M.T. Graves Meets The Ackermonster

Another page on this website provides a comprehensive account of Florida television horror host M.T. Graves Appearances in Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine. In the early days of this fondly-remembered and highly-influential Warren publication, when it was edited by the legendary Forrest J Ackerman, photos and features about M.T. appeared in three of Forry's first ten issues—and a very scarce M.T. Graves cover sticker on one of them makes it the rarest of all monsterzines!

This page commemorates an exchange of greetings and gifts between these two monstrous personalities, 45 years after their original collaboration in the pages of Famous Monsters!

M.T. Graves autographed photo for Forrest J Ackerman

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M. T. Graves' Gift to Forry Ackerman

When I, E-gor, had the great pleasure of getting in touch with M. T. Graves (aka Charlie Baxter), my childhood TV horror host hero from The Dungeon show I watched in Florida in the early 60's, one of the first things I wanted to do with and for him was to put him in touch with his old fans. With Charlie's permission, I announced on this website and on various discussion groups that he's still kicking and that he enjoys receiving fan mail, and that anyone can write to him either by e-mail or snail mail, in care of E-gor. I reproduced some of his original Graves Diggers fan club items, and sent them to Charlie so he could send them to fans who wrote to him.

I suggested to Charlie that he should autograph one of his fan photos for Forrest J Ackerman, in whose fabulous monsterzine a terrific feature article and several other photos had appeared more than four decades ago.

Since I had good connections at the Ackermansion, I told Charlie that he could send Forry's signed photo to me, and I would make sure it got into Forry's hands directly.

Forry Ackerman's Gift to M. T. Graves

At Monster Bash 2005 near Pittsburgh, I saw Uncle Forry and his "Bat Pack" companion Joe Moe for the first time since the last Bash the previous summer. I had designed a new poster called Fan of A Thousand Faces for Forry to sell at his table, and I brought along another gift — the autographed photo inscribed to him from M. T. Graves.

Forry reciprocated by signing one of his great photos for M. T., and I took it home with me to scan and make this web page before sending it to Charlie Baxter.

I thought the long-distance reunion of these two MonsterBoom giants, more than four decades after their original meeting in the pages of FM, was special enough to celebrate on this website!

Forrest J Ackerman's autographed photo for M. T. Graves

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Links to Other M.T. Graves information on this site
E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts: Home page \| M.T. GRAVES entry M.T. Graves' Dungeon M.T. Graves Appearances in Famous Monsters of Filmland Charlie's #1 Fan Remembers the M.T. Graves and M.T. Space Shows Charlie's #1 Fan Remembers Charlie Baxter's Other Shows Charlie Baxter Gallery Exhibit 1: Pictures from His Career as a Horror Host Charlie Baxter Gallery Exhibit 2: Pictures from Other TV Kid Shows Rare copy of Famous Monsters of Filmland #6 with M.T. Graves Dungeon sticker Send e-mail to E-gor!