American Update: Early Warrens: Famous Monsters & Spacemen
*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: A dash of early Warren mags this time – before they were even known by that name, pre-Creepy – with their very first title, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and its companion title Spacemen! These had no comics content, focussing primarily on articles concerning vintage genre movies, which were in many cases playing widely on TV for the first time in the US. Replete with page-filling stills, they also threw an occasional sop to a more modern audience by featuring films or shows coming out at the time, such as the then-new Outer Limits. We have issues 2 and 4 of Spacemen new in from 1961 and 1962, a selection of the US edition of Famous Monsters of Filmland from 1962 to 1965, and, most significantly, the first UK edition from 1958 (pictured GD- £25), which, as far as we can tell, was released contemporarily with its US sibling.