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Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Variant Issue
WOR-TV/Zacherley Variant · New York City Market
FM #7 WOR-TV/Zacherley Variant
New York City Market · Jun-60A New York City regional edition with custom cover text tailored for Zacherley's audience on WOR-TV Channel 9. Unlike the sticker variants of #4 and #6, this was a fully alternate press run — different plates, different text, printed specifically for the NYC market. Issue #7 is the most variant-heavy early number, with three distinct printed covers all featuring Albert Nuetzel art. A tiny subset of 100–200 copies also included a removable "Lucky 7" coupon for a free lifetime subscription, but none are known to survive intact because readers had to mail the page in. By issue #8, this kind of hyper-regional experimentation vanished as national distribution stabilized.
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
TV's beloved ghoul-host Zacherley gets the FM treatment, painted with the little Chaney Phantom perched on his shoulder — this WOR-TV promotional variant is all but impossible to find today.
☠ 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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