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IMAGINATOR MAGAZINE’S LOST WORLDS SPECIAL EDITION!

Imaginator is much more like a book than a magazine: it is a journal-type publication that has a thick spine and boasts 116 pages crammed with colour photos, concept art, comic art, illustrations and storyboard panels! It will definitely look great on any bookshelf!

Imaginator issue 13 cover

IMAGINATOR ISSUE 13 IS CURRENTLY ONLY AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE FROM THE MONSTER ZONE SITE – THE FIRST 40 ORDERS WILL GET A FREE LIMITED EDITION A4 POSTER BY IMAGINATOR MAGAZINE’S ARTIST ZILLA MAN! 

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Imaginator Issue 13 – To order if you’re in the UK

An issue devoted to the lost world sub-gentre! Interviews with Caroline Munro, Dana Gillespie, Kevin Connor, Joe Jusko, Brett Piper and more!

£22.99

IF YOU LIVE IN THE EU ORDER HERE:

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Imaginator Issue 13 – To order if you’re in the EU

An issue devoted to the lost world sub-gentre! Interviews with Caroline Munro, Dana Gillespie, Kevin Connor, Joe Jusko, Brett Piper and more!

€34.99

IF YOU LIVE IN THE USA ORDER HERE:

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Imaginator Issue 13 – To order if you’re in the USA

An issue devoted to the lost world sub-gentre! Interviews with Caroline Munro, Dana Gillespie, Kevin Connor, Joe Jusko, Brett Piper and more!

$42.40

Listen, if you find the cost (because of the postage) a bit too much, you’ll have to wait until this issue becomes available to purchase next month from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.

THIS LOST WORLDS SPECIAL EDITION IS JAM-PACKED WITH GREAT ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS. LET’S CHECK OUT WHAT LIES WITHIN THE PAGES…

THE JOY OF LOST WORLDS
This article is an  exploration of cinema’s wild and uncharted regions… zones populated by a myriad of exotic perils: Cavemen! Carnosaurs! Despotic queens! Killer plants! Ape gods! Giant crabs! Missing links! Biplane-chewing pterosaurs! Plesiosaurs! Unstable volcanoes! Lava! Lizard Men! Slurpasaurs! And so much more!

Lost Worlds intro page
King Kong (1933)
Kong: Skull Island
She
Son of Kong

THE WILD WOMAN OF TWO LOST WORLDS
Dana Gillespie chats about dealing with killer seaweed, giant scorpions and cave-dwelling dinosaurs, as she recalls starring in The Lost Continent (1968) and The People That Time Forgot (1977)!

Dana Gillespie intro page
Dana promo shot

THE VALLEY OF GWANGI
Alan Friswell, the skilled conservator for The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation, praises Ray’s rip-roaring fantasy-western, and Alan also explains how he keeps the magnificent stop-motion denizens of Forbidden Valley looking as good as new!

Alan Friswell intro page
A scene from The Valley of Gwangi

A CONVERSATION WITH A CAVEMAN
Bobby Parr, who played amiable neanderthal Ahm in The Land That Time Forgot, describes such things as the time he was carried away by a pterodactyl! Bobby also reminisces about portraying the Sagoth Chief in At the Earth’s Core (1976)!

Bobby Parr as Ahm the caveman
The Land That Time Forgot

THE PERILS OF PELLUCIDAR
An overview of Pellucidar: the savage and timeless domain located at the centre of the Earth. It is a remarkable world inhabited by hostile tribes, lethal beasts from the dawn of creation, man-apes, pirates and cruel reptile rulers known as Mahars… and it all originated within the fertile imagination of Edgar Rice Burroughs! Imaginator takes a look at how Pellucidar has been portrayed in novels, magazines, comics, TV series and movies! Look out for Thipdars (pterosaurs), beautiful stone age women, drilling machines and more!

Pellucidar intro page
Frazetta's painting for At the Earth's Core

BEAUTIFUL BARBARIAN
Caroline Munro on when she starred as a primitive Pellucidarian princess in At the Earth’s Core, acting alongside Peter Cushing and Doug McClure! She also talks about her movies The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), Starcrash (1978) and Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)! 

Caroline Munro as Dia
Peter Cushing and Caroline Munro

STOP-MOTION ADVENTURES AT THE EARTH’S CORE
Brett Piper chats about his fast-paced, entertaining all-puppet short film from 2025, which was an adaptation of the ERB classic yarn!

Brett Piper intro page

AUTHOR OF EPICS!
Win Scott Eckhart tells Imaginator what it is like to write such novels as Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar and Korak at the Earth’s Core!

Cover of Korak at the Earth's Core

AT THE EARTH’S CORE UNFILMED
A look at Jim Danforth’s unproduced movie version of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first-rate fantasy-adventure!

Detail from a Jim Danforth painting

THRILLING GRAPHIC NOVEL GOODNESS!
Artist Jamie Chase discusses the creation of his action-packed graphic novel At the Earth’s Core – and he talks about his follow-up graphic novel too… Pellucidar

Jamie Chase comic book panel

THE MAN WHO TOOK US TO THE EARTH’S CORE!
This year is the 50th anniversary of the release of At the Earth’s Core, so Imaginator has tracked down director Kevin Connor to quiz him about making this film. Kevin also speaks about Warlords of Atlantis, plus the production that Amicus didn’t get to make…  a John Carter movie!

Kevin Connor intro page
Bos fighting!

PELLUCIDAR UNFILMED
Ron Lizorty talks about his unmade project Pellucidar, and he shares with us storyboard panels, behind the scenes pics of Dian the Beautiful and photos of the prehistoric creatures he sculpted for the unproduced film. Ron also chats about working on Galaxy of Terror (1981) and brings along some behind the scenes photos for us to admire! Plus – Ron shares the concept art he produced when he was the Production Designer on David Allen’s sci-fi-fantasy lost world adventure movie The Primevals!

Ron Lizorty intro page
Ron Lizorty sculpt

JOE JUSKO AT THE EARTH’S CORE
Legendary fantasy artist Joe Jusko speaks about some of the impactful Pellucidar-themed paintings he has produced over the years, including the superb Tarzan at the Earth’s Core book cover artwork he created for the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library! Joe shares some in-progress photos he took of his Tarzan at the Earth’s Core cover illustration as it was being painted, plus he lets Imaginator exclusively reproduce an updated version of a Thipdar-themed illustration he originally painted over 30 years ago!

Joe Jusko intro page

MARVELLOUSLY MYSTERIOUS UNDERGROUND WORLDS
Stepping away from the subterranean world of Pellucidar, Imaginator Magazine checks out other fantasy domains lurking beneath the surface of our world, such as Jules Verne’s famous Journey to the Center of the Earth, the Hollow Earth of Legendary Entertainment’s MonsterVerse movies, the mysterious land of Agartha in the uber-absurd flick Iron Sky: The Coming Race, the Sumerian civilisation residing beneath a mountain in the B-movie gem The Mole People, and other equally fabulous subterrestrial places…

 Black Scorpion
Godzilla vs Kong
The Mole People

THE HEART OF THE HOLLOW WORLD
Doug Lefler is a writer, a director, a skilled storyboard creator and a gifted artist. Here he explains why he invented a new kind of digital comics format, which allowed him to create a 24-chapter fantasy-sci-fi-adventure comic tale: The Heart of the Hollow World. Lots of yummy illustrations of gorgeous cave girls, robots, dinosaurs and steampunk drill machines are waiting for you to gaze at them! 

The Heart of the Hollow World

LOST WORLD FILM REVIEWS
Movies reviewed include The Land Unknown, The Land That Time Forgot and The Last Dinosaur!

The Land Unknown
Where Time Began
The Lost World (1925)

RADIOACTIVE REVIEWS
A final mini-review section looks at a film (and its tie-in book) that is not a lost world-themed story!

Helloween