Who loves monster magazines? I love monster magazines. It must be a strange life, investigating and reporting on the world as it’s affected by monsters. As the monster turns toward the audience and says “people!” running away in a dash, the reporter takes a flash, another front page for Famous Monsters magazine. This post focuses on that, the Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine series, in particular the covers. So rip off your safety belt, jump out of the car, and run screaming into the woods, because it’s time for MONSTER MAGAZINE COVER MADNESS! Presented in technicolor!

Don’t move a finger, a hair, or a heart, cause this is about to get real wild. Creatures featured in any manner of ways, the covers centralized on one monster each. It’s like a portrait of the grotesque on most of these magazine fronts, only a few derivations for sneaky fantastic or otherwise cooky special editions.

Devour if you dare! The following collection begins with issue #1 from 1958 and continues on through the first 100 mags. For further Monsters of F viewing past this point, take a peek at MovieMags, Modern Fred, Inanimate Hitchhiker, Science Fiction Unleashed, Joey Von, Budhha Is, Alternative Cinema, Zombie Babe, VooDoo King Designs, Mark Berry, Martin Prine, Video Challenger, Alan E Robinson, Mad Monsters, Pengarift, and Gorilla Men. They’ve all got the nackering.

And never look away from a mirror then back at it again.

GUARANTEED MONSTER.

ALSO: These magazine images are under copyright, not only because they were made well within the confines of copyright rights, but also because Famous Monsters is basically restarted now, and are putting out new magazines as we speak!

Scary!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies covers category.