Famous Monsters of Filmland #116 May 1975 cover painting of Triffid from The Day of the Triffids by Ken Kelly featuring horror plant monster themes 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #116

May-75 Ken Kelly
Inside This Issue

Humphrey Bogart in Famous Monsters? “Bogie Man Will Get You” remembers the great star’s unlikely detour into horror, and Issue #116 wraps it in a Ken Kelly Day of the Triffids cover. Amicus’ The Land That Time Forgot leads the film coverage, “The Book of Bela” turns its second page, rare Lon Chaney Jr. photos surface, and the first Famous Monsters Convention gets its full report.

Cover Spotlight

Ken Kelly conjures one of the walking, stinging plants from THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS — John Wyndham's 1963 adaptation of a world struck blind and overrun, rendered in full FM cover glory.

Contents

  • Super Chick
  • Land That Time Forgot
  • Bogie Man Will Get You
  • The Book of Bela
  • Japanese Treats
  • Rare Treats
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No. 80
  • First Famous Monsters Convention
  • My Father-Mr. Monster

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  • Fang Mail

Bylines & Contributors

☠ Collector's Notes

The hobby loves an outlier, and Humphrey Bogart in a monster magazine is exactly that — Issue #116’s conversation piece. Ken Kelly’s Triffids cover keeps it on the science-fiction shelf too.

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FM #116 — May 1975

Ken Kelly conjures one of the walking, stinging plants from THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS — John Wyndham's 1963 adaptation of a world struck blind and overrun, rendered in full FM cover glory. Inside: THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, DR. X, and PSYCHOUT, and Dennis Billows, Humphrey Bogart, Bela Lugosi, and Paul Linden.

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