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History of Midnight Magazine - Issue #1

I decided to do a little history here for my first blog, In the late part of 2017, I suddenly had the urge to do a book, originally thinking about doing some sort of reprint exclusively for the Horror Magazines & Comics Group that I run on Facebook. After chatting online with my good friend and brother from another mother Mike Howlett, I took his advice and did not pursue the reprint idea as it has been overkill with reprints over the years from various publishers and still goes on to this day. Taking a seat back and thinking it over, I decided to do a "fanzine" for all things Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. No, its nothing brand new but it was an outlet for the "mixed bag" folks like me and many of you, what we decided to cover was anything Comics, Magazine, Toy, Movie, Paperback in the said genres mixed with some fiction and real-life fan stories to entertain the audience. 

The first one!!!

Thus, MIDNIGHT! was born... with the help of Mike, and some recruits that were all down for it, Issue #1 was published in January of 2018! what an exciting time! Now being new with editing and my wife Angela having a lifetime Office Word program, I decided to try my first attempt to make the issue, I will admit that I was a bit stubborn in letting some of the family members help me with the program but wanted to see how well I could do it.

Although they taught me some basics, The book came out pretty good, yet raw, sure there was line spacing and stuff I could have fixed and many other things and that was my fault for not letting the little lady help teach me fully, but on the other hand, I can say I did it to see what it was like! Either way, it was a fun #1 and a good start! Now a bit about the book and its contents... This Amazing cover art is done by none other than Doug Randazzo! I used a nice thick white cardstock cover and the interiors were done in a cream color to give a "pulp" look. after the Table of Contents and the Letter from the Editor, that's me, We have possibly, to me that is, an amazing introduction that was written up from Mike Howlett to get this book started. Then we have a great fan story from John Shatzer on going to see Killer Clowns at the theatre, then we go into a fiction story by Terry Alexander, then we have Mike's Paperback review of GILA by Les Simons, now this was a really cool article due to how he did it on notebook paper and we added the scans into the pages as if it was "Schoolwork", we go into a comic review from Kimberly Jandreau on Charltons GHOST MANOR series, Next up is another Fiction story told by Graham Swanson, here we have a Movie review/recap by Rick McKinney on Messiah of Evil, Doug Randazzo summons up a story in Memory Lane, I put out a fan story in the title of A Day in the Life of a Young Comic Collector, Doug Randazzo returns with a great review on Supernatural Thrillers #1, the book concludes with a section of various true paranormal stories that were submitted to read and a thank you section. The back cover has a Sexy Midnight Witch drawn up by Jeff Lamers with Sites to check out.  Overall with the cover, the book is at 40 pages, 

Gila! by Mike Howlett

There are 4 variants, 1 good Blue color Prototype, 24 Yellow Color Contributor or Limited editions, 170 White regular editions, and 20 blue Grossfest editions, these were re-edited the way we do the mags now and suddenly its 32 pages with the correct edits and layouts. so 205 total issues in all and they are OOP. The art inside was various headers and pieces that were done by my daughter Erika and myself, another art piece was this Gila Monster Mike drew on his assignment... this has to be seen. I hope you all enjoyed this history on Midnight Magazine. - Mr. Fright