Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Variant Issue
Monster World 1
Inside This Issue
A landmark merger: Issue #70 is also Monster World #1, the companion title folding into the FM masthead. Fittingly, Lon Chaney Jr.’s Wolf Man howls on the cover. Inside, the “Battle of the Frankensteins” pits monster against monster, The Black Sleep and The Mummy shamble through, and a “6 Monsters for the Price of One” spread gives the monster kids their money’s worth.
Cover Spotlight
Lon Chaney Jr. as the tragic WOLF MAN — a painting of Universal's most sympathetic lycanthrope, on the first issue to bear the Monster World banner alongside FM.
Roll The Film
Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man (uncredited cover), Monster World number 1
Thumb Thru Thursday 8:53
The book in hand says Monster World No. 1, Collector's Edition, 35 cents, and never says 70; uncredited Chaney Jr. Wolf Man cover; the cover sells "6 Monsters for the Price of One" and names The Black Sleep, which really did round up Rathbone, Chaney Jr., Carradine, Tamiroff, Tor Johnson and Lugosi, with Lugosi (the most imitated voice in horror) cast as a MUTE servant in the last picture he completed, dead two months after release; Monster Comics debuts billed as a new form of story-telling, leading with The Mummy
☠ Collector's Notes
A cataloging landmark: Issue #70 is also Monster World #1, opening the dual-numbered stretch that trips up new collectors and delights completists. If you’re building a full Warren run, the merger starts here.
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