Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #170 January 1981 cover featuring color stills from Battle Beyond the Stars, Max von Sydow in Flash Gordon, and poster art from The Awakening 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #170

Jan-81 • Photograph
Inside This Issue

Space opera wall to wall: Issue #170 previews Roger Corman’s Battle Beyond the Stars, De Laurentiis’ Flash Gordon with Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless, and Ken Russell’s mind-bending Altered States. The Awakening brings mummy horror back, and Hawk the Slayer sneaks sword-and-sorcery onto the bill.

Cover Spotlight

Three images fill this cover — a color still from BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, Max Von Sydow in imperial menace from FLASH GORDON, and poster art from THE AWAKENING.

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Contents

  • Comb and Get It
  • Tour of the Universe
  • Futuria Fantasia
  • Birthday Witches
  • Altered States
  • Battle Beyond the Stars
  • Skywalker Meets Stella Star
  • Flash Gordon Lives Again
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No. 127
  • The Awakening
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
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Films Featured

Battle Beyond the StarsFlash GordonThe AwakeningAltered StatesHawk the Slayer
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Personalities

Max von SydowBoris KarloffClaude Rains

☠ Collector's Notes

Issue #170 reads like a map of the 1980–81 release calendar, and its Flash Gordon material has aged into camp-classic collectibility. Corman’s space opera rounds the picture.

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FM #170 — January 1981

Three images fill this cover — a color still from BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, Max Von Sydow in imperial menace from FLASH GORDON, and poster art from THE AWAKENING. Inside: Battle Beyond the Stars, Flash Gordon, The Awakening, and Altered States, and Max von Sydow, Boris Karloff, and Claude Rains.

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