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What's the rarest magazine you own?

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jimjum12

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Okay, well nearly one month after writing "I've almost given up on it," I tracked down a copy of After Hours #4. Now I have all four issues of this rare Warren publication, and they're all in decent grade. So (thumbs u to hunt. Gotta say, these After Hours mags were a real challenge, requiring a lot of patience. The #4 issue is very cool because almost half of it is devoted to monster movies and science-fiction pulps, including an article about the collection of Forrest J. Ackerman. You can really see that Jim Warren was on his way to giving up on the whole pinup-magazine enterprise and ready to embark on Famous Monsters of Filmland #1. After Hours #4 also has a nice spread about Anita Eckberg and a few pages of classic Bettie Page jungle-girl photos.

 

Here's the group shot:

 

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My buddy, Lewis, buys and sells magazines on eBay. He's bought some pretty impressive collections and I remember him mentioning that one as a title that never turns up. GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

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Doohickamabob

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My buddy, Lewis, buys and sells magazines on eBay. He's bought some pretty impressive collections and I remember him mentioning that one as a title that never turns up. GOD BLESS...

 

Thanks jimbo! Today I took photos of the fronts and backs. I wish they all connected like they do on #3 and #4.

 

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bluerosekiller

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Although I've got a nice collection of Warren mags, including quite a few issues of FAMOUS MONSTERS which I absolutely love, it's probably my complete collection of Calvin Beck's CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN & my full run of FANGORIA that stand out the most.

Yep, I definitely DO love my monster/horror magazines.

Every bit as much as my comics in fact.

Currently,my favorite genre magazine is HORRORHOUND. Though, unfortunately, I didn't discover it's charms until it's sixteenth issue a couple of years ago, so I've been playing a game of "catch up" with it ever since & many of it's back issues are quite rare & quite expensive. And in demand as well. So, there's no way to fill in the gaps on the cheap at all.

 

My other great passion as far as magazines are concerned aren't genre or comic related at all though.

I became a lifelong, die hard boxing fan back in my early teens in 1976 & boxing magazines were the first things I bought back then in the day as both a means to learn about the sport & gather information about my fav fighters. They were informative as well as being great pieces of memorabilia.

My very first copy was the Sep. 1976 issue of THE RING magazine with a cover story offering an extensive preview of the then-upcoming rubber match between Ali & Ken Norton ( who was, at the time, my favorite fighter ). An issue which I managed to get signed by Norton years later. The first of MANY issues of THE RING, other boxing magazines & copies of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED with boxing cover stories that I got autographed in person by many different fighters over the years.

Which, all together, I refer to as the signed sub-set of the magazine portion of my boxing memorabilia collection. All of which, I'd one day REALLY like to get mounted & thoroughly protected.

 

 

 

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bluerosekiller

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My brother and I both love Horrorhound. Damn those articles about those early VHS tapes/boxes. Spent many days searching for those.lol Did you ever read Deep Read?

 

Also, would love to see some pics of those RING magazines.

 

Sure thing JS. Keep an eye here. I should have 'em up by later on tomorrow morning.

 

As for HORRORHOUND, yep. They're definitely great stuff.

And DEEP RED, you mean the late Chas Balun's mag right?

I used to love that thing back in the day. I still have the first three issues in my collection & I'd like to get each of them the CGC treatment someday soon as well...

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bluerosekiller

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Sure thing JS.

Those DEEP RED mags were top notch. I sure as hell enjoyed them anyhow.

Did you buy them from your local shop or via his mail order business?

Speaking of which, did you happen to order any of Mr. Balun's fine VHS tapes back in the day?

Those things were certainly interesting to say the least. lol

Some of those bootlegs gave the term "muddy" a whole new meaning!

But, what the heck, most of them were virtually the only way in which to see the uncut, enedited versions of the films. Or, in many cases, the ONLY way period in which to see the films period. At least for many years.

I began ordering stuff from Balun back in the latter '80s & continued to do so right up thru the mid-'90s when the advent of the DVD effectively killed off the video star...

 

Anyhow, those pix will be on here soon.

 

Peace,

Jim

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The rarest magazine I own had a print run of one. OK, it's not exactly a magazine, but it's a mock-up of one, a never-published magazine, Spaceways, created by Calvin Beck in 1957, prior to creating Castle of Frankenstein. From Wikipedia: "Following employment as an editor for publisher Joe Weider, Calvin Beck (1929–1989) entered the monster magazine arena in 1959 with his one-shot Journal of Frankenstein, which had only a small circulation. As an experiment, Beck printed part of the run on slick paper. After a hiatus and a title change, Beck returned with the debut issue of Castle of Frankenstein in 1962."

 

This hand-made mock-up of Spaceways (vol I - No. 1, Jan. 1958) features collaged elements from existing magazines and science-fiction pulps mixed with typewritten text. Address for Calvin Beck's "New World Enterprises Syndicate, Inc." in North Bergen, NJ is inside front cover. "Contents copyrighted 1957" is at bottom of inside cover. Mock-up is 28 pages with about 8 blank pages that have handwritten "TEXT" in the middle.

 

The interior is stapled together in three locations on spine. The cover is a separate piece from the interior, as originally created, since the cover has no staple holes.

 

 

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The rarest magazine I own had a print run of one. OK, it's not exactly a magazine, but it's a mock-up of one, a never-published magazine, Spaceways, created by Calvin Beck in 1957, prior to creating Castle of Frankenstein. From Wikipedia: "Following employment as an editor for publisher Joe Weider, Calvin Beck (1929–1989) entered the monster magazine arena in 1959 with his one-shot Journal of Frankenstein, which had only a small circulation. As an experiment, Beck printed part of the run on slick paper. After a hiatus and a title change, Beck returned with the debut issue of Castle of Frankenstein in 1962."

 

This hand-made mock-up of Spaceways (vol I - No. 1, Jan. 1958) features collaged elements from existing magazines and science-fiction pulps mixed with typewritten text. Address for Calvin Beck's "New World Enterprises Syndicate, Inc." in North Bergen, NJ is inside front cover. "Contents copyrighted 1957" is at bottom of inside cover. Mock-up is 28 pages with about 8 blank pages that have handwritten "TEXT" in the middle.

 

The interior is stapled together in three locations on spine. The cover is a separate piece from the interior, as originally created, since the cover has no staple holes.

 

 

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That is very cool. Castle of Frankenstein is a great mag, it would have been nice to see another Beck publication.

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no really WTF is she?

 

"Clean Sue" is actually "Charisma," but I think I like "Clean Sue" better. Actually, "Dirty Sue" would be okay as well.

 

Here's the biographical info about Charisma Carpenter :

 

Charisma Lee Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, for which she was nominated for four Saturn Awards. Her most recent role was playing opposite Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham in The Expendables (2010).

 

Early life

 

Carpenter was born in Las Vegas, Nevada,[1][3][4] the daughter of Chris, a bird sanctuary worker, and Don Carpenter, a salesman.[5] She is of French and German descent on her father's side and Cherokee and Spanish descent on her mother's side.[6] Her parents named her after an Avon perfume.[7] Carpenter attended Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas; she was also a part of a song-and-dance troupe which performed in the Las Vegas area beginning when she was nine.[4] When she was 15, her family moved to Rosarito city, Mexico[3] and then to San Diego where she attended Bonita Vista High School and Chula Vista School of the Creative and Performing Arts.[3] After graduation, Carpenter traveled throughout Europe.[8] Once she returned to San Diego again, she worked as a video store clerk,[3] an aerobics instructor, and in property management.[4] In 1991, she worked as a San Diego Charger cheerleader.[9] In 1992, she moved to Los Angeles.[8]

 

Career

 

Carpenter was discovered by a commercial agent while waiting tables in Los Angeles[3] to save money for her college education. This led to her role on theatrical productions and more than twenty commercials.[10] She made her first television role in 1994 by appearing in an episode of Baywatch.[10] Shortly after that, she landed a starring role on Aaron Spelling's short-lived soap opera Malibu Shores.[9]

 

In 1996, Carpenter auditioned for the title role in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer but instead was cast as Cordelia Chase,[11] a snobby and popular high school student. After three seasons on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carpenter was offered an even larger role as the same character on the spin-off series Angel along with David Boreanaz. She played Cordelia Chase for four seasons on Angel. Although her character leaves the series during Angel's fourth season, Carpenter returned for the 100th episode in the fifth and final season because she felt that Cordelia's fans deserved closure after the controversy of her unexplained removal from the show.

 

In 2004, Carpenter had a three episode guest appearance on the TV show Charmed as a psychic demon[12] called The Seer and played a recurring role on NBC's Miss Match, appearing in four episodes. She also had a recurring role as Kendall Casablancas in the TV series Veronica Mars[12] for the 2005–2006 season, appearing in 11 episodes. Carpenter guest-starred in the first season finale of ABC Family's television show Greek and reprised her role in two episodes of Season 2. According to TV Guide in September 2007, she was set to join the cast of The Apprentice: Celebrity Edition,[13] but instead chose to do a guest appearance on the show Back to You as well as a recurring role on the short-lived series Big Shots.[14] Carpenter also had a guest appearance in an April 2009 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

 

On March 20, 2008, Paley Fest hosted a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion. Carpenter attended the event alongside Buffy creator Joss Whedon, producers Marti Noxon and David Greenwalt, and other Buffy alumni including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, James Marsters, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, Seth Green, and Michelle Trachtenberg.[15]

 

Carpenter has starred in an assortment of made-for-TV and direct-to-video movies including the sex comedy What Boys Like, the horror film Voodoo Moon, and the romantic comedies See Jane Date and Relative Chaos on ABC Family (the latter of which co-starred fellow Buffy alum Nicholas Brendon). She also appeared in the mysteries Flirting with Danger and Cheaters' Club on Lifetime Television and the Syfy movie House of Bones broadcast in 2010,[16] around the same time as her guest spot in Legend of the Seeker.

 

Also in 2009, Carpenter starred in production company Red Sparrow's first film, Psychosis, which was released in early 2011. In August 2010, she had a supporting role in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables.[17] After the success of The Expendables, Carpenter was cast in Human Factor [18] and in the indie thriller Crash Site.[19]

 

Public image

 

Carpenter was named #31 on Askmen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women 2002[20] and #44 on their 2005 list.[21] Despite this, Carpenter has stated she does not view herself as a sex symbol.[22]

 

In the June 2004 issue of Playboy magazine, Carpenter appeared on the cover and in a ten-page nude layout.[11] When asked by People magazine in 2005 about her nude pictorial and whether or not she would ever pose for Playboy again, she replied, "I don't know. I did Playboy for a very specific reason. Not only was it a good financial move, but it was about the place I was at in my life. I had just had my son and I'd gained 50 lbs. during pregnancy. I wanted to get back to my old self. I wanted to feel desirable and sexy. So I thought, 'What if I went full throttle?'"[23]

 

wow, she's 42 now. time sure does fly.

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How rare is Vampirella #3? I have a copy and I have only read that it had a low print run but no numbers as to how many.

 

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I've never seen numbers either but consider that a normal Vampirella print run was very roughly 100K (that number is actually a little low compared to the print runs I do have numbers for but it makes the math easier) with about 20% returned to Warren. So, that puts about 80,000 mags in the hands of readers and about 20k in the mail order bins at Warren for a typical Vampi. Now by the time Warren went kaput those bins were down to around 500-5000 per issue with the diff heading back out to collectors.

 

So, if a low print run was something like 20% of a normal print run we could extrapolate that 20k issues were printed with about 4000 issues returned to Warren and those bins running dry sometime well before the bankruptcy auction.

 

I can tell you by gerber standards it would be a very unrare 2 or 3 at most.

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The Troll King

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How rare is Vampirella #3? I have a copy and I have only read that it had a low print run but no numbers as to how many.

 

D.

 

I've never seen numbers either but consider that a normal Vampirella print run was very roughly 100K (that number is actually a little low compared to the print runs I do have numbers for but it makes the math easier) with about 20% returned to Warren. So, that puts about 80,000 mags in the hands of readers and about 20k in the mail order bins at Warren for a typical Vampi. Now by the time Warren went kaput those bins were down to around 500-5000 per issue with the diff heading back out to collectors.

 

So, if a low print run was something like 20% of a normal print run we could extrapolate that 20k issues were printed with about 4000 issues returned to Warren and those bins running dry sometime well before the bankruptcy auction.

 

I can tell you by gerber standards it would be a very unrare 2 or 3 at most.

 

Excellent assessment. I see 3's available all the time.

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