MONSTERS UNLIMITED NO. 6 (PART 2)

MONSTERS UNLIMITED NO. 6 (PART 1)

Rounding third and headed for home (hey it's baseball season), this is the next to last issue of MONSTERS UNLIMITED which began after three issues of MONSTERS TO LAUGH WITH. Stan Lee continues to mine contemporary culture references for his gags.

MONSTERS UNLIMITED

Vol. 1. No. 6

1966 (No month)

Non-Pareil Publishing (Marvel Comics)

Editor: Stan Lee

Cover: Photo cover

Pages: 36

Cover price: 25 cents

MONDAY MORNING MACABRE #107

Today is a two-fer from PLAYBOY (February 1968).

That's it for today. More monsters coming your way tomorrow!

KING KONK!

One of the many MAD magazine imitators was Marvel's CRAZY. It was first introduced as an Atlas comic with a cover date of December 1953 lasting for 7 issues and revived briefly in 1973.

The title went to a full-size magazine later in 1973 and included a mascot by the name of "The Nebbish", a Yiddish term for a weak and ineffectual person. After a few issues he was renamed Irving Nebbish and later replaced by Obnoxio the Clown. Nebbish had a passing resemblance to CRACKED's Sylvester P. Smythe.

This King Kong parody appeared in issue #19 (August 1976). The cover is by Bob Larkin. The script is by Len Herman with art by Ernie Colon, alternated Kong's image between a cartoon character and one that was a faithful rendering of the original from the 1932 film.

CRAZY's last issue was #94 with a cover date of April 1983.

MAGOO MEETS FRANKENSTEIN

"Oh, Magoo, you've done it again!"

When I was a kid, I don't think there was a TV cartoon series that I didn't like. The nearsighted Mr. Magoo was one of the many I watched regularly. Aided by the voice of Jim Backus, the wealthy, sight-challenged and cantankerous Magoo was first produced by the UPA animation studio in 1949 (voiced then by Greg Burson), where the shorts were screened in theaters. UPA's Magoo was nominated for four Academy Awards (TM) and won two for Best Short Animated Film in 1954 and 1956. After UPA ceased its theatrical productions, Mr. Magoo was revived for television in the early 1960s and became very popular.

Inspired by the well-received 1962 TV special, MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, a series of 20 literary adaptations under the title, THE FAMOUS ADVENTURES OF MR. MAGOO were produced and aired for one season on NBC from September 19, 1964 to April 24, 1965. One of them was Mary Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN shown below.