enoch
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Post by enoch on Jul 2, 2023 17:56:14 GMT
There used to be a recreation of a hanging in amusement arcades well into the 80s, though they must have been many decades old. Put your penny in the slot and a model of a man would walk to the gallows and be hanged. Gone! All the old innocent pleasures. Indeed. "How that time has passed away /Grown dark beneath night's helmet /As though it had not been."
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 2, 2023 19:32:39 GMT
With this toy, there is always the possibility that one child may try to decapitate a sibling If the urge to decapitate a sibling is there, there are more effective ways than using a cardboard model.
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Post by Knygathin on Jul 2, 2023 20:02:15 GMT
If the boys of the 60s would have had THE HANGING TREE in their rooms, I am sure it had caused an outrage even greater than that against the EC Horror Comics. And Aurora would have been famous today.
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Post by Knygathin on Jul 2, 2023 21:08:00 GMT
I really enjoyed the smell of the glue.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 3, 2023 7:48:22 GMT
A bit old and dusty, but still complete ...
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 3, 2023 9:39:19 GMT
Nice! And worth something too, according to the Overstreet Guide to Collectiong Horror: Is this an aurora add from Famous Monsters?
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Post by andydecker on Jul 3, 2023 15:57:01 GMT
Is this an aurora add from Famous Monsters? I would say yes. Here are two ads of the Warren Company, one from an early Eerie, the other a later Vampirella on the back. I somehow have my doubts that these last ones really were all available. Pain Parlor, Gruesome Goodies, The Victim, Dr. Deadly, Hanging Cage and Vampirella herself. I think I read somewhere that in the last years of Warren some of the advertized merchandise was not available.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 3, 2023 16:04:24 GMT
It's always nice to see those old ads because they were such a regular part of life way back when.
Did Famous Monsters get distribution in Germany? I would think not, and it's mere idle curiosity that prompts the question. I guess maybe some specialty shops might have imported it. I don't think in retrospect that mag was very good (I know that's heresy to some). When I discovered a rival horror mag, Castle of Frankenstein, in the early 1970s, I immediately thought it was far superior to FM. But they published only infrequently and their distro was quite spotty. I occasionally buy an issue either online or from a shop in a nearby town that sometimes sells some old horror mags.
There's a quality to the mags of that period that is quite special. Mags like Scary Monsters try to do all of it but with mixed results from the few I have seen. There are much better horror mags nowadays such as We Belong Dead from the UK and Little Shoppe of Horrors here in America.
cheers, Steve
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Post by andydecker on Jul 3, 2023 16:34:13 GMT
It's always nice to see those old ads because they were such a regular part of life way back when. Did Famous Monsters get distribution in Germany? I would think not, and it's mere idle curiosity that prompts the question. I guess maybe some specialty shops might have imported it. I don't think in retrospect that mag was very good (I know that's heresy to some). When I discovered a rival horror mag, Castle of Frankenstein, in the early 1970s, I immediately thought it was far superior to FM. But they published only infrequently and their distro was quite spotty. I occasionally buy an issue either online or from a shop in a nearby town that sometimes sells some old horror mags. There's a quality to the mags of that period that is quite special. Mags like Scary Monsters try to do all of it but with mixed results from the few I have seen. There are much better horror mags nowadays such as We Belong Dead from the UK and Little Shoppe of Horrors here in America. cheers, Steve All those periodicals had no distribution in the sense that you could buy them at the newsstand next door. They were sometimes available in International Press shops at big city train-stations which also sold American and British paperbacks and of course papers like The New York Times or Time Magazine. I bought my first original Marvel and DC comics in such a shop in a neighbouring city in the mid-seventies. Also some Warren Magazines. Nowadays I sometimes regret that I didn't bought paperbacks more systematically. All those racks filled with Nick Carter Killmaster both from Award or Tandem, NEL, Panther SF or tons of Beeline Books. Of course I also couldn't put those in context as the market was concerned or image how scarce those would get decades later. (Not to mention that I didn't had the money for them and most didn't interest me at the time much.) I think you also got magazines and books in PX shops, but these are of course not open for the general public.
You got things like Famous Monsters or American comics also at the very few comics shops which were in existence back then. Those were more expensive, as they were back-issues and priced accordingly. Curiosly I don't own any issue of Famous Monsters. I never had any interest in those movie magazines at the time and still don't.
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Post by ripper on Jul 3, 2023 17:52:16 GMT
It's always nice to see those old ads because they were such a regular part of life way back when. Did Famous Monsters get distribution in Germany? I would think not, and it's mere idle curiosity that prompts the question. I guess maybe some specialty shops might have imported it. I don't think in retrospect that mag was very good (I know that's heresy to some). When I discovered a rival horror mag, Castle of Frankenstein, in the early 1970s, I immediately thought it was far superior to FM. But they published only infrequently and their distro was quite spotty. I occasionally buy an issue either online or from a shop in a nearby town that sometimes sells some old horror mags. There's a quality to the mags of that period that is quite special. Mags like Scary Monsters try to do all of it but with mixed results from the few I have seen. There are much better horror mags nowadays such as We Belong Dead from the UK and Little Shoppe of Horrors here in America. cheers, Steve All those periodicals had no distribution in the sense that you could buy them at the newsstand next door. They were sometimes available in International Press shops at big city train-stations which also sold American and British paperbacks and of course papers like The New York Times or Time Magazine. I bought my first original Marvel and DC comics in such a shop in a neighbouring city in the mid-seventies. Also some Warren Magazines. Nowadays I sometimes regret that I didn't bought paperbacks more systematically. All those racks filled with Nick Carter Killmaster both from Award or Tandem, NEL, Panther SF or tons of Beeline Books. Of course I also couldn't put those in context as the market was concerned or image how scarce those would get decades later. (Not to mention that I didn't had the money for them and most didn't interest me at the time much.) I think you also got magazines and books in PX shops, but these are of course not open for the general public. You got things like Famous Monsters or American comics also at the very few comics shops which were in existence back then. Those were more expensive, as they were back-issues and priced accordingly. Curiosly I don't own any issue of Famous Monsters. I never had any interest in those movie magazines at the time and still don't.
I don't know if Famous Monsters was distributed in the UK. If it was then I never saw a copy. DC, Marvel and Charlton were fairly widely available from newsagents, though what was available seemed haphazard, and often would be displayed in those stand alone revolving racks, or at least in the newsagents in my local small town. Perhaps there were specialist shops in larger towns and cities. I do remember a market stall that traded for several years in my town. They sold the usual fare of DC, Marvel and Charlton, along with the Warrens and Eerie Publications titles. There were quite a few lurid true crime mags, usually showing a scantily-clad female either tied up or being menaced. Don't recall seeing Famous Monsters, though. As an aside, as well as the US Warrens, we also had UK versions published by Top Sellers, and these were a lot easier to obtain than their US equivalents.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jul 3, 2023 22:31:12 GMT
[/div][/quote]I don't know if Famous Monsters was distributed in the UK. If it was then I never saw a copy. DC, Marvel and Charlton were fairly widely available from newsagents, though what was available seemed haphazard, and often would be displayed in those stand alone revolving racks, or at least in the newsagents in my local small town. Perhaps there were specialist shops in larger towns and cities. I do remember a market stall that traded for several years in my town. They sold the usual fare of DC, Marvel and Charlton, along with the Warrens and Eerie Publications titles. There were quite a few lurid true crime mags, usually showing a scantily-clad female either tied up or being menaced. Don't recall seeing Famous Monsters, though.
As an aside, as well as the US Warrens, we also had UK versions published by Top Sellers, and these were a lot easier to obtain than their US equivalents.[/quote]
When I was in my teen I regularly bought copies of Famous Monsters of Filmland from my local newsagents, along with all the usual Marvel and DC comics. New comics used to arrive in mixed bundles every Thursday and I used to visit umpteen different newsagents as they would all have a different mix of comics. It wasn't unusual then for newsagents to stock American paperbacks too. I bought my first Tarzan novels from them, along with the occasional Fu Manchu and Doc Savage. And all of them were cheap, not like in the specialist shops you have to go to today. We never realised at the time how lucky we were. American SF magazines were available too, which is not the case today unfortunately.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 4, 2023 3:14:31 GMT
Cool memories, David. And very interesting to hear. Scans of Castle of Frankenstein and The Monster Times are available on this fabulous site: www.zomboscloset.com/zombos_closet_of_horror_b/the-magazine-morgue-from-zombos-closet.htmlBoth those publications were interesting because both offered coverage of the F & SF literary scene as well as comics, and occasionally other arenas of fannish interest. There are scatterings of other mags on offer here, but none of the Warren titles, I think. Certainly no FM is in view here. Hel.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 4, 2023 3:16:47 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jul 4, 2023 8:34:28 GMT
We never realised at the time how lucky we were. American SF magazines were available too, which is not the case today unfortunately. Amen to that. Both Analog and Asimov's are done by Dell Magazines, and you could order subscriptions of the digital version at A*m*z*n. This year the Kraken killed the subscription service for eMagazines - it wasn't enough to ruin Comixologxy -, except for a few which only will be availabe through Kindle Unlimited. Seems the Dell Magazines will be among the lucky few. Of course if you don't want KU, no more Analog for you.
One could buy the Dell Magazines as single Kindle issues, but it is unknown if this will be still possible after they pulled the plug in September. If not, I guess the magazines won't be avaiable outside of the US in the future for casual reading any longer. At least not for a reasonable price. Dell and F&SF seem to offer a subscription for the print edition, but it is expensive.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 4, 2023 8:55:41 GMT
I did some searching about the options of SF magazines. If I understood this correctly, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction has no working website since 2021, and the one digital sales-platform I finally found doesn't deliver to the EU and the UK. Absolutly bizarre. As if they don't want to sell something outside the US. So it is only Kindle Unlimited for the foreseeable future or current single issues which takes some effort to find.
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