BY THE GODS! magazine news

It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything about BY THE GODS! magazine. I have abandoned it or anything. I’ve decided to publish one issue this year so next year everything will fall into place. It was decided that the magazine would be published twice in a year but this year, there will only be one issue.

The upcoming issue, which will cover disasters in PEPLUM movies, will be FALL/WINTER 2025. This means next year, SPRING/SUMMER should be published in March or April 2026. Then the FALL/WINTER issue will comes out around the end of August or September 2026. As it was I published issue 3 late last year (Dec 18 to be precise), which covered the beginning of this year. It would have been too soon to publish a new issue in March or April. I would have given me just one or two months to make it. I had to wait until all the fundamentals were in place so everything would eventually work out smoothly.

So, stay tuned. It’s coming soon!

 

THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD (1961) starring Steve Reeves on Blu in English…

John Black left a comment about the new ‘Tales of Adventure’ boxset from Australia which will include THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1924) starring Douglas Fairbanks, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940) starring Sabu and THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD (1961) starring Steve Reeves. The price at the website says $89 Australian.

This is great news in that it will be the first Blu-ray release of the Reeves THIEF OF BAGHDAD in English. Before, it was only available from Germany (which included the English audio).

Link

Commentary on THIEF is by Adrian Smith. I’m not familiar with him.

Rare movies sold on eBay…

I have literarily over a thousand titles in my collection. I have never sold any movie. I’ve always traded. And I will keep doing so. There are folks on eBay who sell rare PEPLUM movies that have never been released on most available kinds of medical format. Case in point, GODDESS OF LOVE (1957) starring Belinda Lee and Jacques Sernas. As far as I know, this movie was never released on DVD and yet it’s being sold on eBay. Or other websites as in the one at the bottom. Bootlegs have always existed but these days they know they can get away with it pretty much in the open since these old movies have little legal muscle unless they’re backed-up by a major distribution company.