Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #190 January 1983 cover featuring classic poster art from The Empire Strikes Back re-release 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #190

Jan-83 • Poster Art
Inside This Issue

The Empire returns to Issue #190 — poster art out front for the re-release retrospective — and Paul Clemens returns too, telling his own Beast Within story in his own words. Superman III gets an early look, a Time Machine filmbook begins, and “Legendary John Carradine” takes another bow.

Cover Spotlight

Poster art for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK — the film that expanded the STAR WARS universe and gave it genuine darkness, its iconic imagery gracing the FM cover one final time.

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Contents

  • Hair's Looking at You, Kid
  • Horror Horizon
  • Happy Birthday 12 of Them
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • The Alphabeast of Horror Part 4
  • Superman 3
  • The Time Machine
  • Legendary John Carradine
  • Rare Treats
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
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Personalities

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Bylines & Contributors

☠ Collector's Notes

The Clemens first-person Beast Within piece completes one of FM’s best fan stories — reader, subject, then author in the same magazine — and gives Issue #190 a heart its poster-art cover doesn’t advertise. Empire re-release coverage adds saga-collector pull.

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FM #190 — January 1983

Poster art for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK — the film that expanded the STAR WARS universe and gave it genuine darkness, its iconic imagery gracing the FM cover one final time. Inside: The Empire Strikes Back, Superman III, The Time Machine (1960), and The Beast Within, and Ronald N. Waite, Randy Palmer, Paul Clemens, and John Carradine.

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