Filmfax (1986) comic books

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Features in this issue include: retelling of Bela Lugos's life as told by his widow; article on director Reginald LeBorg; article and interview on Jonathan Frid of Dark Shadows fame; a piece on comedy horror films; the gimmicky films of William Castle; video reviews (including 1941 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde) by Tom Weaver; and more. Bela Lugosi cover art painted by Barbara Fister-Liltz. Cover price $2.95.

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Features in this issue include: letter by Michael J. Weldon (author of The Psychotronic Encyclopedia); feature on movies that never got made by Famous Monsters icon Forrest J Ackerman; article on Mikel Conrad (The Flying Saucer); feature on Toho Studio's Battle in Outer Space; article on Earth vs. the Flying Saucers; "The Three Stooges in Orbit"; and more. Photo cover is from Battle in Outer Space. Cover price $2.95.

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Features in this issue include: anecdotes on Dick Miller during the Roger Corman years; interviews with various cast members of Space Patrol; feature on Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space; family and friends share memories of Ed Wood; feature on kids' SF films of the 1950s; behind-the-scenes and cast interviews from The Adventures of Captain Marvel; remembrance of One Glorious Day by Forry Ackerman; and more. Cover photo depicts Tor Johnson of Plan 9 from Outer Space. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: Ken Tobey article and interview; Mel Blanc article and interview; part one of detailed history on Monogram Pictures; feature in The Adventures of Robin Hood; and more. Cover montage highlighted by Mel Blanc surrounded by Looney Tunes characters. Cover price $4.95.

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Aug 1989. The complete history of Batman on film & television, including the serials, TV shows, feature films, plus rare photos & interviews; the amazing lost worlds of Willis O'Brien; Zach's back on 'Z-TV!'; Carnival of Souls - surrealistic horror from director Herk Harvey; Colossus of New York - actor Ross Martin remembered; poverty row horror - from Bela Lugosi to Rondo Hatton; confessions of a Hollywood gorilla - Steve Calvert, simian stuntman; interviews wth TV Batman Adam West, Batgirl Yvonne Craig, 'Batwriter' Stanley Ralph Ross; profile of Selar Shaik Sabu; the films of PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation). Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: feature on Forry Ackerman selling his collection; article on Science Fiction Theatre; article on The Angry Red Planet; "Glamour Girls from Outer Space"; director Ed Berns on Queen of Outer Space; interview with Richard Webb (Captain Midnight); "Director Robert Wise Remembers The Day the Earth Stood Still"; and more. Photo cover is from Science Fiction Theatre. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: letter by John Landis; article about genre films with the brain as a theme; lengthy feature on The Monster of Piedras Blancas; interview with screenwriter Robb White (who worked for William Castle); article on detectives in horror films; and more. Gorgeous cover photo from The Monster of Piedras Blancas. Cover price $4.95.

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Rocky Jones, Space Ranger - classic 1950s sci-fi television; Barbara Steele - her career in profile; Arthur Lake - Blondie's Dagwood; The Thief of Bagdad (silent) - go behind-the-scenes with the special effects wizards of 1924. Cover price $4.95.

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Lon Chaneys last interview. Part two of Rocky Jones, Space Ranger feature. Jocko Mahoney interview. Feature on Evelyn Ankers. Robert Campbell remembers working with Roger Corman. Hazel Court interview. Henry MacRae: The Man Who Would be Serial King. Rocky Jones Bios: The Bad Guys. Rocky Jones episode guide. 98 pgs. May, 1990. Cover price: $4.95. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: interview with makeup artist Harry Thomas; "A Complete History of Dick Tracy" part one; feature on TV's Men into Space; part two of Lon Chaney Jr. article; remembrance of the late Wendayne Ackerman by husband Forry; and more. Cover photo is from Men into Space. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: feature on Abbott & Costello monster movies; article on "sword and sandal" actor Steve Reeves; part two of "A Complete History of Dick Tracy"; article and interview of Laurette Luez; article on I Was a Teenage Werewolf (includes interviews with director Gene Fowler, Jr. and actor Whit Bissell); and more. Cover photo is of Michael Landon as the Teenage Werewolf. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: feature on teenage genre movies; "The Amazing Life of Mamie Van Doren"; Huntz Hall interview; Sylvia Sydney interview; feature on Prehistoric Women; and more. Cover photo shows a ravishing Mamie Van Doren. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: commentary on Santa Claus Conquers the Martians; Jimmy Stewart interview (!); feature on Babes in Toyland; Charlton Heston interview; and more. Photo cover shows Heston working with Cecil B. DeMille. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: piece on The Phantom of the Opera (Chaney version) laserdisc; article on Lon Chaney/Tod Browning collaborations; interview with Marx Bros. costar Allan Jones; "Frankie Thomas Remembers being Tom Corbett Space Cadet"; interview with Eli Wallach; interview with composer Albert Glasser; and more. Cover photo is of Harpo Marx. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: "Remembering Johnny Eck" (of Freaks fame); article and interview of Donald Duck voice actor Clarence "Ducky" Nash; producer Sid Pink remembers The Twonky; feature on The Soupy Sales Show; lengthy Rondo Hatton article by Fred Olen Ray; piece on John Wayne's work for Monogram; Sam Arkoff interview; article on blacklisted actor Lionel Stander; and more. Cover photo shows Clarence "Ducky" Nash. Cover price $4.95.

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Russ Meyer on 'sexploitation'; Tura Satana - The Astro-Zombies; complete Thrill Killers - pressbook reproduced inside; Les Mohr - behind-the-scenes with Rockin' Rocketeers; exploitation experts expound on ethics of excess. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: article on Fess Parker; "The Life and Films of Ivan Tors"; interview with Rose Hobart (of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde fame); part one of feature on the Boris Karloff-hosted television series Thriller; part one of article on comic talents Wheeler & Woolsey; article and interview of Wheeler & Woolsey costar Dorothy Lee; and more. Cover photo is of Boris Karloff's Thriller. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: "Bela Lugosi in Black Dragons" by Tom Weaver; article and interview of Clayton Moore (The Lone Ranger); "Behind the Scenes with Richard Derr" (of When Worlds Collide fame); part two of Wheeler & Woolsey article; article on H. Rider Haggard film adaptations; article and interview of Marie Windsor; part two of Thriller article; and more. Cover photo depicts Lugosi in Black Dragons. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: "The Life and Films of Lionel Atwill"; letter from Tom Weaver complaining (rightly so) about flawed intro to one of his Filmfax articles; children in SF and horror films; "The True Life and Death Story of George Zucco; interview with actor John Howard; feature on Lon Chaney's and Tod Browning's The Unknown; and more. Cover photo is of Lionel Atwill. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: article on Henry Brix; profile of Popeye voice actor Jack Mercer; article and interview of Jonathan Harris; Dick York farewell interview; article and interview of Tom Steele; feature on obscure Westerns (written by Sid Pink); feature on legendary comedy actor Harold Lloyd; and more. Cover depicts Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York of Bewitched. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: interview of The Thing director Christian Nyby; article on children's program The Johnny Jupiter show; Martine Beswick interview; interviews with Carl Stalling and Chuck Jones; "Remembering Bogie"; and more. Cover photo is of Lauren Becall and Humphrey Bogart. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: "The Monstrous Genius of Jack Pierce as Told by Makeup Master, Rick Baker; articles on Colin Clive and Edward Van Sloan; preview of David J. Skal's scholarly book The Monster Show; Dwight D. Frye interview; and more. Cover photo is of Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster. Cover price $4.95.

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V is for Victory: The Spysmasher Saga; Gorilla My Screams: Bob Burns friendship with Paul Blaisdell - interview by Mark Vogler; L'Enfant Terrible: Cinematic Poetry of Jean Cocteau; France's "Le roi de Crazy!": Jerry Lewis; Superman's Serious Sidekick: A Conversation with Phyllis Coates; Milburn Stone: Lost interview with Gunsmoke's "Doc"; Music to the Max: The Max Steiner story. Dec/Jan. 1993. Cover price $4.95.

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Confessions of a Teenage Hearthrob: Kenny Miller; The "How To" of Making a Monster Movie: interview with Herman Cohen; The Girl, the Gillman, and the Great White One-piece: interview with Julie Adams; Jack Arnold: Life Beyong the Camera - interview with Betty Arnold; The Creature Remake That Never Got Made: Conversation with Jack Arnold and Nigel Kneale; The Quatermass Experience; Hinds Horrors: Anthony Hinds article. Feb/Mar 1993. Cover price $4.95.

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Behind-the-scenes on Errol Flynn's unfinished epic The Adventures of William Tell; new facts unmask the man behind the 1,000 faces - Lon Chaney, Sr.; Joe Dante's Matinee; sex, lies and disney tape; Buchanan's Wacky World. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: retrospective of Realart Pictures; article and interview of Jay North (Dennis the Menace); interview with Lita Grey Chaplin (Charlie's second wife); "Master of Early Movie Makeup" (about Lon Chaney); Ian Wolfe interview; feature on Sea Hunt; and more. Cover photo is an incredibly cool shot of Lon Chaney displaying his makeup kit. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: "The Musical Career of Paul Dunlap"; interview with Anita Garvin; "The Story of Jack Webb and Dragnet" part one; "The Surrealist Films of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali; memoirs of actor Jack Kelly; a conversation with Robert Bloch; and more. Photo montage cover highlighted by Jack Webb of Dragnet. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: "lost" interview with Margaret Hamilton; review of Black Sunday on video; "The Story of Jack Webb and Dragnet" part two; Fu Manchu article; article and interview of makeup artist Dick Smith; article and episode guide of Roald Dahl's TV series Way Out; interviews with Munsters stars Al Lewis and Butch Patrick; and more. Cover depicts Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: farewell interview with Vincent Price; profile celebrating the life of Vincent Price; part one of interview with screenwriter Ed Hartmann; 30th anniversary article on Astro Boy; "The Amicus Empire" (featuring interview with Milton Subotsky); William Schallert interview; and more. Cover photo is of Vincent Price. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: "Ian Flemming and the Early Years of James Bond"; article on early interactive children's television show called Winky Dink and You; "The Films of Val Lewton & Boris Karloff"; article on Bela Lugosi Monogram films; article and interview on Milton Berle; and more. Cover photo is of Boris Karloff. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: article on Great Britain's Tod Slaughter; exhaustive feature on Flash Gordon; article on Gale Storm (My Little Margie); article on animator Bill Scott; interviews with Spanky McFarland and Jerry Tucker; and more. Cover depicts Buster "Flash Gordon" Crabbe. Cover price $4.95.

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Features in this issue include: a tribute to Peter Cushing by Christopher Lee; Peter Cushing biographer remembers the great actor; "The Making of Horror Express"; part one of behind the scenes of Abbott and Costello go to Mars article; interview with Chris Costello (Lou's daughter); Conrad Brooks interview; "The Tragic Life and Times of Peggie Castle"; and more. Cover photo is from Abbott & Costello go to Mars. Cover price $5.95.

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Features in this issue include: the making of One Million B.C.; "The Kenneth Strickfaden Story"; interview with William F. Nolan; "Animator Ward Kimball Remembers Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"; part two of Abbott and Costello go to Mars article; and more. Photo depicts Colin Clive and Dwight Frye utilizing the "lab gadgets" of Kenneth Strickfaden. Cover price $5.95.

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Features in this issue include: a feature on silent space cinema; article on Mexican actor/wrestler El Santo; Robert Wise interview; interview with actress Shawn Smith; article on Flash Gordon television series; article on The Great Gildersleeve; Sam Fuller interview; Delmar Watson interview; and more. Photo painting is from Mèliés silent film. Cover price $5.95.

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This special anniversary issue includes the following features: article on director Gerd Oswald (The Outer Limits); article on Jules Verne silent films; article and interview on Joan Weldon; making of feature on It Came from Outer Space; article on Lon Chaney film Tell it to the Marines; article and interview on Donald O'Connor; and more. Cover shows creature from It Came from Outer Space. Cover price $5.95.

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Features in this issue include: interview with Sammy Petrillo; article on lasting influence of Tod Browning and Freaks; debate on Universal versus Hammer horror films; final interview with Al Adamson; interview with cartoon icon Joe Barbera; interview with actress Jane Greer; article and interview on Dwayne Hickman; and more. Cover photo is from Santa and the Martians. Cover price $5.95.

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Burlesque Films of Bettie Page (cover painting and article)

This 10th anniversary issue contains the following features: "The Horror Films of Abel Salazar"; Outer Limits article by David J. Schow; "The Life and Times of Paul Blaisdell" (includes color photo spread); the burlesque films of Bettie Page; article on Nestor Paiva; Marian Marsh interview; and more. Cover painting is of Bettie Page. Cover price $5.95.

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Features in this issue include: Claudia Barrett (of Robot Monster) interview; Herbert L. Strock interview; "The Sinister Serials of Bela Lugosi"; making of Journey to the Center of the Earth; article and interview on Sue Ane Langdon; "Harpo Marx & the Golden Age of Television"; and more. Cover photo depicts Bela Lugosi in The Phantom Creeps. Cover price $5.95.

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Features in this issue include: interview with Loretta King (of Bride of the Monster fame); Jonathan Haze interview; Bettie Page feature; Hollywood prison films; and more. Cover photo and poster art are from Bride of the Monster. Cover price $5.95.

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Features in this issue include: John Agar interview; interview with the reclusive beauty Faith Domergue; Martin Kosleck interview; article and interview of Carol Lynley; "The Lost Horrors of Hammer" part two; and more. Cover shows Faith Domergue and the Metaluna monster from This Island Earth. Cover price $5.95.

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Features in this issue include: Beverly Garland interview; part one of article on AIP's Deke Howard; Joan Taylor revisits Earth vs. the Flying Saucers; retrospective on The Thief of Bagdad; and more. Cover features Vincent Price photo and poster art from Dr. Goldfoot & the Girl Bombs. Cover price $5.95.

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The bulk of this special "Son of VideoScan" issue consists of an A-Z feature on B-movies, from The Ape Man to Zombies of Mora Tau. Plus, there's the usual letters and reviews. Cover photo is of Mamie Van Doren. Cover price $5.95.

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This giant sized "Ultra" issue (which is actually two issues in one #63 & #64) contains the following: article and interview of Gregory Walcott; interview with Ed Wood regular Don Nagel; cast and crew members recall Spider Baby; interview with Merry Anders; Robert Culp and Harlan Ellison on Outer Limits episode Demon with a Glass Hand; behind the scenes of Unknown Island; interviews with Barbara Steele and Barbara Shelley; Lon Chaney film biography; and more. Cover photo is Robert Culp in Demon with the Glass Hand. Cover price $9.95.

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This giant sized "Ultra" issue contains the following; interviews with Jess Franco, Val Guest, Ramsay Ames, Curt Lowens, Anne Helm, German Robles, Ariadne Welter, Evangelina Elizondo, and John Cardos; article on mad science and modern culture by David J. Skal; interview with super collector and fan Bob Burns; profile on Roy Barcroft; and more. Cover painting by Haley Brown is of Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein and Boris Karloff as the monster. Cover price $9.95.

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First Man-to-Flu: Interview with David "Al" Hedison; The Devil's Disciple: Interview with Amanda Duff; Irene Tsu: From Prehistoric Planet to Star Trek to Elvis; Snap, Crackle, Scream (pt 2): Screams of Reason: Mad Science & Modern Culture; Bob Burns (pt 2) Fantastic Film Fandom's Good Will ambassador; The 7th Voyage of the Invisible Boy: Interview with Richard Eyer; The Man From Planet X Files: Making of Edgar Ulmer's SF Cult Classic; The Marlboro Man Meets The Creeping Terror: Interview with William Thourlby; Cuban Rebel Girls: Errol Flynn's Last Adventure; The Way it Happened, pt 4: Autobiography of Louis M "Deke" Heyward; Beware All Monsters: Ultraman is Forever Earth's Champion!; I Was a Teenage Monster: Interview with stuntman Gil Perkins; Whatever happened to George Nader?: Rise and fall of a Hollywood Sex Symbol; Fields of Glory: interview with Ronald J. Fields, WC's grandson; The Other Madman's Diary: Interrview with Tom Troupe. August/September 1998 Cover price $9.95.

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Silent Expressionist Conrad Veidt from The Man Who Laughs to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and beyond; rare Peter Lorre appearances on '50s & '60s TV; AIP producer James H. Nicholson; William Campbell on Star Trek; Linda Harrison on Planet of the Apes; Kitty de Hoyos on Mexican horror; behind-the-scenes on Fritz Lang's SF classic Frau Im Mond; Elinor Donahue on '50s TV; War of the Worlds on DVD & LD. Cover price $7.50.

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Interview with Invasion of the Body Snatchers star Kevin McCarthy; Harlan Ellison on Val Lewton; Orson Welles rediscovering his lost film Don Quixote; Deborah Walley on Elvis; Freddie Francis on Hammer & Amicus horror; Edgar Ulmer's Bluebeard; Cynthia Patrick on The Mole People; George Clayton Johnson on The Martian Chronicles & Logan's Run. Cover price $7.50.

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Features in this issue include: article on Boris Karloff's Night World; feature on Hugh Beaumont; interview with the beautiful Anne Francis; interview with Fleischer Studios animation director Myron Waldman; interview with Joan Staley; part three of George Clayton Johnson interview; and more. Cover photo of Anne Francis and Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet is by Harley Brown. Cover price $7.50.

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Glenn Ford the All-purpose Star; Jack Harris: the man behind the Blob; Wrestling Mexican monsters; Metropolis Reborn: The reconstruction and restoration of Fritz Lang's classic; Destined to play Wilma, pt 2: the life and times of Erin Gray (Buck Rogers); Tinkering with the future: Tim O'Connor in the 25th century (Buck Rogers); Another Tale Well-calculated to keep you in...Suspense: Real life, natural talent and the theatre of the mind: Interview with George Bamber. Feb/Mar 2003 Cover price $9.95.

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Special Lampoon Issue. Frank & Mary Stein - the untold love story; interviews with: Griff Vandergriff (Explosion on Uranus), Les Mohr (Atomic Women), Luma Driscoll (Priestess of Mars), Rusty Kramer (Posters Are My Life); and other astounding articles - The Giant Gila Monster, The Giant Claw, Crazy Hip Groovy Go-Go Way Out Monsters, The Out-Of Timers, Noir Galore. Cover by Harley Brown. Cover price $9.95.