Famous Monsters of Filmland #43 cover painting of Christopher Lee as Dracula rising from the tomb by Ron Cobb 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #43

Mar-67 • Ron Cobb
Inside This Issue

A Ron Cobb cover fronts #43, which spans the genre from gothic to space-age: a House of Dracula filmbook, a photo feature on the then-new Fantastic Voyage, and a report on the Count Dracula Society Awards. Verne Langdon’s makeup series rounds it out.

Cover Spotlight

Christopher Lee's Dracula rises from the tomb — fangs bared, red eyes blazing, every inch the undead aristocrat that Hammer Films had been dreaming of.

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Contents

  • Dracula Flies Again
  • Fantastic Voyage
  • Headlines from Horrorsville
  • In the Days of the Dinosaurs
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Recurring Departments

  • Headlines from Horrorsville
  • The Scream Test
  • You Axed For It
  • Mystery Photo
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Films Featured

Fantastic VoyageThe Animal WorldHouse of DraculaTaboos of the WorldJourney to the Seventh Planet
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Personalities

Christopher LeeVerne LangdonEllis Burman
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Bylines & Contributors

Forrest J Ackerman

☠ Collector's Notes

Organized fandom, entering the record: the Count Dracula Society Awards report in Issue #43 documents the hobby building its own institutions. Langdon’s “Focus on Ellis Burman” keeps the makeup-masters series — a quiet jewel of the era — running.

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FM #43 — March 1967

Christopher Lee's Dracula rises from the tomb — fangs bared, red eyes blazing, every inch the undead aristocrat that Hammer Films had been dreaming of. Inside: FANTASTIC VOYAGE, THE ANIMAL WORLD, HOUSE OF DRACULA, and TABOOS OF THE WORLD, and Christopher Lee, Verne Langdon, Ellis Burman, and Forrest J Ackerman.

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

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