Famous Monsters of Filmland #32 March 1965 cover photo of Lance Herpeck monster model winner scene from King Kong 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #32

Mar-65 Photograph
Inside This Issue

#32 hands the cover to a reader — Monster Model Contest winner Lance Herpeck — and inside delivers a full comic recreation of Hammer’s Horror of Dracula, the kind of feature collectors prize. “Monster Land U.S.A.” catches the cresting Munsters mania, with a Hideous Sun Demon filmbook rounding it out.

Cover Spotlight

Monster Model Contest winner Lance Herpeck's painstaking diorama recreating a scene from KING KONG — a cover celebrating the monster kids who built their own little worlds.

Contents

  • What Kind of Monster Reads Fmof?
  • Monster Mail Call
  • Monster Land U.S.A.
  • Terrible Terror from Tucson
  • Master Model Maker Winners
  • Horror of Dracula
  • Face 1001
  • Two on a Guillotine
  • Hyde from the Sun
  • Headlines from Horrorsville
  • House at the End of the World

Recurring Departments

  • You Axed for It
  • Mystery Photo

Personalities

Bylines & Contributors

☠ Collector's Notes

The clubhouse promise, kept: a reader’s own Kong diorama on the cover of a national magazine. Issue #32 is the run’s clearest proof that FM belonged to its fans — and a charming outlier for anyone collecting the covers as a set.

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FM #32 — March 1965

Monster Model Contest winner Lance Herpeck's painstaking diorama recreating a scene from KING KONG — a cover celebrating the monster kids who built their own little worlds. Inside: King Kong, The Munsters, Horror of Dracula, and Two on a Guillotine, and Lance Herpeck and Lon Chaney Sr..

Which page from this issue is burned into your brain? Drop it below. ⬇️

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