Famous Monsters of Filmland 1965 Yearbook cover featuring Glenn Strange as Frankenstein Monster 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland 1965 Yearbook

Sep-65 • James Bama
Inside This Issue

Glenn Strange’s Frankenstein Monster fronts the 1965 yearbook — “Don’t Be a Bat-Fink!” orders Warren’s editorial — and the reprints run a strong early-’60s gauntlet: Hammer’s Curse of the Werewolf from Issue #12, “Gorgo the Gargantuan” from Issue #11, Poe’s Pit and the Pendulum from Issue #14, and “Lon Chaney Shall Not Die!” with the famous London After Midnight vampire photo.

Cover Spotlight

Glenn Strange in full Frankenstein Monster regalia — Universal's third and final actor to wear the iconic makeup, featured on this special yearbook cover.

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Contents

  • Don't Be a Bat-fink!
  • Curse of the Werewolf
  • Readers' Die Jest
  • Gorgo the Gargantuan
  • Lon Chaney Shall Not Die!
  • Down Below with E.A. Poe
  • Inside Darkest Acula
  • The Boy Who Became a Monster
  • Death's Deputy
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Recurring Departments

  • The Scream Test
  • Hidden Horrors
  • Monsterama Quiz

☠ Collector's Notes

The 1965 yearbook’s London After Midnight Chaney photo is the kind of page that made annuals treasured — the lost film’s imagery circulating through FM reprints. A solid mid-’60s annual for the Universal-and-Hammer collector.

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Famous Monsters of Filmland — 1965 Yearbook

A full year of creature features bound in one volume. Glenn Strange in full Frankenstein Monster regalia — Universal's third and final actor to wear the iconic makeup, featured on this special yearbook cover.

Which spread from the 1965 Yearbook did you linger on longest? ⬇️

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