Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Inside This Issue
A Maurice Whitman cover — one of FM’s finest early painters — fronts #31, the issue that launches the first $2,500 Instant Monsters cash-prize contest. Inside, a Mummy’s Hand feature and “Myths of Mister Monster,” a look back at Lon Chaney Sr. A strong early Whitman issue.
Cover Spotlight
Boris Karloff as Imhotep — a painting of THE MUMMY's immortal bandaged revenant, cinema's most dignified and melancholy monster on one of FM's finest early covers.
☠ Collector's Notes
Twenty-five hundred dollars was serious money in the mid-’60s, and the first Instant Monsters contest announcing it made Issue #31 an event on the newsstand. Maurice Whitman’s cover work — underrepresented in the hobby’s memory — rewards a second look.
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