So cool that they spoofed not just one, but three of the Warren horror magazine titles. I remember first discovering these in a neighborhood comic shop, and I was immediately intrigued.
Based on this, it’s too bad WPs didn’t venture into spoofing Bronze Age comic book titles. That would have allowed for full set of 30 all-magazine titles with ease. I never counted - how many total were sprinkled among Series 11 and 13-15?
I checked it out in the '74 Wacky Magazines section of lostwackys.com. According to Duane, 24 were made (I'm
including Famous Mobsters of Frightland here; Duane, however,
doesn't) and three were pulled...Tomb, Rotting Zone and Schnozmopolitan. That makes a
possible total of 27 Wackys that
might've been used for the planned
Wacky Magazines series.
Of course, years later, Schnozmopolitan was officially released as a sticker three times and Tomb only once. Only Rotting Zone remains to be published (come on Topps, put it in an OLDS series like you did with Tomb...you
know that you want to!).
If you look at Reply #1735 on pg. 50 of this subforum (9-12-19), you'll see all of the other 11 1970s magazines known to exist that didn't make it
at all. All of them are only rough art, however. According to Duane again, it's possible that the
Wacky Magazines series
might've had 30 titles total in it, if it
had been made (which, of course, it
wasn't). That means that, out of all of the 11 unmade 1970s magazines on page 50,
any of them could've been the remaining three. I guess we'll never know in this case.
