When Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine reached issue #69, they skipped issues number #70 through #79 to switch over to this companion mag, Monster World. In what would have been ten issues of FMOFL anyways, this short-lived project ended after ten issues. Famous Monsters re-started with issue #80. The editorial in that issue explains the situation.
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The following are five covers and behind the scenes photos from various films scanned from the five issues of Monster World I have in my collection. The cover at the top is from the first issue and its back cover is shown above.
Issue two featured a lead story on the hit, but short-lived television series, THE MUNSTERS. Check out that issues back cover for yet another cool ghoul model kit from Aurora! Did anybody ever get one of those?
Issue #8 features the creature DR. X (1932) built. There's also a double feature of JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER and BILLY THE KID VERSUS DRACULA (both 1966).
Issue #10 is one of the best of this brief run of monster issues before Famous Monsters resumed. The cover ghoul is from Hammer's THE REPTILE (1966).
UNTIL NEXT TIME...
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