This month marks a pretty amazing landmark for horrorphiles. This month marks Fango’s 300th issue!
A brief history of Fango’s humble beginnings……
Fango started it’s life as a fantasy magazine. Originally conceived to be the “fantasy sister” to Starlog magazine. It was originally to be called Fantastica, it was changed after Fantastic Films brought suit on an “unfair trade” basis. stating that consumers would be confused by the two magazine titles. Thus it was rebranded Fangoria. The first six issues were considered to be failures, loosing the publisher about $20,000 per issue! That’s not a small chunk of change! However, there was a great response to an article in issue #1 about Tom Savini’s Special FX work on Dawn of the Dead. Also, with the publisher sure that failure was imminent, they allowed editor Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin to reshape the magizines focus in a direct that he belived would work……which was focusing on horror. Issue #7’s cover featured Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, with ol’ Jack’s face glaring at us!
This is where Fango really started to take off! Thank God Uncle Bob listened to the fans who wrote in tellin’ him what they wanted! My first issue of Fango was #113, which sported the Alien3 cover. It was love at first sight! I’ll never forget browsing through that issue for the first time. Being a video game geek as well, I went nuts over the article Horror In Gaming. As a matter of fact, a recent conversation with my brother in law spurred me to break out my back issue collection and re-read that article. Subsequently, I’ve been trying to track down many of the games mentioned in that article. But that will be a blog for another time! 
Midnight Cinephile 