Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #136 August 1977 cover featuring dynamic production painting from Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #136

Aug-77 Uncredited
Inside This Issue

Myth and tomorrow share Issue #136: Ray Harryhausen’s Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger leads with a production painting on the cover, while “The Filmonster Forecast” scans the horizon — Close Encounters of the Third Kind incoming. Empire of the Ants swarms in, and “The Werewolf Dies” lowers the flag for Henry Hull, the original Werewolf of London.

Cover Spotlight

A production painting from SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER — Ray Harryhausen's 1977 fantasy adventure, all animated creatures and ancient myth, captured in a behind-the-scenes cover image.

Contents

  • Meet Your Creature
  • Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
  • The Filmonster Forecast
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Farewell, Frankenstein
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No.98
  • The Empire of the Ants
  • Star Is Reborn
  • Rare Treats
  • The Werewolf Dies

Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail

Bylines & Contributors

☠ Collector's Notes

Harryhausen-focused issues hold steady demand, and Issue #136 lands at a hinge moment — Sinbad’s myth-making on the cover while the “Filmonster Forecast” sniffs out Close Encounters on the horizon. The Henry Hull farewell closes a circle the magazine itself helped draw.

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FM #136 — August 1977

A production painting from SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER — Ray Harryhausen's 1977 fantasy adventure, all animated creatures and ancient myth, captured in a behind-the-scenes cover image. Inside: Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Empire of the Ants, and The Hideous Sun Demon, and Ray Harryhausen, Dale Van Sickel, Henry Hull, and Donald F. Glut.

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