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 Vic Prezio cover fronts #36, but the keeper is the “Monster Make-Up Handbook” by a young Dick Smith — the future Oscar-winning makeup legend — a how-to monster kids pored over for years. Filmbooks on The Alligator People, The Mummy’s Ghost, and The Return of the Fly fill out the issue.
Cover Spotlight
Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis the Mummy — Universal's bandage-wrapped avenger, shambling across this cover in a painting from the 1940s mummy cycle.
Roll The Film
Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis the Mummy (Vic Prezio cover) / CGC 9.0
Graded Book Showcase 0:14
CGC 9.0 White pages showcase of FM 36 (Dec 1965); Vic Prezio paints Chaney Jr. as KHARIS, not Karloff's Imhotep, and the issue carries the complete Mummy's Ghost filmbook; slab label credits interior art to Angelo Torres; census 78 certified, avg 8.34, 23 grade higher; the reverse is a Captain Company Don Post Studios Hollywood Masks ad at $34 a mask
☠ Collector's Notes
The Dick Smith make-up pages are the draw — the kind of how-to that raised a generation of effects artists out of basements and bathroom mirrors. Issues that taught something always keep their audience, and Issue #36 taught monsters.
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