Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #156 August 1979 fold-out cover featuring terrifying color still from Ridley Scott's Alien 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #156

Aug-79 • Photograph
Inside This Issue

Deep space gets scary: Issue #156 reviews Alien behind a fold-out cover still, and the future keeps coming — an early preview of The Empire Strikes Back, Bond’s space-bound Moonraker, and the mannequin nightmare Tourist Trap in filmbook form. A farewell remembers veteran character actor Victor Kilian.

Cover Spotlight

A color still from ALIEN — Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece of deep-space horror, captured in a fold-out cover that gave FM the room to do it justice.

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Contents

  • Darn Tootin'!
  • The Time Chronicles
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Moonraker
  • Fantasy Film Sweepstakes
  • Alien
  • Birthday Greetings
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
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Films Featured

AlienThe Empire Strikes BackMoonrakerTourist Trap
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Personalities

Harrison FordStanley Kubrick
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Bylines & Contributors

Ronald N. Waite

☠ Collector's Notes

The fold-out Alien cover makes Issue #156 the start of FM’s Alien arc — and the early Empire Strikes Back preview gives it double time-capsule duty. Sci-fi-horror collectors treat this stretch as a set.

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FM #156 — August 1979

A color still from ALIEN — Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece of deep-space horror, captured in a fold-out cover that gave FM the room to do it justice. Inside: Alien, The Empire Strikes Back, Moonraker, and Tourist Trap, and Harrison Ford, Stanley Kubrick, and Ronald N. Waite.

What's your memory of FM #156? Got a copy? Got a favorite bit? Let's hear it. ⬇️

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