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Legend Horror Classics

Legend Horror Classics was a poster magazine from Legend Publishing which made its debut in 1974.

Each issue focused on a different monster or other horror subject and ran for 12 issues and ended in 1975.  Legend Horror Classics contained a comic adaptation usually of a classic Horror story that folded out into a giant poster.

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Number 1 (1974)

Credits

Year - 1974

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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The first issue was dedicated to Dracula with photos of various screen vampires on the cover and a strip adapting the 1973 film version with Jack Palance and Simon Ward.

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Rainbow Pride Flags
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Number 2 (1974)

Credits

Year - 1974

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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Issue 2 had a Frankenstein retelling based primarily on the 1931 Universal film, although Victor Frankenstein was drawn to resemble Peter Cushing, who played him in the Hammer series.

Number 3 (1974)

Credits

Year - 1974

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad in issue 3 (which presumably qualified for a horror magazine by dint of Ray Harryhausen's monsters)

Number 4 (1975)

Credits

Year - 1975

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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Thank you to Daren Bradley For Providing The Scans

Blood Lust Of The Zombies

Number 5 (1975)

Credits

Year - 1975

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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Hammer's Dracula has Risen from the Grave (under the title "Dracula Must be Destroyed") 

Number 6 (1975)

Credits

Year - 1975

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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Terror from Space

Number 7 (1975)

Credits

Year - 1975

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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Beowulf, whose strip was drawn by Derek Tyson.

Number 8 (1975)

Credits

Year - 1975

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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"Killer Jaws", about a man-eating shark, was obviously inspired by the film Jaws; however, it departed from the film by using a prehistoric setting and an overt fantasy element with the presence of a zombie-like "half-man"

Number 9 (1975)

Credits

Year - 1975

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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"The Jokers", about two men - one tall and thin, the other short and fat - who enjoy playing gruesome pranks.

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This was the final issue to contain a comic strip

Number 10 (1975)

Credits

Year - 1975

Price - 25p

Publisher - Legend Publishing 

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Unknown

Number 11 (1975)

Credits

Year - 1975

Price - 30p

Publisher - Harpdown Publishing Ltd

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Thank you to Daren Bradley For Providing The Scans

The Day Of The Vampire

Christopher Lee - Prince Of Darkness

Fangs For The Memory

To The Devil A Daughter

Number 12 (1975)

Credits

Year - 1975

Price - 30p

Publisher - Harpdown Publishing Ltd

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Thank you to Daren Bradley For Providing The Scans

A Monster Lives

The Creators and their Creation

Ralph Bates

The Making Of A Monster

The Curse Of Frankenstein

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