Famous Monsters of Filmland 006 (1960) (Warren Publishing)

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'CLUSIVE —ECRETS OF THE TIME MACHINE Hiya, Fellow High Brows! Ain't I the Werewolf's E/ebrows? There is no truth to the rumor that I brow- beat my wife— 1 haven't got a wife. 1 beat my widow instoad—and she's dead tired of it. Now I'm looking for someone new. Soy . . . you'tl do nicely! Come up and see me—on page 34 of this issue. jMiliMillMi

rKfBSflnflKKnin 4 ONE'S Company and TOOTH'S a Crowd when a Toothy MORLOCK Menaces the Toothsome Miss MIMIEUX! Altho this won't happen for 800,000 Years, yet, we can hardly wait-for HGWells' TIME MACHINE. Monsters

COVn by AltMrl Nuatull. oHIit'i concaptFan o( tha Vh Wond»f of th* Vforld; K O N G I Kin jHeP^

FEBRUARY 1960 ZACHEBll VOL. 3 NO. t

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KING-SIZE KONG-TENTS

6 DEAR MONSTER From our Trsinloads of Mail from Transylvania and Plane Loads from Just Plain Everywhere, We Share Our Horrospondence with You.

raar-Old Calabrity «o lafl li Hmd 6arnibacl<, .h»r fff $cl*ne« netlvn; whot'i r«ft f» t7G^»ar-a1d 8 THE NEW YEAR OF MONSTERS - AND HOW IT'S GROAN .c,k«rmofi, n* Maitar of Monitsrotogy.) Bom for Your Satisfaction in 1960 will be these A-to-Z Screamo- SGope Babies. FORREST J ACKERMAN editor 20 YOU AXED FOR IT Gil O'Teen's Fiendish Finds PHYLLIS FARKAS man aging editor 23 KONGFIDENTIALLY YOURS GEORGE FRENOY art director JAMES WARREN 34 THE CASE OF THE LONELY 6RAVE-RIBBER publisher Drac may love Zach — but many a Miamian craves M, T. Graves!

38 TERRORS OF THE TIME MACHINE P'iibllccrtioni. Inc.; EcflloridI, Advarliting and Subicriplion Offlcai ol 141i E. Woih- Fiends of the Far, Far Future. inqlon Lon«, Phlladdphla 31, fa. Saeond- Clan mail prUOagai nuthoruad at tMa- dcJphro, Panna., with odditlcinol entry ot Marldan, Conn, and Naw York, N. Y. 45 READERS DIE-JEST Rib-crackinc Cracks f ram Our Jills & Jacks.

46 YOU ITCHED FOR IT This Department's New and Itch Just for You!

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52 MONSTERS INTERNATIONAL

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PREFERS DICK CLARK THIS IS THE Department where you're DADDY'S LITTLE DRACULAS invited outspooken in your to be 1 was frightened out of my mind this I am 16 and a student at the Villa Winners, this issue, of Pa. opinions. past Halloween when I saw what looked Joseph Marie school in Newtown, thrill-stills and beast-seiling like three miniature monsters roaming I have a problem with my boyfriend books are ROBERT SEMLER, JOANNA the streets of Glassboro, New Jersey. who would rather go to a double- SANOCKI and TONY GREELEY. Each one of these tiny terror- tots feature horror show at the Drive- In was wearing a mask that would have than to dances. And I like to dance! Give me Dick Clark anyday. Who HUNGRV FAN scared Chaney himself! I think it is terrible to have little children needs Dracula? I think FTif is great and am devouring growing up in an atmosphere of mon- CHRISTINE TAUT every word of it. As you can see ster and horror, and I made it my Hatboro, Pa. from my picture, I'm anxious for business to pay a call on the parents JOHN GETROST of these unfortunate little boys. Imagine how I felt when I found out Sidney, Ohio WON'T CATCH- HIM KNAPPING their own father is George Prenoy, Most of the horror films don't come Art Director of FAMOUS MONSTERS! GRTROST HILL GET YOU! the here (alas) and if it wasn't for It seems that these youngsters {ages your wonderful magazine I wouldn' there 3, 5, and 7) know everything know what to look for when they do, - is to know about monsters and they PM also helps me to get away from LOVE 'em! Needless to say I left the boredom of school and human be- home with a better under- the Prenoy ings. People who are criticizing standing and appreciation of monsters. monster movies were seeing horror How about letting your readers see films when they were teenagers, I a picture of these three young bet; they just tend to forget. "devils?" NANCY GOLOING RILL KNAPP Glassboro, N.J. Lancaster, Call

CHANEY LETTER THANKS FROM ZACH Lon Chaney Sr. is my favorite. Out I On behalf of the Zacherley Pan Club am sure it is difficult to obtain back members and the Executive Board, I pictures of him sincere dates wish to commend you for your excellent i'^S:' quite a while. (Ed. note: Yes, he articles concerning Zacherley. We was born some years before Lon Cha- sincerely appreciate your help in ney Jr! ) I consider myself a lit- on Chaney making Zach what he is today, and we tle bit of an authority ; would like to honor you with the Sr, since I have 41 fotos and a list ' office of Honorary Life Vice-Presi- of 31 of his fnovies plus a scrap- dent. Pleaselet us know if you will book devoted entirely to him. accept, and again - thank you for ATMOSPHERL OF ilOBROB?J ROBERT SEMLEB your help, • O.K. Nancy. Here are the 3 terrors Haddonfield, N.J. DAVID GRISMAN of Glassboro - with Pappa Prenoy in Passaic, N.J. the middle. There are 3 MORE off- • Thank you for sharing your list spring in the Prenoy clan - but they of Chaney Sr. film titles with us. • Sure we accepti Zach is O.K. in were too busy trying on the latest Bob; it will come in handy when we our Book - day or night (preferably monster masks when this picture was do another article on The Man of A ni^tn.--Ed. taken. --Ed. Thousand Paces. --Ed. . s)

BRAVO PROM BRAZIL TRUNK fflTH POIER GRUBB-STAKE 1 can tell you that here in Brazil We thought you'd be interested to I just crawled out of my coffin to your great magazine is very much hear what happens when you leave a grab the latest issue of FK, but I loved, and the best esample of it copy of PM in the trunk of a car think I'll subscribe because I'm 30 far was the Monster from the overnight. The enclosed picture getting tired of flying down to the Black Lagoon, which cane 'way down shows the awful consequences. It Coroner Noose Stand--besides, it' from the Amazon to our city to buy took us 3 days to kill the beast, driving the proprietor batty. And his copy. (He came by Ghost Train; and I still wake up screaming. while speaking of bats, how is Dr. ticket price--2 pints of blood per Acula feeling lately? I have a hot seat. Of course, you can trav- OTTO PFEIPER voodoll in his likeness into which el in a cold damp comfortable cof- BURNETT TOSKEY I have stuck 100 puns, I hope PJA fin, but the price is exorbitant: 2 Seattle. Washineton has a Blue Cross Plan. copies of PM, and you know how difficult it is to get one! ) As you STEVE GRUBB can see with your own 3 eyes, I am Denton, N.C. a noble monster (Count Van Pire to • No, but he has a Grue Curse Plan you); you can see that from the that he hopes will protect him from blue blood which I use in my bawl- your slangs and deroes of outrage- point pen. ous fortune (to quote that famous Arabian playwright, Shlek Spear e.

THE BEAST IS YET TO COME PUBLISHER LOSES FACE My ambition is to play in "Beauty Please help me. I work in the BROmER, CAN YOU SPARE A BEAST? and the Beast". Do you think I building where PM' s offices are have a ghost of a chance? located. Each morning I see a • Gee, what an accessory! normal- looking young chap walk into I buy one?--Bd? TRINA PETIT the office - but at the end of the Hollywood. Calif. day a horrible, inhuman monster leaves - raving at the top of his ONE FOR THE MUMMY.. lungs. Is It possible that these two I'd like to see more in your mag are one and the same? like the article Mummy' s the Word. I have been a fan of mcmster movies ever since I can remember, and dis- agree with a certain high school teacher, Mr. Hotin. I think there should be less movies about juven- ile delinquency, not monsters. I'm thrilled with PM--please keep the issues cOTiing. JOANNA SANOCKI Pawtucket, ft. I.

THE VAHPIRE OF MISSOURI I am know affectionately as The Vampire of Missouri - and if you want to go on publishing PM I strongly suggest that you print my picture OUEENA TRINA in your Letters column. Do I make niy point? • For our dough, you're America's answer (and what a question) to STEVE STEINGER Brigitte Bardot--and you know bow University City, many beasts that beautiful girl has raet in the movies. If the West Ghost Talent Department of Actor- plasm Films doesft' t discover you over nite, it certainly lacks spri- it! We think you have a haunting face that should go places. ., like to the top, in Wo*-o-Scope.--Ed.

IT DOLL DEPENDS ON YOU Recently I had the experience of meeting the Editor of PAMOUS Mm- ST^tS in person, and I tbou^t you readers who have never met him would like my impression. Well, I thought he was a doll. Of course, you know what a doll is: a small imitation of the real thing;--and stuffed, at that!

• Unfortunately what you saw was none A VERY GRAVE PICTURE OF STEVE LESTER REYDEL other than our Jekyl-Hyde Publisher, Bronxcheer, N.Y, James Warren. Try publishing • You sure do make your point! I • Lester, I live down by the Black PAMOUS MONSTERS for 8 hours a day - hope you don't make two points Lagoon- -you' re welcome to drop in and see for yourself! --Ed. - on ray throatl --Ed. any time. --Ed. _

the sands of '59 run out of

father time's horror-glass, and, we

see the shape of things to

comet in '60. one for the ^.> money—

One million dollars will be given away by Jack H. Harris, the producer of THE BLOB (and that's a blob of loot all root) to the first person who can duplicate in real life the reel life feat of the star of his latest horror feature. All you have to do to claim your million clams (whatta clambake!) is to see the movie THE 4D MAN, and do as he does. Surely some clever reader of FAMOUS MONSTERS is capable of winning this prize? Dr. Acula

tried ; they locked him in a room and he broke out with chicken pox, but they disqualified him for turning chicken. Then Igor (the original Igor-beaver) tried it just the opposite

way ; he ran around a house till he was all in —but didn't win because he broke his neck doing it. Anyway, we wish you luck in winning the Million Dollars by being the first person to figure out how to walk thru a wall —just don't get wall-eyed trying!

two for the

Cctrolyn Craig is having trouble keeping her lunch down after bumping into Leona Anderson in HOUSE show— ON HAUNTED HILL. TWO million dollars will be budgeted by film It's the Great-Aunt of Robbie the Robot. Gee, Aunty, William "Macabre" Castle for the horror top his what a long nose you hove. By Jimmy, it looks like the to HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and nozzle of Schnozzle Dear Aunty! (From THE MYS- THE TINGLER. Says Bill : "Jt will be called MR. & MRS. MONSTER — the first film in TERIANS ) Chill-o-Vision." And talking of two's, the famous Hammer Productions will produce THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL.

three to make ready—

Alex Gordon has signed J. Forester Eck- man to script trailers for him for THE BEE- GIRL, THE SEA-MAN and THE Z-CREA- TURES. In a small press conference held in the Hollywood Bowl, Gordon explained his

reason for picking Eckman : "I consider him the ideal man to write trailers—after all, all !" his life he's lived in them

and four to go _l

"No less tlian four new monsters will be featured" tells lb J. Melchior, scripter and director of the picture, "in INVASION OF MARS, the trail-blazing scientifilm that in- troduces the amazing new patented film proc- ess called Cinemagic. Wait'll you see the I MEET MORDI Boris Karloff pidys Mord (his friends coll him Old Baldy Locks) in THE TOWER OF LONDON. | In this one he's absolutely towerfying! !

street finds out who swiped his fright-wigl

That icy TINGLER up-&-down her spine is what Judith Evelyn gets as she observes the victim of the original Blood Bath.

Space Amoeba, the giant bafmt and our tw(> other Martian monsters. By comparison they make all previous 'things' look like an ant be- ^M side an eleph-ant!" You'll And fotos of these ^P" fearsome beasts in the next issue of FM. w^^H ^^^^Hlk. fli horror your H^ i^^^^«^^^B ^Pi hP* nerves— Do you have a pair of smoked glasses? {Anyway, they're better than smoking ciga- rets.) If so, better put 'em on before running your tender eyes over the following horror- fying tabulation of terror titles. THE HORROR MAN—this will be a Para- mount release of Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell- Tale Heart." &; HORROR OF THE UNDEAD ... a real ^mttt . . live one n CIRCUS OF HORRORS—a spooky special j[\ from American-International. Half a million % .i H^^^^^^^^^Hr &^12 and color. dollar production in CinemaScope HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND — a U.S.-German co-production to be shot in Yugoslavia!

it must have been moon glue

Half the producers in Celluloid City seem to have got stuck on making "moon pitchers." Robert Lippert, whose ROCKETSHIP XM is still to be seen on TV, plans FIRST MAN TO THE MOON. Fred Gebhardt will follow release of his 12 TO THE MOON with an adventure INSIDE THE MOON. Crosby & Hope are contemplating makinfr like lunar-tics on THE ROAD TO THE MOON. HOW TO SEND A MAN TO THE MOON, Russian documentary, is being integrated Vincent Price has a lot of pud with his skeletal pol. It takes a Strong Man to handle two thousand pounds 13 of bones. Sure: one skeleTON! ! :

into America's two one-hour tele-shows, THE RACE FOR SPACE. Famous comedian Charles Chaplin is talking of coming out of retirement to take A JOURNEY TO THE MOON. Buster Keat- on's Mexican comedy about a mythical trip to the moon, A MODERN BLUEBEARD, may be dubbed or subtitled for USA distri- bution. Continuing in the comic vein. Kirk Douglas & Sophia Loren will swap jokes as they coast ONCE AROUND THE MOON.

a baker's dozen

13 thrillers, hot off the griddle, due to appear on marquees around the country between now and the middle of the year are — 1. THE MYSTERIOUS HOUSE OF USHER (collaboration between Edgar Allen Poe and Richard "incredible Shrinking Man" Mathe-

son) . . . 2. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER {based on Richard Wilson's Ballantine pocketbook. "The Girls from Planet 5," a novel which your editor had the pleasure to agent to a

Hollvwood studio) . . . 3. I AIM FOR THE STARS (the life story

of rocketeer Wernher von Braun) . . . 4. JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (James Mason & Pat Boone take

Jules Verne's famous trip) . . . 5. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (amazing special effects by ace animator Ray "Sinbad" Harryhausen) ... -- 6. ZEX! 7. MYSTERIOUS SATELLITE (another

Japanese "Mysterians"' typp spectacle) . . .

8. THE HYPNOTIC EYE . . .

9. THE CREATURE FROM THE CAVE . .

10. THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON . . ,

U. THE LIVING DEAD . . . 12. GORGO ... and — 13. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD

after world's end 1 Altlio Old Mother Earth is scheduieri to get a bad case of the shakes in THE DAY THE WORLD SHOOK and there'll be nobodv left but THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, movie producers are nevertheless planning to make such pictures as THE UNSEEN ... the Kenner-Coughlin collaboration, INVISIBLE MONSTER (DR.

DOOM) . . . Alfred Bester's futuristic detec- tive novel, THE DEMOLISHED MAN (pur-

chased by John Payne) . . . DIARY OF A

MUMMY . . . RATTLESNAKE (sci-fi hor-

ror) . . . THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

(third version). . . . KRA! . . . TIME ZONE Haunts Upon A Time Carol Ohmart had a Nightir . . . DIMENSION FOUR . . . PROJECT -and This Is Itl NINE . . . PROJECT X . . . THE MULTI

PLE MAN . . . THE MASK OF MELOG . .

THE BEAST FROM WORLD'S END . ,

MONSTER IN MY BLOOD (Stu Byrne) . . WOLVES OF DARKNESS (Jack William-

son) . . . PYGMY ISLAND (Edmond Hamil-

ton) . . . THE BOY WHO SAVED THE m»: WORLD (Thad Swift & Budd Bankson) . . DEBBIE AND THE DEMON (Larry Mad-

dock & Corrie Howard) . . . THE BROTHER

. (starrinK (Martin Varno) . . ATLANTIS Curt Jurgens) ... A TICKET TO TRANAI (Robert Sheckley) ... OF STARS AND

. . TER- MEN (Harlow Shapley) . NAKED ROR (based on / Am Legend by Richard

. . . KILLER Matheson) . . . RED SNOW

. . OF THE CORPSE . John Wyndham's DAY TRIFFIDS (starring Fred MacMurray) and

same author's OUT OF THE DEEPS . . . THE MAN WHO LIVED FOREVER . . THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN BARON MUN- . THE INCREDIBLE (starring Vin- CHAUSEN . . . THE DEVIL (Soviet cent Price) . . . ILYA MOUROMETZ BARRIER sci-li) . . . BEYOND THE TIME

. . . ID . THE . EVE AND THE DRAGON

. . . HELL AND . . THE HAUNTED HIGH WATER (Jerome Bixby) . . . CAR-

MILLA, female vampire . . . THE RETURN OF DR. MABUSE (directed by Fritz Lang) ... and PHENOMENON.

dept. of missing pictures

In ca.-^e vou wondeV what became of AF- FAIRS OF A VAMPIRE, it was released as CURSE OF THE UNDEAD. HAUNTED HOTROD became THE GHOST OF DRAG- STRIP HOLLOW THE INSECT WOMAN changed into THE WASP WOMAN, The Larrv Maddock-Weaver Wright screen treat- ment, IT CAME TO KILL, is now known as Looks like the Bony Express Messenger has brought THE FIEND FROM THE FUTURE. Thad Carolyn Craig a bit of bad news in THE ttOUSE ON Swift's LITTLE MONSTER may emerge as HAUNTED HILL. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF RODNEY BREWSTER. The Italian HARD TIMES FOR VAMPIRES has become A HARD Countdown to terror: 1 ... 9 ... 8 ... 7 . . sex( This xextraordinary person appears in ZEX — THE ELEC- TIME FOR DRACULA. And THE CREA- began life as TRONIC FIEND, brain-chilled child of Chorles Eric Maine. TURE FROM THE CAVE THE BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE.

meanwhile bacic at channel 13 Watch for Curt Siodmak's new skelevision program #13 DEMON STREET, with Lon

Chaney, Jr. . . . Robert Arthur's DEVIL'S GARDEN TELE-TALES ... a science Ac- tion adventure series created by Samuel An-

thony Peoples, X THE UNKNOWN . . . more astonishing stories on TWILIGHT ZONE and ONE STEP BEYOND ... the conquest of space in MAN INTO SPACE and CRATER BASE 1 and SPACE HOTEL, and the first interplanetary Medic — OLE DOC Rotsler's METHUSELAH . . . William atomic submarine series and Budd Bankson's

atomic sub-plane-rocket series . . . plus RAY BRADBURY'S THE MARITIAN CHRON- ICLES! 'IS

Is it Clifton WEB? Is it SPIDER Cooley. No, it's EMsha Cook, the guy who's become a human Hy. ! :

martin varno fan club dept.

The She Monsters of America, Unlimited, will be relieved to read that their Hero has not yet left for Scandinavia, Holland. Rome and points Europeward, but instead flew back from New York and was in Hollywood one feverish week while projecting some super- secret Animascope footage for Ray "It Came From Outer Space" Bradbury, contacting Robert {Destination Moon) Heinlein, and checking on optionable material by Philip "When Worlds Collide" Wylie, Kris Neville, Isaac Asimov, Fritz (Conjure Wife) Leiber, Fredric Brown and other Big' Name Authors. Young Varno has promised FAMOUS MON- STERS an Exclusive Scoop on his activities as soon as the Top Secret tape {veddy red hot) can be removed from the wraps on the exciting package he's masterminding.

NIGHT OF THE

MARTIN VARNO-The Blood Beast was his brainchild (and it chilled the brains of many who saw iti)

stop press !

Last two last minute announcements The novel "18 Visits to Mars" by W. A. Rember has been turned into a screenplay. And dickering is in progress for the pur- chase of Arthur C. Clarke's "The Deep Range," a Moby Dickens of a book about the perils of hunting leviathans in the oceans of the future. March . . . And watch for March and the of Monsters in the next issue of FAMOUS MONSTERS. • Is it a school teacher? No, it's THE SHE-CREATURE—a creation from the monstrous mind of movie-maker )9 Alex Gordon. I want to w!n a bet with my wife. She claims the weird witch woman in HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL was played by either Sandra Dee or Zsa Zsa Gabor. Will you please settle the score for us by publishing a close-up?— JERRY D'EAU RAMIE, Riverside, New Jersey. (J6rry, we don't know what your bet wos Among the many Ghost Hosts of Terrovision Films, such as Zacherley (notcherly), with your wife, but she just lost it. You Vam- shouldn't have to dry dishes on Friday, San- pira, etc., one that sticks out in my memory is The of I think dra Dee or Sunday. Nor is that even Zsa Mad Man Des Moines, Iowa. your readers would appreciate a picture of Zsa's Mo Ma. If you must know, her name is Leona Anderson, altho for a moment there him.-DON HINSON, K.i.K.K. Radio, Bakers- we thot she might be our old friend of many field, Calif. We agree—hope you get a KIKK a fright film. Ghoul Sondergaard.) out of the pic, too.) I am thinking of turning my den into a haven for homeless monsters. (My Mother already thinks it is "a perfect horror.") Could you make any suggestions as to how to deco- rate it?-BRUCE HENSTELL, Brentwood, Calif. (Well, you might pattern it after Tarantula Ghoul's playroom. As you see, one of her friends has gone ape over it.)

One of the best pictures I ever saw was THE BLOB. Can you show o photo of the guy vfho had his hand engulfed by THE BLOBT-KENNETH SANDERS, New York, N. Y. (Sure, Kenny; here's a hand-full of your favorite pic- turel)

I believe Edgar Allen Poe's "Premature Burial" was once filmed under the title of THE CRIME OF DR. KRESG€, or something similar, starring Eric von Stroheim. Could you clear up the title for me, at the some time showing a scene from the picture (if it exists)? Thanx, chum.-TONY HARRIS, Narberth, Penna. (It was THE CRIME OF DR. CRESPI, and in this rare foto from it we see the late Eric contemplating the baby skeleton of the even later Bela. Von Strohaim's crime was that he didn't eat enough Crespi-Crunchies for breakfast.) # I

he was a giant who towered 50 feet in his own kingdom, but, samson- like, this super-simian met a doll-like delilah, and lost his life amongst the skyscrapers when the steel-and- glass jungle called civilization chop- ped him down to size. Breakfost of Chimps." Don't let this happen to you. I Wos A 98 Ton Weakling because I ote Weakies, 23 :

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Greetings, Gotel What's to be the fate of that throng? Well, we won't have to wait long to find out.

KING KONG is coming! father of kong A monster! All-powerful! The Mother of Kong was an ever fresh, Beating down all weapons, smashing all ever inquisitive woman named Madge—short barriers! You won't believe your eyes! Here for Imagination. Kong's Father a youthful he comes — listen! adventurer with a great dream — Merian Cotdwell Cooper. Of Cooper we were told at the time by John Peere Miles "This young man has seen life. He has wit- nessed the violent deaths of men in battle; And, ear glued to the radio, for we had no heard the wailings of child-birth in the Su- TV in 1932, your then teenage editor thrilled matran jungles and seen the death struggles for the first time to the roar heard 'round the of primitive beasts still linked to primordial world, the bellow that sounded like all Grand existence. Canyon filled with bull-apes : the thunder crv half years he decided to of KING KONG. "Two and a ago create the ultimate in adventure, to give the It's almost 30 years later, now; I'm no motion picture public the most daringly longer a teenage ; and we do have television. imaginative film it had ever seen." Only KING KONG—the mighty, the invinci- Time has evidenced the triumph of Cooper, ble, the immortal—the he has died a thousand as his monumental production continues to deaths, agelessly lives on. thrill millions today. \

BongI Wow! The secret's out—and so is KONG! Head for tho hills, men—it looks like the King Is angry, and about to crown a crowd of his subjects. : —

Now, fellows," says Fay, "let's not do anything nasty. That Big Ape may think I look tosty, but I'm too young to die."

the birth of the beast

"King Kong" was the last fictional work of the noted mystery writer, Edgar Wallace. Later, Qooper's wife, under her maiden name of Delos W. Lovelace, turned the story into a 249 page book, a collectors' item much sought after today by fans of Kong who want to read every word about their Hero. And in the words of Cooper himself "We who have seen the last remnants of a prehistoric age slithering in the slime of tepid, tropical mud flats, have often wondered what would happen if some thunderous re- versal of nature made possible the rebirth of ancient animals. There are many beasts still alive—especially those of the lizard family that closely resemble the prehistoric monsters. What would happen, now, if dinosauria came back to life and giant apes again beat their massive breasts in a drumming defiance of mankind? "You may say, 'What took millions of years to destroy would take another million or so to bring back.' Granted! But isn't it an intriguing idea? So the improbability factor, instead of alarming us, encourages a further exploration of the subject."

just imagine

"Suppose there existed a tropical island unvisited by man and unchanged by time that still harbored one of those monstrous animals which roamed the earth before the existence of man? An ape came to mind. Di- nosaurs and pterodactyls of the Jurassic Age were alright as menacing influences on our imaginary Skull Island, but they were clumsy and. inhuman whereas apes are similar to man." So a gorilla, 8 times normal height, grew in the mind of Cooper and his associate, Ernest B. Schoedsack. Before they were through, 30 bears sacrificed their skins so that audiences could be sacred out of theirs, and 6 men got the weirdest jobs of their

careers : bunching together inside the 36 ft. chest of Kong to operate the 85 motors that animated his 6^/2' wide face with its 10" teeth and foot-long ears!

"Teska vida b'gvoyahl Um-gaiah rahkon-roll" declares Noble Johnson, savage native chieftan, which, translated, means: "I have the chief tan around here. M* witch doctor—which doctor you?"

throngs of kongs

Actually, just as there are lots of Lassies, there were many Kongs—in all, no less than 27 various models and sizes of the King! Most of the small King Kongs were animated by the Ray Harryhausen of his day, a special effects expert named Willis O'Brien. "It was a good day's work," said O'Brien, "when I wound up with 25 feet of action on

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Alas, poor Kong, he really put his foot in it, Gentlemo' covering the usually cowering Fay Wray with ou; pal's paw-print is Merlan C. Cooper, the Mighty Man who co-authored, co-directed and co-produced the colossal KING KONG.

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How foggy con 8 guys get? A Tricarotops in back of thoni, in front a friendly petl

film, because Kong and the other models had to be separately photographed every time their position was changed a sixteenth of an records smashed inch. And we worked 10 hours a day." The fight between Kong and the Terror- KING KONG was the only picture big

Dactyl took 7 weeks to transfer to film ! Sev- enough to play the World's Two Greatest eral of the sequences in the picture estab- Theaters — the Radio City Music Hall and lished new records for their time in the trick Roxy in New York — at the same time! photography dept., as many as 7 different 10,000 seats were jammed for 10 shows daily processes being employed simultaneously. Critics raved. Leighton The full-size Kong was used when Fay Early enthused : "KING KONG Wray was held 50' in the air overlooking is the most spectacular motion picture, from RKO Studios, in a scene that took 23 hours to a photographic standpoint, ever ground out film and lasted perhaps 23 seconds on the of a movie camera." screen. This was when Kong gripped her in "Breath-taking, fascinating!" cried the edi- his huge hairy paw and examined her some- tors of Screen Play. "Words are inadequate what as one does a daisy when pulling off to express the thrills and unusual entertain- petals, altho fortunately he left her arms, ment values of this absorbing product of di- legs and head intact. rectorial and imaginative genius." ^i% :

KING KONG givM '«ni the old Indian sign. "HOWl" h« sayc. "Not bo giMMl," they answer.

"The ultimate in mystery-manufacturing." —Relman Morin. "A triumph of the bizarre."—Harrison Carroll. And Lloyd Arthur Ashbuck, in a feat fantastic for a pressman, accurately prophesied "So great is its impact that I venture to predict it will not be forgotten even in 1960— destined to become a living legend, part and parcel of American filmlore like the frightening Frankenstein monster, and the terrifying human vampire, Dracula." And a quarter century after his creation, when Kong was taken out of myth-balls and losed on a new generation of NeW Yorkers via TV, he blew up a hurricane of excitement. So great was the demand for the King of Creatures that his craggy features were tele- cast no less than 16 times during a single 7 day period. In that historic week the prehistoric super-ape was seen by more people than had previously seen him on movie screens 'round the world in the preceding 25 years.

kong marches on

So immense was KONG's regional popular- ity on tele-sets that he (and his son Kiko) have been called back for repeated encores. He and MIGHTY JOE YOUNG now fre- quently appear together on the same mar- quee. Fay Wray's screams have become as familiar to today's teeners as Tarzan's jungle yell. Save this article for 15 years and see if what I predict isn't true: that boys and girts just being born this year, in 1975 will accept trips to the Moon and Mars matter-of-factly but will still get a bong out of KING KONG. And you know somethin', chums ? That gray- haired old gentleman there in the audience, applauding with the rest and with a tear in his eye as we watch Kong die—that may very well be me, so don't be shy about coming over to speak to me, and let me know how you liked the 100th issue of FAMOUS MONSTERS! •

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CITf - - - ZONE o„,y »2-***' STATE - - T^^E CA9e OF T^^E

Miami's TV Station WCKT creates a Monster called

M. T. GRAVES, the man who craves company in his

dungeon —yours. M. T. Graves was born at a Vi'vy early ajre in Iraq, just west of Iran. "'Iran away from

home." he relates, "as i couldn't stand livintr l)ehind the Iran euiiain." "Snakes alive, my keeper's caught me playing hookey againi" The man in the white suit makes sure that Mr. M. T. Graves is kept under control in Miami, Florida. born of very extinguished parents

Earlier it had been curtains for his parents, who had made the mistake of defying one of the Arabian Knights and had been exiled to the pepper mines of Siberia, where they sneezed to death before their M.T. headed son was bom. His Mother was the well-known Lona Lee Graves. His Father, the famous Philip D. Graves. Young M.T., being bom parentless, was adopted before his birth by his oldest son, a circumstance which was to have a profound effect upon his later life.

M. T. Graves and His Skull Friend, Hedy White. "I love her/' confides M.T., "because she's one woman who floored in never opens her mouth."

Would you like a little candle light sufFer—or— I mean florido supper?

At the age of 7 days, disguised as a baby, M. T. Graves fled in a jet-propelled baby-car- riage over the Carpathian Mountains, across the D«id Sea, around the daric side of the Equator and, finally, over Niagara Falls in a barrel arriving breathless in Florida, where he immediately went into seclusion in a cozy little retreat known as The Dungeon, a kind of hole with wall-to-wall straw located beneath a giant rock near North Bay Village.

the last straw

As a hobby, M. T. Graves began counting straws in his dungeon, and when he reached the last straw, he became a TV announcer. Now, once a week, he tells little tales of terror. In an exclusive interview for FM readers he revealed: "My favorite play by Shake- speare (frankly, he always gave me the Willies) is A Comedy of Terrors. Next to that, Romeo <& Gkouliet. By the way, did you know that Wild Bill's real name was Shock- speare? He changed it on his lOOth birthday, because he was afraid people might confuse him with the William Shockspeare who was writing for FAMOUS MONSTERS." !

Yes, good ole M.T. is real gone on Florida, and the Founding Fathers just wish he would real gone be gone from it. But not his fans

florida fan raves for graves

We all know that Drac Loves Zach, but it's The Chamber of Commerce pays M. T. also a fact that M. T. Graves has his legion Graves hush money to shush his opinion of of loyal followers, too. their state, but he goes right on stating it Of course, what they'll do if they ever anyway, on Miami's Channel 7. catch up to him is another question, and I "Where else but in Florida," he asks, "'is shudder to think of the answer. the mildew so dewy? In the meantime (and I do mean mean) "The fungus so much fun? M. T. Graves goes on playing the Don Juan "The air so bomby? of the Dungeon. "The seashore so near the ocean ? And that's the low dovra on the feller in "The sharks so friendly? the ceilar.

M. T. went to a psychiatrist—but the poor old Head Shrinker took one look at his potient and got sick himself. fasten your safety belts ! here we go for a flying trip EIGHT

HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS into the fantastic future!

What is TIME? "A weekly magazine?" some bright student answers ? Give that goof-off time to cool off by staying after school one hour and writing on the blackboard 100 times "I'm a clock-eyed !" cookoo-bird Nor is time what you have on your hands when you have a watch on your wrist. The late, great Ray Cummings, who was at one time an assistant to Thomas Alva Edison himself, once defined Time as "what keeps everything from happening at once!" The late (greatest) HGWells took time off from writing about The Invisible Man and Dr. Moreau's Island, of Lost Souls and The War of the Worlds to tell the terrifying tale of a traveler to the year 802,701, and Herbert George Wells' pal George Pal has put this re- markable adventure on celluloid.

the man who mastered time

For some curious reason, George seems to object to Rod Taylor playa George, the young man becoming meat loaf for a cannibal sandwich. who leaves London on 31 December 1899 and heads for hundreds of thousands of years Pow! And another Morlock gets lockjaw! ahead. Let Wells the Master t«ll you in his own exciting words the sensations the Time Traveler feels as he takes off on his danger- fraught trip, the same sensations you are bound to experience when you see the depic- tion of this scene on the screen. "I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second. I

seemed to reel : I felt a nightmare sensation of falling; and, looking round, I sawthe laboratory exactly as before. "I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud."

faster! faster!

"The laboratory got hazy and went dark. My housekeeper came in and walked, ap- parently without seeing me, towards the garden door. To me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket. "I pressed the lever over to its extreme position. The night came like the turning of a lamp, and in another moment came to to- morrow. The laboratory grew faint and hazy

"Goldilocks" was better off when $he w«s meeting up with bears. Here she gets carried away by one 43 of the unbearable Morlocks! then fainter and ever lamuT, j omorrow In the picture, the Time Traveler makes a night came black, then day again, night stop in 1917 and encounters World War I. again, day again, faster and faster still." When he tries a later date, 1939, he finds an even fiercer world-wide war raging. And in 1966 he finds, unfortunately, the Last War in progress—the Crazy War, the War of Insan- shoot-the-chutes ity, the horrible hydrogen bomb Atomic War that ail but wipes humanity from the face of the earth! "I had the feeling of a helpless headlong motion, the horrible anticipation of an immi- Volcanoes erupt all over the planet and

nent smash ! As I put on pace, night followed sear the atomic-scarred surface of the world day like the flapping of a black wing. The with boiling lava. It's much too hot for slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too George, who takes a BIG hop ahead to escape fast for me." being roasted alive.

Time Traveler George (hiding behind rock) gets a shock a. he observes the cannibals (Morlecks) of r the Year 802,701 about to can a few more Eloi (humans). i^RAVE Gae Griffith, Secretary of GEORGE PAL, in the lulches of AKKA-MAN THE MORLOCK (Editor of FA- AiOUS MONSTERS in the Year 802,701). In the hands of Gae & FJA are copies of ancient FMs, whose covers feature the Nuetzell painting of the Martian from George Pal's production of HGWells' WAR OF THi WORLDS.

the man who came to dinner The trouble with the year in which he even- tually stops is. that in 802,701 A.D. the na- tives are overly friendly. They invite him to dinner—only it turns out he's supposed to be the dinner! He's been in plenty of hot water before, but he's not enthusiastic about giving a cannibal indigestion. The people-eating creatures that George encounters are called Morlocks, and they are ugly brutes like pale grubs with spider-like movements. Well, the Morlocks are sort of like the rich man's—or the rich monster's—Mole People. With nostrils flaring, teeth protruding, eyes almost blind and an albino-white covering of hair matting their shoulders, arms and legs, they are a sight that only a Mama Morlock could love. Their hands have only three misshapen fin- gers, and when they touch Weena, she recoils and screams in horror. Who is Weena? She's the heroine, a cute little teenager of this Future Age whose people are called the Eloi.

riddle of the white sphinx

Brooding over all. in this strange world that lies so far ahead, is a huge statue, half animal, half human, resembling the one that stands today in the Egyptian desert. Silent, mysterious, its secret is known only to the subterranean shapes of Things to Come. The intrepid Time Traveler investigates the secret of this Sphinx at peril to his life. Like all George Pal science fiction specta- cles, this one has an exciting climax, and you will probably want to come back a second time to see the explosion that rocks the screen and the great fire afterwards that fries a number of the flesh-eating Morlocks in their own juices. As the friendly Eloi say in their language of the Future — Amikoj, nepre vidu LA TEMPO-VETURILON! Which, translated into 1960 talk, means: Don't miss THE TIME MACHINE—for the time of your life! # R.^DERg DtE^IeST

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MAIZE! Gems of wits-dumb . . . jewels of ghouldom . . . can-dead comments that'll give you coffin spells—all carefully culled from the most highly skulled corresponDUNCES in America today. (In America today—Transylvania tomor- row.)

"Last nite I read in the paper ihot our President has a new plane. He must be o monster lover because

he named it GOLEMbine the 4lh. "-STEVE GRUBB, Denton, N.C. (Must be a reol horroplane.— Dr. Acula.) CORINNE LIVINGSTON of Boston, Mass., proposes a toast- on -the -rocks for docs who are off their rockers: "Here's mod in your eyel" "I have a riddle for you," says LYN BELFRANK DIET2 of Bronkston, N, Y.: "When Lou Costello mar- ried his 30-FOOT BRIDE, who did Lou-go-see fo. his wedding ring?"(Boy, that one reolly rings the Bela to beat the band—the wedding band, thot is.) "This is what one of my teenage monster friends

said the other nite when I showed him a picture of the Golem in your 4th issue; 'Wowee, dig that crazy gingerbread man!' "-YVETTE BURGS, Denfyne, S.C. ANTHONY M. YORIO, ESQ., of Manhasset, N.Y., reports noting this sign in Frankenstein's laboratory: Waifs new? RUSSELL JONES of N. Branford. Conn., contributes the cartoon below, explaining: "It shows Igor, feeling TONY GREELEY of Studio City, Calif.: "FM would sword of funny ofter capturing o Fronkenstein-like be enough to give me goose, or rather, spider pim- creature called Fierce J. Ackerman, Editor of ples ... if I had skin." FAMOUS MONSTERS." BARBARA JOHNSON of Brooklyn, N.Y., contributes theme song for the film THE BOO ANGEL: "Falling in Blood Agoin." GARY JAY WANG, N.Y.: "Calling all Monsters! Come to the Blog Logoon for Free Swimming Lessons —in quicksand!" GLEN GOLDEN of Levittown, Pa.: "Do you suffer from draculosis? Zac's Vampire Rub removes (First) that unpleasant tightening of the throat (then)—the throat!" "In these days of inflation," soys YANDRO BINDER of Coulsonville, Ind., "a Buck Rogers would be worth $2.50." (Yes, and at the rate things are going, by the time we reach his era of the 25th Century, we'll have to coll him Century Rogers because he'll be worth a Hundred Bucks!) IZAK ASENION of W. Newton, Mass., asks: "Do yoo know what words the Bride of the Spook spoke during her wedding ceremony? 'Whither thou ghost,

1 sholi go'." "Life Begins at 4-D," soys JACK HARRIS, Dynamic Young Producer of THE 4-D MAN ond THE BLOB. "If the smallest toe on GODZILLA hurt him, would you call that Godzilla's Little Acher?"-TETSU YAN- DRO, Tokyo, Japan. ^

500,000 franks will be deposited in your name {or reasonable facsimile) in each of the Banks of Frank- enstein for each rib-tickling comment quoted in this department. Interest will be drown on a ouorterly basis; that is, your franks will be drawn and quartered. ^m Wm\m Sffl wM' 1^

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46 When Gloria Stuort spied a spider on her arm, her eyes popped out of her head just like in a Tom & Gory cartoon. Karloff's playing it kool— no fool he, he's waiting for it to get just a little darker himself. in that Old House . . . ond then he'll probably turn into a spider I

Marion Marsh feets anything but mellow as her beast fell' ' asks her how she likes his new buck teeth. (Actually they set him bach

1-2-3 . . . and the race is on : the first reader who properly identifies all the pictures and rushes to Professor Urbank's Secret Labora- tory, gets his face remodeled free.

Warning : if a sharp character answers the door, don't lose your head, it's just Gil OTeen, a gay blade who may make cutting remarks but wouldn't harm a hair on the

head of a friend of Dr. Urbank's ... . I don't think. But just to be on the safe side, better not lay your head on any wooden pillows with a hollowed neck rest in them, in case you're invited to stay overnite. Friend of ours did and—funny thing—we can't quite figure out what's different about him, but from his shoulders up something seems to be missing. Like his head. And he answers to the new name of Shorty.

The last time you saw this Creeping Beauty, before she began cracking up for lack of sleep, she had two jet- propelled eyebrows. Remember THE AMAZING SHE- CREATURE? a AB H» was o Nkoteenagerl A horrible exampi* of a HAUNTED STRANGLER who imokvd so much he began to choke on his own weeds. Riddle: What SON of JOHN went and TOR out his hair after playing MICKEY MONSTER on a dare-?l

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DRACULA MEETS THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING GIRl as our Man Aging Editor, PHYLLIS FARKAS, shrinks from BELA LUGOSI. m^lJL 1 ^^^w^MoN^i^ CUjp ^eCt'oJJ

ATTENTION NEW MONSTER pressed the right button—and the 8 pages came sliding out of the huge press — in CLUB MEMBERS AND ALL 3,852,739 pieces. THOSE WHO EXPECTED TO Elmer Hugg is pictured on the opposite SEE THEIR NAMES AND page. The photo was taken right after he

CLUB ADS IN THIS ISSUE: saw the 3,852,739 pieces. He is very unhappy.

Gang, we've got sickening news for you. Editor Adcerman is very unhappy.

Publisher Warren is very unhappy. We had 8 full pages of club ads and

new names scheduled for this issue. It And we're sure that over 300 readers of

looked beautiful. It contained over 20 FM are just as unhappy! Mainly the 300

photos of new Club members. guys and gals who missed out on getting

their names and pictures into this issue. Weil sir, we sent this beautiful 8-poge

spread to our printing plant. It was all set But do not fret, oh loyal readers and

to go into this issue (right on this very Club members. For our next issue of FM will

page). Then it happened. carry a COMPLETE SECTION on all new

members and ads that were to have ap- Elmer Hugg, the printing press super- peared in THIS ISSUE — as well as current visor pushed the wrong button. names for NEXT issue.

The 8 pages of names and pictures slid Meanwhile, back at the plant, poor El- into the wrong press roller and disap- mer Hugg will never be the same. peared. Elmer screamed in panic. Everyone

in the plant screamed in panic. Women in

the office fainted. After 20 minutes of Yours Ghouly,

screaming and fainting, Elmer finally DR. ACULA

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A FIEND FROM FRANCE-Mottt JEAN LINARD. "Vive L'Amour et Les MonstresI" declares Monsieur ilu'aKuiii'acddenl Linard who, next to Brigitte Bardot, is possibly the best known figure in France. Translated, his message reads: "Long Live Dorothy Lamour ond Hie Monsters!"

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ISRAELI ALIEN? Gentleman from Jerusa- lem who looks like he's eaten too much pufFed rice makes a very nice stand-in for BELA LUG05I, don't you agree? His foto was sent us by Oskor Wahrmann, a foithful fan in the Holy Land. When we asked the identity of this monster lever, Oskar answered: "Mump's the wordi" We understand his ambition is to play Ping Pong, Son of Kong, in the city of Tel Aviv-on channel #13 Tel- ^ Avivslon! "ISS'S •*» »M»«

SWISS WATCHERS-Standing, PIERRE VER- SINS, and (seated) JACQUES BERGIER, keep eagle eyes on the activities of creatures from Karloffornio to Kalamazoo via the iivnrl pages of our Monsters' Home Journof.

TOKYO TRIO-Father (TETSU YANG), son Mokolo and daughter Kumiko all enjoy FM in Japan, the country that gave us GOD- ZILLA, GIGANTIS, RODAN, THE H-MAN, THE MYSTERIANS and THE RETURN OF MADAME BUTTERFLY. _ fc^.^

A GHOUL FROM GERMANY-Jesco von Puttkomer smuggles us this verboten foto of a Young Devil from Deutschlond enjoying issue #3 of FAMOUS MONSTERS. Good grovy-it's our friend GRAVES again. He claims »his picture wos taken in Key West, Florido-whore he was westing while reading FM. "Westerns" reminds us: don't miss the announcement on page 66 of this issue. If s wild . . . real wildl You might even call it WILD WEST! • —

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Sick Shooter Blazing, FAMOUS MONSTERS Goes West) Ghostown, USA; 13 Dec 1959—In the clos- ing hours of the old year, the greatest surprise announcement of the decade came here today when it was learned that FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND it to have a companion.' it will be Htled FAVORITE WBiTBKNS OF Filmland and will go on sale during Febru- ary—watch for it at yore favorite noose- stand! Interviewed on the subject. Editor Ackerman drawled out from under a ten gallon hat and said, "Wal, Beast is Beast and West is West,

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Paul Carlin, of Southampton, Penna., was only thing left is for Paul to get out to Holly- a normal, healthy young man before sending wood and make a fortune in monster movies. away for the back issues of FAMOUS MON- And with the background material learned STERS.' However, last month he insisted on from the pages of FM's back issues—he is ordering back issues 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 — and destined for immediate success! within a few hours of their arrival at Paul's You too can be a monster expert ! Five jam- home — he turned into the monster pictured packed back issues of FM are now available above. for a limited time only. Just fill out the cou- Needless to say, Paul is more than satisfied pon below — and while you're at it — send in with the change. He had always wanted to the OTHER coupon also for a subscription transform himself into a monster. The only that will bring you the next 6 issues of Go, go! trouble is—we haven't been able to figure out FAMOUS MONSTERS. go, a way to change him back to normal. The

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