Famous Monsters of Filmland #81 December 1970 cover painting from Jungle Captive by Harold Shull featuring horror monster themes 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #81

Dec-70 Harold Shull
Inside This Issue

Harold Shull paints the jungle terror of Captive Wild Woman for Issue #81. It’s a craftsman’s issue: makeup godfather Dick Smith gets his due, Lionel Atwill and Victor Jory prowl through Universal-era chillers, and the long-lost Mystery of the Wax Museum melts back into view.

Cover Spotlight

A painting from JUNGLE CAPTIVE — Universal's third and final Paula the Ape Woman film, now remembered chiefly as the one without Acquanetta.

Contents

  • Captive Wild Woman
  • Isle of Lost Souls
  • Fires of Death
  • Just Imagine
  • He Killed Dorian Gray
  • The House in the Twilight Zone

Recurring Departments

  • Speaking of Monsters
  • Fang Mail
  • Mystery Photo
  • Girls and Ghouls Gallery
  • You Axed for It
  • Graveyard Examiner
  • Hidden Horrors
  • Professor Gruebeard

Bylines & Contributors

☠ Collector's Notes

B-picture rehabilitation, FM specialty: Captive Wild Woman was nobody’s idea of prestige until pages like these treated it with care. Harold Shull’s cover — an uncommon credit — adds roster interest to Issue #81.

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FM #81 — December 1970

A painting from JUNGLE CAPTIVE — Universal's third and final Paula the Ape Woman film, now remembered chiefly as the one without Acquanetta. Inside: CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN, ISLE OF LOST SOULS, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, and JUST IMAGINE, and Victor Jory, Dick Smith, Lionel Atwill, and Forry Ackerman.

Rip the cellophane off this one in the replies — favorite moments, worst nightmares, cover love, all welcome. ⬇️

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