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OtherEric
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On 7/19/2020 at 6:45 PM, AJD said:And Matt Baker art inside. Well worth picking up.
I picked this issue up at ECCC last year. The dealer asked me why I was interested in the two specific issues I got; I told him. His reaction. (looks at front cover) "That's Matt Baker?". (Flips book over to see back cover) "That's MATT BAKER!"
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Let's see if I can make sense of this...
First of all, the actual Monster World issues came out around the same time as the issues of Famous Monsters 30-40. They're earlier than their place as "70-79" would suggest.
In 1970, long after Monster World ended, it was decided to retroactively insert them into the numbering of Famous Monsters. I've heard it was so FM would hit #100 earlier, but who knows. In any case, at that point FM jumped right from 69 to 80.
Decades later, after another publisher got the right to the Famous Monsters name, they decided to publish issues 70-79, falsely dated "1970" even though they actually came out around 2011. I don't believe they actually made it through all 10 issues. Those are the ones you're seeing as the MCS listings.
For what it's worth, even in the original Monster World issues they describe themselves as just more issues of Famous Monsters, but with a different name. I think the idea was to get each issue to stay on the racks for two months, rather than one, with two issues at a time out.