Monday Madness MONSTERS TO LAUGH WITH "Best of #3"

What Did the Late, Great, Stan Lee Find Funny?

Why, taking old horror/sci-fi movie and TV show pix and adding silly word balloons to them!

And Stan wanted you, the reader to participate in the fun...

Did they publish the winners?

You'll hve to be here Next Monday to find out, True Believer!

BTW, this back cover pic is from The Man Who Laughs, starring Conrad Veidt...the visual inspiration for writer/artist Jerry Robinson's creation of The Batman's arch-enemy The Joker!

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Monsters to Laugh With #3

The Original Magazine...NOT a Reprint!
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Frightful Friday Fun DRACULA Dracula One-Page Tales #3

The English-language reprints of the 1970s Spanish Dracula magazine didn't have any Dracula...

...because they left out these kool, wordless, one-page features from the back cover of the original Spanish editions!

Note these two also feature Frankenstein's Monster!

Both England's New English Library and America's Warren Magazines (who licensed the translated NEL version) left out these entertaining pieces...despite the fact no translation was needed!

Written and illustrated by Alfonso Figueras, these one-pagers now make their American debut!

Be here every Friday in October for more kool vampire humor!

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Dracula

the Trade Paperback

(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine...but not these Dracula humor strips...nor any Dracula content!)
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Monday Madness MONSTERS TO LAUGH WITH "Best of #2"

Continuing our look at Stan Lee's obsession...

...with captioning old monster/horror/sci-fi movie and tv show pix with silly word balloons!

..but there's even more next week, boys and ghouls!

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Monsters to Laugh With #2

(Not a reprint! The original magazine!)
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Frightful Friday Fun DRACULA Dracula One-Page Tales #2

While the English-language reprints of the 1970s Spanish Dracula magazine didn't have any Dracula...

...the original Spanish title had these one-page jokes on the back cover!

Both England's New English Library and America's Warren Magazines (who licensed the NEL translated version) left out these entertaining pieces...despite the fact no translation was needed!

Written and illustrated by Alfonso Figueras, these one-pagers now make their American debut!

Be here every Friday in October for more kool vampire humor!

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Dracula

the Trade Paperback

(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine...but not these Dracula humor strips...nor any Dracula content!)
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Monday Monster Madness MONSTERS TO LAUGH WITH "Best of #1"

Let's see how funny the legendary Stan Lee could be...

Now who could argue with that?

And so this issue's parade of classic monster pix ends with...

...but there's more next week, boy fiends and ghoul friends!

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Monsters to Laugh With #1

(Not a reprint! The original magazine!)
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Frightful Friday Fun DRACULA Dracula One-Page Tales #1

While the English-language reprints of the 1970s Spanish Dracula magazine didn't have any Dracula...

...the original Spanish title had these one-page jokes on the back cover!

Both England's New English Library and America's Warren Magazines (who licensed the NEL translated version) left out these entertaining pieces...despite the fact no translation was needed!

Written and illustrated by Alfonso Figueras, these one-pagers now make their American debut!

Be here every Friday in October for more kool vampire humor!

Support Atomic Kommie Comics

Visit Amazon and Buy...

Dracula

Trade Paperback

(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine...but not these Dracula humor strips...nor any Dracula content!)
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Monday Monster Madness MONSTERS TO LAUGH WITH / MONSTERS UNLIMITED & MONSTER MADNESS

Besides comic books, Marvel made occasional forays into the b/w magazine market...

..with this seven-issue 1965-66 title being their longest-lasting Silver Age series!
(Note: with the second issue, Stan Lee's name was added to the cover as a selling point!)

Other mags had used the gimmick of captioning old movie and tv photos for a feature in a magazine...but never an entire magazine!

At this point, the book changed it's title...

...nobody's really sure why, but it seemed to work!

One of the koolest aspects was that Stan Lee wrote the captions...

...bringing the same kitchy vaudville-level humor that he used for decades in Marvel's humor comics!

I'm not sure if declining sales or Stan Lee's increasing workload caused the cancellation!
(Besides his writing/editing duties, he was now the public face of Marvel, giving interviews, making appearances on tv, even touring college campuses where Marvel Comics were the "in" thing!)
In 1973, when Marvel unleashed an entire line of b/w magazines, ranging from horror to kung fu to Planet of the Apes...

...they revived the concept, still written by Stan Lee!

...but this time, the book was the least-successful of the b/w line!
It was re-tooled into a Famous Monsters of Filmland/Castle of Frankenstein format, adding features about both old and current films and tv shows...

...but the alteration didn't help and the book was cancelled.

Marvel tried again, later that year with a Famous Monsters of Filmland/Castle of Frankenstein clone called Monsters of the Movies, which lasted for eight regular issues and an Annual.

Starting next Monday, through the rest of October, you'll be seeing the best (IMHO) of Monsters to Laugh With and Monsters Unlimited!

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Friday Fairy Tale Fun FAIRY TALE PARADE "Emperor's New Clothes"

Besides Doing Holiday-Themed Variations of Classic Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales...

...legendary writer artist Walt (Pogo) Kelly also did straight-up retellings of those children's stories!

This PG (no nudity) retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's satirical fairy tale appeared in Dell's Fairy Tale Parade #2 (1942)!

The series ran for nine 68-page issues, and while Walt Kelly did a considerable amount of the material, he didn't do all of it!
Other contributors included humor/kids' comics veterans Gardner DuBois, Arthur Jameson, Jon Small, L Bing (whose first name is unknown), Bill Brady, Casper Emerson, and George Kerr!

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Walt Kelly's Fairy Tales

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