I received the above pictured Dynamite magazine in the fall of 1978, through Scholastic. I've since purchased a copy through ebay. It had a calendar poster of 1979 inside. Also inside was a ghost story (The Cottage On Clarkson Street) about a kid (Tommy) who used to bounce a ball down the cellar stairs and fell down the stairs and broke his neck. That story freaked me out for WEEKS...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Dynamite magazine:
I received the above pictured Dynamite magazine in the fall of 1978, through Scholastic. I've since purchased a copy through ebay. It had a calendar poster of 1979 inside. Also inside was a ghost story (The Cottage On Clarkson Street) about a kid (Tommy) who used to bounce a ball down the cellar stairs and fell down the stairs and broke his neck. That story freaked me out for WEEKS...
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I forgot all about Dynamite! That's a creepy story for a kids magazine.
Yes. And according to the story, whenever the occupants of the house were in the kitchen, they could hear a ball being bounced against the other side of the basement door. Thud. Thud. Thud... totally creeped me out.
.. and yet I bought the magazine again anyway... haha. I'm such an idiot...
... btw, there's another picture of Dynamite on my sidebar.
Sorry for the repeat comments, but I only think of these things after I post the previous ones..
I like the other Dynamite cover on the sidebar. I love the Caricatures but I don't remember the magazine. About then I didn't have much extra money to spend on magazines.
I'll be the story was by R.L. Stine. He's an insanely popular horror writer for kids now, but he started as a writer for Dynamite.
What SICKO would put that story in Dynamite?
Hey, I dig the Hamburglar glass too. I didn't like either the Beatles or the BeeGees too much. But the mag is cool.
Oh, Gilligan just answered the question. He hit "publish" first. lol.
R.L. Stine is the "Goosebumps "guy and there were some pretty scarey stories in that series. Looks like it might still be associated with Scholastic.
Hmm, I'll look at it, but i'm pretty sure the author wasn't Stine.
That's a great cover. I used to watch The Love Boat. Dynamite was a cool mag.
Hahaha Brilliant
Keith and Miss Alex: Did you know I met Gavin Mcleod once?? He attended a church I was a member of. All the old ladies of the church were fawning all over the guy. It was embarrassing, really..
I would bet that the story in Dynamite wasn't anywhere near as scary, horrific, etc as what kids can read and view today. Yeah, probably would have freaked us out in the 70s but today's kids have seen and heard a lot more than I ever did as a child.
I think I used to have a subscription to Dynamite magazine.
i'm so digging your website! Thanks!
I found this page LOOKING FOR that story about the ball in the basement- it totally freaked me out then, too. It still does!
Ghost stories always creeped me out back then, but I still kept reading them..
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