Famous Monsters of Filmland 007 1960 Warren Publishing
Famous Monsters of Filmland 007 1960 Warren Publishing
Famous Monsters of Filmland 007 1960 Warren Publishing
CYCLOPS
EVIL EYE
ILLUSTRATED
MAD
LABORATORIES
aEE
ZACHERIIY
FRIDAY AT 9:00 P.M. SUNDAY AT 10:30 A.M. SATURDAY AT 12:00 NOON
WOR-TV
CHANNEL
Eenie, meanie, miney-MOLE! I'm a mole cowhand from the Rio Grande. GRANDE I tril for the ACADEMY A-WART but was beot oot by an actor named WART BOND.
we a nave gotien wind ol you beiore now: either one ot your eggsfriends would have rotten to us about vou, or vou would have been right under our noses on Smellovision in SKUNKENSTEIN STRIPES
BACK!
To all you Ache Heads everywhere who have supported us faithfully during our first two years of publication, we say: thank you for egging us on into our third, we're glad we cracked you up. Since you stopped stealing the magazine and started paying for it, vour contributions of 35c an issue, poultry as thev might seem, have made possible our eggstraordinary success. That is why Dr. Acula, Igor, Phvllis the Menace, and .Ml the Gang, join in wishing you the Best Easter ever. May your eggs all hatch dinosaurs and your rabbits turn into robots (or, as Tobor said: "Hare today and gone to-marrow.") Our 8th issue, :? months from now, will be our Special Father's Day Issue and for every boy and girl who has a Father, we "suggest instead of a tie or bo.\ of candy you give Pop something he has always d for, something useful, something to be treasured and lost as much as the dav Mom
iH
EKS OF filmland:
In the meantime, Happy Hunting mav all vour Easter Eggs be as lip-smacking good as we guarantee vou this issue is!
FORREST
.1.
EGGERMAN
and
JAMES WARREN
If
gripping scne from DR. CYCLOPS, as the victim oaks: "How about letting me read your palm, huh, doc?" See Hie exciting feature CYCLOPS & LOLLIPOPS-on page 24 of this issue.
COVn
Dieting
6 DEAR MONSTER
Pin Pals of the World, Unite! Stop poking pens into
Voodoo Dolls, instead stick them in ink and then sit down and tell us what you think of our magazany. We can take
it!
selves, telling us
out.
FORREST J ACKERMAN
odlter
MAN
PHYLLIS PARKAS
IT
O'Teen and his Necks of Kin oblige with by you Headstrong Readers.
23
JAMES WARREN
publisher
FAMOUS MONSTfU or riUAlAND.
Vof'JllflQ
READERS' DiE.JiST The Best and the Worst, the Blessed and the Cursed, the Unrehearsed and the Hearsed, carefully culld from our
soft-skulled readers' craniums.
24
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7,
No.
7.
Publlihd
quortwly
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Clfol hihlitolion..
Inc.; EcUlotldl
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was
Told. About Dr. Cyclops' crush about one-hundredth his size. The original picin Tinycolor and Minimascope.
34
1
ZACHiRLEY
Zach comes out of his cave
into
his
bf
Cvntr^l
Publtilon>
ghoulish
life
to give us
if
40 MAD
This
LABS
is
worth
its
weight in gold-
46
LETTER
FROM A VAMPIRE
vein.
50 MONSTER
of a
CLUB The Biggest Club since Ug the Caveman carved one out Whole Redwood Tree to down a Dinosaur! Is your name here? For shame, if not! Is your foto here? Get
snapped or shot
Mnrtli SwU CdHwi*, 1. Ftnutai EcbKin. Afu SMihiA. NIhck HimnMl, Jatm Sat. S>ni<d Konior, Al Ltwit, OiiliBpu, Hunt K-hn. WiUiom (. iMpW. TrinI*, ScrHy Waliiaamt. lau Nt>m*lh. Cory.
nnitn ACKMOwtiitvMmni am
IS THE BEAST part of each number, the Department where YOU the readers report on our deportment in past issues. You may blast or bless our efforts, depending on what they warrant in your opinion. Of course the Editor reserves the right to sic Igor on any goryspondent who would do such a sick-sick-sick
THIS
thing as to criticize the teeniest of things in the most perfect of all publications since the invention of the famous Ghoulenberg Press, but don't let that depress you. WINNERS, this issue, for most assistance to Ye Ed: IRVING GLASSMAN (a two-time win
nerl),
IB
MELCHIOR
fiends.
and
BOB
SCHERL. Thanx,
LUCKV #7 TREASURE
!
HUNT
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CHOPPED
LIPS
You can
time
fillers like "You Itched for It," "Terrors of the Time Machine" (I think the George Pal scientlfictions are strictly for the kids), ("King Kong," in 'Kongfidentially Yours my opinion, had a miserable plot, and
"
MONSTERS BROUGHT TO YOUR CAVE, DUNGEON OR DOORSTEP FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. WITHOUT CHARGE, COMPLIMENTS OF PUBLISHER JAIVIES WARREN! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FIND THE LUCKY #7 STAMPED ON A PAGE IN RED INK AND TEAR OUT THAT PAGE AND IT TOGETHER WITH YOUR NAME TO: Mr. Luck, c/o Famous
later, more adut phantasies from rival made better use of special ef'"The Lonely Grave Ribber^" etc. liked the forthcoming film information best of all in #6 but think you overlooked a few tempting items: "The Devil's
studios
fects),
I
The reason
face, writes
Calif., is
can't
SEND
AND ADDRESS
Monsters, 1054 East Upsal St., Philadelphia 50, Penna. THEN SIT BACK AND
RICK SNEARY of South Gate, because I've been licking my lips till they're all chapped. You've heard of that chap. The Headless Horseman? Well,
I'm just in the opposite fix. You see, used to ride to work everyday (my work: chop heads) on a fine horse, and one day there was no other way: had to relieve him of a nagging headache. Since that unfortunate hour I've been without a job ttecause who can use a horseless headsI
RELAX. YOU'RE SET FOR LIFE, YOU'LL NEVER BE WITHOUT YOUR FAVORITE MONSTERS, AND IN 1965 OR '70 OR 1975 WHEN YOU'RE GROWN UP AND MAYBE HAVE A LITTLE MONSTER ALL YOUR OWN, WHY HE OR SHE CAN BE THE PROUDEST BOY OR GIRL IN THE
from Ingmar Bergman, "The Snow Eye Queen," "Eyes Without a Face" and "The Testament of Dr. Cordelier." The 'artiswhich reached its highest level in George M inter's masterpiece, "Svengali," seems to be In for a comeback, tho doubt if any of the new artisaesthetic horrors will detract from tic,
"
"Svengali's" glory.
IRVING
GLASSMAN
Brooklyn, N.Y.
NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE MOM AND POP HAVE A COMPLETE SET OF FAMOUS MONSTERSI Ed.
man?
What do your monster friends call you, Glassman: the Amazing Transparent Man? By golly, even Svengali never tried to exert such a hypnotic effect on Trilby as you do on Or, Acula and all the gang here at the office. Relax because we have no more competition? Perish the thought!
we're
in
consists of millions of microscopic, easily penetratable, poison-tipped pins. If you are now holding this in your hands, you have exactly 5 min. to live. Further-
improve our product and make each Issue more entertaining than the last. As Geo.
you
more, this ink is highly explosive: when looked at, it will blow up the first time will receive a blink. So perhaps postcard from you from Mars?
I
about thelf respective merits or lack of them. Well, it's the difference of opinion
that
makes
horrt
ROBERT McMAHAN
Washington, D.C.
He
call
That Igor Beaver got to your letter first. now we blinked at your statement Ed. him the Ghost Writer in the Sky.
ALLEN McCOLLUM
VAMPIRE'S VAMP
CAIROGLYPHICSI
WILDEST WESTERN
My
is
magazine
called
better than
FAMOUS MONSTERS,
FAVORITE WESTERNS. didn't even get a chance to see FAVORITE WESTERNS because my father took it to work with him.
and everybody wanted
that
It
is
you send
to read
WENDY
LEE RUBIN
Youngster or holster, you'll want to giddyup down to page 66 of this issue and stake yore claim to our NEW magazine.
Ed.
Allow
is
me
to introduce myself;
my name
lilies
Count Scalpela and the lady with the is my ever-llvin' wife. Never a dull
moment
Eeoow!
with this doll, especially when she's sinking her teeth into me. Like now.
1%-
THE COUNT
Chesterland, Ohio
Aw, she's probably just teething you! By the way, don't miss the specDracuIa story about you two on page 46 of this
Issue!
The mysterious message above arrived on a- thirsty piece it was parched for
Ed.
drink of tanacola. We consulted noted Egyptologist ROBERT GIBBONS of SpringMo., for a translation, and he tells us that it says: "Help, am a prisoner in a crocodile on the Nile!" Ed.
field,
I
ruined
my
face,
JOHN QUINN
Philadelphia, Pa.
u^
>^^u
rvriOW THIS
MAN?
Is it Salvador Dali? Is It Svengali? Is It Zacherley without his make-up? Is he a of the Loose Angles' Non-Science
member
friend
and
sters)
have a
its
as
it.
named Richard
for
My
(we're a couple of monslightly broken gun we will owner, a boy we met recently Correll, has no further use friend took the picture and
1 I
& Frenzy Society named Larry (the wolf) Ware better known as Ware-Wolf? We're in a quandry, and it's dark down here. You see, the reader who sent us his pic
took the
rifle.
included a letter of identiflcattbn all right, but between the bookworms and the sllIn our editorial office, when it
verfish
TERRY FOTRE
Los Angeles,
Calif.
SCHOOL GHOUL
cannot take my FAMOUS MONSTERS to but not for the reason you are probably thinking of. It isn't that my teachers object, instead they like it too much! They tear them apart to read them! My former English teacher was kipking at a copy and the principal walked in behind him. Instead of firing him they both read the issue, as did my chemistry teacherl
I
came time to reproduce his letter everything had been eaten up but fragments reading: "I think FAMOUS MONSTERS Is absolutely beyond doubt the most ter[rific
school,
away] magazine which has ever dis[graced or distinguished?] the American scene. In my opinion the editor should be taken to a res[taurant or rest home?] and given
a ban[quet or bandaid?] and then a meof honor or mental examination?]." What your editor and publisher want to
[dal
WART A
I
know
FACE!
is,
do any
.
of
BILL
WARREN
Gardiner, Ore.
Guess
we'll just
to kill sil (Note from the mystified Printer of FAMOUS MONSTERS: Here at the pressroom we don't know whether
Mr. Warren or Mr. Ackerman meant to finish that sentence with "silkworms" or "silverflsh," but due to the chewed up appearance of the letter we suspect the
latter.]
John.
Like
We
That must have been a chemical sight! are gratified that your principal takes an interest in the flender things of Iffe. like to think of our periodical as the
We
Poe man's Halloweenzjne.
Someone
Ed.
.^*i%.
is
in
DFlDINGS
What have we
on the Horrorwood horizon ?
it
looks like a
Roll:
in
monstrous
SHAKE
in
your bottles
RATTLE
like
a snake
an earthquake
Bela Lugosi at
like
^mmi
new
horrorizons
time
to
The man who owns Donovan's Brain, Curt Siodmak himself, phoned me just at press (press time is when Publisher James Warren squeezes his editor in a man-size vise
make sure he extracts every ounce of information from him). Sinister scripter Siodmak, who's created every kind of terror from
at
presenting
commuting
to
new
skelevision series,
#13 DE-
MON STREET.
shot,"
Siodmak
FAMOUS MONSTERS
"Wait I'm too young to die!" cries Pepito in PEPITO AND THE MONSTER; "besides, I've a subscription to FAMOUS MONSTERS running till 1965, and they charge extra for delivery via the Dead Letter OfRcel" From Italy's new
horror film.
readers are going to enjoy watching the entire series. One of the stories, called Mirror, is about a devil's looking-glass that reveals the secret of a weird crime another is Fever, about a mysterious woman in a painting ... a third is Girl in Ice, about a female who is thawed out of a frozen coffin and the frightening things that happen when she is returned to life and the 4th one is The Fortune Teller, about a person with the sometimes dangerous ability to foresee future events."
.
. .
a greater quatermass
So far we have been privileged to see two British-born "Quatermass" TV serials turped into sterling motion pictures the first import, possibly the best monster film of the CREEPyear, several seasons ago, was ING its splendid sequel. EN:
It
what the
toxes our imoginotlon what a couple of Giant Leeches would be doing with a tack, but thirt's title soys; ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHCS.
THE
UNKNOWN; EMY FROM SPACE. (THE CREEPING UNKNOWN now turning up on television,
is
and is on no account to be missed.) Brian Donlevy plays the unorthodox Dr. Quatermass in both, and now we're hoping he'll be invited back to England to star in a filmization of the immensely popular tele-serial,
PIT. Our onthe-spot ace English reporter, Alan Dodd, describes the episodes for us
Buildings in the area of Knightsbridge have had a reputation for some time of being haunted. When an attempt is made to uncover the source of their ghostly visitations, a strange projectile is unearthed in an excavation. The military believe it to be an advance design of a German V weapon, left over from World War II. But when investigators try to penetrate the mystery of the missile's shell, they become possessed of demons Quatei-mass learns the explanation the object is not man-made, it is a crashed ship from interplanetary space, and alien bodies from 2000 years ago are in it At the height of the serial, twelve miUion people were hanging on their telesets, biting their
! !
rs it
a RAT?
Is it
a BAT?
Is it
a SPIDER?
Is it
a CRAB?
first
TALL
MARTIAN MONSTER
down
It's ALL FOUR of them, and men on THi ANGRY USD PLANET.
it's
AWFUL,
this
40 FOOT
to the quick, as panic grew and spread in the vicinity of The Pit. Sounds, indeed, like it would make a very moving pit-cher
fingernails
a different differing
Anton
Diffring, the
new horror
favorite
appears
land,
100+ years from his last picture as he in a new mystery-menace from Eng-
'^
CIRCUS OF HORRORS.
scheduled
for
Lee.
CITY OF THE
DEAD Christopher
A
'x
THE TERROR FROM THE TOMB' got a tomby ache, moans Jerry Stier as The Insider-undead from a coffin in the Miskatonic Cemetery. His friends calf him The incredible Disintegrating Man, disintegrate make-up well, it's one of the greatest WE ever saw!
I '
IS l|E A
Sm Diver?
.
.TuPNPaGe
NQUESASK^^lbhii
"Never dunk a donut/' says noted food authority Dunkin' Mines. Consider, then, how much more impolite it is to dunk a guest! But thot's just what's going on in these scenes from HORRORS OF THI BLACK MUSEUM. And that's a mighty potent brew the old boy is getting dunked in sort of liquid tea 'n' tea. Yes, you guest it: one ducking in tfiot duck soup and he boned up on How to Be a Skeleton!
DR.
JEKYLI^
in the dual
with Christopher Lee, but (surprise!) not in the starring roles. A new horror threat, Paul Massie, will be introduced
parts.
Richard
LION
SACRIFICE
JACK THE RIPPER. And THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. slob, son of the
DIVIDED
amoeba that threatens
Uob
tale of a
WE CONQUER,
mad
has been scripted by Dwayne Avery and will be put into production soon by RayVen Productions as a 20-minute color and wide-
scream successor to THE BESIDE US. Like their first film, the new title will feature Ed Urbank, creator of the You Itched for It feature in #6. Casting is now underway for the role of the amoeba, which must be able to turn green. "No bananas, even green ones, need apply for the part," emphasizes the Casting Director, "as we are not looking for a banana split but an amoeba that is versed in arithmetic in other worlds, can divide and multiply."
WORLD
FM
return of o supermon
Many years ago, so long ago that even your editor was a teenager, an ambitious youngster named Jerome Siegel (who was later, as a writer, to create SUPERMAN) wrote a story called "Visitor from Antares," Sam Moskowitz, the great historian of science fiction happenings, tells us that the young Siegel sold his story to Amazing Stories magazine but it never saw print. Word reaches us that this same "Visitor from Antares" plus a sequel, "Miracles on Antares" has been put into script form, and a ClevelandChicago syndicate plans to film it "with the most incredible cast in the history of filmdom!" Antares is a distant star; and, if she doesn't prove too distant, Faith (THIS ISEARTH) Domergue will be sought to star in the Siegel scientifilm
The Slay Boy ond the Cloy Boy! Dick Miller, as the ofFbeotnik artist (he's kookie in his cranium) in A BUCKET OF BLOOD, admires his latest victim. Beneath that coat of cloy is a pal of his who used to appear on Tal(-o-Vision.
LAND
independent monsters
A new producer, heading up American INDEPENDENT Productions, is lining up a
load of monsterrific pic-plots for production late this year. He's David Hewitt, who flipped over the story of
FRANKENSTEIN
is
FROM SPACE
in
FM#3, and
considering
purchase of
laborator,
self
it
his col-
shooting
ADULTS VANISHED,
clock-eyed
over a time-travel tale (with prehistoric monsters) caUed "Time Wants a Skeleton" by Ross Rocklynne. Other independent monsters on the docket
-include
HORROR
finished,
IN
and featuring a tall Abominable Snowman type scientist from another planet who lands far up in the northern regions of the Arctic Circle. Actually filmed in Lapland!
THE
MAN AND
THE MONSTER.
Some of these 13 thrillers have been completed 'and will be served piping hot at any time, others are still in the oven: who'll prob1. MR. & MRS. ably ride on a (b) icicle built for two. From the Castle of William the Macabre.
MONSTER
introducing
lye say! Icy cold, my Cyclopean store, don't you think? But you'd be a cool customer too if, like me, you came on o Flying Saucer from north by northwest of the Milky Wayl
(From Alex Gordon's MARINE.)
3.
2.
OF
new
thriller-chiller,
loads of
from Planet
FAMOUS MONSTERS'
fa-
vorite beauty, Trina Petit, may be with the beasties in this one.
mixed up
Kenya,
in
TO THE
MOON Fred
Gebhardt's
first film.
of Blood" Miller. 8. KILLER SECRET terror in Shakespeare's tomb! as imagined by lb Melchior, scripter and director of
A ROCKET FROM
FENWICK se-
funny
MOUSE THAT ROARED. And 11. Not eleven, but THIRTEEN GHOSTS!
missing
marquee
and
titles
You can stop worrying about how to spell and pronounce the Russian thriller called
ILYA
MUROMETZ
instead
the
ROW
Larry Maddock- Weaver Wright screen treatment, has become TERROR FROM TOMOR-
HELL AND HIGH WATER has become THE SARGASSO MONSTER DEBBIE AND THE
(Jerome Bixby)
. .
DEMON
known
(Maddock-Howard -Seaman)
as
.
now
TANTE,
Demon
.
referred to in Horrorwood as
STER
temporary
to send
When
lowing:
there'll
you reeling
titles
the hundreds of reels that the folrepresent reach the screen, be real shrieks, shudders and
screams
Cabinet Members
quiet
in THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI try to Krauss. Reason he's lo Krauss is that lying down on the job. That's Conrad, as Cesore the Somnambulist, peacefully sleeping in the fore-
down Werner
is
Conrad Veidt
THE DEVIL (starring the devilish Vincent Price) THE ID THE HAUNTED ... A HARD TIME FOE DRACDLA (Christopher Lee) BEYOND THE
. . .
TIME BARRIER
nightfall, he'll
be up and
TRANSPARENT MAN
Cuddly little pets, these KILLER SHREWS. They'll eat off your hand-right up to the armpit. (Adapted from the world famous ploy The Taming of the Shrews by William Shockspeare.)
JECTED MAN (Frank Quattrocchi) THE MULTIPLE MAN (lb Mclchior) MONSTER IN MY BLOOD (Stuart J. Byrne) HELL IN THE HEAVENS
. . .
. . . .
TRIFFIDS, VILLAGE OF
and
ham
Karel Capek's
.
NEWTS F. Wright Moxley's RED SNOW PHENOMENON ... 18 VISITS TO MARS THE DREAMERS (Ray
.
. .
Bradbury voodoo script) GULLIVER'S (Ray Harryhausen super-dynamation) THE HORROR MAN (based on
.
TRAVELS
. .
THE ATOMIC
SUBMARINE (captained by Alex Gordon as tomorrow's struggle to save the world explodes under the Arctic ice when U.S. killer sub tangles with an alien powei^ from deep space in the depths of a Polar sea!) ...
SATAN'S SATELLITE THE TESTAMENT OF DR. CORDELIER ZEX
. . . .
WORLD (Irwin Allen) ... and Fritz Lang's THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE.
THE DEMOLISHED MAN (John Payne BLACK ORPHEUS IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS (Walt Disney) THE LOST
. . .
*'.**""'" * '"^
***
*"
"'
'ose
to
YOUAXEDFORIT!
Are there any women writers of monster movies, or do only the men hove such monstrous ideas? I am thintcing of writing o script called FORIMAN, THE CREATURE FROM THE ACK LAGOON, but my husband says there is only one monster who would be right for the part, and he is too busy editing this magazine.
C-J
r.
Leigh Brackett wrote THE VAMPIRE'S GHOST. The ghost never wrote back, but Pat Fielder, pictured here, had better luck when she wrote THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD: the creature became a real pen pal. In this pose Pat is seen with a baby monster that she just took out of the pen long enough to have its picture snapped. This is what you call a genuine snapshot: it snapped at Pat and had to be shot J
or
I
made a
bet with
my
wife
tliat
the
famous bondieader, Xovier Cugat, is also artist, and that among his drawings is a cartoon of BORIS KARLOFF. I'd hate to lose face by being wrong can you save my foce? AL ROSEN, Phlla., Pa. (Happy to be the Xovier of your focel)
a great
Any
little
here? Just address your requests to Gory Ackermon mogascream and your favorite scene
will
Dfd Robert Armstrong ever appear in any mtonster pictures besides KING KONG and SON OF KONG? -SLIM MOSKOWITZ, GernsyvMIe, N. Y. [Yes, here he is with the drop-the coffin drop-on George Zucco In THE MAD GHOUL]
I've never forgotten FLASH GORDON in MARS ATTACKS THE WORLD. Any scene from this seriol-fetfture would be more than welcome by BERT ROBLOCH, London, England. (Right you are, guv'nor. Here Aura 15 seen threatening King Kala with her Buck Rogers oops.
Flash
Gordon gun.)
HWas
there ever a picture called THE BOOKIE MEN I think it was about a couple of horrors-thieves.-GARY LUERNEY, Santa Monica, Calif. (What're you, a wise guy or somethin'? Buckin' for a seat in the editorial saddle of FAVORITE WESTERNS? The editor makes with the funny cracks around here. We'd point out that, as a reader, you can be replaced, except we need your 35c for lunch money. Anyway: here are Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff, horsing around in THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU.)
1^
:
IR
THE FLYING SERPENT is a little known horror picture. think it'd be the snake's hips if you could show a sttll from it.-BILL OLSON, Muskegon, Mich. {OK, here's the flying menace known as Sir Pent at the throat of a
I
victim.)
What did the GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN look like? -BIRON WILSON, Baytewn, Texas. (Sort of like a small
Texan.)
"
le
KONGk
1^
If Unquotable Quotes. Abondon Hope, All Ye 1 lere-also abandon Groucho Marx, Arnold Roth, Ston Freberg, Milton Berle, Harvey Kurtzmon and Other . *ledicns jQo humorous to mention, for these
I
Snakes 6 la mode, Warts of the toad, Thafs the Demon's diet. Spiders to bake. Pieces of snake Are honestly good.
Try HI
Eels fried
in
eggs.
And
caterpillars' legs,
Werewolves' eyes
pies
fancy pastry!
DERWIN
all
can say
>
shrew
fits,
eat
it!'
"
"Last
K.
saw a
triple
horror
feature-BRIDE
OF FRANKENSTEIN, SON OF
I
what
go for-fomily pirturesl"-
Silver Springs,
like to
Maryland.
MEN-so
Cal.
see Fobion and Elvis ghost-storred In o picture called HAUNT could miss both of them together."~PHYLLIS CANEY, Kraiy K Ranch, Redlands,
of Brooklyn contributes a
DOG
BARBARA JOHNSON
Smelling
eat
film
MORE LOX
is
Cave and Grave? Use BLOODSCENT-with that wonderful Fume of Fangs JOHNNY BARBERS of Lynbrook, N. Y.: "Use Wild Root Screom Oil-ifs the Wildest!" "There's a 4D Man in your fulure."-BOB ZANGER, N. Y. "I hear the Morlocks in THE TIME MACHINE are cannibals. Does that mean they
ART AINGER
to
be called TARZAN
ABLE
SNOWMAN.
than most people?"-LON MOFFAn, Downey, Cal. of N. Y., asks: "Is there any truth to the rumor that the next Tarzan OF THE ALPS?" {No, ifs to be known as THE APE-BOMINCoolest Tarzon pic yet. Put out by Metro -Coldwind -Mayer. -Dr.
Acyla.)
'7^e,*"PP'y '* sotting so short," was the recent report of BARRY FRIEDMAN, Philadelphia, "that Dracula and Frankenstein ore having to share the same victim!" _
TEN TANA LEAVES (worth their vreight in gold) will be deposited in your name on the Bank of the Nile for each worthwhile comment quoted in this Department. No Pharaoh copying other ]okes, and the decision of the [udg* will be final, of Kharifl.
Case.
What they
really
need here
is
rifle.
He took 5 normal
ond turned them
into o handful of
still
attached and
until
To
their doll-like
they
CYCLOPEAN
In the Country of the Blind, the OneEyed Man is King. But in the country of the small, perhaps the Cyclops he of the single orb can trip and' fall?
No
all
shrinking violets
these,
the
pit their
against the Tall Man. But their chances of survival? That of a lollipop in a bear's paw!
The upper reaches of the Amazon, as every schoolboy from here to Pellucidar knows, is the domain of the Creature of the Black Lagoon. The lower reaches ah, that's a different matter, and one we're about to explore via the great Paramount technicolor picture of 1940: DR. CYCLOPS. On a forbidding knoll above the Karana River, at the headwaters of the mighty Amazon, is the mysterious experimental laboratory of Dr. Alexander Thorkel, rare civilized man in the Iquitos territory. The Peruvian natives thereabouts are suspicious and superstitious. The weird lights and sounds that come from Thorkel's jungle retreat make the natives restless.
man
or devil?
And what of Thorkel himself what impression did he make? Well, let us look at him thru the eyes of Charles Strong, who Actionized him in the book
well have seemed to an ignorant native like someone akin to a demon. His burly body was completely encased from head to foot, when he worked (which was long, and late into the nite), in lead laboratory armor. When he looked out of his radioactive room while an experiment was in progress, his bare round face had an air of unreality about it. He
He might
"My Father can lick your Father!" 5q> Shrunken Man to the Giont Doctor. "Lick
^ibU
hat Ur"
looked (said the author) "like some great uncouth monster, whose eyes reflected the weird green light from the
mica window."
fUk
Doc Cyclops had a cigar he'd look NET YOUR LIFE. At thli point thm little of about 2 cents.
If
like
The recently arrived foursome is only displaying normal scientific curiosity but Dr. Thorkel (who probably was a little odd to begin with) seems to feel that they're poking their noses too much into his business. So he decides to shorten them. Not just their noses, but their whole bodies. In short order, Bill, Mary, Dr. Bulfinch and Steve, plus Dr. Thorkel's man-of-allwork, Pedro, are hustled under the doc's shrinkoscope, and the next thing you know they're as small as 5 little all-day suckers! In fact, they're so small that if they tried to lick a stamp, the stamp would probably lick them instead
THE
MAN
Or maybe
i^i
,/.-
Gotcha!
One squeeze,
little
'/
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flft^^'
Si*,e
,.
is
unhappy about
seem
to think
you caught one of the telecasts of THE DEVIL DOLL, the A. Merritt chiller based on his book "Burn Witch Bum!", in which the menace was on a miniature scale. Well, the illusion of littleness was very large in this flick, very large; like straight out of greatsville; like something described in Henry Hasse's "He Who Shrank" or Ray Cummings' "Girl in the Golden Atom" or Festus Pragnell's "Green Man of Kilsona"
or
cot-astrophe
there's First that looks as large (and ferocious) as a sabre-tooth tiger to the little folk. It'd be no joke for any of them to meet up with this hungry tabby: one cat nip and
off
an
evil feline
named Satanas,
one breath-taking sequence they cower in a cactus-forest as Satanas attacks them, their lives being saved when a dog about the size of a baby dinosaur scares the cat away. They're even menaced by a king-sized chicken that gives them a run for their money. Juvenile delinquent teenagers in later years did it with cars, but this sequence was probably the first film of a chicken race.
it!
In
danger
to them,
and little things like that. Once they almost get him with a shotgun, by pulling a string (big as a rope) attached
moment, and the opportunity, pass. At last they get a desperate inspiration.
{**"&
J^t^
cis
mey
Daddy
Cyclops.
Dr. Thorkel is so dreadfully near-sighted that he once made a mistake and shaved the mirror instead of his face. For this reason he keeps a number of pairs of glasses handy around the lab. The midgets determine to hide all of them. They've just about got the job done when Thorkel wakes up. In an ensuing skirmish one lens gets smashed on his
last pair.
and
fight like
The PEN
Now it's war, war to the finish, between Cyclops and the teeny-agers. Vi-sion blurred, Thorkel goes berserk, shooting his gun, throwing furniture, turning the rootn topsy-turvy. In his near-blind rage he stumbles and falls into a well, but at the last moment clutches the rope on the
windlass.
It is Steve Baker who risks his life to charge the Cyclops and make him fall to his death. The giant's day is done. Now he'll never create that army of little spies, subminiature sabgoteurs and "toy" soldiers that he had blueprinted in his brilliant but deranged brain.
Because in 10 days, without further rays, the tiny people have grown back to normal
Everything's fine and dandy, sweet as candy. The villian took a fatal licking and we got a happy ending; and I know for that, most any day, we're all suckers!
size.
\
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Dr. Cyclops
Is
in
tife
jTHORRIFIC
\^
f-
EVENING
WITH
An
intiinate
peek
into Zatherley's
cozy crypt of
W.CRJ
ZACHERLY: Oh
me. These nights in the graveyard ... the first few times it's exciting, but after a while if gets routine and dull.
MOTKIER: Son
cial life
.
nice zombies.
w
ZACH:
to dinner
Mothar's right. Let's see, who can I take Wilma the witch? Agh! Those warts! Zombie Zelda? A dead head! Vampire girl? A vision but she flew into o High-tension wire last week.
. . .
ZACH: Oh humm
well
.
.
ways
Isobel.
. . .
Hum
hum
putting on
ny top hat
ZACH:
Isobel
. I
my
dear.
. . .
it's
we
Are you there? (All hard to make her might have dinner to-
ZACH:
It's
ISOBEL: Yeeark!
JH^gss:
ISOBEL: Smeerp!
ZACH; No
ZACH: No
we're not hoving steok! Look! Here's your favorite. Plasma Pudding.
.ii-
STEAK! VERY
FIbi.
WELL YOU
YAAAAAAAAWP!
ISOBEL:
is
ZACH: Oh come
haps
if
called
. .
Snow-Woman.
ZACH: Ah well
think lit spend a nice quiet I night at home reading ghost stories like I was going to do in the first place.
. .
MOTHER: You
I
ought to go out like the ether ghouls or you'll wind up like me alone and lonely.
.
.
ain't
go NO-body.
ZACH:
Nighty-night,
Mumsy.
""^^mmm^mfmrn
CAN HAVe
zacmey
IT!
IN
YOUR
OWN
HOME!
THINK OF
HE'S
6 FEET TALL!
LIFE SIZE!
UNBELIEVABLY REALISTIC
feet
most
striking
ever saw! A duction that will startle anyone who sees it. You'll think Zacherley is actually in the same room with
you!
will
supply a
hundred hours of laughs! Think of the gags you can pull and the fun you can have with 6-foot Zach! Have your photograph taken afavorite ghoul; longside your scotch tape the Zach pin-up to the inside of your den or bedroom door; put it between someone's bed sheets; ring door bell when friend answers, hide behind the
Zacherley!
MANY
SATISFIED
MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
IF
NOT 100%
WITH
ZACHERLEY!
USES OS a giant-$ize pin-up in den, playroom, bedroom As a gag on the inside of a closet door, on a ceiling, etc. As a calendar, by simply applying a calendar pad on thepin-upwith scotch but tape or paste As a party gag, put one in the powder room don't tell anyone. Wait and hear the screams!
.
Dp1.
MO-7
I can't waif to get my Fitll-SiM Zocharleyl Here'i my S2.00. plui 25c poitaga & handling for tha Maof tall gianr photo of my fcvoflti. ghoul. Ruih it to m quick!
NAME
..
CITY
STATE
LABS
the labratory story!
rare fofo from DR. X. This was the story of the madoctor
who
pot
ol) his
"x"
in
one basket.
Boris KarlofF, as THE COULD NOT HANG, demonstrates his Artificioi Heart machine. Shortly after this picture was taken, his assistant accidentally knocked the machine off the table, and was fie
MAN WHO
ever brokenhearted!
They had a hard time making up their mind who* to call this film. It was variously known as "The House on the Square" (Berkeley Sc|uare), "Man of Two Worlds" and "Journey to the Past" till finally released as I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU. That's the late Tyrone Power manipulating the waldo at the right.
"We
as they
make
Fritz!" cries Colin Clive (as Victor Frankenstein) ig i.a. imt^iant, Dwight Frye, their successful try at bringing the FRANKENSTEIN monster to life in the first of the
entire series.
THE FLY
in
did,
and
lost his
Blabbermouths
lost their wives.
Talk-too-muchniks in Karloffian labs frequently lost their lives. Of course every young assistant must work in a lab, else where would he meet the Scientist's Beautiful Daughter to whom he must inevitably lose his heart? The obvious advantage to losing your heart in a mad scientist's laboratory is that it is never very difficult to get a fresh one.
Chief villain on Planet Atoma makes use of his supersonic electronic rodiophonic vocacaster (on Planet Earth known as a mike) in a Columbia serial.
on evergreen in
Room
in
METROPOLIS.
There Rotwang, the mad one-handed inventor, very literally single-handedly created the unforgetsble metal marvel, Maria the Automaton. Rotwang's magical laboratory was constructed with typical German thoroughness and titanic Teutonic imagination, and for my money (I'd ^ive a lot of Deutsch Marks to have a duplicate of it) it's never been topped.
While DONOVAN'S BRAIN floats in its nutrient bath nearby, the heroine of the Curt Siodmak film reads a sci-fi magazine, blissfully unaware that lurking directly behind her is The Monster that Goofed Up the Worldour beloved Editor, Forrest J. Ackermon.
pleasant and
accounted for
Also present and accounted for are such goodies in the way of labbies as
and
its
sequel,
THE
BRIDE.
"^
ii("T'^B^J^B
The
do
serials
FLASH
BUCK
ROGERS, THE LOST CITY and THE PHANTOM EMPIRE, where things really sparkled and hummed so electrifyingly that
you imagined you could smell the ozone in the audience years before the advent of
il
Odorama or Schozzoscope. KarloflF's curious seance-fiction lab in the ectoplasmic DEVIL COMMANDS. The multicolored labs of Dr. X and Lionel Atwili in THE OF THE and the guy in THE FLY. Just thinking about those labs makes my mouth water, how about you? Hungry for some popcorn? Meet you in the labby
. .
MUSEUM
MYSTERY
WAX
and
Lionel Atwil!
'<$
MONSTER
And
(correction: deft)
here, from 4-SiDED TRIANGLE, we have a Twin-Making Machine. William Temple, the daft doctor who invented It, really gamblos fwlnt ^^__^
An 0-PUN LETTER
Vampire
for Hire
to the
World from a
a Blood Relotive
.
who
is
<
N^
^nk
for blood.
'vV^'!'^'.-'St''"
Mother of a Member of the FAMOUS MONSTERS CLUB gets an unexpected call from a Cousin of Count Dracula. Seems her son had tried to fool Igor by signing hts oppllcation coupon with raspberry
juice instead of blood!
2550 County Line Road Chesterland, Ohio Friday the 13th Dear Blood Brothers: Unaccustomed as I am to public creeping, I, Count Scalpela, feel that I must make an issue thru this, my favorite magazine, of an important topic: the scarypeutic value of togetherness for those who suffer the pangs of apartness from humanity due to the malady known as Draculitis. As a horrorble example of enduring togetherness, may I introduce to you, brave readers, myself and my bewitching bride. Plum O'Hagan. PLUM PUDDING Plum is the original Black Irish ban-she, a tasty morsel (not to be confused with mortal) whose bat-squeak giggle is in def rightful contrast to my tomb-deep Ghest-tqnes. We suit one another frightf oully well: she, with bat blood in her veins, is understandably flighty; I, the son of a coffin-maker, am understandably grave. We have been playful and slayful together, the O'Hagan and I, for close to 5 centuries now. Referring to us in her column. Noose from Horrorwood Heada Chopper said: "This couple may last." MARRIAGE BLISS-TERS Don't let me mislead you, however: we have had our hideously sunshiny moments when-our uniquely grisly romance has almost lost its harm. Experts warned us that after the first century of marriage boredom might set in, but we never imagined it might be such a grizzly bore. Almost un-bear-able. Apparently Plum and I were not batting about enough together at nites she began to feel the grass was grimmer on the other side where the cemetery was. In a word, my abhorred bride of a mere 100 summers began to cast sheep's eyes (the whole eyeball!) at a Youngarian upstart (that's a young Hungarian!)
.
m^mm^
KHfum^g^
The fact that he -aself Spatula or something of the sort. responded when she made cat's eyes at him was h is fatal mis-stake, if you know what I mean, and I'm sure that you do. FAMILY HARM-MANY Of course our little clammily would not be complete without an offspring in the midst of our black magic circle. Our Little League Vampire (Moony Boy, as we fondly call him) is a sharp little mosquito, captivatingly harming and constantly humming from sun-down to sun-up. Yes, our son is always the first to rise when the sun sets. And then, to make a real ^gathering of our togetherness, there is my mummy-in-law. She is nine or tana times older than I but leaf us talk about her on another occasion. Suffice it to say that she was originally known as Little Egypt at the World's Pharaoh of the 13th Dynasty. Tana's, anyone? Gore- jelly yours, Count Soalpela
The Count's reason for wanting to moke a plasma withdrawal at the Red Cross:
'
Continued on page 52
ScREaM9
From momster club members
FROM ATLAN-
TIC CITY! A candid snapshot of our managing editor playing footsie with Blacky Lagoon, who can't seem to break the hobit of chain smoking. This is NOT a scene from the picture ON THE BEACH.
Club Vice-President
PAUL BASTEN
mer
his nails
into
favorite magazine.
Continued on page 54
CoNTpJuET?
Greetings, Lihoui
Monster Club Vice Presidents have again descended upon lu with their advertiaements and bits of chatter for publication. One guy even wantd us to run an ad offering his fifth grade teacher for sale (cheap, too), but Dr. Acuta refused because good teachers are hard to get nowadays. Hold on tight; here we go:
j-ittention Caliof our Monster Club SCHAfornia fans: write to FER, 1047 E. Elmwood Ave., Burbank, Calif., who has horror and monster movie stills to trade (Johnny also wrote us about the HORROR MOVIES record album which you'll find advertised in our mail order
. .
JOHNNY
MAD
maga-
buy or trade
.
.
is
MICHAEL
THEMES FROM
. .
MARK NEwrite to
BYRD, P.O. Box 714, Costa Mesa, Calif., is after glossy photos of monsters featured in films made during DUthe 1920's and 30's. wants used horror or supernatural books in good condition: write him at 2402 Main St., La Crosse, Wisconsin. ROY GOLDMAN, 49 Pine Court, Riverhead, N.Y. is searching for a. monster pen-pal. CAROL KESSEL, 765 W. N^ntrose, Chicago 13, III., has issues #24 and #25 of to sell,
. . .
LARRY
METH,
tells
us
FM
school
chums
3505 N. Cotner, Lincoln, Neb., is the favorite mag with his (wait'll they see FAVOR.
.
TERESHKO, 546 New Jersey Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. here's a real scoop LAYAZ, for Bela Lugosi fans: 100 Parsons, Room 731, Detroit, Michigan, has a rare snapshot she took of Bela 12 years ago while he was appearing at a theater there. She will send you a print for 25c in coin, plus a 4c ELIZABETH stamp for mailing.
.
BETTY
MONTE
.
ANDRE
DAVID GARRAND,
MAD
if
anybody wants
'em.
BILL BURG-
STINER
has a Black Widow club for readers of FM; write him at P.O. Box 244, Sarasota, Fla. ... if you are a girl monstei- between 12 and 14, write to
Floral for mags mags and ... if you save newspaper ads on horror movies, write to BOB HARPER, 11 Eastwoods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., 'cause he collects 'em. . ANDERSON, 22 East Ontario, Chicago, Illinois, has a great little club called "Dracula's Disciples" and wants to hear from you if you live in the (Chicago area.
MAW
MONSTER
TOM
PAVLICH, 1044 N. 26th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, wants a photo of the great Bela worth 25c (write to Betty Layaz, Liz!). Lacrosse, Wisconsin monster fans can join a local chapter of our club by writing to ANDRE DUMONT, 2402 Main St., Lacrosse, Wisconsin. MAPELLI, 2204 Raleigh, Denver, Colorado needs old Superman DC
. . .
.
MARK
loff
comics.
DENNIS CHAMPION
;
would
ALLEN KRACALIK,
Illinois,
1660 Ash
St.,
TjHOMAS ACKERMAN.
,
Harding
.
.
Mili,
at-
WAR-
REN PAYNE,
ville,
Ct., Louisitching to scratch out a letter to a pen-pal. CHANDLER, 236 Julia Rd^ Houston,
5327 Halsey
. .
Ky.,
who
is
PASSANTINO, 58 Grant Avituue, Brooklyn, N.Y., has a few pocDALTON ketbooks to trade or sell. PIERSON, 106 Connell Ave., Missoula, Montana, has back issues of comic books to trade or sell; wants to hear from in,
ANTHONY
Des Plaines,
has a tremendous
FM
album and
wants to hear from anyone who has a photo of himself (or herself) made up as a monster. He'll pay a reasonable
price for all photos. We're starting him out by contributing a picture of our own Phyllis Farkas ... by the way, monster fan MIKE KATZ, 30 Florence Place, Wc;t Orange, N.J., nearly flipped his fangs recently in New Hope, Pa., when he recognized Phyllis Farkas on the street. She autographed a current copy of for him which should be worth at least 50O Draculars in Transylvanian
Texas, wants
. . .
to
zines. KAGEN, 32-22 83rd St., Jackson Heights, N.Y., has a copy for sale at of the original here's a pen-pa! $2.00. Write him from Texas who draws monster pictures:
.
.
HOWIE DRACULA
.
buy or
sell
WOLFE, terested collectors Brookview Dr., Nashville, Te riginal books that were tnp for magmade Tnto horror movies. azine hunters will find some back issues available in the home of DENNIS SEU-
LARRY
. .
.
MAD
JON
GREGORY HINES, Spring, Texas. 222 St. Nicholas Ave., New York 27, N.Y., wants a pen-pal, but he or she ROBIN SNYmust be a Vampire. DER, 2021 South Lake Whatcom Blvd., Beltingham, Wash., wants a few back issue comic books. If you collect comics,write to him for details.
. . . . . .
LEBKOWSKY,
Box
844,
Big
LING, 2225 85th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. anyone He's waiting for you letters fortunate enough to have movie stills
. . .
FM
from
LARRY PIERCE,
BILL
613 N. Alabama,
Brazil, Indiana, is in search for a monster pen-pal ... so is KAPFER, 3601 Old Mill Rd., Baltimore, Maryland.
.
write to BIRON WILSON, 147 Katherine St., Baytown, Texas. Biron wants 'em for his collection ... a pen-pal needed for Vice President MICHAEL SCHIFF, 90 Day St., Clifton, N.J. LARRY WILLIAMS, 74 Maple Road, Longmeadow, Mass., threatens to sic 46 giant ants on us if we don't print his ad for back issues of MAD. He wants any issues from #39 on back. TOROSI, 915 S. Sherbourne
.
. .
money!
CRAIG BERGES, 2018 37th Street, Washington, D.C., sent us a photo of himself as a monster that looks strikingly similar to the make-up used by
of Notre for old
.
.
ANTHONY QUINN in The Hunchback another collector Dame MAD magazines is DAVE
.
COUNT
KARLON
need a
to give everybody a chance, he will dispose of them on an "auction" basis. Send no money, but write him your bid, and on April 15th you will be informed if your offei- was highest for any of the
strong arm to fight off the gals if we dared print a picture of this hardsome devil. You can reach him (if your arms are long enough) at 241 Pleasant St., Providence, B.I. MORTON ORNSTEIN writes us from Miami Beach (home of M.T graves), and asks that other monster fans get in touch. His address: 825 86th St., Miami Beach, Fla. PAUL HASTEN, 185 N. Summit, Decatur, 111., is forming a local chapter
. .
.
bat to
3239 Park Ave., Brookfield, Illinois ... all those interested in starting an American fan club for CHRISTOLEE, send your letter by carrierRONNIE CHESSER, 67 Suffolk Ave., Hialeah, Florida handsome monster PAUL of 2221
SCHMIDT,
PHER
ROTONDO
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, KING KONG, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA,
following:
North Star Road, Columbus, Ohio wants BOBBY KNIGHT, 1611 a pen-pai. N. West Ave., El Dorado, Arkansas, wants to buy books by Edgar Rice Burroughs also Tom Corliett and Tom Swift books.
.
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