Monster of the Day #1035

Updated on November 13, 2014 By Ken Begg 13 Comments

You think that’s impressive, you should see the apple they came out of of.

Flangepart

How to deal with water bugs.
Eric Hinkle

Since when is the fire department the people to call for infestation by giant worms?
bgbear_rnh

if all you have is a hose, everything looks like a fire
Gamera977

If the Wooly Worm is brown it means a mild winter, if black a severe winter…

If the Worm is the size of a battleship it means you’re pretty much screwed.
Luke Blanchard

Wikipedia has a page on the magazine. Apparently it was put out by the publisher of THE STRAND MAGAZINE, and ran for three issues in 1938-39.
The cover story was “Winged Terror”. The net tells me it was reprinted from PEARSON’S MAGAZINE, where it ran as a serial in 1931, and appeared in the US in WEIRD TALES the same year, under the name “Moth”.
John Benyon was John Wyndham.
bgbear_rnh

This one cost a whole shilling. 6 times yesterdays’ magazine.
bgbear_rnh

dumb Brits, Mothra is not evil.
Luke Blanchard

In the period THE SKIPPER ran 28 pages, including the covers. According to the ISFDB, FANTASY ran 128.
bgbear_rnh

You get what you pay for. Thanks for the history as always.
Luke Blnachard

It’s educational for me too: a lot of the time I just share what I just looked up.
That should be “John Beynon” above.
Cullen Waters

Uh huh. Tell that to the parents of the school bus she crawled over to get to her little priestesses.
bgbear_rnh

War is Hell.
Gamera977

The children probably stomped a few caterpillars in their time- payback’s a #$#@!

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