Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Variant Issue
U.K. Price Variant · United Kingdom Market
FM #2 U.K. Price Variant
United Kingdom Market · Sep-58The second issue's British edition follows the same London-printing, 2/6-pricing formula as the #1 UK variant. Some copies show minor differences — altered cover plugs or the absence of U.S.-specific promotions like the Monster Club. Even scarcer than its predecessor, with just a couple of slabbed examples documented versus dozens of domestic copies. A rare footnote from the era when Famous Monsters was still proving it could survive beyond American newsstands.
Inside This Issue
The sophomore issue, and proof the Big Bang wasn’t a fluke. #2 cements the formula that would carry the magazine for decades — a Boris Karloff profile (“The Monster Who Made a Man”), a Bela Lugosi piece billed “Public Vampire #1,” early horror-host coverage, and a letter from a young Robert Bloch. The foundation, set in print.
Cover Spotlight
Warren returns in a horned Mr. Hyde mask (Fredric March version) with enormous monster hands, lounging cross-legged and holding a card that reads "First Issue Sold Out!" — now bearing a UK price stamp.
☠ Collector's Notes
The bridge from experiment to institution — and, with Issues #1 and #3, part of the 1958 trio every serious run is built on. The Robert Bloch letter in the mail column is an early mark of how close this magazine stood to the genre’s working writers from the very start.
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