Famous Monsters of Filmland #10 January 1961 cover painting by Basil Gogos of Claude Rains with mask from Phantom of the Opera 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #10

Jan-61 Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Early Basil Gogos, and the issue where FM’s letter pages found their identity. #10 introduces the Jack Davis–illustrated Fang Mail section — the cartoon look that would frame reader mail for years — alongside an article by Robert Bloch. Prime early-Gogos collecting.

Cover Spotlight

Claude Rains behind the mask — a painting of the 1943 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, all lush Technicolor mystery and tragic, obsessive love for music he will never be allowed to share.

Contents

  • Happy Thanks-raving
  • The Tomb Machine
  • Son of Mad Labs
  • Menace Any One?
  • Monsters Were His Meat
  • Three Current Thrillers
  • Return of the Phantom
  • Scream from Monster Club Members

Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail

☠ Collector's Notes

The Jack Davis connection is the quiet draw here — the EC Comics legend’s cartooning gives Issue #10 a bloodline that pulls EC collectors into FM territory. Two hobbies, one book.

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FM #10 — January 1961

Claude Rains behind the mask — a painting of the 1943 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, all lush Technicolor mystery and tragic, obsessive love for music he will never be allowed to share. Inside: The Phantom of the Opera, Flash Gordon, The Tormented, and The Lost World, and Basil Gogos, Claude Rains, Jack Davis, and Robert Bloch.

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