-tales-collected.html
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Post by ripper on Oct 7, 2018 11:43:05 GMT
Was Monster Mag the one that folded out into a large poster? I bought a few in the 70s and they adorned my bedroom walls for years. The name had escaped me, but Monster Mag has set a tiny bell tinkling. If they weren't Monster Mags I am thinking of, would anyone know what they were? They would have been published sometime prior to 1978, or the ones that I had were at any rate.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 7, 2018 16:34:03 GMT
Was Monster Mag the one that folded out into a large poster? I bought a few in the 70s and they adorned my bedroom walls for years. The name had escaped me, but Monster Mag has set a tiny bell tinkling. If they weren't Monster Mags I am thinking of, would anyone know what they were? They would have been published sometime prior to 1978, or the ones that I had were at any rate. Yeah, Monster Mag was the home of the "GIANT SIZE PIN-UP - OVER 2 FEET X 3 FEET. OPEN IT OUT IF YOU DARE." You can download at least one issue in variety of formats via the treasure trove that is Archive.org
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Post by ripper on Oct 7, 2018 17:46:06 GMT
Was Monster Mag the one that folded out into a large poster? I bought a few in the 70s and they adorned my bedroom walls for years. The name had escaped me, but Monster Mag has set a tiny bell tinkling. If they weren't Monster Mags I am thinking of, would anyone know what they were? They would have been published sometime prior to 1978, or the ones that I had were at any rate. Yeah, Monster Mag was the home of the "GIANT SIZE PIN-UP - OVER 2 FEET X 3 FEET. OPEN IT OUT IF YOU DARE." You can download at least one issue in variety of formats via the treasure trove that is Archive.org Thank you, Dem. Yeah, they were huge. Pretty sure all the ones I had were of scenes from Hammer films. Thanks also for the link. I can remember hardly anything about the mags contents so it will be interesting to see one again after all these years.
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