Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #150 January 1978 landmark cover featuring four-armed insect monster from Battlestar Galactica 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #150

Jan-79 • Photograph
Inside This Issue

One hundred fifty issues of monsters! Issue #150 celebrates the milestone with “The World Applauds” and “150 Fantastic Films,” then gets down to business: a Mighty Joe Young filmbook begins, “Galactica or Star Wars, Which Is Best?” stokes the great debate, and “Happy Birthday — Dear Dracula” toasts twenty years of Hammer’s Horror of Dracula. A holiday-season landmark with Mighty Joe Claus on the masthead.

Cover Spotlight

A photo of the four-armed alien creature from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA — the kind of rubber-suited monster that proved television sci-fi was taking its creature design seriously.

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Contents

  • Merry Xmas from Mighty Joe Claus
  • The World Applauds
  • 150 Fantastic Films
  • Galactica or Star Wars, Which Is Best?
  • Dracula Quartet
  • Mighty Joe Young
  • Glad They Were Born
  • A Manimal Dies
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No. 110
  • The Return of Frankenstein
  • Happy Birthday - Dear Dracula
  • Rare Treats
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
  • Graveyard Examiner
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Films Featured

Battlestar GalacticaMighty Joe YoungThe Horror of DraculaThe Return of Frankenstein
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Personalities

Robert Quarry
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Bylines & Contributors

Forrest J AckermanRandy PalmerPaul Linden

☠ Collector's Notes

Milestone issues anchor collections, and Issue #150 is the run’s third great marker after Issues #100 and #142 — celebrity congratulations, a self-celebration in “150 Fantastic Films,” and holiday-season timing. Natural shelf company for the other landmarks.

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FM #150 — January 1979

A photo of the four-armed alien creature from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA — the kind of rubber-suited monster that proved television sci-fi was taking its creature design seriously. Inside: Battlestar Galactica, Mighty Joe Young, The Horror of Dracula, and The Return of Frankenstein, and Forrest J Ackerman, Robert Quarry, Randy Palmer, and Paul Linden.

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