Famous Monsters of Filmland #108 July 1974 cover painting of King Kong by Basil Gogos featuring adventure monster themes 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #108

Jul-74 • Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Issue #108 belongs to the Eighth Wonder: “The Kong of Kongs” unrolls a forty-three-page making-of on King Kong — one of the most ambitious pieces the magazine ever ran — under a Basil Gogos Kong cover. John Landis drops by for an interview alongside the Battle for the Planet of the Apes synopsis, and Missile to the Moon supplies the vintage rocket fuel.

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Basil Gogos takes on King Kong — the supreme monster getting the FM cover treatment from the artist who made the magazine's covers legendary.

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Contents

  • Creatures Fit for a King
  • The Kong of Kongs
  • Battle for the Planet of the Apes
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No.73
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
  • You Axed for It
  • Professor Gruebeard
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Films Featured

King KongBattle for the Planet of the ApesMissile to the Moon
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Personalities

John Landis

☠ Collector's Notes

A cornerstone for Kong collectors: the forty-three-page “Kong of Kongs” still ranks among the most ambitious single articles the magazine ever ran, and a Gogos Kong cover seals it. Issue #108 is the one Kong-minded readers pull first.

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FM #108 — July 1974

Basil Gogos takes on King Kong — the supreme monster getting the FM cover treatment from the artist who made the magazine's covers legendary. Inside: KING KONG, BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, and MISSILE TO THE MOON, and John Landis.

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