Just in time for Halloween - Monsters Attack!

Continuing the "Attack!" theme of a few weeks back, I present to you the late 1980s early 1990s magazine Monsters Attack!



These magazines were incredibly difficult to find back in the day. I managed to complete my collection only by scouring local grocery stores and drug stores in search of the latest issue. Each issue of Monsters Attack! featured fully drawn stories of terror as well as written features on horror movies.

Stories in Monsters Attack! ranged from the mysterious like the unforgettable "Weirdbeard" (the Blob meets Strange Brew) to the apocalyptic – a man escapes nuclear doom in a shelter full of bodacious bimbos only to suffer a crippling heart attack and become totally paralyzed. Eat your heart out Rod Serling!

You never knew what was going to happen next in Monsters Attack!



Best of all Monsters Attack! would introduce me to John Severin, one of the best artists who ever worked in the comic book industry. Severin illustrated several covers to Monsters Attack! as well as drawing stories within. I'm still trying to get over his "A Boy's Life" story, about a predatory juvenile vampire stalking the youth of 1950's America. Yikes!

Sadly, Monsters Attack! didn't last too long before the magazine folded. Issues of the magazine turn up for sale on eBay occasionally and a few are available for sale here.

By Bert Ehrmann
10/19/2006