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 both the '74 Wacky Magazines and the Lost Wackys sections (the latter has one parody that's missing from the former in the category Jay Lynch 1970's Unproduced Rough Art: Black & White) of lostwackys.com. According to Duane, 38 1970s magazine parodies were known to have been made for the planned 1974
Wacky Magazines series and are known to exist (I'm
including Famous Mobsters of Frightland here; Duane, however,
doesn't for unknown reasons), 23 were finally released (nine in the 11th Series, seven in the 13th, six in the 14th and one in the 15th), 15 were
never released and out of those 15, three were
possibly intended for the 11th Series (Tomb, Rotting Zone and Schnozmopolitan) but instead were pulled. That makes a
possible total of 26 out of 38 known total 1970s magazine parodies that
might've been used for this planned series.
Of course, years later, Schnozmopolitan
was officially released as a sticker three times (four if you count the altered modernized version from the Jay Lynch tribute series) and Tomb only once. Of the three pulled 1970s magazine parodies, only Rotting Zone remains unreleased (come on Topps, put it in a future 1970s OLDS series like you did with Tomb...you
know you want to!).
If you look at Reply #1735 on pg. 50 of this subforum (9-12-19), you'll see the names of the 12 out of 15 1970s magazine parodies known to have been made that weren't released
at all - and, in fact, were possibly never ever
considered for release in the first place. All of them are only roughs done either in black and white or color, however. According to Duane again, it's possible that the 1974
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 the 12 unreleased 1970s magazine parodies named on page 50,
any of them could've been the remaining four on the planned final list. I guess we'll
never know in this case.