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Twenty years of screams: Issue #142 celebrates Famous Monsters’ twentieth anniversary with a fold-out Darth Vader cover, Forry’s personal top twenty films of 1958–1977, and “Guide to Monsterland,” an index of the magazine’s first 140 issues. Ray Bradbury salutes Ray Harryhausen in “Hoo Ray for Harry Wood,” James Warren enters the Horror Hall of Fame, AIP’s Samuel Arkoff gets his story told, and a farewell honors Richard Carlson of It Came from Outer Space.
Darth Vader presides over the names of the genre's greatest monsters for FM's twentieth anniversary — a fold-out cover paying tribute to two decades of cinematic horror and science fiction.
Anniversary issues are natural keepsakes, and Issue #142 is FM’s twentieth — fold-out Vader cover, Forry’s top-twenty list, and a full index of the magazine’s first 140 issues that doubles as a finding aid. A key issue of the late run.
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FM #142 — April 1978
Darth Vader presides over the names of the genre's greatest monsters for FM's twentieth anniversary — a fold-out cover paying tribute to two decades of cinematic horror and science fiction. Inside: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starship Invasions, and Star Trek, and Darth Vader, Forrest J Ackerman, Ray Harryhausen, and Ray Bradbury.
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