Famous Monsters of Filmland #58 cover painting of Karloff from THE MUMMY by Basil Gogos 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #58

Oct-69 Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

A Basil Gogos cover from the magazine’s golden stretch — one of the most reproduced in the whole run — fronts a deep issue. #58 carries a full Mummy comic adaptation, a Basil Rathbone feature, and “The Maddest Doctor,” an overview of Lionel Atwill’s mad-scientist turns.

Cover Spotlight

Karloff returns as Imhotep — a painting of THE MUMMY's bandaged face, staring from this cover with the patience of a man who has waited three thousand years and can wait a little longer.

Contents

  • Smile If You...call Him Monster!
  • The Maddest Doctor
  • The Mummy
  • Return of the Vampire
  • The Maltese Bippy
  • The Monster's Victim
  • Frankenstein 1970

Recurring Departments

  • Mystery Photo

Bylines & Contributors

☠ Collector's Notes

You’ve seen this cover even if you’ve never held the issue — the most-reproduced Gogos of them all fronts Issue #58. Owning the image as it first appeared is half the point; the full Mummy comic adaptation inside is the other half.

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FM #58 — October 1969

Karloff returns as Imhotep — a painting of THE MUMMY's bandaged face, staring from this cover with the patience of a man who has waited three thousand years and can wait a little longer. Inside: THE MUMMY, DIE MONSTER DIE, RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE, and BARBARELLA, and Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Peter J. Jarman, and Lionel Atwill.

Got this issue? Read it till the staples fell out? Sound off. ⬇️

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