Famous Monsters of Filmland #62 cover painting of Fredric March as Mr Hyde by Basil Gogos 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #62

Feb-70 Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Fredric March’s Oscar-winning Hyde leers out of Issue #62, captured under Basil Gogos’s brush — still the definitive transformation decades on. The issue runs in serial mode, with part-two installments of both “The Thing from Another World” and “Mark of the Vampire,” the full Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde filmbook, and the unsettling “Clown at Midnight.”

Cover Spotlight

Fredric March's Mr. Hyde in paint — the Academy Award-winning transformation that set the template for every Jekyll-and-Hyde horror that followed.

Contents

  • The Mark of the Vampire, Part II
  • The Thing from Another World, Part II
  • Who Goes There?
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Clown at Midnight

Recurring Departments

  • Inside Ackerman
  • Fang Mail
  • Lurking Ahead
  • Mystery Photo
  • You Axed for It

Personalities

Bylines & Contributors

☠ Collector's Notes

Still the rare Oscar on a monster-magazine cover: Fredric March’s Hyde won Best Actor for 1932, and Gogos painting that face ties Issue #62 to the genre’s one early moment of Academy glory. The stacked part-two serials inside mark the era’s to-be-continued rhythm.

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FM #62 — February 1970

Fredric March's Mr. Hyde in paint — the Academy Award-winning transformation that set the template for every Jekyll-and-Hyde horror that followed. Inside: MARK OF THE VAMPIRE, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, LI'L ABNER, and DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, and Forrest J Ackerman and Fredric March.

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