...but they never awoke.
The Covers:
Issue #6 featured a John Carter cover instead of Altron Boy, so we'll save that for another Monsters and Heroes post.
page art by Larry Ivie for Monsters and Heroes #s 4-7 (1968, 1969, 1970)
06 October 2019
Secret Of The Altron Boy - Part The Second
Continuing (from this morning's post) the complete adventures of the Altron Boy from Larry Ivie and his Monsters and Heroes zine -
...but they never awoke.
The Covers:
Issue #6 featured a John Carter cover instead of Altron Boy, so we'll save that for another Monsters and Heroes post.
...but they never awoke.
The Covers:
Issue #6 featured a John Carter cover instead of Altron Boy, so we'll save that for another Monsters and Heroes post.
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I had #5, #6, and #7. Didn't know if there were any more issues after that, or if the Altron Boy serial ever reached an actual conclusion.
ReplyDeleteDistribution was probably spotty, and it was published too infrequently. #7 was evidently intended to come out at about the time of the Apollo 11 mission (summer 1969), but, IIRC, it was on sale in spring 1970.
#5 had articles about Frankenstein (1931) and Captain Midnight (the movie serial and comic book as well as the radio show).
#6 had a longer-than-usual feature on Flash Gordon.
#7 had, besides the Mummy and Green Hornet, an article on the Commando Cody/Rocket Man serials.
And, as I recall, one of those issues had an article on Don Glut. I showed it to my then-15-year-old cousin, and she said he was cute.
Seven was all that were published. There was a number 8 in production, including another Altron Boy painting cover, but it never materialized.
DeleteIf my ever wandering mind cooperates, we'll be looking at those issues in more depth soon. Larry had an outsized impact with just that brief run of Monsters & Heroes, and he intersected a lot of fascinating and familiar lives. The Don Glut piece you're thinking of is in #7 - and, yeah - it's already been pulled.
He also gave some of the first national exposure of Jeff Jones and Berni Wrightson in M&H.
He had big impact outside of his zine, too. We might not have had Gene Day without Larry Ivie. Where would the upcoming Shang-Chi movie be then?
Like i said - hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more of M&H & Ivie quite soon.