Kids of my age no doubt have fond memories of ordering Dynamite magazine
from the Scholastic Book Club flyer. As long as I can remember I've loved to
read and while I was lucky enough to have an independent book store in town
that I could ride my bike to, there was always something special about placing
that Scholastic order. Part of it was having to wait a few weeks before your
books arrived in school and part of it was these catalogs had stuff you
wouldn't find in a book store, like Dynamite!
If you want a shot of nostalgia to the brain (or just want to see what this
old guy is talking about), head over to
Branded in the 80s
where Shawn looks over some 80s book club flyers as well as one from 2011.
Enough dithering down Memory Lane, let's get to the Halloween!
I went on a pretty hard core scouring of the internet and while there are
scans of Dynamite covers and the occasional article, complete issues are hard
to find anywhere in digital form. I have seriously been considering scooping
up magazines from Ebay and scanning them. This stuff needs to be preserved!
A bit of spooky Dynamite trivia: over 100 issues were edited by Jane Stine,
wife of author RL Stine! He also contributed the occasional scary story to the
magazine under the name Jovial Bob Stine.
Head over to
Stranger Finds
for the monster related content in the above 1975 issue and view a brand new post featuring stuff I don't have! The chap on the cover
is Count Morbida, Dynamite's resident vampire who hosted puzzle pages.
Your visit to the Haunted Library this week will get you some Dynamite monster
goodies: magazine covers, a couple of posters, some Count Morbida activity
pages, and the complete issue 62 (above). While the cover promises monsters,
there's really only 3 pages dedicated to them, but you get a healthy dose of
1979 pop culture too!
Click on the library card below to have a Dynamite Halloween!
Click the image below to see all the participating Countdown bloggers!
That's so cool you had a bookstore you could order these from. I was bound to the flyers and the monthly dollar it required, so I didn't get all issues. Thanks for the shout out, but it goes to some weird Okalhoma Craigslist site. The actual site is https://garagesalin.blogspot.com/2015/10/dynamite-monster-special.html. I had more Dynamite I wanted to blog about this season, but I guess it will have to wait until next year.
ReplyDeleteFixed the link!
DeleteI still had to get Dynamite from school. I was just mentioning having a book store but still getting stuff through Scholastic because it was more aimed at my age.