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Hammer’s snake-woman coils across Issue #79’s photo cover — The Reptile at its most hypnotic. The issue casts a wide net: Lon Chaney Jr. “Talks to You,” the Caped Crusader swings in with “Batman and the Super Stars,” and Christopher Lee’s Dracula, Prince of Darkness shares space with the German krimi chiller Dead Eyes of London.
THE REPTILE in color — a photo from Hammer's 1966 tale of a woman cursed to transform into a venomous snake — marking the last issue to carry the Monster World banner alongside FM.
Camp-wave evidence: Batman swinging through a monster magazine dates Issue #79 to 1966 as surely as carbon. The German krimi coverage (Dead Eyes of London) gives it a continental wrinkle the era’s other books mostly lack.
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FM #79 / Monster World #10 — September 1966
THE REPTILE in color — a photo from Hammer's 1966 tale of a woman cursed to transform into a venomous snake — marking the last issue to carry the Monster World banner alongside FM. Inside: THE REPTILE, SURF TERROR, BATMAN, and HOUSE OF THE DAMNED, and Lon Chaney Jr..
Who had this one on their shelf? Who swiped it from an older cousin? Spill. ⬇️
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