Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
The Midnight Reel
73 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 73 reels
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Captain Company Calling, five mail-order pages (plastic skulls, spy gadgets, Warren posters, a ten-foot balloon)
Ads and Backstage 0:28
"Great fun explaining to mother what happened after you're kicked out of school!"; a germanium radio for "civilian defense broadcasts"; the issue 93 cover as a $2 poster; "OWN YOUR OWN PLANET!"
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Captain Company Calling, five mail-order pages (plastic skulls, spy gadgets, Warren posters, a ten-foot balloon)
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King Kong on the FM cover, eight covers from February 1960 to August 1978
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RKO's monster, not Universal's; Nuetzell's hidden Chaney Phantom; a reader's diorama on issue 32; Gogos painted Kong twice; the 1976 remake was mostly Rick Baker in a suit; A*P*E crashes the party on 146
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King Kong on the FM cover, eight covers from February 1960 to August 1978
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Queens of Scream, nine women of classic horror from Dracula (1931) to the Hammer years
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FM's "X-Wray Sighs" caption; Lanchester modeled the Bride's hiss on swans; Verdugo's Ilonka fires the silver bullet; a Dracula film with no Dracula; FM's Black Sunday pun; Ingrid Pitt escaped Stutthof
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Queens of Scream, nine women of classic horror from Dracula (1931) to the Hammer years
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The Back Pages, four more Captain Company mail-order pages (posters, library cases, radio tapes, hobby kits)
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A six-foot Jack Davis Frankenstein for $1.50; "Orson Wells"; the pulled Aurora Monster Scenes kits resurfacing "available only through Capt. Co."
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The Back Pages, four more Captain Company mail-order pages (posters, library cases, radio tapes, hobby kits)
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The Fan Pages, the reader departments, fan club and back issue page of mid-60s Famous Monsters
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The FM 32 contents page lays out the reader departments; You Axed For It is a TV pun; the Queens Creatures caption; issue 7 already cost double issue 19
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The Fan Pages, the reader departments, fan club and back issue page of mid-60s Famous Monsters
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Movie Magic, behind-the-scenes photos 1940 to 1964 (young Ray Harryhausen twice, This Island Earth on set, Forry in The Time Travelers)
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Harryhausen's Evolution reel got him the Puppetoons job; Jack Arnold reshot the Metaluna sequence; Forry as the technician in The Time Travelers
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Movie Magic, behind-the-scenes photos 1940 to 1964 (young Ray Harryhausen twice, This Island Earth on set, Forry in The Time Travelers)
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Werewolves on the FM cover, Hull, Chaney and Reed, 1961 to 1975
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Gogos is the only painter in the set who did all three screen wolves; Hull, the forgotten one, holds three of the ten
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Werewolves on the FM cover, Hull, Chaney and Reed, 1961 to 1975
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The Famous Monsters Yearbooks and Fear Books, all ten annuals 1962 to 1972
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The annuals existed because the early issues sold out; James Bama's 1965 cover; Yearbook becomes Fear Book in 1969
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The Famous Monsters Yearbooks and Fear Books, all ten annuals 1962 to 1972
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Karloff Without the Bolts, seven Boris Karloff roles beyond the Frankenstein Monster (1932 to 1963) plus a gag shot
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The Mummy's bandages are only in the opening scene; FM's six-word Invisible Ray caption; Karloff strangles Van Helsing himself in Before I Hang
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Karloff Without the Bolts, seven Boris Karloff roles beyond the Frankenstein Monster (1932 to 1963) plus a gag shot
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Every Monster Needs an Igor, the henchmen 1931 to 1961
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The hunchbacked assistant was Fritz, not Igor; Lugosi's Ygor was no assistant; the one actually named Igor is the madman
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Every Monster Needs an Igor, the henchmen 1931 to 1961
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FM Goes Galactic, the space age covers
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Star Wars takes the cover in Sept 1977 and science fiction rides it to the final Warren issue in March 1983
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FM Goes Galactic, the space age covers
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From the Ad to the Shelf, monster model kits by mail order
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Three Captain Company kit ads (Philadelphia-era Superman, the New York Wolfwagon, the glow kits) then two built Aurora figure kits
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From the Ad to the Shelf, monster model kits by mail order
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Homemade vintage Halloween costumes
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Homemade vintage Halloween costumes
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Frankenstein's Monster, eight actors from Karloff to Prowse
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One Monster per actor in date order; Lugosi's frame is FM's own caption crediting stunt double Eddie Parker; Hammer vs Universal look
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Frankenstein's Monster, eight actors from Karloff to Prowse
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Graded Book Showcase · 0:14
Famous Monsters of Filmland issue 126, CGC 9.2, Gogos paints Mr. Sardonicus
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Raw Cover Sets · 0:27
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Thumb Thru Thursday · 8:26
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Best Cover Competition, the six range champions
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The six per-range BCC champions in issue order, 16 through 188, and the artists behind them
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Best Cover Competition, the six range champions
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Ads and Backstage · 0:14
Don Post Universal Pictures rubber monster masks, Captain Company
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Captain Company rubber masks and monster kits, FM 93 page 73
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Thumb Thru Thursday · 6:50
Fredric March as Mr. Hyde (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931), painted by Maurice Whitman
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Thumb Thru Thursday · 11:19
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Thumb Thru Thursday · 8:53
Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man (uncredited cover), Monster World number 1
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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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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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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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Behind the Scenes - Making the Monsters (Metropolis, Catman of Paris, Man from Planet X, Robert Clarke)
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Behind the Scenes - Making the Monsters (Metropolis, Catman of Paris, Man from Planet X, Robert Clarke)
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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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Graded Book Flyover · 0:50
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Graded Book Showcase · 0:10
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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
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Graded Book Showcase · 0:14
German Robles as the vampire of El Vampiro (Ken Kelly cover)
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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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Graded Book Showcase · 0:18
Boris Karloff (Frankenstein Monster) / Karloff Memorial Issue — Graded Book Showcase
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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
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Nothing in tonight’s programme matches that. Try a monster, an artist, or a year.
