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Ihis issue of TMT is. mind bl. of aruesome Joodies, 10 dip in your PI" and you' re liable to come up with juSt ,boul anything in the wly of honor.fantasy lore. To be I bit morC' 4'ecific. we've gOt OUf li terary lime-traveller Allin Asherman on hand 10 journey inlo the darkest heir' of TH E PLANET OF THE APES in our film·book Ihis ish. NUl lime Allan wiu be blck for mort- with • behind·the-leenes look II the filmin a of APES, includinll speci.' slop.off.1 the 20th Century Fox make-up department , where the om inow sian on the door re.ds-C.ulion: ,.hd Arlbtl At Work .

In . nolher. bloodier nin, we're st.rtinll • new 3,plll future by Buddy Weiss about Hemisphere Pk:tures' Blood Jeries, the Roriest IrGUP of films 10 da te. Hemisphere, In American film comp.ny Ihll bills itleU . s the " Houx of Horror," is livin. Hammer a run for its bloody money ~\th such terrorriric titles as MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND Ind BEAST OF BLOOD. A mo re anemic £jim dfort o f I rew years bad. THE NAVY VS. THE NIGHT MONSTERS. is linn Ie ... than-re .. erent Irellment b y Sldr PhilNOpher Joe Kille in Inother of h is seeminlly eDdie. exercilu in neptr.-e Dosta!aia.

Artist Dan GreeD and writer Bill Fuet (of MT Teletype fame) teamed up o n t he comic It rip tb is iuue a nd Ihe ruult is TALES OF WITCH-WILLOW HOUSE. I stlrtlin l story llU.ranteed to make stronl t ypes tremble Ind to make t he wart·hli r of enn the mOSI hOTTOr-hardened fan stlnd o n e nd. Plus .. . one of the most unusual feltures enr publisbed in this workl or in any other ,..-e'n enr heard of : And exclu.si .. e TNT inlelTiew none other thin ... COU NT DRACULA! At lreat expenx and perilous "* 10 life and limb (althouah nOI necusarily in thlt order). intrepid NT reporter ROler Sinlleton lOulht out tbe redbkJoded reclux wbo. as it turned out. was only too aJad to finilly hne In opportunity to set the record strlilhl. We think you1' be more than I little surprised by what the "Undead One" has to sa y in t his clndid cODnrsation.

For comic. freaks we hln a ~nerously iUusttlled p iece o n thl t unco uth conqueror. Conan. I S interpreted by Ihe. mlITeious MlfYel artists. •. plus a multi-Inlled view o f t he first X-rated Inim. ted felture, Frit:r. the C.I, which iDCluded in its cast of .. oices o ur own Phil Seul ina who provide. lOme inside info rrn.lion on the

. rilmina o f Ihe adyen lures o f the funk y fe line . Plus IU the reaul., TNT fe.tutes desianed to brina o ul t he devi l in . 11 o f lol l. So reid on, but remember-don', sa)' wedidn', wam )'ou ... 1

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9 NAVY VS. THE NIGHT M.ONSTERS: No, it ain 't a football game, but it isa free-for·all asa Naval base is plauged by 6 Fool Walkmg Trees ...

10 FRITZ , THE FUNKY FELINE: A mult i-anqled look at R . Crumb's creation as he makes his celluloid debut ...

13 BUT IS IT ART! : Meet Jerry Robinson, former Batman sketcher, whose April exhibit at New York's Graham Gallerie-s brought the people's art form uplown

14 DRACULA SPEAKS : An exclusive TMT interview with the Count himself. Hear the corpuscular Count ref lect o n just about every subject under the fu ll moon •..

19 MONSTER MAIL : TMT readers bare their fangs and raise their claws to ask us a few pertinent quest ions all of wh ich are given

·pertinent answers. Check out the fiendly feedback.

19 IN SEARCH OF GHOSTS: Joe BUncatelli gives us the lowdown on Daniel Cohen's latest tome, IN SEARCH OF GHOSTS, which includes I rare and more than a litt le unnerving photo of a reaIUvel ?) ghost.

20 TALE OF WITCHE WILLOW HOUSE: Why is there to the knock on the front door? Oi5Cover the d isturbing to this query in this issue's com ic strip,

22 EVILS OF BLOOD ISLAND: Blood Island is one place wouldn' t even want to visit, lel alone live there-'Ind no one seems to Ii .. e there very long.

26 THE RETURN OF THE MONSTER TELETYPE : All the scoops about the latest screen invasions by monsters, fiend s. and assorted malcontents brought to you by our ace reporter Bill Feret.

31 SPACED OUT? : You will be when you read reviewer Joe Thomasino's analysis of Poul Anderson 's latesl fantasy sci· ' i effort. OPE RATION CHAOS. Looks like Poul hotS come up with another weird w inner.

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THE MONSTER TIMES. No. 11 . June 14th. 1972 publ~ ev...., two ..... by The Monlt .. Ti ....

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Man ... hunled ... caged .. .lorced 10 male by civilized apesl

Ever go to the zoo to watch the animals; Sure, you have-everyone has at one time or another. Now, suppose the situation was reversed? Then how woukt you like it? Huh? Suppose YOU were in the cage and the animals were watching YOU, Impossible, you say? Why would the animals want to watch you, you say? Ha! That's what George Taylor thought. Taylor was an ace astronaut, spinning through space and proving man's superiority over the animals. But one day things changed for old Taylor. One day he awoke to find himself in a cage .. . with a gaggle of APES watching HIM! Now that was an ape of a different color. How did it all corne about? Read on and ~ind out ...

The needle·sleck ship glided through the nothingness of outer space and sped Taylor and his crew toward the goal of their mission . But it wou ld take years or travelling at sub·light speeds to complete their journey, and the warp drive was still not sufficientl y perfected for use outside of the labs. It was a nuisance and a waste or ti me, but suspended animation still had to be used, there were no other allematives. Hibernation , deep·s1eep, out cold for months at a time. Years at a time. Taylor was the last to step into his hibernacuium , after supervising the others and making sure all was well with the automatic life-support systems.

He lifted the glass lid of his cubicle, stepped in and started the free ze-cycle. He saw the glass cloud up, and as his own vision started to fade out he pictured the vehicle fl ashing si lently between the stars. A sleeper ship . Sleeping, drifting .

It seemed like only a moment later when the jolt came. Something was happening, and fro m the gauges inside his CtIbide Taylor cou ld see that 50methinc Wa<i wrong. Everything was orr·scale, a mad rushing into ... what? One o r the warps of space, he thought as he freed himself and revived his two friends Dodge and Landon.

A wind storm where there was no wind, a hurricane where there was no pressure or movement of matter. A something out of nothing, Taylor thought, as he stepped near the special CtIbide where the prettiest female naut in the service still slept peacefully. He looked down at her face, and saw .

A dried, withered mummy! A dead caricature of a shriveled human with long hair and sagging uniform. Taylor turned and groaned , nauseated . He had known her at the Academy of Astronautics. Now' she was dead of ... of what? What could have caused it? Think, Taylor, think! The air must ltave leaked from her hibernaculum . but only faster·than.light speeds over a prolonged time could make someone wither like that, like he'd ~n there for hundreds of years. Hundreds!?

Taylor ran to the ship's large chronometer. Stopped. The gauges all frozen everywhere. No way to determine how far they'd gone, for how long, or in what direction. They were lost, they were doomed never to return unless they cou ld do something quickly!

STAR WRECK?

They'd have to do something, for suddenly the ship started to vibrate. Delicate parts were smashed. Rivets buckled in the walls, Doors shifted under their feet. They were caueht In the atmosphere of an unknown planet. Caught tA.d. A burn·up would be the only possible result, unless .

The wings ... elidin( wings! If only the control surfaces worked, they could soar down into the air without any more damages. Maybe. Just maybe they would

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of sun. Looked something like Death Valley, where they had trained for a time on Earth. But where were they now? No idea! They were alive, and that was m06t important to them now. Time tor worrying about other things Ia~.

Later proved to be very soon. Dodge it first. A crude formation ot.

cross-sticks with dothes. A scarecrow!

A grim w.k:oming eommiUM 6n tM ".-- 111 of MwClllI. •• ther-jadteted H_ of SeClIIrity Pol ice. __ b 1M ~1~ trio • tMy peddle towanb t.rror fmn. un.w_ of the n .. gh rtaption in stoR for tMm. .

live! Taylor struggled 8(aimt the building pressure and the terrible heat.

They were through the clouds. Sharp peaks rushed at them, trees and more trees and plains and a lake straight below. If only he could get to the lake, maybe it would absorb most of the fo rce of the crash. It would have to be a crash ... the engines were completely gone, now.

A sickening stop and a sharp jolt backwards. They were in the water, and it leaked into the cracked shell of their vessel. They would sink, soon, and drown. From space to water and death. Got to move. Get the life-raft out, and the survival gear. Radios and food and clothing and spare rations. But no time ... no time.

They had to leave her in the ship, and hope they could breathe the air, If there WAS any air. Then they were In the rubber boat, paddling to shore like refugees from a nood with their last belongings strapped to their backs. Taylor turned to see the blackened hull of his shiP. rockrng grimly ht the shallow water.

They were in a dry, arid region, with sharp rock peaks and tall cliffs and a lo t

t1nd ot lite? 'I'h9 talked and ~, and dtdded to find out. So they dimbed from the bot canyons, over the peaks and tound themselves In the Garden of Eden. '!bey bathed in a small lake, ted by a Jaree waterfall. They put their dothes 00

the branches and forgot all about drilization both human and nOD·buman. For a time they had tun, and their guard was down. They did not hear the

sneaking of reet, nor see their tattered uniforms being sto len by quick fingers and running beings. Running men and women, fast and primitive, clad in rags made from the trees and vines of this World.

ATTACK OF THE ANGRY APES!

Their clothes gone, they dressed in the shorts and rags left behind by whatever had snuck o rr with their uniforms. Through the thin woods they oould see what looked like cornfields. Men. women and kids played, ran and screeched like wild, untamed things.. They started forward, but the noise stopped them. Horses, it sounded like, galloping toward them. Beings on horses with nets and guns, chasing the primitives. Herding them, s hooting and maiming and trampling them a1l. It was like some nightmare, and they were caught up in it, as the dark horsemen started toward them , too. Then Taylor looked up and stared wide-eyed at the riders abO\"e him. Monkeys! No ... Apes! Apes riding horses and holding riOes and ~lIing

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Apes! Taylor gasped and clutched at his throat. He had been shot! He slipped backward over the top of • small gulley and feU, and _ he landed he was caught in • net. The apes tied blm to • pole and hustled him off to a cage filled with other Clptive people. He clutched at the ban and saw death. Men and women hanging by their wrists. by their feet, being photognpbed with thelr captors and kiUers like they were some kind of prish trophies. The dead were piled atop Nch other and burned or ~uried in mass

guess, and hope they werm't part of the huge pile of dead back at the cornfields.

Turning, Taylor noticed the dark-eyed girl who'd also been thrown into his cage. They were both terrined, and mutually suspicious. But they were both prisoners. The girl realized immediately that the man be!iide her WIS certainly not one of her people. IntriitJed. she moved c106e1'. Taylor. feeling pity for her people, smiled gently to her. By the time the cqe reached Its destlRltion, the two trusted each other compjetely.

T.., ...... n.mptIId ill""" mMU with little • .u;x:_., dub4WdIng .. Uk. off in hot punuit. "-hi his ~ eonm.t boot." f'-i-footed .... ili. caltd1es up to tfMI ~ Com"""" ., they .qu_ off in brut-' bmM, '

craves. The living were dragged ort to .. . whllt? Taylor, struck speechless by the buUet, tried to yell to the beats, but DO sound carne from his mouth . . He felt the cage.wl(on start acroe& the rough pound, ud started to think about what tbi& could aU 1DMn, where he w. and what would happen to his felioW5 and him8eIt What of hia trieodl? They t.d aU been ~ted, and Taylor could

GO APE. YOUNG MAN I

'!be dest.imtion was a town of Apes ... looting like some twisted architect's ,"sly dreIun. There were no squares at cirdel, just crooked, clashing shapes connected by catwalks and bridces, sepanted by en'IItk: moata: and streets. Even the windows were imgularly shaped, and the whole place suggested the fact that the apes were once tree·-climbers.

Their escorts were stili on horseback, still with rines, and now Apes were everywhere ... whole families of them watching the wagons coming into town, the children looking as if they were seeing • carnival freak show.

They were led from the wagon , still bound, to some sort of dark complex of buildings that looked as if they were built half underground. The place was cold and dark , with the stench of waste and death. And then Taylor saw what sort of building he was in. Bars and smaJl rooms and larger ones for whole groups of ... animals? No ... for people. A zoo for human beings! He struggled, and a 1arge gorilla, clad in a black leather sui t , came from the shadows behind him and clubbed him aJmost senseless. The dark-eyed girl screamed, and together they were pushed lnto a large cage. Through blurTed eyes, Taylor could see the gorilla ... smiling? Yes. A mocking smile, a leer through the fur·llned mouth thllt held a cigar. And then he slept from desperation ud weariness and the pain in his throat.

He awoke to feel cold waler washing over his rag-clad body. Water under pressure. Dirty water that tasted of silt and mud, dire!:ted by a gorilla cuard. Was it the same ooe?1bey all looked aJlke to him . they they probably tbought

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tbe same of humaD-beinp. He was slowly becinnlnc to reverse the roles or humans and animals in his bewildered mind. 1bey Wlft bosinc him, .. buman I'JUds did to caged animals back OIl Earth! He crabbed at the bars and tried to reacb at Ute torilla, ud snarled as be tried to scream ob6cen1Ues at lbe fat Ape. Off to ODe side he w. bel", watched by a young couple of ... What were they, cbimps? Yes ... Chimps on two legs with human eyes and voices, with finely tooled outfits and boots and insignias. But these two bad something more in their eyes: Pity and sympathy. He was being looked upon as a human being for the first time by the strange Inhllbitants of this crazed world .

Tayior, meanwhile, bad named the dark-eyed girl "Nova," and developed quite a protective interest in ber. His fear tor Nova proved to be justir~, as he learned just why the Chimps were showlng pity for them. All at once the door to their cage was forced opened, and strong Gorilla·hands were taking Taylor and Nova down a dark corridor. They were led to a small room with two rougb wooden beds. 'Illey were strapped dOWD, and through enraged eyes Taylor could tee the Chimps. They were clad in aprons and '&loves, stained with old clotted blood. Then! were knives ud scalpels scattered around the room, and in one comer the gruesome remains of what had once been living men and women. Another shock in his nightmare . .. they were in a biology lab about k> be dis&ed.ed. Taylor tried to scream, but still couldn't make a sound. He strained his ned. to look at Nova, strapped to the tab~ next to his. She didn't know wbat was loing to happeD to them, but was terrified becaue Taylor wu. She acreamed the scream be couldn't k!t escape [rom his wounded throat. But lOOn the scream, his wounds, the whole answer to this crazy riddle of where they were would no k)flger matter. They would both be dead.

APE GOT YOUR TONGUE?

The two Chimps, Cornelius and Zira, readied the apparatus, when suddenly Zira, the wife of Dr. Comelius, started to argue ... in perfect English, and now for the first time Taylor realized these Apes were all speaking English! He could tell them off in his own tongue with all the curses he could muster, and would

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The trend for the super-hero in comic books is thundering to a halt. Readers are searching for something more basic. So let's take the super-hero and strip him of his costume. We'll make him bleed when wounded. give him a sword, and set his adventures in mythological worlds of ritual magic and hand-to-hand combat. Instead of tongue-in-cheek action with a mad scientist or inter-dimensional imp. really spice up them stories by pitting the hero against the most satanic spawns of Hell. Add a dash 01 good, crisp violence, obvious sensuality. and good old bloodlust, creation with superb descriptive imagery ~N'r,_ "11' .... "-we enter the comic book arena of Sword and Sorcery

~ H~":;f-" Jj~~~ CONAN THE BARBARIAN.

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CONAN in comic book form is the raw gut fighting sequences laced with the gothic overtones of Black Magic. His adventures take place some 10 to 20,000 years ago, shortly after the continent of Atlantis sank into tbe~as. Tbe world tipsily on the brink of chaos, the forces of mankind compete with the forces of magic for possession of the earth. With CONAN representing Man, the action is always inherently savage. The cover of issue number one, October 1970, offered the reader a glimpse of the battles to come.

And how have those multicosmic battles been handled? Well .

Barry Smith's detailed and powerful artwork time after time reflects all the power of intergalactic combat , yet maintains smooth sophistication. A masterty "art noveau" effect in combe

As a man, CONAN is clearty a barbarian, exhibiting base emotions that would have made any school-teacher's hair stand on end. CONAN is a champion of himself, wi th the ski ll of a thief and a desire for riches. Occasionally, CONAN emerges from the self-interested shell that

surrounds him to offer his assistance to some damsel in distress. More often than not, this has brought him the same kind of trouble SUPERMAN would run into with Lois Lane 20,000 years later. CONAN's passionsb;,jng him little satisfaction but many dangers. In Marvel's uninterttionally one-shot. black and white

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magazine, SAVAGE TALES (May 1971), CONAN lusts for a snow nymph who entices him into a chase through the icelands. As he finally catches the naked beauty. her brothers, the ice giants, unsheath swords and vie for CONAN's head . In a fierce and bloody clash, the barbarian slays the giants and turns to the not-50-naive nymph. who is rescued just in the nick of time by the power of "Ymir," the frost king.

Trace the changing looks of CONAN since issue ·num ber one. He is purposely being aged slowly by the ar ti st and writer in order to show adventures from his youth as a thief. from his years as a soldier, to his eventual rise to kingship. The progression will take some time, as by the fifteenth issue he just begins to go a soldiering. He's lost his lean, youthful physique, he's become more muscular with each succeeding issue.

There has been a dazzling array of wi ld females gracing the pages. CONAN has met

goddesses, sorcerer's daughters, enchantresses, nymphs, and even female thieves. These 'beauties have been featured on covers with CONAN nearly as many times as his sword has been. Their intent in journeying with him on adventures varies. Some are evil and out to steal his gold, or simply kilt him. Others love him. A few are pawns of demons, mystic shaman, or magicians-the "magic" lot who are enemies of the savage human. Most notable of his women, the sultry seducing vixen of the Devil City of Shadizar ... Jenna. Several times CONAN "has had" wi th this wench lo ! she has been carried off by flying monsters. Everything from a giant bat to a human condor have tried their best to separate the two, yet on ly Jenna has the ability to conquer the might of her hero who in his just and mighty turn has conquered al l of the flying c reatu res. Being viciously greedy, Jenna continually betrays him for gold. CONAN triumphs, however, in issue eleven (November 1971) when he pitches her off the roo f of a building. Now, if only SUPERMAN would wise up to that nebbish Lois Lane .

This sword and sorcery trend, returning the hero to such rugged basics as BEOWULF (Conan 's literary great-grand father), seems to be successful. Already, Marvel has been producing (very eratically due to production problems) another great Robert E. Howard heroic guy, Atlantean period hero, "King Kull." Latest word has it that he will once again be feat:Jred in his own com ic book. GULLIVAR JONES, WARRIOR OF MARS, a new Marvel rendition of the Edwin L. Arnold series. currently appearing in CREATURES ON THE LOOSE, but also soon to be given its own book. Other upcoming sword and sorcery comix will be

another Robert E . Howard adaptation-SOLOMON KANE, a necromancy-fighting Puritan. In a simi lar vein is Marvel 's jungle hero, "Ka.Zar" who resides in ASTONISHING TALES.

Word even echoes through Fandom that Stan Lee and Co. will be further expanding this trend with a comic book version of BEOWULF.

DC's Nightmaster by Den y O'Neil and Berni Wrightson, was an interesting hero with a good concept, but was unable to catch on. As the super-heroes have all cen tered around SUPERMAN, the new wave 01 s around TARZAN and CONAN. CONAN in parti cular, provides en tertainment on many levels, and can be appreciated for its stark ac tion on a simplistic level or for its very fine visual and scripted artistry on an intellectual level.( Its financial successes wi ll hopefully pave the way for more books of the Robert E. Howard spirit, as CONAN proves fa lse the old adage, "Crom does not pay!" •

MORE OF MR. HOWARD

Hey, kiddies ., , dig Robert E. Hpward's CONAN? If you do, then the Mighty Men at Marvel have a surprise for you. Coming up in the first or second issue of CHAMBER OF CHILLS is a new adaptation of '"The Thing On The Roof," which Howard ' did for his book DARK MAN.

The eight-page comic story is adapted by Roy Thomas (the self-same man who writes CONAN and KULL) and is drawn by free-wheeling (formerly "far·out") Frank Brunner. Frank tells us that it's a real beauty , so watch for it on your newsstands. That's an order!

C- Uk •• bfuUl _it- M: the. .idw-ing _ huded _fM'It. The ASPCA didn't dig

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No. t, Collector', Editlon IKo .... Elo:.l, $2. MonSI.roUi pr' mitre issue contlining nori. on the uvioul'S 01 King Kong. NQSFERATU. .nd DER GOLEM. Abo, THE GHOULS, •• t by Berni Wrislhuon aI'Id Grty Morrow,' t?<Iiew of THINGS TO COME

No.2, STAR TREK, 5fIec~. $2. A wee;'1 $I;u, dediaoted to all especn of STAR TREK. The Stlt Trek Saga, Th' ENTERPR I SE'S g.utn! missions. '1'1 il'll_;ew with c.pt. Kirk. Th' 'an ct.vl of the ENTERPRISE. STAR TREK cornia, and • lIP8Citl l*odY. STAR YECCHI Sar Trek Uwsl

No. 3, G_I BUGS on t he Mundi, ' 1. Out ,n bugs issue. Review of lhe g.Nt bug rno¥ie. THEM. bugottef08l in th. comi cs, MUShroom Monnen. C*'1 two o f KONG', SAV IOURS , end THE EMPIRE OF THE ANTS by H.G. Wells. Plus • Rich 8\.Iekler comic ."ip .nd • tremendous kong centet1old.

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No . _, BRIDE OF

FRANKENSTEIN,S1. Agi.nl review of THE BR IDE OF F RANKENSTEIN. futures on THE PULPS, comic book" GREEN LANTERN-GREEN ARROW, and f.e. moone. TALES FROM THE CRYPT. PlustnetencrumbiesthOlTOf fl icks of 1971, DRACULA goes to court end Jeff Jona comiclrtincolor.

No. 5 , CREATURE . .... 1UNd. $1. Auto· biogrlphy Ind centerfold of the _ end onlv CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON. Also, en uciusiw intl'lYi_withJo. Kubert.8Ut~in«li_of the _ TARZAN c:omica,. rllYiew of the STAR TREK con. ESQUIRE's _ h ip

comics, Jefl Jona c:omica,. Mu shroom Monsten end Bogie's only horror flick.

No. 6, ZOMBIES,", ,...... '1 . A survey of I II the zombies in movies, plus the ASTRO ZOMBIES end THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. A feature on zontlies in the mmic:s., , ..... iew of ....... w..igl".,n~ BAOTlUE STORIES, Ind I o.n Gre.> zombie ltTip. Pl us, I perfectly foulzorrCiecentet101d.

.. 7. GODZILLA. '1. 1"ht king of tfte IIICIfWbrS gftS h. _ ilwl.OQmIPIetB with gilnl hllur . ,nd colorful cwoterfokL The King Kong eomn.n:. 'Of VoI~. King Kongcori::s. the Comic Arl AWlrds. Mus hroom M:lnAen. Hot PrinU. DARK DOMAIN by Gr1IY Morrow --.

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No.8, HAMMER Horrors, $1. All .... 1TV'I'It!r, Al l HolTorl M exclusive interview with Olris Lee. the CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF comic strip. THE H OR ROR OF DRACULA fitmbook, The Hlmmer Ch.cklist. The '-uties 01 the B_1 end much mor •. Horror llllani

No, . 9. SCI.FI Sgeei11, Sl. THIS IS LAND , EARTH. 2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY, Fluh Gordon Ind Buck

=~:::n~::':~:i:f~ reviews. Ind, introducing: THE SPACE GIANTSI

No. 10. Ex cl us,,"- EoC. Comic:I. $1. The Old Witches revhiUd in In exclusNe interview, Californil" Snide Seymour. E.C. in the movies, The E.e. Horror comics book. The Spewr.. of 0,., WerthllTl . ncf I n .XdusiYe intetYiew with BiH Gaines end AI Feld1tein. And en like 'IOU .wufdn·tbeli_1

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'lPidly becoming as r .... as lOme of the btood types they stock in a 'Impir.s·

gourmet shop. Already our first two issues ar. Yllued at $2.00 uch-and it'. no wond., why. They' , e , .... collecto,'s items. .nd they' , . dis.IPP8aril'l9 faster than a wer_oWs unity under a brighl full moon. All other bKk iWoles I re going

for a budc apiKe , . . and going fastl Every day people line up outtide the

TMf office c:tamoring for bllCk i ... es . .. and lately we've not-.:.d a number of them c.ryil'l9 ropes. buckets of tar. and baskets of f •• henl So. before we run out of bec:k issues. 0' they run us out of town. you'd bener fill in the coupon on dI. right ... do it. do it. do it!

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"Beware of the Ni~t Crawlen . .1beir dutches will disintegrate you!"'

S o reads the poster from THE NAVY VS. THE NIGHT MONSTERS, a 1966 dutch at immortality by a eompany calling itself REALART Pictures. You better watch out in any case because if the Night Crawlers get a hold of you, you can bet you'll melt in their hands, not in their mouths.

Realm, whose sense of sell·irony is amply demonstrated by their choice of a company name, gathered together a cast for THE NAVY VS. THE NIGHT MONSTERS that sounds like it was recruited from a Central Casting u~ployment line: Mamie Van Doren (of sexpot fame) , Anthony Eisley (of 'Kawai ian Eye fame) , Pamela Mason (of James Mason famp.). Billy Gray (of Father Knows Best fame) , Hobby Van (of dancing fame), and Walter Sande, Edward Faulkner and Phillip Teny (of no

This guy mad. the mistlk. of ~ing up 1M wrong t,.e. ... 1W1d paid for it_1h his life '.

particular farne at al l). Realart (still the best movie company title since 8oxoCfice Spectaculars, who released a gore opus called BLOOD FEAST in 1963, and ExplOItation Films who were responsible for something called ROCKET ATTACK USA back in 1961) has numerous other horror films to its credit, including the HIDEOUS SUN DEMON and WOMEN OF THE PREHiSTORIC PLANET, the latter having shared a double bill with TH E NAVY VS . THE NIGHT MONSTERS. For the information of anyone who might be interested In such things, the options on THE NAVY VS. THE NIGHT MONSTERS have been since picked up by Hemisphere Films, who already have epics like BLOOD DEMON, BLOOD FIEND, BRAIN OF BLOOD, BEAST OF BLOOD, BRIDES OF BLOOD, MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND, I DRlNK YOUR BLOOD and I EAT YOUR SKIN to answer for.

SPINE-TINGLING SIGHTS According to its own publicity release,

THE NAVY VS. THE NIGHT MONSTERS offers such "spine-tingling sights as hideous man-eating trees, horribly mutilated corpses, acid scarred hands., dismembered anns and googed1)ut eyes" which alone are said to be worth the price of admission. 'l'be band·picked cast were, Realalt copywriters insist, dying to win a part in this flick which, they probably figured would give Lheir assorted fading careers a strong pusb in one direction or another. Anthony Eisley, for example, who essays the role of Lt. Charles Brown, commander of the remote

Gow Island Naval Base "spent several days at Naval bases in Long Beach and San Diego, in which he was given thorough instruction in the duties of an Administntor." Mamie Van Ooren goes dramatic for the first time in this film as

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she "becomes involved in a series of horrifying experiences whtch afford her a chance to display • 'wide range of emotiol)s," whereu ..'J!amela Mason considered "her demandIng role in THE NAVY Vs.· THE NIGHT MONSTERS one of her biggest profesional challenges to date." It's not Qrten that actors get to compete with 6 foot trees, and still less often that they are upstaged by same. Once the able cast had been assembled, the next question was: would the script be able to match their talents? The answer was, unfortunately , yes.

At any ' 'rate, the troubles on Gow Island begin with a plane, empty of everything except a pilot who is "[rozen to the controls in a state of extreme shock" a~d a cargo of "caged penguins, files of official papers, and several bales of exotic vegetation, one of wh ich is broken open." Everyone involved is pretty upset by the mysterious appearance of the ghost plane and things get even worse when most of the cast starts to disappear as well. The first to go is Billy Gray, followed closely by the light·footed Bobby Van. The latter happens when Van, who plays Ensign Rutherford Chandler, becomes alarmed when "the camp pet, Dog, attacks someth ing and ... lets loose a blood·freezing yelp." Upon investigating, Van vanishes.

THE TREE DID IT

As it turns out t he "exotic vegetation", if the form of a 6 foot tree, is at the root of these disturbances. They had been planted, see, by a biologist named Dr. Arthur Beecham (Walter Sande) in the "hot springs" but soon enough the trees turn up missing too, When Beecham and the pretty nurse Nora (Mamie Van . Doren) go to investigate further, they find that one of the trees has transplanted itself miles away from its original habitat. The tree's first reaction upon spying the pair is, predictably enough, to make a grossly physical pass at Ms. Van Doren, Enraged by this misconduct, Dr. Beecham heaves a Molotov cocktail at the tree just in time, making it die like it deserves. He then explains to Nora how the tree got there in the first place. The answer is as blunt as the nose on his face-it walked ,

Although most of the film's 87 minutes have elapsed by this time, our heroes run into a few more walking trees, dealing with them in a similar manner, setting them aname, unlil at last all of the trees are dead. At this point, a relieved Mamie sighs, "Thank God-it's all

over," which, in case you haven't figured it o~t already ,are our sentiments exactly,_

1M Night Mor.ters shared I .. R ...... t .. double-bill wim WOMEN OF THE PREH ISTORIC PLANET, but whlt_wl.n to know is how CIOn I fight between "uwagB planet WOMEN" and HFEMALE q-.. in¥aden" c:on:!IIlitut. I ' 'bitttle of the sex."?

ITS THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES AS SAVAGE PLANET WOMEN ATTACK FEMALE SPACE INVAOERSII

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What's a mov" like FRITZ THE CAT doing in a nice paper like this? Well, you may remember (or you may not-if you wanna be that way about it) that way back in TMT No. 1 we p~ged this publication to the exploration of ALL manner of fantasy. even works that do not feature so much 8 S 8 si09M; monster in them, if we feel they deserve the attention. as FRITZ THE CAT does. And, since FRITZ is X-f'ated. many of our readers will not get an opportunity to see this unique innovation in film animation for sBveral y ears yet. Besides, contributing editor Phil Seuling served as one of the voices on the flick's soundtrack and he said we should do an article about it and he's bigger than the rest of us, so .... t'!.-e it is . =

'~'T'Z IS A SOPH IST I CATE:D .. l/P. TQ-Tl"U; "MINUTE. '(DUNG FELIN'- 'COU.EC,E. SruoENT WI-IO LIVES IN A MO~N "SUPER-CrT'Y" OF MILl.IONS of ANIMALS "" '(e.S,. NOT UNL\~E. ~ \1\1 iHe-IR MANNcAS ANC N\ORALS .. ..

C artoons can be loads of fun. Kids h;rve and probablv always will find them a so urce of t o t~, u;restrained

' e ntertainmenL l et's see now, there was Mickey, Donald, Yogi, Bugs" . EGAD! How many of these pen and brush beasties JUNe there been? And now, in this troubled day and age, joining the honored but overcrowded ranks of animated . nimals comes a cat of a different color, a frisky fe line with a lot o n his mind (most of which is unprintable.) I am speaking of none other than (ahem) FRITZ THE CAT. No gang, not FELIX the C4T, but FRITZ ... R. Crumb 's· o u t r ageo u s p u ssyca t tee ny· bop pe r revolutionary college student who discovers the meaning of life in his new X·rated feature movie. What? You never heard of Fritl before? Well then, read on . .

Fritz is a wild wildcat wonder conceived by Mister R. Crumb (No foo lin'- that's the guy's name!) who was cat·apu lted to stardom in his creator's

imaginative project, HHead" Comilc. "Head" offered many different cartoon ~haracters, but Fritz was certainly the most appealing, possibly because his young readers identified with him. He was a hip, now, crazy character with a tast e for the sweeter th ings in life. Could be that's the reason his fi rst flick was rated X. Oh, well ... !

I n any event. the movie starts with Fritz and his pasl desperately trying to play it cool with some Greenwich Village chicks. (To keep the records straight, the word "chick" is used in the salng sense. To the best of this reviewer's knowledge, there were no chickens per se involved here). Anyway. it becomes painfully obvious that these equally hip and now ladies are more interested in the cu ltural prospects of the loca l crow. (Ahem-another note. The word "crow" is not used in the slang sense. This is R. Cru mb's humorous interpretation of the black man in our society). The film goes on for the next half hour in much the same manner, with cats jabbering on wi th puppy dogs and crows doing their 'thing unt il , somewhere along the line, a wild party is thrown (Fritz does the throwing ... it's a private party), and it takes a couple of hair-brained cops to calm the cool cat down. The cops are- you guessed it-a pair of pigs! In all honesty. only one cop was represented as a pig in the original comic. the other being a bulldog of sorts. But, retuming to our pre<:arious plotline, our hero succeeds in copping one of the cop's guns and

brings the situation to a flushi ng hald by assassinating the nearest toilet bowl. Needless to say, Fritz is now a confirmed criminal.

After accidentally settinQ his college on fi re, our favorite pussycat finds himself in the heart of Harlem where he befriends a likable crow named Duke. Fritz's outspoken convictions once again land him in trouble-ville, and this time his new-found pal saves his furry hide . Before long the two steal a car, which Fritz promptly smashes. (I n case you haven't

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guessed, Fritz is not exactly a joy to have around), Alter another night of pure pleasure, this time inspired by a rather over-developed friend of Duke's the cat decides that his crow-friends are oppressed and proceeds to scream and rave about the white domination of black animals. This, quite naturally, results in a riot where his friend Duke is killed and Harlem (no kiddin'!) is bombed!!!

Our idealistic kitten, howevel, is unharmed and hits the road in search of new mischief. Before, long . he runs into

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(figuratively speaking. of coursel a motorcycle·sadist-cult creep who convinces FriU to blow up a building in the !lame of the Revolution. Not knowing exactly what revolution he's working for and not partirularly caring. the cat suceeds in blowing up his target as well 85

himself and is last seen in a nearby hospital. joined by hi s rascally lady·friends for a jaunt in bed. Well folks" that'slife!

" BLOW ME DOWN" A number of noted cartoon characters

were present at the opening of FRlTl THE CAT and, although their opinions varied, the general feeling that prevailed was one of shock and disgrace. "I'd say 'Well blow me down' ", remarked Popeye. not showing his thirty some-odd years in the business, "cause it sure ain', like the way we use'ta make'em-I mean, moleskin' wimmen lIn'all'" Some cartoon personalities felt differently. Felix (the cat, of course) entered the theater screaming his traditional "rightio/" but leh uttering a somber, more meaningful "right onl" Yogi Bear and Cindy were present (Boo-Boo, unfortunately, was under age) and when asked h is opinion Mr. Bear remarked. "All thllt time I wasted with that dude. Ranger Smith! Fritz iscenainly smarter than this IW6rttge bead"

And. as if all this information wasn't meaningless enough. here's a MONSTER TIMES special·type scoopl . .. a first

Phill s.. ... i .... .-orou' 18ryNl .... lift to ttlis 1_ worc::em.lt officer or " pig." WhiM Phil', .. oice might hw. tM.i perfect for the~. you can _ that c:ompwed to Phill Un T ..tInl me cartoon COl» had notflint to -rv about in me loGo d • •

PHLSElA..JNG ... SUPER STAR What woukl YOU do if a

5ong-haired, sharp futured man wearing bright yellow dunprees _Iked into your office, daiming to be the star of an Inimau.d movie. You'd prot.bly throw him out. Except if the afftceS we tho. of THE MONS~R nMES, lind the rr..n is M MT Contributing Editor. Phil Seuling.

Yes,. boy, and girt" TMr, own man-about-town. Phillip N. Seuling, is a .tar. A bone-flde movie idol, hero of million.! Phil cracked the rough and tumble movie scene by doing two voices for the nash mo,ie mnoon, FRITZ THE CAT. Phil JUyI a rookie cop who', a real dummy, and a black crow who', ntallywithit.

When we asked Phil how it felt being I screen .mash, he If\SWered .. ltf .... na ...

Despite hi. enalier .rtitude, and 8Ithough he only got a token .-vment,. he daim. it'. one of hi. weatnt '~es (come to think of it, • far as we know, it', hi. only ~e . . _J Phil has now done ju,t about entything •. . tNc:h .... writer, comic book daler. convent'on chainnlln, and now ,tar of the Iil,er screen. It boggtes the irMginationl

Phil later ,eI.ted how he fwd met the director of FRITZ THE CAT through a mutual friend who hMt iI,.,ited him to a screening. A. a result Phil wn used in the flick, and tparkled with such lines . : " I ain't no jive-turkey I What '(II think I am ... Geraldine?"

ACU)ring 10 ou, ,~repid movie star, the whole cartoon w. done without a shooting script. The teenes were drawn and animated, the voices briefed on the pkJt of each scene,

hand interview with a pig m and a crow ml ... I,r6Mi on and you'll dig whllt Moe

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then freed to ... .,.,., di .... 1hey dttir.d. Such inYMting • you 00 is mlled improvisation, .nd while it Do •• n ' t .ways work well, it .,.".timts - rwnden ~I. !'hUhI. A~y, Phil w. to Imprtaive in hi, role • an officer of the law, the directors -'ded Iner" ... s just to ..:comodate him. The cop IaDr de'IMoped into I maior dwKt., in the final venion.

Phil took fift IeSIions 10 get ... rything down, but he Mid that he .. joyed them ... And sinee the improvi .. tional method .. off·the<uff and unrehearsed. w. -*td Phil if, given the c::hanc:e, he'd ...... deli.,.r.t lines differently. He doubud It. but edmmed that there ... " no way to answer" the qutStion, and that he could ItCOnd ...... hirmetf fore,er. We doubt he will, though.

A .... -light to the whole ""liMa was Phil', t.king hi. whole theatre d .. to one of the recording _ions (Phil', • teacher by 1r_ who wanu to do some 'edio commercial.l. He rePorts that the whole d .. had a ~I, and asked a millton questions. ProbebIy the same question' we ~rew .t Phil • lOOn • we heard. E,eryone lowes a starl

One of the questions tNt .way, .. meet to pop up : What w. Phil', response when he heard hi' mowie .oice? H. IIIid that it didn't bother him or impr ... him at "I, but did edmit "when the audience I .... gh. at bne of your lil"l8l, oh WOIW. it', fUlly something else .

A, far. the rest of the TMT staff is concerned, Phil is still Phil, despite the hundred, of star-adoring groupies that now surround him. He's still CJ,Iite NimM_ And. then again, we occassionally ha,e to ctli the shrink for him. Seem •• if every once in a while he breaks into .... uncontrollable cackle. If we didn 't know him better, we'd swea, he'. a black crowl

• -Joe BranC8telli

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OWN YOUR OWN FRITZ T·SHIRT

In kwpH'ag wilh our Friu schtick thi' i.we, TMT ..,t OI'Ie of in e\'Tatlt Raffen a ll the ~ to dIorkesl Atl ... tic City to fetd'l a Fritz T-Shirt. one not unlike the one gli~ bri,fly On TMT No. 10 lin tact. the Wlry ame one). She claimed she paid $2.50 for the item, \illlhich is not bad COfl$idering that il costs about _en bucks 10 buy a T -shirl adorned by a bl()W-(Jp 01

your own pholO-and how many 01 us can claim 10 be 115 handsome and roguish as Fritz, the funky f~ine? Our dinaH staller, in fact. _ to taken by her FriU T~hirt

thai, in a moment of pique, she blurled, "A$ long as I'm wearing Ih i1;, I" never give you Ihe Ihirl off my backP"

Friu and h l$ M$. Grace only one of several R. Cn.imb T ~hiru cUlTenlly available. The re 's a Mr. Natural T~hirt on Ihe loose, as well 115 a Keep On Truckin' number, and all live up 10 the high Randards sel by the Fritz job. The Fril z shirt really caught on like .wildfire al the TMT office. incidentally. Before long. we

were all wearing one and, in a fit of

Thit"Super-5eulint IMT "-ocMte Editor Met Comic:

book _ .... ILIpremell in his bnnd _ FRITZ T ..... 1n.. Editor s.uling

_ two .. oices in FRITZ THE CAT, end now he th ......... '1tr'OnIIW ~ dirtl Repon.r Qark Kent _ It the o.ity"-ne1 ~

... dI out ••• wi '--"'i" dial..,..,.. Kent to WNStIe.

wi'limsy, we even strode.n mas5f! into the streets of Green\illlhich Villege for the purpo5e of showing off our new-found. finery-only to dilCcwer that ",ery~ on the street _ wearing one tool autdon't· .-«M"ry-we lint them running quick ~gI'I. I me .... no one can IIC1 IS original .usand.llpec:llogete_ywithit.

The only drawbedc we could diseern about the Fritz the Cat T ~hi" is that it is NOT fireproof. We found this out by sending an TMT employee inlO the incineralor. ostensibly for the purpo5e of scrounding up some cigaretle trullS for us. When we were su re tha t he was safely inside. we closed the door on him for _ral minutes. When he erT1el'ged he W8$

pretty burned up aboul it-ilnd $0 was the T~hirt_ But thi$ shouldn'l effect the decision 01 normal people. $0. if yOU feel you fit into Ihat ca tegory. by ,II means get younelf a Fri tz T~hi"-iI' 1 Ian you througheU nine lives.

Well Gang. I th ink that's about enough of this nonsense for the time being . Seriously. FRITZ THE CAT is a wild experience and it's a darn shame if you don't get a chance to catch it. Many kids today have never seen a fully animated cartoon (most of the new stuff on the tube is mini-budgeted grue animated only in part) and th is flick. animated and directed by Ralph Bakashi. is a fast-paced. colorful and truly exciting wonder . I guess the only thing vcungsters can do is wait a few years until the't an get into their local theaters ",, "thout a hassle_ And, if FRITZ is any indicatIOn, cartoons then should be really something!

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llIe _ whh the benit ~ "-ry Robinson, Co-ordinator of the whole exMbit. H, dNw the BIItmen __ whown hwI in 1942. llIe villMn m*ing time is The Joker, history's.only whi.f-.s performer .. . llIe portW_dispirted in tfM ""'-'-oftfMGrnm G • ...,.,.. ThI tlXi tulthlppened to be,..ng by.

~er been to Madison Avenue? Up where all the swank art galleries are? You know, the ones that exhibit all kinds of wonderful art from places you never heard of? Like South Pago-Pago art from 1625. Last month (April ~29), however, the prestigious GRAHAM GALLERIES (1914 Madison Avenue) decided thai the time had come to exhibit the art of the people. The art that you wrap your fish in. The art that you've taken for granted all these years, looking at in the papers, reading on Sunday mornings. That art, the art of millions, comic art , was the subject of a two floor. 125 piece exhibition at that self..-same ga11ery.

Although the comics looked a little out of place at th e s todgy, holier·than-thou gallery, it was fun finally seeing comics getting their just due. For years everyone thought of comics as great entertainment, but hardly art. It was not un t iI the Culturll Center held a

. magnificent, 300 piece exhibit run by comic expert Maurice Hom that the general public began realizing that comic art was for real, and was, indeed, a legitimate fine art SOmething we fans have known for years.

This particular display at GRAHAM was run by long time com ic artist Jerry Robinson. Mr. Robinson was the long·time artist on Batman in the 1940's and was credited with the invention of 11te Joker, one of Batman's most popular foes, and a poker-faced villain if ever we've seen one. He's also the artist on the crorrent.ly running comic strips Still L~ and a...oom Flubs aDd FJufT', and to

. top it off, he currently is writing a book

entitled (what else?) COMICS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF

Thi s is the world f.mo lt s t.lt-off+diff-wllilHKlund..-nd""PllQlld ac1 ,,"om

• 1940 TERRY AND THE PIRATES.

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF COMIC STRIPART. Some title, eh?

The display itself was nicely laid oot, and spacious, if not all inclusive. While the exhibit ignored many of the great artists of the lime, it also managed to unearth pieces of great art long presumed lost.

The exhibit had some really nice old pieces. Some of them included in that group was: LITTLE BEANS AND TIGERS by Jimmy Swinnerton (the first piece of comic art) from 1897, THE YELWW KID by Richard Outcault (the first comic strip- from 1898 and UTTLE NEMO by Windsor McCay (a highly imaginative strip that is still revered today) from 1906. -

'Fhere was also plenty of humor strips included. Among them were included L 1L ABNER, PEANIITS, FEIFFER, MlJIT AND JEFF, KRAZY KAT ( th, all time greatest, currently running on TV in cartoon fonn and being reprinted by NEWSDA y), BWNDIE, and the hottest of the new humor strips, BROOM-HILDA (by Russell Myers). The adventure strips were also well-represented in a display including, PRINCE V ALlANT, FLASH GORDON, RIP KIRBY, TERRY AND

THE PIRATES, and CAl'TAIN EASY. S pecialty comics were also

well.represen ted by pieces by artists like Richard Taylor (from NEW .YORKER), Thomas Nast (who, for you hislOTY buffs., had a big part in exposing Boss Tweed and Tammeny Hall), and of special interest to MT fans, Charles Addams (creator of TV's ADDAMS FAMILY, and a cartoonist whose monsters became so famous that seven books have been printed about them). And Jerry Robinson had Jots of his own art there (he just happened to have it around, we're sure).

As you might expect at a posh art gallery, many of the strips were for sale. Unfortunately, the prices were so restrict ive ($900 for a PRINCE VALIANT, $600 for a Charles Addams) that we are sure very few will be sold.

A reasonaly priced catalog from the exhibit is available frorn the galleries for 52.

All in all, it was a pretty neat show, a little weak 00 some artists that shoold have been represented, a little heavy on others (notably Robinson himself), but it was fun. Besides how often do you set to go 10 Madison Avenue and see how the rich follc.slive? •

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PRELUDE

/ WID (JtJ my Wd)' 10 Q weU-known midtowr hotel for an appointment one rainy llifht in ApriL This lWU no OIdinlzry appoinlmJ!ni bul an interview ,lUll J looked forward /0 with Q mixtwe of eager QII/iciptztion and cold fear. The individual whom I WID to interview WIZS'

none other than Count DrrJcuJo. Vampires exist. Count DnIcul4 is TeaL

77wse are two o{ my jinnesl cor/pichons. Years of resetzTCh and recent months of investigDtion h4d Jed me to believe lluIl ~n more strongly. When J l'OCeilied a telegram imtructing me 10 meet !iJmeolre who cWmed to be Drtu:u1D, fUllUnzUy I lM'lS skeptiCilL Howt!W!l'. I could not afford to pau up what might be Q unique opportunity.

DINNER WITH DRAC

The tui ckposiled rM QI the hotel rtetU CentnJl Parle where J WID to have tlinner with the Count. A priwlte dePalor delivered me to the penthouse apartment which the Count occu.piM. The plwh decor wat striking and surprising. The textured crimson waIlptlper and richly

~rwd, sir," he SIIid pJeIUlUlI~ enough, "This way pIuse.. .. I breathed II sigh of ~Jref and followed him down a dimly lit COIridor. There W4S no Iign 0/ the Count.

aUITEACARD

J must $il.y I was not Te4l1y surprised. So far I was beginning to believe thu was the te41 thing and this seemed perfectly in cluuactu. I shuddered to think about his "busin~ss . ..

For Oller an hour I only picked at the dinner. I remember litt/e about what MIS served. But during that time I was determined that, hailing slimed this, I would see it through ngard/ess of th~ ' consequ~nces.

"Lugosi had a ...a:ain old world charm, but he _ certainly a "" ay from the...., I ioo myself ••• "

piled aupet W4'I a JilT cry {rom the creepy gothic atmosphen I had anticipatetL Yet. for all the luxury. then W4'I J()m~thing

more frightening about thu place thim if it were a gothic ruin.

While I wait~d in the foyer fOf' J()meon~ to ~~t me. I begon to feel that I was being watched. The silhouette of a man appeared in the doorway in front of me and I froze in fear. He stepped into the /ight and proved to be an inconspicuous looking J1t!rvant. "Dinner is

After din1rer I was ushered into a drawing room when I waited fOf' the better part of an hour. There waJ nothing thot might distinguish this room as parI of Ihe wzmpin's /air. other than the wealth it seemed to represent. I stood before the /ireplace, staring into the open flames, suddenly aware that I hod never drawn up a wilL Without warning a rich. reSOflQnl 1I0ice coming from behind me SIIlid, "Good evening .. . fOrgillf! me for Mlling kept you waiting. ..

THE COUNT

I turned around quickly and saw someon~ who could have been none other than Count Dracula, my /int impression convinced me I was not the lIictim of a hoax. The awe-inspiring presence of the mmJ was Foof enough that hen indeed was Count DracUla. "Relax my friend. you Mve nothing to fear. I believe we con perform a great .$t!fVice /()1' eJJch other this evening. " he $Ilid in a 1o.'9{Cf! tinged with a faint foreign intoflQtiOlJ. ..... the only clue thlll English WQS not his Nltille tongue.

Tall. 1e4n. and elegantly dressed in black tie, the Count look~d different from the way I hIld lIiSUlllized him and somehCw far more impressille lIum I hIld

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which I CQfUider unflattering. So / will answer your questions to the lint of my 4bility • .. His gracious qUJIlity mad~ it htud 10 believe that this continental ~ntlmwn W4'I considered. tlte world's greatest fiend. But / could not ~t Oller the cold, lIise-like grip of his handUttzk~

NO PHOTOS

TMT: "Shall we begin then?" I asked as I pulled out my note pad. ''Why did you forbid ' me to bring a camera or a tape recorder?" D: I did not forbid you; I merely suggested that you should not burden yourself with useless devices. As you mould well know, I do not cast a shadow

"My lawyer told me that David Frost wanted to do 90 minutes with me, and there was some talk of a television spacial . . . "

thought possible. / was amazed that Iu: /Doted much younger than I hIld f!lJer inwgined him. His hair was a lustrous black and contrasted sharply with his pale complexion. The deep-set dark eyes were highlighted by thick eyebrows. He wore a moustache which ()(1mou{laged the large eyet~eth that protruded slightly over the lower lip.

.,/ !Wile been aware of your efforts to Ioazte me for lOme time, .. the Count said in his charming manner. "It seemed inf!IJ;table that we should meet, so I amznged this intef11;ew. I am glad to see you took my telegram On faith and come tonight . .. / regret the impenofIQl means of communiaztion, but I felt thai it was the most ~ible approach.

"Your penistence in seorching for me has been impressillf!," he contirrued. "I hOpe tonight 's interview will be of mutual benefit to both of u.s. You see, / wish to set the record straight, as you Americans 'WOUld MY: to change a public imoge

or a renection in a mirror. Does it not follow that I will not register an image on film, video, or audio tape? TMT: Of course! It only now occurred to me there isn't a mirror in your apartment Ind the indirect lighting makes shadows unlikely. By the way it's a lovely home you have here. , D: Thank you, I like it. Bu~ it is just one of many lairs I have in the metroPolitan area. Though I miss the broken battlements of my castle in Transylvania, my present. accommodations serve my purposes quite adequately. TMT: Count, you are a vampire: in tact the King of Vampires, are you not? Could we delve into the particulars of 'Ampirism? D: Oh, that word! Vampire- I prefer ""undead." You ·have no idea what it is really like to be a member of a minority group and have labels pinned on you! Oh, ~ry well, then ... if you must know about my "condition," so be it.

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EAGER BEAVER!

Dear Editor:

I guess I'm a typical Monster Times reader, although I was under the impression that there were onJy a few who read the 25¢ copy of " I am Legend" , still had a collection of E.C. comics, sawall Hammer flIms, went bananas over the new DC Tarzan. and understood the meaning of "KLATEAU VERADA NICfO!'

As long as you keep printing "ll keep buying. Keep up the good work. 1 was particularly intel't:sted in your article on "Night of the Living Dead". The director. George Romero, is now filming his second sci-fi flick in the same locale as " Livin, Dead" and with the same great techniques. 1 have a part in the film. It 's called ''The Crazies". Look (o r me. I play the deputy sheriff.

Tony Scott WBVP Program Director

Beaver Falls, Pa.

We" be lookina (or you, Tony. And let us know when it comes out. But what's a radio man doina in mories? -MAlL·ORDER VAMPIRES

MARCH AGAIN!

Dear Sirs: 1 would like to congratulate you on

TMT. It is the most refreshing thing to happen to horror and sci·fi fans in many years. I wouldn't know what to say is the best part about it, it is diversified and excellent. Besides all the great articles and the information offered, 1 think that the Monster Market is a good idea. I am 25 years old, and most of the things sold in the back of the various monster mags, may not interest someone in my age bracket. I feel they appeal mostly to the children. Since they don't have as much spending money as say someone with a job, I think they should be warned of those who may separate them from their money with shoddy merchandise or excessive prices. If I may list a few examples: The Dracula record reviewed in issue No.8 had the rover price as S3.98. An ad in CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN offers it for $5 .95. Another example of inflation is the 8mm movies. In FAMOUS MONSTERS they are offered for $6.95 plus postage. On the other hand in a mag. called FOR MONSTERS ONLY, the same films are offered for $9.98 plus postage. These fllms are available in numerous camera departments &; large department stores. Three prices I have found them for were S5. 15, S5.49, and $5.95. You can Jee how some people can separate uninformed ch ildre n from their allow anus. There are I lot of things available throush mail order, but· if kids can read about them in your Monster Market, they' may be aided in not wasting their money. Keep up the good worle..

Sincerely, Robert W. Martin

P.S. I have found thai the GodziUa model you discussed in issue No. 7 is unfortunately not the last in the world. I saw a number of them on sale in the Toy And Hobby Center in the Kings Plaza Shopping Center on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. (glowing head and all) .

Thanks Robert, and you can be sure that when we check prica and find too areat I displrity, we'll report it. We try to keep readers informed of the rip-on artists, but they seem to be proliferating It an alarmina rate. And if you find more info, please don't hesitlte to Jet us know! -A MARVEL-OUS MY?

Dear Editor, 1 like the MONSTER TIMES a lot.

Your stories and artwork are great. There'sjust one thing I"d like to ask. How about an all-Marvel issue? You promised an all-Superman issue, so it's only fair that you have an all·Marvel issue. 1 would appreciate this very much and so would Marvel!

Sincerely yours, Scott Martin Ridge, New York

While we are plannina I n All-Superman issue of TMT, it's not inconceivable thai well do an ' aU·Marvel issue sometime in Ihe futwe. If we do, you'U be the first 10 know. -TO DIME OR NOT TO DIME?

THAT IS THE QUESTION!

Dear Monster Times, __ I am a great fan of yours, and I have

read every one of your issues. I must say that you have done a terrific job! I enjoyed every issue, but as I was reading ~e No. 8 I saw something more hOrrifyi",- than chris Lee himseif! it was the price of the issue, 60 cents. I admit you have a really good mag but don't you think 60 cents is a trifle too much? We are not all made of money! Please give me an explanation for this.

Your fan, Larry Patterson, Fairfield, Conn.

We don' t know anyone made of money, L8I'Ty. And that includes yow stalwart (but poor) stan here at THE MONSTER TIMES. To be able to ship issues of your favori te monster publications aU onr the country we had to raise the price I dime. Enr risina shippill8 costs forced the price up. If you lin in New York, thouah . it will still cost 50 cents. So, while we are sorry for the rise, we do promise to pve you every penny of your money's worth and more. Then, of course, you could alwlYs move to New York. -SIBLING RIVALRY?

Dear Editor Issue No.9 of THE MONSTER TIMES

was great, but the letter by John Sposite made no sense at all . (I) Anzilla is not Godzilla's brother. (2) AnziUa was in DESTROY ALL MONSTERS and was smaller than Godzilla. (3) AnziUa walks on all fours most of the time. (4) Just because Godzilla and Anzilla have almost the same name doesn't mean they are related.

Bob Skir L.I.,N.Y.

Can any or you monstrous fins clelr up Ihis burnina question? Is Anzilla Godzilll's brother or nol? The suspense is killina us!!!

IN SEARCH OF GHOSTS by OANIEL COHEN.

Dodd. Mead & Company. $4.95

l hosts have intrigued people for centuri es . These w h ite-sheeted apparitions have been the basis of legends for generations. What ~ock Qasn't had a haunted house, supposedly haunted by !:Ilosts and goblins? What kid hasn 't spent Halloween day masquerading as a ghost? And what kid hasn't thrilled to the

exploits of Casper. the Friendly Gtiost in cartoons and oomicsl

Responding to the tide of ghostly tales and legends is IN SEARCH OF GHOSTS, by Daniel Cohen. In his new book (Dodd, Me.t and Compll1y , t82 pp. l. Mr. Cohen ferrets out the true from the false. the rumor from the reality, and the lies from the t ruth. Or at least he tries.

Unfortunately, unless a person is a true believer, or a yam spinner. he is left with little new to say about !/lasts. That seems to be Mr. Cohen 's problem. He just doesn't have anything new to add. Researd1 in the field of occult and phantism (the study of ghosts) has been progressing for OEInturies, but IN SEARCH OF GHOSTS just won't add much to what already is known. To offset this, the author fabricates dubious tales.

superficial historical introduction. The author speaks of the primitive fear of the dead. moves through ghost tales in Grecian times, progresses through 19th (IIntury England. focusing on some of the

more important cases of occultism. Cohen uses the o ld trick of leaving the reader hanging, letting him decide for himself t he veracity of each individual case. There is nothing wrong with leaving each incident to its own merits, but we' re all tired of t rite c1iff·hangers with no ending. The dust jacket of IN SEARCH OF GHOSTS claims the book is a definitive history of ghosts. but it really doesn't give us any answen;, regardtess of what the dust jacket says.

The middle chapten; of the 'book servet up tlighlights of the development

of the spiritualist movement (the thesis that spirits can com municate through mediums enveloped in trances). It ranges from the mysterious Fox case in 1848 to the development of the seance room and the Society for Psychial Research. Throughout this whole section, however, we are left with the distinct smell of incense from ,a cirrus sideshow. Cohen sensationalizes the spiritutlist movement so thoroughly that it seems • if he's trying to sell ideas, not present things objectively. He lightly throws caution to the wind, and we're only surprised thlt he didn't bother to {!COmmend his peoonal medium too.

Finally, Cohen provides several chapten on such sundry topics • "Haunted HoUMI Ind PofterwBsts. .. and "Apperition,1nd Spirit Photogrt;phs. "

There are some interesting little pieces of information in this book, but we expected more solid information from Mr. Cohen, who was formerly Managing Edito r of SCIENCE DIGEST. It struck us as strange that a man with Cohen's science background tried to foist · off a melange of ruman;, lies and okt wives' tales as factual information. IN SEARCH OF GHOSTS is interesting reading, but it won't make anyone a true believer, and it a!rtainly won't further the science of ghosts any . Fo r that, they'll have to took to bener written books.

_-Joe Brancatel/i

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How many so-called horror films ..... you ... that failed 10 doliyeo' the gruesome goods? Not onIy __

they absolutely stupid and bloodless, but, like • oot, they didn't even provide a dear glimpse of the atlogod 'monster' that _

IIwoys said 10 be lurking about. Well. fil1lllty u...'s one movie company putting tt. horror back into the horror film, with lots of blood ond gore and monsters and mutilation toaaI in for good measure. Crack t.-ror scribe Buddy Weiss takes a good kJok at two of Hemisphere Pictures' (The House of Horror, as they call themsetves) latest bloodletting .. tures. the MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND and '_II BEAST OF BLOOD! So, without wasting .,y more space, let us set foot oow into the dense jungles of Blood Island as fashioned by its equally dense creators at Hemisphere . ; .

What two movies have eo much blood in them that Dracula himself would be hard put not to give them 4 stars each? WhY. MAD DOCrOR OF BLOOD ISLAND and BEAST OF BLOOD, of course! Between them, they have enough celluloid corpuscles to feed a dozen hungry vampires for the next cent~ or

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Don Runo... finds that his popua.rity .-. the n-'-w. girll "-I-*i off

' -sp.. ~1" .... "'ne-out Blood Beat, uti .. it 'yinl down 1CN'.c:han9t '" "'~'. jungtebkJodf_t.

THE MAD i>OCTOR Of BLOOD I$LAND.

,And these t:itLN are ooly two of • whole bloOdy bundle of gore movies produced by Hemiopberoo Pic:Iureo, a company that modestly calls itlelf --rhe Hou.e of HoDOl'! " (Their exclamation point. not ours-Ed.)

Hemisphere, in its relatively short existence, has also turned out tasty items on the order of BLOOD

DEMON, BLOOD FIEND, BRAIN OF BLOOD, BRIDES OF BLOOD, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD and, for a change of pace for those looking for more solid nourishment. ] EAT YOUR SKIN. We'll be getting around to each of these films in this and the next two installments of the aeries ... but for now, let's take a look at what the MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND is up to.

THE MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ]SLAND, double-billed at most theaters with BLOOD DEMON, stan ex-teen actor John Ashley and Angelique Pettijohn. Hemisphere, by the way, conducts ad campaigns that might best be described as heavy. and ones that even put the old American· International numbers to shame. For the MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND, the ad poster reads, A WeiJd SHRIEK.our, .. Do the "Mad Doctor" 'lbing. Drink Green Blood and Groove. The Most Absorbing Horror Happening Ever!" If you're out for blood, you can rely on Hemisphere ..

The MAD DOCI'OR OF BLOOD ]SLAND begins with Dr. Bill Foster (John Ashley), redbloodt!d American boy and ace medico, being sent to the mysterious Blood Island to investigate "strange" happenings. Actually, they are more than a little bit strange -they're downright unnatural! People vanishing, monster carrying kids off into the jungle, and cocoanuts going sour overnight, before they even leave the trees. It's Un-American' things like these that give places like Blood Island a bad name.

Accompanying Dr. Foster to the

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nefarious isle are Sheila Willard and Carlos Lopez. Why, you might ask, would a nice girl (not to mention a beautiful one) like that be going to a place like Blood Island? The 8J\!Iwer is twO-fold and simple. One, ~use every hOlTor film requires a h.croine to give its sex appeal a shot in the arm and, two, because her fll<.h":r lives there. Of course, we rk"~r learn why her father lives on B!n{\oCI Island, but then there's a lot of lhings we never learn in the films but as long as there's a lot of blood and monsters, who's counting.

Carlos is along for a different purpose. His mother Jives on Blood !slantl and he wants to fetch her from that mysterious locale. ]n fact, his plan is about the only thing in the movie that makes any sense.

At any rate .. the boat carrying Bill, Sheila, and Carlos docks at Blood Island and before you can

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say 'hemoglobin' all manner of weirdities begin to take place. First ofr, Sheila finds out that her formerly respectable father is now nothing but a drunken bum who is fond of disappearing into the dangerous jungle for long stretches at a time. Being a logical type, Sheila goes in after him, bringing along a gun. food, or in the way of clothes either you have to keep in mind the that it's awful HOT on Blood Island). Almost as soon as Sheila steps foot into the unde~brush, however, she is attacked by a horrible monster who drips ~n stuff all over her fair white body and abuses her in a typically male chauvinist manner. ~ Meanwhile, while all thiS is going

on, Bill is busy doing some medical detective work. He soon discovers that the island is plagued by a tenible mystifyinng disease . . . one that tum's human blood from a healthy red to a sickly green color. Bill is understandably puzzled by this tum of events.

Carlos is keeping himself active as well . After he locates his mother, he finds that she doesn't want to }eave the island on account of her dead tiwband. Carlos, being of sound mind and body, deduces that if his mother is staying on Blood Island because of her dead husband, then the dead husband (his father) must still be alive - if he can still exert that much pressure on mom. So, to follow down his hunnch , Carlos enlists the aid· of Dr. Bill and together they journey to a graveyard. to exhunle dad's tomb, only to find the cofrm . .. you guessed it, empty! It is Bill's quick-thinking opinion that if Carlos' father isn't in the coffin, then he must be someplace else, and is 'probably still alive t.o boot, otherwise 'his escape from the tomb would have been exceedingly difficult indeed .

Around this time, Bill and Carlos are intemJpted in their morbid bewilderment by the sound of high-pitched screams emanating from the direction of the jungle . Sounds like Sheila, they gasp, and , like the stout-hearted heroes they are, dash off into the jungle to rescue her. They find the

beast-ravaged Sheila and , in her gratitude, she kisses them both for saving her and , together, they exit the jungle to puzzle out the plots that seem to be thickening at an alarming rate.

Meanwhile, Carlos' investigation is getting noplace fast. His mother

has taken in a pair of lodgers, a certain

mysterious Dr. Lorca and

compare notes with Dr. Bill Foster and when the two put their heads together they discover they share one thing in common: neither have the sJightest idea of what might be behind the mysterious happenings on Blood Island. So they consult Sheila.

GREEN FIELD Sheila informs them that the

monster that attacked her was of a green hue. Bill immediately decides

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his assistant Marla, and none of them will offer Carlos so much as a single clue as to his !ather 's whereabouts. He then goes back to

that this must be connected with the mystifying " green blood" disease, the coincidence being too tempting to resist. And, since he took a spontaneous disliking to Dr. Lorca, Bill furt her concludes that the rival doctor must be at the bottom of it all. Professional jealousy, no doubt, even though Bill's bedside manner has proven to be far more successful than the grim Dr. Lorea's --as far as the lovely Sheila is concerned at least.

So Bill confronts Dr. Lorca who , being a card-carrying secretive power-mad scientist, immed iately tells them everything.

As it turns out, the monster is none other than Carlos' missing father , Don Ramon . Ramon, who had been dying of an unspecified disease, went to Dr. Lorea, the evil genius, fo r help. Lorea, in turn , injected the hapless Ramon with a strange serum he'd invented, one that put Carlos' o ld man through some pretty heavy changes. Don Ramon began growing edgy and ilI·tempered and gradually

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popularity among his fellows promptly levelling off to an even zero . Feeling alienated and revolted by his new green color, Don Ramon fled into the jungle where he busied himself by pulling annoying practical 'jokes' on all who might wander into his domain with the purpose of ferreting him out.

Demonstrating an ironic sense ot timing, Don Ramon, the monster, appears on the scene just as Dr. Lorea is explaining this to the others. Having all the anti-social tendencies common to monsters everywhere, Don Ramon gets his revenge on Lorea by wrecking the place and trying to stomp everyone in sight. In the ensuing confusion, a few jars containing inflamatory chemicals chance to spill onto the floor and a massive rue breaks out. The heroes scurry out of the fiery house to safety where they watch the conflagration . Presumably Dr. Lorca and his monster are kiUed.

Content that their mission has been a success, Bill Foster. Carlos, Sheila and her father (who also turned up out of nowhere near the end of the film) leave the island. Blood Island is bloody no more ... not until the next movie , at least.

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Foster do not remain at rest for long. and soon enough he returns to Blood Island in Hemisphere's sequel, the BEAST OF BLOOD. Keeping Bill company this time around is his charming companion Myra Russell, girl reporter and voluptuous lady.

The "troubles" have

situat.ion. Bill finds that the natives are unusually restless and not ven friendly towards him ei ther, sinCE: they associate him with the last. murderous outbreak of Blood Island horror. Dr. Foster quickly assures the natives that he'll do everything he can (which isn't all that much) to end this terrible new menace to the community. His first step is to return to the old stomping grounds of the late , demented Dr. Larea to see if there's anything happening there. The place is now a wasteland of burned buildings and overgrown weeds and scurrying rats and the like. But, before Bill is able to discover anything at all, disaster strikes again: Myra is kidnapped by a gang of restless natives!

Bill rounds up a gang of good natives and heads out in search of the abducted Myra. They find her soon enough, but the bad natives don't want to give up their hard·won prize so a fight breaks out and, amidst the punching and stabbing and yelling, Myra offs a native who tried to do her in by shoving a maChete through his ribs. Myra, in fact, is the only one who actually kills anyone in the fight, which would seem to belie her "helpless" nature. At any rate, the gang goes back to visit Larca's estate once again where BiU becomes aware of another calamitous tum of events: Myra is missing again!

This t ime she's been ripped off by Larca's henchmen in order to serve as the bait in a txap set for Bill. Lorca (who, of course, didn't die in the fire that climaxed the MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND ). has apparently grown

ti r ed of Dr. Bill's ceaseless interference and possibly his poor acting abilities as well and is determined this time to do him in ona> and for all.

Larea is also jealous of Dr. Bill's women. Just. as he fell for Sheila in the first film so he falls for Myra in this one. The mad doctor, in a crude bid for Southern Pacific hospitality. takes Myra on a guided tour of his new domain, which feat.ures a horrifying prison compound in which are kept. the horribly disfigured natives who have served as the victims of his vile experiments. Meanwhile, Bill is hard at. work on a plan to get Myra out of the Madman's hands.

'·Maybe this will .. tu.e." Py mIKI doctor te~m as Blood B$st. fusier th .... a rich lmy at a wig salon , . ejec:ts hNd after h ...... But lhen it mud: be tough 10 make up your mind when you're not e>len su.e of which skull il'l'n ••

Paying a sneak visit to Larca's hideout (how he finds it is never explained , but we're probably better off not knowing anyway), Bill notices that Larca's face bears horrible scars, the marks, no doubt, of their last confrontation . Larca has another surprise in store for the brave Dr. Bill. namely t.he decapitated body of hiS monster , Don Ramon, who has been kept alive and kicking by some fiendish mad doctor machine. Lying thoughtfully atop a nearby table is the still living head of the ghastly green terror!

THE MONSTER'S MUM

It seems that Larca has a little bit. of the shrink in him too, since he's been trying to reach the green monster's head only to find it. extremely uncommunicative. The blood monster refuses to talk and Larea's understandably incensed. at. t.he thought of this rejection. But, while the monster's severed vocal chords have remained silent and still , the mind in his bodiless head is still active, hatching plans of grisly revenge. The monster has managed to keep a spark of rationality alive within him and, as the head begins a deep concentration, the body rises and grabs Dr. Larca. Bill and Myra look on in horror as the gruesome dance of death goes on between the madman and his monster, before turning tail and running to safety once again, seems to be their wont.

''''y to bite the hand thilt fed him • •• .net .. ything ... th~t happans to be in his way in KCiofl..pecked c:limllx ·of Harnilpl.-,'s blood orgy of abnipt and ....... ~.

Meanwhile, the severed head finally begins to open up a bit. "We can talk now, Dr. Larca, if you want to..... it says, while the headless body beats the crazed scientist senseless - which isn't a hard thing to do, considering the mad docWr"'s imbalanced mental state. Bill decides that the monster, along with everything else, is

so he

Blood Bean is affOrded ~ urUqua view of tIM prOCMtlings as 1M o-ts head handed to h im in this poignant mo ...... t f.om B OF B.

sticks of dynamite and watches with Myra as the whole place blows up.

Bill and Myra abandon the bloody isle and the natives learn to relax again. But will Blood Island remain in this rare state of tranquility for long? Not likely, not with Hemisphere Pict.ures' busy product.ion schedule.

Tune in next issue for further developments on Blood Island and the whole crew of washed·up actors cast ashore on its terrifying terrain. And remember: "The blood yo~ save may be your own. •

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· .. Printl pew.. teDiewc, pl'erJtefDl, grun-(l4Ihe1l ferreUd out by BILL FERET. MoMten:lom '. atuWer to Ro'1ll Bonet. BUt ill in Ihow.biz: a linger, dancer, actor and ,.. numy contact. in the domain of Entertainment; films. TV, live! Rage, and aU like tluJt. Where otlter monaterpuln let new. to you month' after a film', aIreody been re/eosed. Bill Feret', TELETYPE live, up to it. name. and repeals to you info of horror (liz" cetera when they}eo ,till only in production. Impre. friend and f~nd alike with inside info on monller movie, th4t haven't even been mode yet! ao.Iuuootie. IIJ1t6!

, here seems to be in influx of French

thrillers as 01 late. Sergio Gobbi has in rile offing "THE INTRUDER," in which a man quite calmly kills two men who have threatened to kidnap his son and hold him for ransom. Another w#l be ''THE KILLER," this one has a psychopath slaying half a dozen ·people before rile police, who hsve been feuding on rile mtlthods of his r:.apture, imprison him.

At Shepperton Studios, in London, they've begun shooting on the psycho-rilriller, 'THE ASPHYi"

Incongrous title change-RABBITS hils I:J«:onM NIGHT OF mE LEPUS? Lepus? IL.".,."",,)

Alfred Hitchcock's m,w film, "FRENZY,";s.t for rttIeass.

WilliMn L Rl* i, fNdying .n America-Italian-French film titled '1'ERROR IN 2A. II

Pttttlr Katz has been .t to proc/UCft 08p/r1Wt du Mauri6r's "DON'T LOOK NOW. II It'llshoot on locatjon in London and Venice.

DRACULA LIVED! I mean as an actuel ptNSOfI, in the fOrm of 8 '5th Century Rum.niBn prince named Vlad Jeres.. He was nicknamed " Dracule, II which in Rumanian means "Son of the Devil," for his ".uesome and sadistic tactics of impeling rIIose who dnpltwed him on wooden staletll, sometimflS thouuncb 8t • time. So .uys Rsdu FfotWCU, a 8t¥ton Col,.", pro'-sor who proftll.rtts to be under tIM D,."ro/. cum. ThtI curre was plac«J upon his '-mily whtJn -hnI' sis_",.,.,.;ed into the Florescu family.

Upon 8 rrIaIfIt EuroptlMl exptHiition, FIOBSCIJ, hn wife and a Im8II PMtY of ffIIlow exploren .t out to aIICt!rt1Iin the eKM:t location of the Dnlcul8 Castle, but

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·1 ~LENDAR is • ..,aat .. c ........ '-tu,. of THE MONSTER TIMES. Aa-_ thiI wr-tt.ndofoun_qlYintanclcurious ......... 01 qulllndy curious zeMots. The 1JMIMri... c.Ihd "~." 8IId tt. ~.C8IIed""'."""''''.n.nt_of ... __ '- .... "-this~ine

o.tr.ctcn 01 IUd! _a put tMm down by I8Yine dwI they'no ;...t. bunch of ~ _-=--fCdorI ...... ..-dconticbook ~~klnt. ........ ~to~ .... who. Iik. m.nMa. .-net .,ms on out-of-wte comics, .a.nc. fCtion pulp&. aMI maMtIff mowt. RiIIL But tMt". ;...t m. _ --... ToU- ......... -"O· .. _ ...... to_of

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fOf" .,eng. If you _t • coup. of --.., pIctu,.. 01 DrauI.I 01" Kine-Kon& 01" • 1943 capy of Airboy ComicI (God __ ~ why)

fe/l prey to many mysterious circumstances end mishaps.

But Florescu goes on, under the auspices of the Rumanian Government, pl8ns to import 8 line of TRANSYL VANIAN fashions. (Knit shrouds?) The collection will feature dl'flSS1BS, tHnbroidered Io'8Sts and ... en .,thtMtic reproduction of the Dracul8 CII{JtI Jelling for stJfTH!JWMrtt betwBen S60

__ I t's about tim. F/onIscu ClIIhttd in on

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Doing absolutely no business, vvharsoever, somewhere in Detroit is the intriguingly titled double-bill- "Puanol." and '''Teen.ge PSYClfO MEETS BLOODY MARY." (I'm sure the viewing audience wen? rile ones who wished they had had a few bloody Mary's to drink.)

"ROSEMARY'S BABY" star. Ruth Gordon will have rile title role in '7HE WITCH OF WALL STREET." which concerns the life of lady miser Hetty Greon.

NBC's TV movie "PROBE, II which starred Hugh O'Brian end Elke Sommer is definitely set to become a teleseries. I only hope Angel Tompkins. featured in a recent issue of PLA YBOY and a swnningly beautiful blonde, is sold wiril the series in the role she essayed in the

pi/at. The National Geographic specials for

next season heve some very interesting titles. Those announced were ''THE HAUNTED WEST, II ''THE VAN.ISHlNG TRIBES OF THE MA'M'O GROSSO" (that's the unexplored region of the Amazon jungle), ''THE UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES OF THE EARTH, II and ''STRANGE CREATURES OF THE NIGHT." Sounds more /ike rile "Supemawral Georgaphic. "

Charles Nelson Reilly, late of ''THE GHOST & MRS. MUIR" Tv series is set for II new one. series and ghost that is. This time rile ghost will be a little more bentwolent

A new Michael Carreras production will ess:ey forth from Hunmer lbldiOI calhKJ CRESCENDO. The mellerd,..",. mrs Srephllflil!! Powers, heroine to many, 8nd J8mtlS Olson, J8te of THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN.

FlIIJfrrt COip', prrwioully ,..,nounoed " TOWER OF EVIL" h. btIt:orM "'HORROR ON SNAPE ISLAND," with just8 "$I'MpI!'''ofm.fingen..

And the inimitable gBniUl of Oeoqe Pal will be nt-ignit«l in tnnsforming from IJOII!IJ{ to tM ICrWtIfI the incr«#ble DOC

SAVAGE stNifIs. First on Pa/',dot;ket will

, be a compendium of several of rile Kenneth Robeson novels released under rile title, DOC SAVAGE, ARCHENEMY OF EVn.. The film will be complttre escapist fare ala JI1m9$ BondillfJ tongue-i~chjc adventure .

Set for a TV premiere is a new film starring the super siren of the 4O·s. Miss Rita Hayworth. titled SONS OF SATAN. Co-starred is rile equally lovely Claudine Auger.

The Mon,ter Time,

Attention, .u .. f_' Did you know thaI torn ~"y .. rstt.-e""'been. Comic Art Corwention? This va- ,...,-Its It" fifth --.'-ury of the _I. and if's going 10 be __ Su,..-. Ultr. Con. The fm 5 day _lion in his101'V;Juty 1 thruS .t N_ Yortt's Statler Hi'-. Ho." o...r 3,000 , __ .xPKtRI 10 .n.nd end

hrte • __ , time -inti their ' .. or •• .nsts. Wri .... andOf ..... .-twortI.

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The prC98f1t-book1et. till ... Con ..... , .... be bit ... • ~ __ <1IGotdM

A .. and vltr_ ....... hom the '-ding c:omiJl ..... __ 1M _ntry,

... t.tulWl --., Y1IIU~ , ... ori. comix -. The Sutter Hiflton Hotel is Ioca-.d __ from~"" Station, just one

dot) from the · Pon Authority Bus T_in."

Addition" m'ormation on 1M 1972 ComIc: Art C_ .... tion '*' be obtained from the Convent*' Chaif_. Mr. Phil Sewlins- Wri te to him .1 621 A .... u. Z. Brooklyn, New York 1122J.

W.'II be looking forw .. d to _ling. 101 atOll. fiend;" '8ftlther.,

Robert Radnitz has acquired Ardlur C. Clarke's "DOLPHIN ISLAND," for possible filming undN his Radnitz·Mattei Production banner. I hope they don't "Toy" with the project too long.

The producer-director of SlLENT RUNNING. Doug/as Trumbull, will next be lensing for Warner 8ros. another

fururistic film entitled THE RIDE. Liam O'Brien will write the screenplay and co-produce.

Russ Meyer. king of the $t!xploitation, will p roduce the juicyly macabre CHOICE CUTS for Warners. Film i$ based on the novel by French authors Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narce;ac, who also gave us the classic, D1ABOLIQUE and VERTIGO. They claim it's a troe story dealing with the strange occurences that the various patients undergo when the transplanted parts of a murderer's body start reacting. Every part, repeat EVERY PART ;s utilized. Perish the thought anything shoud go to waist, er waste.

COMIC BOOKS ATTACK THE MONSTER MARKETI

Comie book publisMrs h_ lirally caJlht on to whIot _, ""'"' at The "'-t_ Tirms, h_ been $aYOnt III lIong - there' , _ merk.t for mons.., m.. cays. N.tiOMt Comic:s ha ~ _ 1N'.nd ._ INtI

entitled Weird Mystary T..... Ill'" _ fIIInMn ..... ty w.i.m · fNI into Weird Western T .... · tu'" two gothics, D..-k ~on " SinDtet- Home, into horror ti_, end _ • .ned Ihe fNqiu....a.. on .. I

thew .uobIiIMd hOl'roo-/mystilry titles.. .... ,.".. Comics h .. Ihe corne.- oft PI" monstef1;though.TMy~ ...... tthe"t four y • .,s r.p ri nti .... 1tMir ~ mons"'roUs storioes from 1M lift .... They',. fiMlly 'Urtint _ mysIWy

book': dlis ~mm.... too - Journey into MySbtfY end Th. C~ of Ct.iIh. (Th.y 1Ibo· g,plured Count Orxua. _ whi .. bIdI. for ' "Tomb Of Drxu .... comics.) To top

off ttln rnoNW ~. 1M Archie Comici Group, whidl ..... ..,...t 1M ~ _tv -,..s 01 its existerlc. ptrfKtina 1M .... tw.imo.- INtI end ignori .... Ihe rwt 01 the oorniofiekt.·gointlO t.surtint _ .ror tide in lhevwy ra_ fI.otu ... FOI' tMm to tire.. tMir tr8dition, the monstws I\W.II1 ..... y t. ~I But didr! ' t_uyso7 · P. L.

"Gimme a MonsterlJurger, fries and blood·shake. And rush it - I may not have much time. "

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THE UNDEAD LlVEI TMT : How did you first become one of the "undead"? 0 : Thai goes back a long lime to the days when I was known IS VoiYode the Impaler. I made a covenant with Satan when I was battling Turkish invaders. Arter I died I became one of the undead. Rather a strange twist on the resurrection theme you might say. TMT: How old are you now? 0: Let me sec, 1 can nol say off hand. I was born in the 14th century, about 1350 or thereabouts. How old do es thai make me? TMT: Over 600 years old? Amazing, you hardly look 40. Is it true that your diet of human blood makes you gro .... younger looking? 0 : Yes, my diet maintains me. As long as I continued to nourish myself I will remain youthful.

ALL POWER TO THE UNDEAD

TMT: Is it tr .... that you possess certain super human powers? 0 : To a degree, yes. I have the strength of a doun men and powers of hypnotic suggestion. However. let me say once for all I cannot tum into a bat or a wolf. Lycanthropy is absurd, don't you think? I do have some power oyer certain members of the animal ltingdom which I imagine observers have interpreted as lyc.antrophy. 1 can not dissolve into a trail of mist or other such nonsense, but I am able to command the elements up to • point, It is possible fOf me to camouflage myself in fog, fOf instance.

The houn between SWlset and dawn is the period when I am at the height of my powers. During the day I rest in a box of my native earth. I can walk abroad in the daylight hours, although I cannot exercise those exceptic..nal talents I mentioned. TMT: Then dayligtlt will not kill you? 0 : No, thai is just Wishful thinking on the pari of those who have sough t 10

persecute me. TMT: Who would want to persecute you? 0 : The late Prof. Abraham Van Helsing and his like. There have been a few others but Van Helsing and his fr iends caused me the most trouble.

You don't seem to understand that I am the victim of a disease whose effects I have no cont rol over. TMT: A disease which has addicted you to human blood. 0 : Well , nobody's perfect. I must say though , my condit ion is not without it's rewards. I meet alol of allractivr girts. TMT: I imagine $0. But, tell me Count, what are yo.x limitations? D:Generally speaking, I abhor Ihe reek of ga rli c, ca n ' t stan d re li gious objecls- crucifixes, etc., I can not cross running water under my own power, and

AfttDuth cMwminId ., keep his identitY ....t wtw.bouts • canfully ......... ItCnt" nIIiIhbon ... Count"s lJppat' E .. Side rIIIidancIe ...... from time to time. caught !IIi,....,.. of 1M undying demon. He _. accordi .... to his butt .. , bean known to ha .... bet-styfe in the ... 1 c:to.et. causing oc::asioneI const8f"nation in 1M hearts of his fellow .-rtrMnt dwelleR. " . enioY the frea ftow of blood to my head," the Count ramded, ".nd 1M rush is nothing short of hlntnticl"

those who have sought to destroy me and my work. TMT: Like Van Helsing, for instance? 0 : Yes. TMT: But Prof. Van Helslng claimed to han destroyed you over 80 years ago •.. !

NO RED TAPE

0 : Nol necessarily. It did in my case but that was centuries ago. Today I can offer

___ n..-.

D: Unfortunately, I have had occasion to see several of these pieces of popular mythology. Needless to..fay, I consider them beneath contempt. MT: What do you think of the Klo~ you have ~n impersonating you? Beta Lugosi, and Christopher Lee for instance. D: Lugosi had a certain old world dIann, bul he was certainly a far cry from the way I see my self. Our physical appearances and our manners have little in common.

Lec is a bit too self-consciously virile for my taste. The produclions he has appeared :n are a t rine lurid, but I must admit he is more into the spirit of things.

D'R~CULA ON TOUR?

MT: It's easy to see why you aren't pleased with your image. Have you c o ns idered making an appearance publicly? 0 : My lawyer told me thai David F rost wanted to do 90 minutes with me, and there was some lalk of a television special. Of course, this poses technica1 problems- tape and film you know. Anyway, I am not quile ready fo r a public appearance. It would mean dropping the cover which I have established.

MT: Then you do not function socially under your true n.1InMl1 0: Correct, that is not yet possible. When I am more certain of my rights as a U.s. res.ident, and potential Citizen, I may reveal my true identity.

In the mean time , I employ aliases. MT: Would It be possible to locate you again at this address? D: No, I am quite inaccessible. Besides, being a pennanent resident affords me a great deal of privacy. No one can reach me unless I permit it.

Now I must end our interview, my ,friend . I still have things to attend 10 this evening. MT: But I have St) much more to ask you. One more Question, please? I thought the vampire's strength lay In the fact that no

0 : Lies! That lying old Dutchman! The fox eluded" the hounds. They continued to search for me but I outlasted them. No one has ever def~aled me .

'"What other institution could possibly offer the benefits that I do!

TMT: How long have you been in the U.s.? What are your plans?

D: I have lived here for the past four years. During that time I have been setting up my operations here which I am happy 10 say will be in full swing very

TMT : What operations have you planned? D: Spreading my cult from coast to coast. TMT: You sound like a prophet for some exotic religion rather than .

Guaranteed eternal life'"

you the same benefits I received without the red tape. MT: Are you trying to sell me a bill of goods? 0 : If I decided Ihat you were to join my organization, I would make you an offer you could not refuse. But, let me remind you, I promised you that you have nothing to fear from me. Forgive me if my enthusiasm alanned you.

ooe believes in them. Why have you come out in the open tike this? 0: Oh that word- vampire. Times change. In this-pc nnissive society , anYlhing goes. Besides I doubt if many of you r readen will take your article seriously. MT: Have you considered writing your memoirs?

". must say though. my mndition is not without its rewwds.

MT: Of course. But tell me, judging from your plans to spread your cult, you·must need considerable financial backing. 00 you have such means at your disposal?

0 : You said just one more question. Very well, if I decid e to write an autobiography I'll need a collaborator. If I like your ar ticle I'U be in touch ,. with you. Good night.

I meet a lot of attractive girts ... "

I can not enter a home unless I have been invited first . After that I come and go as I please. TMT: Concerning your "diet," COUnt, have you ever considered a blOOd bank? 0 : That would not be very nutritious. I must be sure my sources are fresh and alive you understand.

BLOOD ON THE ROCKS

TMT: Fresh blood has kept you alive fOf" 600 yea~? D: Not only blood, but cunning, eluding

D: Rather than what! WhaJ other institution could possibly offer the benefits that I do! Guaranteed eternal life! TMT: Or eterNiI death, depending on how you look at it. 0 : Don' t be irreverent, my friend. MT: But you sound like some kind of macabre life insurance salevnan! D: In a manner of speaking I am. But don't argue with me, it is., unpleasant. Can you not imagine- eternal life! MT: Doesn't that require it crwenant with Satan?

D: That and much more . A man who has lived cen turies and had my advantages has had the time to amass a fortune yo u could not begin to imagine. Let me lay modesty aside to assure you I am fabu lously rich. MT: Earlier you said that you found your publk image unflattering. 15 this due in part to Bram Stoker's novel? D: Stoker's novel! The very idea of caliing thai sewage a novel! A scissors and paste job from old diaries and newspaper clippings does not a fIO'Yel make. Besides be misrepresenled the tac~ Ofi too' many occasions to enumerate. Believe, me that book has been a hard thing' to live with. MT: Have you seen any of the motion ptctures based on your exploits?

The room was gradually enl1eloped in a swirling fog and he dis4ppemed from sight. I left unluumed, but / doubt if / will eJter be the SIlme agaiTL / Mile the persistent feeling IMt ,omeone u INfltching me. •

EDITOR'S NOTE : This concludes Roaer SiDJldOD'S interview. There was 10 be more but this is all be compleled before be suffered. nervous breakdown. He is DOW confined in the violent ward of • priYate mental hollpital, where it is Mlined be has little 'chance of recovery. Incidentally, be has developed a straJ:lIe fixation for flia-be Nb tbern!

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understand him completely. The thought made him try to speak again, but he only succeeded in gurgling. Then the Chimps turned and Cornelius k>oked into Taylor's eyes. They were ueuiog about HIM : .. Zira was swearing to her husband that she saw vast intelligence In his angry eyes, while her husband tried to convince her that it was all her imagination. With a sigh of relief, Taylor beud Cornelius give in to his wife. He ordered Taylor and Nova released and taken back to their cells. Just. before be was led from the room, George Taylor nodded a quick thanks to Zira. Dr. Cornelius, watching from the corner of the room, couldn' t belleve what he saw. For a full hour they asked Taylor questions, and he either gestured or

Dr. Zaiut; IMau,a E.~ , ~I potWIut,

Nova? No doubt about It ... he would have to escape.

Zira came up with the idea of escape soon ~ Taylor did. Tbere was nothing more they could do with Dr. Zalus. But Taylor would bave to walt until a successful escape could be ananeed.

Tlylor did not wait and, bursting tree of a Gorilla-guard, bolted Into the town square. Apes everywhere panicked, and mothers gathered .up their children to protect them from the mad "beast" running amok in their midst. Taylor ran to and fro , dodging his pursuers, climbing over statues and angular ornaments, knocking Gorillas and Chimps orr their feet, until he ducked into a museum. He didn't know WHAT the building was. AU he knew was that it was big and dark and he was alone in it. He ran through rooms and exhibits. He saw human beings stuffed, frozen into positions of family life and hunting and leaping and running. Then he saw one statue in particular. It was a black man, unique on this planet, stuffed and mounted for curious eyes. It was his friend Dodge. Dead. Uselessly

...... to dIddI on fitt:ins pu"Wunent fOf Taykw"'1 cri_ of Intltl;,.r-. The iu .... t iI_ift ,ltd _ ...... the captiv,'s mind 1ftI·" b, ck5troyldl

"nodded. He WAS an intellJgent being, and he would sure . let them know It! At last Dr. Cornelius agreed with his wife, and promised her that nothing would happen to the human who his wife was now calling «Brighteyes."

They went to their superior, the stately Oran(Utan Dr. Zaius. Zaius, who looked almost exactly like the statue of the Ape God that was seen throughout this strange world, was the leader of all the Apes. An awe-Inspiring Ape, with the responsibility of I\I&fding ancient secrets and shaping the affairs of his fellow Apes.

Zalus, for some reason, reacted strongly to the fact that an intelligent human had been disrovered by his' scientists.. lmmediat.ely threatening Zira and Cornelius with charges of lD&ubordination and heresy if tbey did not comply with his wishes, he ordered a frontal lobotomy pedonned on Taylor. This operation would leave him a mindless, living vegetable unable to think or reason or remember or do anything worth doing. A useless waste, and one that both Cornelius and his wife argued powerfully .plnst. But Zaius remaloed finn In his opinions and tbe orders went out ... DESTROY ·HIS MIND!!!

For Taylor, alone with the beautiful but primitlw Nova, the situation was a nightmare. He knew what was happening, for ZIra, still not fully sure that Taylor understood anything she told blm, had developed the habit of lalttna: to him through tbe ban of his c:ace for an bour eac::b h'ening. She told him everything of current DeWS, and the more be heard the ... be liked It. Up to DOW, Zin aDd Comelha were able to stall Dr. ZalIII. But wbeD they n.n out of trlcb ... what would happen to him? And to beautiful

prisoners, he saw another familiar face . Landon! He ran forward. Then stopped as be saw the huge sear on his friend's forehead. Landon stared glassy-eyed, mindlessly. He hiJd no mind ... no memories. That would happen to H.IM if be were caught. But, as he stopped. to look at Landon, he was again surrounded with nets and rines. Pawing hands picked away at him, and hoisted him in the air over a stone bridge. He screamed. He screamed words at them, and they heard and stared openmoulhed at him .. . A HUMAN SPOKE! It had screamed "GET YOUR FILTHY PAWS OPFME""

He awoke back in his cell, feeling more secure, now that he could speak and make himself understood _ an intellJgent being. Dr. Zaius himself ClJDe to his cell to take a k>ok at Taylor. And, to his surprise, Taylor found hhnself being ushered Into Zaius' omce.

ODOR IN THE COURT

The qed Orangutan puffed on a dgar and spoke to the bound human. He explained about the orderly society he had built up for his people during his · ruling years, and managed to keep in ~ng order until a speak..ing human turned up to ruin It alL The Apes had their own problems, with Chimps fighting for equality and Gorillas acting as Secret P!>Hoe and Orangutans ruling. Now, with a buman question, the structured life 01 Zaius' Apes . might be seriously . threatened.

Because of Taylor's intelligence and the objections of Zira and Cornelius, who were respected scientists, Zalus couldn't just order Taylor killed or operated upon, ao there would have to be a trial. A trial to detennine wbether Taylor was a blasphemous thing ••. a mutant that violated the Apes' relillon, whic::b stated that all IntelUgent creatures were created in the A~God'1 Im.ace. If found guUty Taylor would be destroyed like some mad doe:. If innocent, Taylor aunnbed, Zalus wou1d fip.re out some way of tnockinc him out of the picture, anyway. £lib. way Tlylor would loee. He would ItUt have to IllCape! .

The trial wu a mockery or dignity and justice. Taylor was kept bound and, most o f the time ... pgged. Unable to say anything in his own defense, constantly &5Saulted by Apes trying to proYe him dangerous, unintelligent or unholy, the astronaut was subjected to the full machinery of Dr. ZaJus' attempt at desC.ruc.tioo. .

1be trial ended in the oo1y way pc:aibte, with Taylor emerging _ a ~ blasphemy to be destroyed after a lew days. It_ was DO shock for

them . . . hordes or Gorilla·police with guns. And , as they became visible around a bend, they saw that Dr. Zalus wu with them, too. So Taylor was that important to him!

They had only one chance. If they could wait until the troops came through the narrow road. They would have to ride through single-file, and could be picked off as they came. Cornelius, the Chimpanzee scientist, and George Taylor, astronaut from Eartb, took their places In the rocks. They had an unexpected and pleasant surprise as Dr. Zalus led the way ' through the rocks. Taylor leaped and pointed his ·rine at the Orangutan. UlLlble to fight because of his age, Zalus calmly -raised his hands and surrendered.

Now they had a chance! Dr. Zaius had no wish to die, and because of his rank (be was considered a sort of livine god by his fellow Apes) they had somethlnc to bargain with.

A strange change came over Dr. Zalus, as he sat tied against a huge rock. He looked at Taylor and, for the first time, they talked as equals. He admitted Taylor's intellect had always been

. ~ appuent to him, and decided that now Taylor, but quite a jolt for Cornelius and the time had come tor the truth to be Zira. No. the escape HAD to be quickly known. Something In his o ld eyes planoed, or it would be ~ ~ oonrinced Taylor the Doctor wasn't

As Cornelius asked the Gorilla guud bluffing. So Zaius was untied. He led for a JIUItch, the unsuspecting black·clad Taylor, Cornelius and Zin up the Ape momentarily backed against Taylor's scaffolding and into the ancient caves. cage. Taylor's steely arms caught the Torches were lit and placed on the guud as Cornelius got the keys and walls, and the dim light tram the outside opened Taylor's cage. No.,., who was lit the rest or the dark , large chamber. only too happy to escape from the place There was day on the walls, and the and follow Taylor, went excitedly along. excavation had exposed the contoW$ of Zira was outside with a wagoo, and what had once been ... a room. This had their nephew kept lookout on the hallS:" once been a house. Not a cave dwelling,

Taylor hid with Nova in the !)ack or but A HOUSE fused into solid rock and the covered wagon, and the party started buried under centuries ot sediment. They driving down the coastline, keeping pace were standing in the living room. The' with the long, cwving beach. They an vague outlines of tables and chairs WeT'e

knew that it was only a matter ot time against the walls, and some scattered, berore Xalus' secret police would be pieces of rumirure could still be seen. closing in on · them. They needed And down in the middle of the room, on somewhere safe to hide and, ifdisoovered. the noor, was a doll ... a HUMAN doll ' defend themselves. For Zira and that said " Mama" when you turned it Cornelius there was no turning upside down. Restored by Zaius and his back .. _ they were outlaws now, and team of archeologisb, the doll proved

wO~:'!:n~~I~!r:~ht~membered the =;;!.o:~~~~~~~::d b:~ ~:I old caftS, and the excavations that had houses and kept the apes in cages. Once been suddenly outlawed by Zaius. The HUMANS had ruled the planet of the cue and the living quarters wes-e still Apes! there, and it was In a defensible position. They sped towud the caft, accessible only from a narrow road by the ...

OLD APE LEARNS NEW TRICKS

Thea came the hoofbeats, muffled by _ Zaius explained it all to Taylor. How it tbe aad. There were a lot of was discoverd that humans bad laid waste

to tbelt world witb wus, how the religion' of the Apes had been fonned to convince Apes that humans were interior, to forever guard against the danger or the humans once again taking control of the world and bringing back Ute dark ages of war. This is wby intelligent humans are killed, and why Zaius wanted Taylor dead.

Taylor agreed to let Zaius go, unbarmed, if be would grant complete pudoos to Zira and Cornelius. Despite everything, Zaius actually LIKED Taylor, and respected what tbe two sdentists did for him, Zaius agreed to his conditions.

The time for leaving bas come, and Taylor says goodbye to his Ape friends. He is convinced that, somewbere on this plaDet, are peopte .. . not primitives, but thinking, speaking men and women. He's

The Monster

determined to find them . . Before be leaves., he takes Ztra in his urns and kisses her goodbye. Taytor bad gone through his entire adventure believing that Ztra had seen him all along as a handsome human beina:. Now, however, he hears her say " My God, you're ug!y!" It's the first laugh he's had on this strange planet. And, though he does not know it ... his last laUCh, too. For he will shortly Ieam something Incredible.

N. Taylor and Nova ride slowly down the beach, he wonders why Zaius had advised him not to search for his fellow humans.

AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE

Cornelius and Zira watched their friend Taylor round the bend. N. he disappeared from view, Zaius turned to them and breathed a tired breath and softly said ... " He will not like what he nods!"

They Taylor saw it. The ruins of ... something. Spires protruding from a d iff-side near the sea. Spires on a head ot tarnished copper. An arm with a torch broken {rom some huge sculpted body that had long since ceased to exist. The Statue of Liberty!

Earth! " Oh, my God," Taylor screamed ... "They did It . .. went and kill ed everything ... EVERYTHING!" The wus, the greed . . . and now this.

Taylor Qied Into the sand. He cried for his ftj'erids, for his people, for his wurld. And, because he had no hope of anythlna: anymore, he cried for ... himself. •

EDITOR'S NOTE: Be sure to tune in nest issue for further adventUl'eS on THE PLANET OF mE APES, with special behind·the-scenes info, makeup .eaet&., and all the pertinent facts about the Intricate production of this earth·tremblinc nick. And remember: when you're finished with your copy of TMT, pass It along to a friend at the zoo. Arter aU, Apes are only buman, too.

Fond f ....... _ .. ~ by Zir •• Noot .. .nd Taytorbef_tlMhu_begin. tnIk '-ting -.yfromm.Ape~tM.Itdw.c.lyinto . 8nOttWrU ....... t .. ,...... .

Chaos, or the formless, hideous darkness of most ancient tradition is where people would place demons and such. These creatures of darkness -­witches, warlocks, werewolves and many other strange beings-make up the cast of characters of one of the most enjoyable pieces of fantasy/science· fiction in years.

OPERATION CHAOS by Poul &Jd8fS01) deals with,shese frightening, fascinating, and disturbingly -realistic individuals. The book itself is most delightful for anyone interested in reading an unusually well done tale of the supernatural made natural.

The plot revolves about Steve Matuchek, a handsome (most of the time). average guy living in a world similar to but not exactly like our Earth. The theory this is based on is a presumption that there are an infinite number of universes similar but different. The events in these universes take a divergent path, thus a different universe is formed as a result of this difference.

To enjoy this book, however, you can easily survive by thinking of Matuchek's world as an Earth similar to ours but with one difference. In Steve's Earth, magic (or gaetics as it is described here) became identified as a science. Unlike our Earth, this strange universe's magic is just another science like physics, chemistry or electrical engineering, to be applied and used by everybody in this culture. As a result Matuchek's world is far different from ours. Many of the things we do here with natural science are done there by magic. For e)(ample they use magic-powered brooms instead of cars, crystal balls instead of T.V. sets and St. Elmo's fire instead of lig,t bulbs. This is a faSCinating world, described very entertainingly by Anderson. It is very interesting to note the clever way Paul Anderson creates a totally believable and intriguing world similar enough to ours to invoke common images, yet different enough to make those common images intensely pleasurable and engrossing. However, the clever gimmick of a world run by magic is far from all Anderson offers us in OPERATION CHAOS. This story is also an action packed series of adventures with many exciting, tension-filled plot twists.

Steve Matuchek's special talent in his unusual world is thar he is a werewolf. Thanks to the development of magic, he can change skins at will by using a special lamp developed by the PolarOid Corp of that universe rather than having to wait for the full moon. This ability makes him a fierce foe, and teamed with his wife, the witch Virginia Graylock, they become a formidable force indeed .

Their enemy is Satan. In this universe Heaven and Hell are real places where the inhabitants can communicate with and even come to earth directly. These two places are different 'dimensions' of Matuchek's universe, and by overcoming energy requirements through the use of magical devices one can travel between these places. Satan is indirectly trying to take over Earth and he foresees that Steve and his wife will give him many problems.

The first thing the wolf and his mate do is to destroy an "Alreet" or evil gen ie, who in this world is a real being with immense power. They literally bottle the bad guy up, save the U.S. from an Arab invasion and thus hamper the Dark

. Prince's plans. In another adventure a fire demon or Salamander is set loose on Earth to further Satan's designs. This flaming firebrand is stamped out by the unique duo, which also uses the help of a cat, Svartalf, who is possessed of some unusual powers. In other adventures the lycanthrope and his sorceress sweetheart deal with incubi, succubi, elementals, demons of many descriptions, strange people including Adolf Hitler (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) and a trip to hell itself.

This novel was created from a series of short stories written separately by Paul Anderson which appeared from time to time in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION in the 1950's and '60's. It is proof of the author's genius that he was able to string these tales together so smoothly. You can't tell that this saga is composed of separate pieces unless you have read one of the stories before or pulled the old reviewer's trick and looked at the flip side of the title page. Anderson has truly welded individual stories of .a series into a great unified work of science· fantasy. I used these terms here rather than the usual , "fantasy" or "science-fiction" because this novel is an expertly done blend of both types of fiction. The novel is fantasy because it involves magic which' many people do not consider a natural science or in any way related to scien~. Fantasy is usually defined as fiction which does not depend upon cause and effect relationships, or science in aeating the worlds of these books. Science-Fiction on ' the elher hand depends most strongly on science ' as it is sometimes defined as an extrapolation of the science of today to the world of the future.

Anderson has joined the two by' creating a world that depends on magic, uses it routinely, yet this magic is a science which is based on predictahle cause and effect relationships. OPERATION CHAOS bridges the gap between fantasy and science-fiction by showing us how magic might really be a natural science not now recognized in our world and how such a development might affect a world like ours. The ability to give the reader a great adventure story, while showing us how two supposedly separate types of fiction can be combined most enjoyably, tfuly demonstrates the vast talent of Paul Anderson, author of a marvelous book, OPERATION CHAOS_

• Joseph Thomasino

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