The Midnight Reel

41 reels out of the crypt — slabs turning under the light, raw cover sets fanned out, monsters getting their close-ups. Page through them here, then follow any reel back to the issue it came from.

Showing all 41 reels

Ads and Backstage · 0:07

Dick Smith's Split Face makeup from the 1965 Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-Up Handbook

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Graded Book Flyover · 0:31

The Ghoul's Eye Edition (Nuetzell's War of the Worlds Martian under a Willow Grove Amusement Park sticker)

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Graded Book Flyover · 0:31

The Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-Up Handbook by Dick Smith (Warren, 1965)

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Graded Book Showcase · 0:14

Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis the Mummy (Vic Prezio cover) / CGC 9.0

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Raw Cover Sets · 0:27

Ron Cobb's FM cover run, 1965 to 1971 (10 covers incl. two Monster World dual-titles)

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The Universal Frankenstein cycle, 1931 to 1942, as Famous Monsters showed it

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 4:03

Bela Lugosi and Carroll Borland from Mark of the Vampire (Peter Green cover)

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Collectors Crypt "The Early Years" - six for-sale early graded FM issues (4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13), 1959-1961; Nuetzell-to-Gogos cover arc

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Ads and Backstage · 0:29

Collectors Crypt "The Early Years" - six for-sale early graded FM issues (4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13), 1959-1961; Nuetzell-to-Gogos cover arc

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Ads and Backstage · 0:25

Best Cover Championship - fan-voted double-elim bracket crowning FM 56 (Gogos Karloff memorial Frankenstein) the best cover of the entire original run

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Behind the Scenes - Making the Monsters (Metropolis, Catman of Paris, Man from Planet X, Robert Clarke)

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Ads and Backstage · 0:20

Behind the Scenes - Making the Monsters (Metropolis, Catman of Paris, Man from Planet X, Robert Clarke)

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Ads and Backstage · 0:16

Captain Company mail-order ads (FM 54 - Dracula's Dragster, Iron-Ons, Magnajector)

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 10:43

13 Ghosts cover painting (William Castle, 1960); Special Edition - Dealer's Choice

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 10:18

Tom Tyler as Captain Marvel (montage cover; The Adventures of Captain Marvel, 1941 Republic serial)

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 6:13

Vincent Price (The Pit and the Pendulum)

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Graded Book Flyover · 0:50

Lon Chaney as Quasimodo (1923 Hunchback), Ron Cobb cover

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Graded Book Showcase · 0:10

Creature from the Black Lagoon (Harry Roland cover)

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Raw Cover Sets · 0:24

Ken Kelly FM cover gallery (Vol. 1)

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Mad scientists and their laboratories

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Mad-scientist reel; the 1931 Frankenstein creation lab, a later Frankenstein, the Invisible Man, March's Hyde, Price vs the man-fly, Atwill's wax-museum sculptor, and the Brain That Wouldn't Die

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Mad scientists and their laboratories

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 4:19

Tales from the Crypt (Dominguez skull cover)

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Graded Book Flyover · 0:54

Karloff's Monster and Lanchester's Bride (Gogos cover, The Bride of Frankenstein)

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Graded Book Flyover · 0:38

Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein (Gogos cover)

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Graded Book Showcase · 0:14

German Robles as the vampire of El Vampiro (Ken Kelly cover)

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Graded Book Showcase · 0:14

Christopher Lee as Dracula (Ron Cobb cover)

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Raw Cover Sets · 0:20

Harryhausen creatures on the cover (Vol. 1)

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Raw Cover Sets · 0:20

Vic Prezio cover gallery

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Bela Lugosi and the screen vampires

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Kaiju and giant monsters

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Giant-monster reel from O'Brien stop-motion Kong and Mighty Joe Young to Toho suitmation (Godzilla, Ghidorah, Mothra, Kong vs Godzilla), British Gorgo, The Giant Claw, and Land of the Giants.

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Kaiju and giant monsters

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 9:39

Lon Chaney Sr. as the Phantom of the Opera (cover reproduced from FM #16)

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 4:48

Scream and Scream Again (cover ad art)

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Graded Book Showcase · 0:18

Boris Karloff (Frankenstein Monster) / Karloff Memorial Issue — Graded Book Showcase

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50s and 60s schlock horror films

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Ten drive-in schlock classics as a reel, House of Wax (1953) to Masque of the Red Death (1964)

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50s and 60s schlock horror films

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Raw Cover Sets · 0:17

The Mummy cover gallery (Karloff & Kharis), Vol. 1

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Raw Cover Sets · 0:32

Basil Gogos cover gallery (Vol. 1)

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 6:58

FM 32 (monster model contest cover)

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Graded Book Flyover · 0:41

Boris Karloff (Frankenstein Monster) / Karloff Memorial Issue — Graded Book Flyover

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 4:43

Bela Lugosi (Sayer of the Law, Island of Lost Souls)

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Graded Book Flyover · 0:39

King Kong

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Graded Book Flyover · 0:44

Psycho (Mother)

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 3:11

Horror Hotel (The City of the Dead, 1960)

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 3:29

Creature from the Black Lagoon

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Thumb Thru Thursday · 9:22

Christopher Lee (Hammer monster montage)

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