Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #142 April 1978 20th Anniversary fold-out cover featuring Darth Vader over horror genre legends 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #142

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Inside This Issue

Twenty years of screams: Issue #142 celebrates Famous Monsters’ twentieth anniversary with a fold-out Darth Vader cover, Forry’s personal top twenty films of 1958–1977, and “Guide to Monsterland,” an index of the magazine’s first 140 issues. Ray Bradbury salutes Ray Harryhausen in “Hoo Ray for Harry Wood,” James Warren enters the Horror Hall of Fame, AIP’s Samuel Arkoff gets his story told, and a farewell honors Richard Carlson of It Came from Outer Space.

Cover Spotlight

Darth Vader presides over the names of the genre's greatest monsters for FM's twentieth anniversary — a fold-out cover paying tribute to two decades of cinematic horror and science fiction.

Contents

  • What's Alien Ya?
  • Fja's Top 20
  • Play It Again Sam

Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
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Monsters & Characters

☠ Collector's Notes

Anniversary issues are natural keepsakes, and Issue #142 is FM’s twentieth — fold-out Vader cover, Forry’s top-twenty list, and a full index of the magazine’s first 140 issues that doubles as a finding aid. A key issue of the late run.

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FM #142 — April 1978

Darth Vader presides over the names of the genre's greatest monsters for FM's twentieth anniversary — a fold-out cover paying tribute to two decades of cinematic horror and science fiction. Inside: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starship Invasions, and Star Trek, and Darth Vader, Forrest J Ackerman, Ray Harryhausen, and Ray Bradbury.

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