Saturday, November 16, 2019

Monsters Unleashed #1: The Newton edition


Newton Comics' Monsters Unleashed #1 was published 27 December 1975:


The cover is from Marvel Comics' Monsters Unleashed #5:


The contents are as follows:

Web of Hate, originally published in Monsters Unleashed #4, February 1974 
A Monster Reborn!, originally published in Monsters Unleashed #4, February 1974 
The Monster Maker - A Review of Ray Harryhausen's Film Fantasy Scrapbook, originally published in Monsters Unleashed #4, February 1974
To Love, Honor, Cherish... ...'Til Death!, originally published in Monsters Unleashed #4, February 1974 
All the Faces of Fear!, originally published in Monsters Unleashed #5, April 1974
Our Martian Heritage: An Excursion into Fantasy, originally published in Monsters Unleashed #4, February 1974
Demon of Slaughter Mansion!, originally published in Monsters Unleashed #5, April 1974
Darkflame!, originally published in Monsters Unleashed #6, June 1974
[The] Dinosaur Dictionary, originally published in Monsters Unleashed #6, June 1974
Werewolf Tale To End All Werewolf Tales!, originally published in Journey into Unknown Worlds #29, July 1954 [Monsters Unleashed #5, April 1974] 

The Monster Maker, Our Martian Heritage and [The] Dinosaur Dictionary are non-comics text and photo features. [The] Dinosaur Dictionary is three double-page spreads. The fifth page is duplicated, slightly enlarged, and tacked onto the end as filler, effectively making this a 7-page feature.

The poster in this issue is a black and white print of the cover to Newton's X-Men #3:


Oddly it says First Edition Kung Fu in the modified Marvel Collector Classic stamp slot.

The following in-house advertisements are also in this issue:



A subscription page, t-shirt offer and contest round out the issue.

This issue was advertised in-house:

This ad is scanned from The Incredible Hulk #14.

This issue was also advertised alongside The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1 in the Sunday Observer 28 December 1975:


The publication date was also announced in the December 1975 letter column.

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