Famous Monsters of Filmland #57 cover painting of a scene from THE GREEN SLIME by Vic Livoti 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #57

Sep-69 Vic Livoti
Inside This Issue

Issue #57 oozes onto the stands behind a Vic Livoti painting from the gloriously goopy The Green Slime. Boris Karloff anchors the issue as “The Undying Monster” in a Frankenstein retrospective, Robert Bloch lends his wit, and Invasion of the Vampires hauls Mexican gothic into the lineup — pulp horror at its most globe-trotting.

Cover Spotlight

A painting from THE GREEN SLIME — the 1968 Japanese-American co-production's tentacled electric monsters, gloriously and unapologetically over the top.

Contents

  • Invasion of the Vampires
  • The Green Slime
  • The Undying Monster, Frankenstein

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☠ Collector's Notes

A rarer signature: Vic Livoti’s Green Slime painting gives Issue #57 one of the run’s least-common cover credits, a draw for artist-roster completists. Inside, the “Undying Monster” retrospective continues the long goodbye to Karloff begun in Issue #56.

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FM #57 — September 1969

A painting from THE GREEN SLIME — the 1968 Japanese-American co-production's tentacled electric monsters, gloriously and unapologetically over the top. Inside: INVASION OF THE VAMPIRES, THE GREEN SLIME, and FRANKENSTEIN, and Forrest J Ackerman, Basil Gogos, Robert Bloch, and Boris Karloff.

Rip the cellophane off this one in the replies — favorite moments, worst nightmares, cover love, all welcome. ⬇️

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