Famous Monsters of Filmland #113 January 1975 cover uncredited painting of Lionel Atwill in The Mystery of the Wax Museum featuring horror wax themes 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #113

Jan-75 • Ken Kelly
Inside This Issue

Christmas comes to the crypt in Issue #113 — “Santa Claws Strikes Again,” the editorial winks — behind a Ken Kelly cover tied to The Mystery of the Wax Museum, which gets the reprint treatment inside. Hammer’s Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell earns a preview, “Beauty Escapes the Beast” and a creatures crossword round out the fun, and the issue pays its respects to Ilona Massey, Otto Kruger, and Sidney Blackmer.

Cover Spotlight

Almost certainly a Ken Kelly painting of Lionel Atwill from THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM — the pre-Code Technicolor shocker that gave Atwill his finest hour and left audiences genuinely shaken.

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Contents

  • Santa Claws Strikes Again
  • Mystery of the Wax Museum
  • Creatures Crossword Puzzle
  • Beauty Escapes the Beast
  • Otto Kruger. Time Stops
  • Face to Face-at Last
  • Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
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Films Featured

The Mystery of the Wax MuseumFrankenstein and the Monster from HellThe Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Personalities

Lionel AtwillIlona MasseyOtto KrugerClaude RainsSidney BlackmerGeorge ZuccoBoris KarloffCharles Laughton

☠ Collector's Notes

Christmas-dated issues are a little collecting lane of their own, and Issue #113 doubles as a Lionel Atwill showcase — wax-museum horror at its vintage best. The obituary cluster gives it reference weight beyond the holiday novelty.

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Famous Monsters of Filmland #91 July 1972 cover ad art from Frogs by Ken Kelly featuring horror creature themes #91 Jul-72 Famous Monsters of Filmland #104 January 1974 cover painting of The Fly by Ken Kelly featuring horror fly monster themes #104 Jan-74 Famous Monsters of Filmland #117 July 1975 cover painting of skeleton fight from The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad by Ken Kelly featuring adventure fantasy themes #117 Jul-75 Famous Monsters of Filmland #119 September 1975 cover painting of Christopher Lee as Mummy Dracula Frankenstein Oliver Reed as Werewolf Jacqueline Pierce as Reptile by Ken Kelly featuring horror monster portraits #119 Sep-75 Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #121 December 1975 cover by Ken Kelly featuring Boris Karloff as The Mummy from the classic Universal horror film #121 Dec-75 Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #127 August 1976 cover by Ken Kelly featuring Bride of Frankenstein at Universal Studios #127 Aug-76 Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #129 October 1976 cover by Ken Kelly featuring exposed android from Futureworld #129 Oct-76 NEXT ISSUE → Famous Monsters of Filmland #114 March 1975 cover painting of Godzilla fighting Rodan by Ken Kelly featuring kaiju battle themes #114 Mar-75

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FM #113 — January 1975

Almost certainly a Ken Kelly painting of Lionel Atwill from THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM — the pre-Code Technicolor shocker that gave Atwill his finest hour and left audiences genuinely shaken. Inside: THE MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM, FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL, and THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, and Lionel Atwill, Ilona Massey, Otto Kruger, and Claude Rains.

Tell us the first monster from this one that lived in your head rent-free. ⬇️

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