Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #179 November 1981 cover by Basil Gogos featuring The Gorgon and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #179

Nov-81 • Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Hammer myth and new muscle split Issue #179’s cover: a Basil Gogos painting from The Gorgon beside Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Conan. “Conan Is Coming” sounds the sword-and-sorcery horn, Halloween coverage doubles up for Halloween II, “A Decade of the Undead” surveys ten years of zombies, and a Raiders photo album feeds the Indiana Jones faithful. Richard Matheson gets a profile worthy of his legend.

Cover Spotlight

Two images dominate this cover — a Basil Gogos painting of the lethal Gorgon from Hammer's THE GORGON, paired with a color still of Arnold Schwarzenegger as CONAN THE BARBARIAN.

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Contents

  • Timber!
  • Halloween Happenings
  • Birthday Witches
  • Conan Is Coming
  • A Decade of the Undead
  • Halloween Planet
  • Shock Treatment
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
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Films Featured

The GorgonConan the BarbarianHalloween IIRaiders of the Lost ArkWolfenHeartbeeps
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Personalities

Arnold SchwarzeneggerDavid CronenbergRichard Matheson

☠ Collector's Notes

A Gogos Hammer subject sharing space with Schwarzenegger’s Conan makes Issue #179 a literal old-guard/new-guard artifact, and the Matheson profile adds writer-collector pull. Halloween II coverage stamps the slasher moment.

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FM #179 — November 1981

Two images dominate this cover — a Basil Gogos painting of the lethal Gorgon from Hammer's THE GORGON, paired with a color still of Arnold Schwarzenegger as CONAN THE BARBARIAN. Inside: The Gorgon, Conan the Barbarian, Halloween II, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Basil Gogos, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Cronenberg, and Richard Matheson.

Tell us the first monster from this one that lived in your head rent-free. ⬇️

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