SCREAM! NO. 3 (UK)

A new team takes over the serialized story, "Terror of the Cats". José Ortiz and Jesús Redondo return in their respective stories and a new Spanish artist, Julio Vivas makes his debut in this all-ages horror anthology from the UK. Plus, the rats show up as promised in the next installment of "Tales From the Grave".

SCREAM!

Vol. 1 No. 3

April 7, 1984

IPC Magazines Ltd.

Editor: "Ghastly McNasty"

Cover: ?

Pages: 32

Cover price: 0.22 GBP/about 30 cents USD

CONTENTS

"The Dracula File"

Script: Gerry Finley-Day

Pencils: Eric Bradbury

Inks: Eric Bradbury

Letters: Mike Peters

"Terror of the Cats"

Script: Simon Furman

Pencils: John Richardson

Inks: John Richardson

Letters: Peter Knight

"The Thirteenth Floor"

Script: Alan Grant (as Ian Holland); John Wagner (as Ian Holland)

Pencils: José Ortiz

Inks: José Ortiz

Letters: Mike Peters

"Tales From the Grave: The Undertaker Part III"

Script: Tom Tully

Pencils: Jim Watson

Inks: Jim Watson

Colors: ?

Letters: Peter Knight

"Library of Death: The Drowning Pond"

Script: Brian Burrell

Pencils: Julio Vivas

Inks: Julio Vivas

Letters: Peter Knight

"Fiends And Neighbours"

Script: ?

Art: ?

"A Ghastly Tale!: Green Fingers"

Script: ?

Art: ?

"Monster"

Script: John Wagner (credited as Rick Clark)

Pencils: Jesús Redondo

Inks: Jesús Redondo

Letters: Paul Bensberg

HAPPY NATIONAL CHEESEBURGER DAY!

The messier, the better!

(Come back later this morning for the other monsters.)

DRACULA BY MICHAEL AVALLONE

Before puzzle books dominated the racks, for about three decades newsstands were packed with joke books. Mostly aimed at adult males these books were teeming with cartoons, limericks, text gags and yes, girlie pinups that got spicier by the year. The ads should also tell you which demographic was being targeted.

These particular examples are from TV GIRLS AND GAGS (Vol. 6 No. 7, January 1960), first published by Pocket Magazines (it had four other owners during its time) which ran for 46 issues from May 1954 - November 1962. I selected this particular one because of a story featuring Dracula by the prolific novel and short story writer, Michael Avallone, whose specialty was writing movie and television tie-ins -- everything from BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES to THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. He was known to have written over 200 works (he claimed 1,000) under his own name and over a dozen different pseudonyms.

The story's short enough I don't have to tell you about it except for that it uses a lot of the tropes that Dracula grew into over the years. But, it is humorous? Well, read it and you tell me. Included is a look at what type of content was in these things.

Golf professional and star of The Monster of Piedras Blancas.

SICK'S KING KONG FANZINE + BONUS

Another humor magazine fighting for its place on newsstands alongside MAD was SICK. It ran for 134 issues for two decades from 1960-1980. Created by Joe "Captain America" Simon, he was the editor until near the end of the 1960's. First published by Crestwood Publications, it was handed over to Hewfred Publications and finally Charlton took over in 1979 with #109.

Like most of the other humor 'zines, SICK would take a poke now and again at movie monsters. This is one example from #112 (October 1976). At this time, Joe Simon's son, Jim, was the editor and Jerry Grandenetti was the Executive Director. Other notable artists that worked on SICK over the years were Jack Davis, Angelo Torres and Dick Ayers. Bob Powell was the Art Director until his death in 1967.

This King Kong "fanzine" was written by Jim Simon and illustrated by Grandenetti and Nonoy Marcelo. The cover for this issue is also by Grandenetti.

BONUS!

Jack Davis was at it again with another one of his humorous takes on the Frankenstein monster -- this from SICK (December 1963).