Famous Monsters of Filmland #79 / Monster World #10 cover color photo of THE REPTILE 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #79 / Monster World #10 Monster World 10

Sep-66 Photograph
Monster World 10
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Inside This Issue

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.

Cover Spotlight

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.

Contents

  • The Reptiles
  • Surf Terror
  • Lon Chaney Jr. Talks to You
  • Creature's Crossweird Puzzle
  • Batman and the Super Stars
  • Dracula, Prince of Darkness
  • Dead Eyes of London
  • The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

Recurring Departments

  • Hidden Horrors
  • It Asked for You
  • Fang Mail

Personalities

☠ Collector's Notes

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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