There’s nothing quite like Scary Monsters Magazine — now in its eighteenth year of publication — with its unabashed fanzine aesthetics and its exhuberant celebration of the Monster Kid universe. The current issue, No. 71, has a terrific wraparound cover by Terry Beatty featuring nineteen versions of The Frankenstein Monster. Can you ID them all?
Artist Terry Beatty is best known for his comics, notably his Eisner Award winning work on Batman titles and his crime comics collaborations with writer Max Allan Collins on Ms. Tree, Johnny Dynamite and Mickey Spillane’s Mike Danger. Beatty is also a teacher, an accomplished sculptor of figural model kits and a painter with a passion for classic horror films, evident in his numerous covers for publisher Dennis Druktenis’ Scary Monsters.
Terry Beatty’s website and blog.
Scary Monsters Magazine website, with ordering info, back issues and monster merchandise.
Terry B.'s a nice guy - AND talented!
ReplyDeleteLOVED his run on the classic MS. TREE; and his SCARY wraparounds are always fun.
Best,
-Craig W.
Easy compared to the 'Sgt Pepperstein' from 2007:
ReplyDeleteFRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD
I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN
GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN
Dick Briefer's Frankenstein
Glenn Strange
Herman Munster
MAD MONSTER PARTY
Jack Davis' Frankenstein (not sure)
FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER
CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN
HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN
BLACKENSTEIN
Charles Ogle (1910)
Boris Karloff in FRANKENSTEIN '31
Forrest Ackerman
It's been an honor and a privilege to have been friends with multi-talented Terry Beatty for twenty years. He continues to amaze me and his work always makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteThe Franken-face under Glenn Strange isn't a Jack Davis portrait. It's actually Terry's dead-on depiction of "BIG FRANKIE", Aurora's over-sized Frankenstein model kit from the 1960s, based on Karloff from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
ReplyDeleteThe only one that's a mystery to me is the guy between Herman Munster and Mad Monster Party's 'Fang'. Unless...it's Don Megawon from Hammer's TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN...?
On the "mystery Frankenstein", I call Tom Noonan in Monster Squad.
ReplyDeleteHoly Moley! I believe you're right! Tom Noonan, it is!
ReplyDeleteOops! I actually recognized the face from MONSTER SQUAD but forgot to write it down (honest!).
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