Filmfax (1986) comic books 2004-2006

Milicent Patrick, Monster Maker - designer of the Creature from the Black Lagoon; the making of Forbidden Planet - new facts & unpublished photos; Space Patrol's Ralston Rocket - amazing grand prize giveaway; plus interviews with: Peter Fonda (Easy Rider, The Trip), Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist), Ian Fleming (007 James Bond), Beverly Garland (Decoy police woman), Curtis Harrington (Night Tide, Queen of Blood), Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica), William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist Trilogy), Igo Kantor (Kingdom of the Spiders). Cover price $9.95.

Noel Neill and Jack Larson on Superman, John Newland in One Step Beyond, Herbert Strock's AIP moster movies, Gary Owens on Laugh-In, art of Stanley Meltzoff, Hugh Cave, Carol Cleveland on Monty Python, behind the scenes on This Island Earth, and more. 7-7/8 in. x 10.25-in.; black and white; 144 newsprint pages. Cover price $9.95.

Tom Corbett Space Cadet, Frankie Thomas and Jan Merlin interviews, Paul Blaisdell, Will Eisner, Barbara Feldon, William Asher, Annie Kimbell, space toys, and more. 7-7/8 in. x 10.25-in.; black and white; 144 newsprint pages. Cover price $9.95.

Spider-Man 2 - escape from development hell; monster maker Paul Blaisdell's She-Creature - the behind-the-scenes story; The Queen of Outer Space's Laurie Mitchell; Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster's George Garrett; MAD comic artist Jack Davis; Nightmare on Elm Street nemesis John Saxon; Untouchable hero Robert Stack; Batman's 'real Robin' Johnny Duncan; Dracula FX wizard John Fulton; TV theme man Vic Mizzy; Fugitive producer Alan Armer; Astro Boy creators Fred Ladd & Osamu Tezuka; Russ Meyer starlet Raven De La Croix; Ed Gorman interviews Richard Matheson. Cover price $9.95.

Paul Blaisdell's It! The Terror From Beyond Space - on the scene with Bob Burns; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter film A Princess of Mars now in preproduction; Burroughs illustrator Thomas Yeates; sexy Bond girl Lana Wood; restoration of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Felix 'Twiki' Silla on Buck Rogers; Chicago's Shock Theater; John Saxon; voice man Paul Frees; Honey West director Walter Grauman; Tommy Chong; Paul Picerni; Groucho is God in Skidoo; lost silent Marx Bros. Cover price $9.95.

Barbara Leigh - original Vampirella model bares her fangs; Brian Wilson's Smile - ex-Beach Boy talks about completing his masterpiece; Marlyn Mason - working with Elvis; Ruth Buzzi - loving Laugh-In; Eddie Parker - monster stuntman; Ray Harryhausen - Earth vs. Flying Saucers; Willis O'Brien & Edward Nassour - The Beast of Hollow Mountain; William Cameron Menzies - visualization of fantastic cinema; Juliet Mills & Billie Mae Richards - of witches & magical reindeer; Robert E. McGinnis - master of paperback women. Cover by Harley Brown. Cover price $9.95.

Special 20th Anniversary Issue. Inside William Cameron Menzies' classic Invaders from Mars, plus the horrors of The Maze (a lost Menzies chiller); Kung Fu's David Carradine interviewed; Space Patrol's Ed Kemmer recalls his life in film & television; horror hostess Vampira, plus Paul Marco & Conrad Brooks in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space; Space Ranger Jimmy Lydon - making Edgar Ulmer's Strange Illusion; comedian musician Tommy Smothers on politics & censorship in 1960s TV; singer film star Bobby Darin - the amazing career of a 20th century icon; '60s TV fix-it-man Philip Saltzman - reshaping early TV in the Quinn Martin mold; dinosaur legacy of Ray Bradbury & Ray Harryhausen - from Fog Horn to The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms; A Midsummer Night's Dream - expressionist design for Shakespeare in 1935. Cover price $9.95.

Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell previews The Man with the Screaming Brain; the legacy of Star Wars - interviews with original cast members Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Peter Mayhew & Carrie Fisher; Star Trek's Joseph Jennings - production designer on original TV show; George Romero reviews the original Night of the Living Dead with Joe Bob Briggs, plus original cast & crew John Russo, Kyra Schon & Russ Streiner; William Stout - underground comix to genre movie wizard; Mary Woronov - Warhol & prison a-go-go; Chainsaw Dupont - real delta crush blues; Shelley Berman - serious improv comedy; Bobby Darin - beyond the cinema sea; George DeNormand - original monster stuntman; Raquel Welch & Ursula Andress - the Hammer glamor girls of She & One Million Years B.C.; Syd Mead & Ralph McQuarrie - pre-production artists on unrealized sci-fi epic The Grid. Cover price $9.95.

Features in this issue include: article and interview of James Doohan; article and interview of Dian Fauntelle; article and interview of Ann Robinson; broad based feature on The War of the Worlds; replication of Robby the Robot; feature on Tiny Tim; and more. Digital cover painting of Anne Robinson in War of the Worlds is by Filmfax publisher Michael Stein Cover price $9.95.

King Kong - a comparative cine-anatomy; making the original 1933 King Kong; sights & sounds of Peter Jackson's new King Kong; creating the special effects for George Pal's War of the Worlds; celebrating Gumby's 50th anniversary; talking with Malcolm McDowell on his earliest films, plus Time After Time; making of the 1960s TV cult classic The Prisoner; Leo Gorcey's last interview; dinosaur artist William Stout; restoring the Fleischer Popeyes; actress Diana Darrin; folk singer Kat Eggleston; horrormeister R. Chetwynd Hayes; ageless Charles Lane. Cover price $9.95.

Mike Kaluta cover art and feature article. The Cinematic Worlds of Chelsey Bonestell. The Importance of Being Ernest Borgnine. Nick Meglin Goes MAD. Ed Wynn Meets Rod Serling. Phil Karlsons Tough Noir. Making of Westworld. Maurice Prather on Carnival of Souls. Wanda Jackson Remembers Elvis. Kay Francis on Monogram. Karl Mays German Westerns. Book and movie reviews. 146 pgs. April/June, 2006. Cover price: $9.95. Cover price $9.95.

Chesley Bonestall: Space Artist; Dennis Weaver: Duel; The Secrets of Futureworld; The Squid That Got Away: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; The Fantasmagorical Worlds of Michael Wm. Kaluta; Nightmare in Laughs: Victoria Carroll; Samurai Widow Tells All: John Belushi's widow; Music From the Eve of Destruction; Atomic City, Atomic World: Paranoia reaches Ground Zero in this tale of atomic espionage; This Is Not a Test: Interview with Mary Morlas; Samson Burke Meets the Three Stooges; Tommy "Butch" Bond; Superman's Pal, Jim Hambrick: How Kirk Alyn returned to Metropolis and forged his legacy as the first real Man of Steel. July/Sept 2006. Cover price $9.95.

Forbidden Planet, Robert Bloch, D.C. Fontana, Dee Wallace Stone, Lorne Peterson, Tod Browning's Dracula, Richard Fleischer, Jackson Bostwick, Lisa Gaye, House Peters Jr., art of Michael Kaluta, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and more. 7-7/8 in. x 10.25-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $9.95.