Famous Monsters of Filmland #25 October 1963 cover with King Kong in red letters four stills and drawing from film 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #25

Oct-63 • Collage
Inside This Issue

A landmark: #25 is FM’s tribute issue and love letter to the greatest monster movie ever made. “The Kong of Kongs” runs a sweeping King Kong history, joined by a Vincent Price profile and a report on plans for a Hollywood museum to house the original Kong and Frankenstein sets. A key issue for any Kong collector.

Cover Spotlight

Bold red lettering spells out KING KONG across this cover, surrounding four film stills and an original drawing — a tribute issue and a love letter to the greatest monster movie ever made.

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Contents

  • Inside James Warren, Inside Greenest Ackerman
  • Post Mortem
  • Future Tense!
  • Vincent the Invincible
  • Hollywood Film Museum to Capture Kong, Feature Frankenstein
  • Death's Grim Counterfeit
  • Litter to a Werewolf
  • The Mummy That Came to Life
  • The Kong of Kongs
  • The Amazing Ackermonster
  • Hall of Fame
  • Haunt Ads
  • Out of Hyding
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Recurring Departments

  • You Axed for It
  • Mystery Photo
  • Hidden Horrors
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Films Featured

King KongFrankensteinThe Premature BurialAttack of the 50 Foot WomanThe Hound of the Baskervilles
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Personalities

James WarrenForry AckermanVincent PriceRay RussellCharles Beaumont
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Bylines & Contributors

K. Vazau Virlup

☠ Collector's Notes

The Kong book. Any King Kong collection that takes itself seriously shelves Issue #25 beside the films themselves — one of FM’s earliest single-subject tribute issues, a format the magazine would return to for the rest of its run.

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Related Issues

More issues from 1963
Famous Monsters of Filmland #21 February 1963 cover retouched photo by Basil Gogos from Bride of Frankenstein #21 Feb-63 Famous Monsters of Filmland #22 April 1963 cover retouched photo of Bela Lugosi killing Dwight Frye from Dracula with fake head from The Raven #22 Apr-63 Famous Monsters of Filmland #23 June 1963 cover painting by Basil Gogos of Giant Dean Parkin from War of the Colossal Beast #23 Jun-63 Famous Monsters of Filmland #24 August 1963 uncredited cover painting of Henry Hull as Werewolf of London #24 Aug-63 NEXT ISSUE → Famous Monsters of Filmland #26 January 1964 uncredited cover painting of Robert Culp alien from Outer Limits Architects of Fear #26 Jan-64

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FM #25 — October 1963

Bold red lettering spells out KING KONG across this cover, surrounding four film stills and an original drawing — a tribute issue and a love letter to the greatest monster movie ever made. Inside: King Kong, Frankenstein, The Premature Burial, and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, and James Warren, Forry Ackerman, Vincent Price, and Ray Russell.

Who had this one on their shelf? Who swiped it from an older cousin? Spill. ⬇️

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