Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #188 October 1982 cover featuring classic Basil Gogos and Sanjulian paintings of Wolf Man, Dracula, and Frankenstein Monster 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #188

Oct-82 Collage
Inside This Issue

Issue #188’s cover collects three of the magazine’s own classic paintings — FM flipping through its own scrapbook. Inside is pure Universal homecoming: House of Frankenstein, The Mummy’s Ghost, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, with the John Carradine retrospective rolling on.

Cover Spotlight

Three iconic FM cover paintings gathered together — the Chaney Wolf Man and Lugosi Dracula by Basil Gogos, and the Karloff Frankenstein Monster by Sanjulian — a retrospective in paint.

Contents

  • No Joltin' Around
  • House of Frankenstein
  • The Mummy's Ghost
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Phantom Strikes Again
  • Monster Movie Marathon

Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail

☠ Collector's Notes

A cover made of FM covers gives Issue #188 a self-referential charm collectors love — Gogos and Sanjulian honored by the very magazine they defined — and the all-Universal reprint contents make it a natural classics sampler.

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FM #188 — October 1982

Three iconic FM cover paintings gathered together — the Chaney Wolf Man and Lugosi Dracula by Basil Gogos, and the Karloff Frankenstein Monster by Sanjulian — a retrospective in paint. Inside: House of Frankenstein, The Mummy's Ghost, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Phantom of the Opera (1925), and Basil Gogos, Sanjulian, Lon Chaney Sr., and Bela Lugosi.

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