R.I.P. MORT TODD (PART 1)

Sad news, today I'm afraid. I learned last week that we lost another notable writer, editor, animator and cartoonist. Mort Todd passed away on August 24, 2025 at the too-young age of 63.

Mr. Todd had a varied career in comics including with Marvel, where he edited a monster comic reprint series titled, CURSE OF THE WEIRD. He spent over a decade as CRACKED'S editor-in-chief and during that time he is particularly noted for poaching Don Martin from MAD magazine.

We can also credit Todd with bringing back the FOR MONSTERS ONLY and WEB OF HORROR vibe to Globe Communications in 1989. MONSTERS ATTACK! premiered with it's first issue cover dated September of that year and ran for four more issues until December 1990. The 'zine was a combination of text articles, fiction and comic strips by the likes Gray Morrow, John Severin and Steve Ditko, who showed they could still bring it with the best of them.

MONSTERS ATTACK!

Vol. 1 No. 1

September 1989

Globe Communications Inc.

Editor: Mort Todd

Assistant editor: R.D. Crosby

Cover and inside front/back covers poster: John Severin

Pages: 52

Cover price: $1.49

CONTENTS

"The Sex Vampires From Outer Space"

Script: Olivo Vincent

Art: Gray Morrow

"George Romero's Dead: Flower Children of the Apocalypse"

Text article by Evan Michelson, Charles Victor, Johnny Zhivago

"A Monster For All Seasons"

Script and art: Pat Boyette

"Return of the Golem"

Script: Mort Todd

Art: John Severin

"Frankenstein 1990 Chapter 1: Resurrection"

Text story by Jon Loring illustrated by Rick Altercott

"Pirate's Plunder"

Center-spread by Mott Todd

"In Solid"

Script and art by Steve Ditko

"Weirdbeard"

Script and art by MadMan (Rurick Tyler)

"The Werewolf"

Art and color by Walter Brogan