Castle of Frankenstein

Following employment as an editor for publisher Joe Weider, Calvin Beck (1929–1989) entered the monster magazine arena in 1959 with his one-shot issue Journal of Frankenstein, which featured John Zacherle on the cover and had a small circulation.

[2] In addition to book reviews by Charles Collins and Lin Carter, contributors included Barry Brown, Richard A. Lupoff and William K. Everson.

[citation needed] Other issues displayed cover paintings by Robert Adragna, Marcus Boas, Bok, Frank Brunner, Maelo Cintron, Larry Ivie, Russ Jones, Ken Kelly, Los Angeles painter Tom Maher and Lee Wanagiel.

Interior art included graphic stories by Ivie, Brunner, Bernie Wrightson and the team of Marv Wolfman and Len Wein, plus the first[citation needed] published comics page by Marvel artist-writer-editor Larry Hama.

Castle of Frankenstein also carried an original comic strip, Baron von Bungle by Richard Bojarski, which gave a humorous twist to the world depicted in Universal horror films.

Beck, with an editorial assist by fantasy fiction scholar Haywood P. Norton, assembled the paperback anthology The Frankenstein Reader (Ballantine Books, 1962).

Bhob Stewart and Beck then collaborated on Scream Queens: Heroines of the Horrors (Macmillan, 1978), containing illustrated biographical profiles of 29 fantasy film actresses and directors.