Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #177 September 1981 cover featuring Yoda from The Empire Strikes Back and Christopher Reeve from Superman 2 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #177

Sep-81 • Collage
Inside This Issue

A fan makes good in Issue #177: The Beast Within preview talks with Paul Clemens — the same FM reader whose Exorcist drawings ran in Issue #111, now starring in the title role. Yoda and Superman share the cover, and the preview parade runs deep: An American Werewolf in London, “Darth Rader” on Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman II, Outland, and the spoof Saturday the 14th.

Cover Spotlight

Two color stills share this cover — Yoda dispensing hard-won wisdom from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and Christopher Reeve's Superman from SUPERMAN II, the sequel that finally gave the Man of Steel adversaries worthy of him.

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Contents

  • The Eyes Have It
  • Screams of the Shiver Screen
  • The Empire Strikes Back-an Inner View of Outer Space
  • Birthday Witches
  • Deadly Blessing
  • An American Werewolf in London
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No. 134
  • Superman 2
  • Saturday the 14th
  • Sirki's Scythe
  • Darth Rader
  • Outland
  • For Your Eyes Only
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
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Films Featured

The Empire Strikes BackSuperman IIAn American Werewolf in LondonDeadly BlessingThe Beast WithinRaiders of the Lost Ark
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Personalities

Christopher ReeveDon GlutPaul Clemens
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Monsters & Characters

Yoda

☠ Collector's Notes

The Paul Clemens story — from FM reader to horror lead — makes Issue #177 a touchstone of the magazine’s fan-family mythology. The preview-parade contents read like a 1981 release calendar.

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FM #177 — September 1981

Two color stills share this cover — Yoda dispensing hard-won wisdom from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and Christopher Reeve's Superman from SUPERMAN II, the sequel that finally gave the Man of Steel adversaries worthy of him. Inside: The Empire Strikes Back, Superman II, An American Werewolf in London, and Deadly Blessing, and Yoda, Christopher Reeve, Don Glut, and Paul Clemens.

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

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