Back in the early eighties I had a bunch of magazine subscriptions at my local Newsagent/ sweet shop down the road and the guy that ran the place was sketchy as hell.
Seriously. He seemed like a pervert to me before I even realised what a "pervert" was!
Having said that... what is a pervert exactly? Me? I don't know... anyway what the hell was I twatting on about here? Jeeeeezus....
There were the stories in the playground. Hardly concrete stuff but there you go. Kids are kind.
These days, when I go back to visit the folks, I sometimes see him standing outside the shop like he's always done (albeit totally grey, a bunch older and verging on obese) and he icks me out to this day. Excellent stuff....
Yeah. Blah. Back to it.
I seem to remember getting a hell of a lot of sordid stuff from that place so I guess it can't have been all that bad (depending on how you look at it).
Amongst other crap, I had a bunch of horror comic subscriptions with my name scribbled in pencil under the counter each week waiting to be traded for my pocket money that just about covered them all.
By far the best of them all was this little bad boy.....
HELL YEAH!!!!!
Let it be known
SCREAM! absolutely friggin' killed it!!!
The artwork for the most part and the majority of the twisted tales within were totally dope. This was '84 and it only ran for 12 (maybe?) issues and while it did I pretty much worshipped every poorly printed page! It even came with (admittedly crappy) gifts each week... or possibly fortnight? Whatever, still a big yay. And it was 20 pence!!! As you may have figured by now I used to be a fan to say the least and used to draw all the monsters in my own then-rubbish way.
See that Reaper-ish character there on the left? He was called "Ghastly McNasty" - kind of the "Crypt keeper" character from the earlier "Tales from the Crypt" stuff over in the States. You never got to see his face under his shroud (cloak maybe?) and they ran this big drawing competition - the idea being whoever got closest to guessing what he looked like would win.
I entered and I didn't win.
I remember getting super pissed when I saw the "winning" illustraion printed in the next issue because I thought it was super wack. Even back then!!!
Ha! What a dick I was/am.... The winner had him down as some half robot/reptile piss with crappy sticky out almost "Gilbert" ears... WHAT???? Utter toss. I had him down as a nasty rotten corpsey thing with an eye missing so you could see what remained of his think-sponge.
I sent it off and never saw it again. Poop.
Anyhow - I miss it and my collection vanished to some place years back. I'll get 'em again though. I need more junk in this house. I'll share some goodies here when I do.
