Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Variant Issue
Roland Variant · Philadelphia, PA Market
FM #7 Roland Variant
Philadelphia, PA Market · Jun-60The Philadelphia edition of #7 features cover text reading "REMEMBER ROLAND? HE'S BACK AGAIN ON PAGE 34" — a nod to John Zacherle's earlier Philly persona on WCAU-TV, before he moved to New York and became Zacherley. Like the WOR-TV variant, this was a fully alternate press run distributed only in the Philadelphia market. Together with the Ghoul's Eye #4 and the WOR-TV #7, it completes a trio of Philly-area FM variants that document the city's outsized role in early monster kid culture.
Inside This Issue
An Albert Nuetzel cover fronts a curio collectors love. #7 runs a Zacherley feature and the famous “Mad Labs” photo of Forry alongside Nancy Reagan on the set of Donovan’s Brain, plus an early letter from a young Bill Warren — the future genre historian getting his start on the FM letters page.
Cover Spotlight
The Zacherley cover in its Roland variant — the same painting, a different distribution imprint, and a genuine prize for collectors hunting the complete FM variant set.
☠ Collector's Notes
Few issues photograph their era like this one — the future First Lady on a monster-movie set, printed in a monster magazine. The “Mad Labs” photo gives Issue #7 conversation-piece appeal well beyond the genre, and the Bill Warren letter adds a footnote of fandom history.
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