Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #147 September 1978 cover by Basil Gogos featuring menacing Tusken Raider from Star Wars 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #147

Sep-78 Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Old master, new galaxy: Basil Gogos paints Star Wars for Issue #147, and inside Carrie Fisher gives a “Starry-Eyed Warrior” interview as Hammer’s Taste the Blood of Dracula gets the filmbook treatment. “King Boris, the Benign” revisits Karloff’s Thriller years, and the issue mourns two of the uncanny’s own: Night Stalker vampire Barry Atwater and effects veteran Arnold Gillespie.

Cover Spotlight

Basil Gogos paints a Tusken Raider from STAR WARS — the masked desert warriors of Tatooine getting the Gogos treatment, an unexpected but inspired pairing of modern sci-fi and classic monster art.

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☠ Collector's Notes

Gogos painting Star Wars makes Issue #147 a crossover collectible — the magazine’s classic cover hand on the new era’s biggest property — and the Carrie Fisher interview is early, fresh, and quotable. A favorite of both camps.

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FM #147 — September 1978

Basil Gogos paints a Tusken Raider from STAR WARS — the masked desert warriors of Tatooine getting the Gogos treatment, an unexpected but inspired pairing of modern sci-fi and classic monster art. Inside: Star Wars (Tusken Raider), Taste the Blood of Dracula, Thriller TV series, and Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory, and Basil Gogos, Carrie Fisher, Boris Karloff, and Randy Palmer.

Rip the cellophane off this one in the replies — favorite moments, worst nightmares, cover love, all welcome. ⬇️

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