LEGEND HORROR CLASSICS NO. 3

The tagline on this comic magazine "WARNING - - - NOT TO BE PURCHASED BY THOSE EASILY FRIGHTENED) is much less restrictive-sounding than the "Adults Only" ribbon on the cover of last week's post of MONSTER MAG. This issue contains the comic strip adaptation of Ray Harryhausen's THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD with art by--I believe--Kevin O'Neil. The fold-out poster is a nice photo of The Cyclops. 

LEGEND HORROR CLASSICS

Vol. 1 No. 3

1975 (no month)

Publisher: Legend Publishing

Editor: Gent Shaw

Art Editor: Kevin O'Neil

Cover: Kevin O'Neil?

Pages: 16

Cover price: 25p (about 25 cents)

Read the first two issues of LEGEND HORROR CLASSICS HERE.

LEGEND HORROR CLASSICS NO. 2

LEGEND HORROR CLASSICS

Vol. 1 No. 2

1975 (no month)

Publisher: Legendary Publishing

Editor: Gent Shaw

Cover: Kevin O'Neil

Pages: 16

Cover price: 25p (about 25 cents)

This is the second of the LEGEND HORROR CLASSIC series of 16-page "poster magazines" that were popular in the UK for awhile in the 1970s. This issue the Frankenstein monster is covered. The comic strip drawn by Kevin O'Neil adapts the Universal 1931 version. Oddly, though, O'Neil draws Dr. Frankenstein to look more like Peter Cushing. The foldout poster is of David "Darth Vader" Prowse from Hammer's 1974s FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL. Sub-standard artwork mars this otherwise nifty effort by Mr. Shaw.

View the first issue of LEGEND HORROR CLASSICS HERE.

INTL 'ZINES: WHAT IS A VAMPIRE?

Fond of the format, the Brits published a number of "poster 'zines" during their monster magazine heyday of the 70s and 80s.

One of them was titled, LEGEND HORROR CLASSICS. The first issue was published in 1974 and was an all-Dracula issue. Edited by one Gent Shaw, the 16-page quickie included a few photos and a Dracula comic strip drawn by Kevin O'Neill. A bit crude, the strip was an adaptation of Dan Curtis' DRACULA TV movie, starring Jack Palance. Mr. O'Neill had 25 more years to hone his art until it appeared -- considerably more evolved -- in Alan Moore's LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN comic book series.



The folded poster that came as a magazine insert.