Fantastic Films Illustrated #1: 1963
  • by John Ballentine
    John Ballentine, co-author of two volumes of The Monster Magazine & Fanzine Collector’s, picks his Top 50 issues from the vast history of genre publications.

    Fantastic Films Illustrated #1: 1963Fantastic Films Illustrated #1
    Billed as “An amateur/semi-professional magazine” from 1963
    Editor/publisher: John H. Carpenter
    Cover (hand colored water colors): It Conquered the World by John H. Carpenter

    This scarce fanzine was published by the much-lauded director of Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York and The Thing when he was 15 years old, who also contributed cover-to-cover articles on Japanese science fiction, The Birds, the story of Hercules in film, plus a review of Irwin Allen’s The Lost World and a photo preview of Dinosaurus.

    Artist’ page features Carpenter’s own illustration from King Kong vs. Godzilla, plus an advertisement for: King Kong Journal #1 – Coming Soon!

    Tune in next time for #43!

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John Ballentine co-authored The Monster Magazine & Fanzine Collector’s Guide.

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