Fantastic Films (1978) comic books

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Vol. 1 #1 in indicia. April 1978 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the Cinema, Fantastic Films #1 includes: animating the Star Wars chess sequence, The Ships of Star Wars, Rick Baker interview, Animating the Death Star Trench, Dr. J. Allen Hynek on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Forerunners of CE3K, The Day the Earth Stood Still retrospective, The Language of Klaatu, Mystery of the Seamless Saucer, The Original Story and the Final Film (of Day the Earth Stood Still), The Gort Effects, How the Earth Stood Still, and The Music that Made the Earth Stand Still. Cover price $2.00.

Auction Item: CGC 8.0 View scans 2 bids Current bid: $7.00 Time left: 5d 17h 8m Paper: White Label #4498221017	Add to cart Fine $14.00	Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $14.00 View scan	Add to cart VG 4.0 $9.00
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Vol. 1 #2 in indicia. June 1978 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the Cinema, Fantastic Films #2 includes: Mothership Architecture, The Alien Language of CE3K Translated, Kirk Alyn interview, Superman movies preview by Mike Gold, The Powers of Kal-El, The Animated Kryptonian, The Man of the Steel vs. the Cathode Ray article, Superbeings that Almost Were (Superboy and Superpup), 50s bubblegum cards article, The True Origins of Superman, and The Daily Planet. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 1 #3 in indicia. August 1978 on cover. Spectacular Special Effects Issue. Subtitled The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the Cinema, Fantastic Films #3 includes: Interviews with Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra (including Galactica photos), R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) and Susan Sackett; Woody Allen on 'The UFO Menace'; the weapons of Star Wars; exclusive Star Trek II photos; alien languages of Star Wars translated. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 1 #4 in indicia. October 1978 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the Cinema, Fantastic Films #4 includes: Ray Harryhausen interview, Metamorphoses (animated film) article, Winsor McCay profile by Mike Gold, Inside Jaws 2, Future Animation by Gold, The Lord of the Rings (animated film) preview, and Greg Jein interview. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 1 #5 in indicia. Galactica and the art of John Dykstra (interview). Science Fiction on Television. Spock Speaks—Alien Linguistics by Tauna Le Marbe (the Vulcan language translated). Remembering Captain Midnight. SF TV Animation. Feature on The Outer Limits. The Amazing Worlds of Gerry Anderson. A gallery of Ralph McQuarries pre-production paintings for Battlestar: Galactica. 70 pgs. Dec, 1978. Cover price: $2.00. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 1 #6 in indicia. February 1979 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the Cinema, Fantastic Films #6 includes: Battlestar Galactica interviews with Glen Larson and episode director Christian Nyby, Battlestar Galactica color portfolio, Science Fiction on Television, Ralph Bakshi interview, The Lord of the Rings (animated film) color scenes, Judy King Rieniets profile and poster, Buster Crabbe interview, and Conversation with Ken Swenson. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 2 #1, #6 in indicia. April 1979 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the Cinema, Fantastic Films #7 includes: The Selling of Superman by Mike Gold, Science Fiction on Television, Spacecraft from Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica, Michael Saenz profile and poster, Star Wars vs. Battlestar Galactica, and The Lord of the Rings (animated film) article. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 2 #2 in indicia. June 1979 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Visual Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantastic Films #8 includes: Richard Donner interview, Science Fiction on Television, One Last Time Down the Death Star Trench, Robert Altman on Quintet, Geof Darrow profile and poster, Superman The Movie location report, Invasion of the Body Snatchers overview, a new look at The Conquest of Space, and Jean Rogers interview and scrapbook. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 2 #3 in indicia. July 1979 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Visual Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantastic Films #9 includes: Glen Larson and Gil Gerard on Buck Rogers, Science Fiction in Theater, Ron Cobb interview, George Romero interview, Starcrash: The Adventures of Stella Star, Why Superheroes Dont Work on Television, and Artwork from Alien. Cover price $2.00.

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Early coverage of the first Alien movie. Vol. 2 #4in indicia. September 1979 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Visual Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantastic Films #10 includes: Dan OBannon interview, Robert Wise interview, The Making of Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Alien: The Pre-Production Paintings of Ron Cobb, Science Fiction on Television, Buck Rogers: The Inside Story—Interview with Director Daniel Haller, First Men in the Moon article, and Battleships and Battlescenes from Buck Rogers. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 2 #5 in indicia (#11 at top of Table of Contents page), October 1979 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Visual Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantastic Films #11 includes: Ridley Scott interview, Alien Pre-Production: The Artists, The Starship Nostromo article, the story and art behind H.R. Giger, The 8th Annual Paris International Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival, Pals Puppetoons, and an overview of the Quatermass films. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 2 #6 in indicia. Noverber 1979 on cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Visual Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantastic Films #12 includes: Moonraker article, part one of a history of robots, Ridley Scott interview part two, Sigourney Weaver interview, Frank Langella interview, and This Island Earth retrospective. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 2 #7 in indicia. January 1980 on cover. Subtitled And Other Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #13 includes: Meteor article, Eiji Tsuburaya (of Godzilla fame) interview, John Badham interview, Maurice Binder (title designer) interview, part two of a history of robots, artwork from the pulps of yesteryear, and a critique of Alien. Cover price $2.00.

Vol. 2 #8 in indicia. February 1980 on cover. White cover. Subtitled And Other Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #14 includes: interview with Star Trek art director Harold Michelson, Star Trek: The Costumes, Just Imagine (sci-fi musical) retrospective, interview with Black Hole director Gary Nelson, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms article, part three of a history of robots, and Charlton Heston Talks About Science Fiction. Cover price $2.00.

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Vol. 2 #9 in indicia. March 1980 on cover. Blue cover. Subtitled And Other Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #15 includes: Art Cruickshank (director of miniature effects on The Black Hole) interview, Art Probert (Star Trek effects designer) interview, Terry Saunders (Black Hole model maker) interview, Painting The Black Hole with Peter Ellenshaw, Star Trek: The Costumes part two, The Giant Behemoth article, and 2000 A.D. article by Mike Gold. Cover price $2.00.

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Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #16 includes: Saturn III preview, part four of history of robots, Gorgo article, Harrison Ellenshaw and The Black Hole Paintings, The Fog article, Lord of Light article, and Radio Ranch (AKA) The Phantom Empire. Cover price $2.00.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #17 includes: Larry Kasdan interview, John Carpenter interview, Peter Kuran (Empire Strikes Back head of animation and rotoscope) interview, The Colossal Man article, Richard Edlund (supervisor of special photographic effects on Empire) interview, Brian Johnson (special effects director on Empire), The Prisoner article, Dennis Muren (special effects photographer on Empire) interview, and The Lost World (silent version) retrospective. Cover price $2.95.

The Empire Strikes Back Chewbacca cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #18 includes: Gary Kurtz interview, Twilight Zone retrospective and episode guide, Empire Animator Phil Tippett Talks, The Changeling article, Galaxina article, and Dungeons and Dragons (the role-playing game) article. Cover price $2.25.

The Empire Strikes Back Yoda cover. Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #19 includes: interviews with Frank Oz, Mark Hammill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Bill Dee Williams, Harrison Ellenshaw (spfx matte artist), and Roger Corman; The Worlds Worst Film Festival; a Star Wars saga portfolio; and a piece on the Warp stage play. Cover price $2.25.

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CChuck Comiski on Battle Beyond the Stars. Article on Mike Jittlov. Speculation Concerning the Future History of the Star Wars Saga. Feature on Island of the Lost Souls (1933). Feature on Thundarr the Barbarian. Interview with Tom Savini. 62 pgs. Dec, 1980. Cover price: $2.25. Cover price $2.25.

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Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #21 includes: Ricou Browning (man inside Creature from the Black Lagoon suit) interview, Forbidden Planet retrospective, Forbidden Planet Photo Film Book, Forbidden Firearms, Krellian Language, Flash Gordon is Back, and Time after Time article. Cover price $2.25.

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Four Unforgettable Years Of SF Cinema, 1977-1980. Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #22 (The Very Best of Fantastic Films) includes: From Star Wars to Empire, One Last Time Down the Death Star Trench, The Weapons of Star Wars, Rick Baker interview, Animating the Death Star Trench, Dan OBannon interview, Alien Dissected, Ron Cobb interview, Mothership Architecture, The Lord of the Rings overview, the Vulcan language translated, The Language of Klaatu, The Alien Languages Star Wars Translated, and The Alien Language of CE3K Translated. Cover price $3.50.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #23 includes: The Thing article, Max Von Sydow Talks About Ming the Merciless, Flashback to the First Flash Gordon, Terence Fisher Remembered, From Star Wars to Empire, Popeyes Pappy is Ray Walston, The Mystery Behind Darth Vaders Prosthetic Armor, and Dungeons & Dragons product catalog. Cover price $2.25.

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Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #24 includes: Ringo Starr is the Caveman, Omen III: The Final Conflict article, The Omen Trilogy viewed in context with religious history, Excalibur article, The Fantasy Worlds of Virgil Vogel, The Incredible Shrinking Woman production designer interview, David Cronenberg Talks About Scanners, and Star Wars Comes to Radio. Cover price $2.25.

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Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #25 includes: Peter Hyams (Outland) interview, The Howling article, Joe Dante article, The Colossus of New York article, Frank Marshall (Raiders of the Lost Ark) interview, Superman II article, James Earl Jones interview, Caveman Animators, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman article, and Ray Harryhausen interview. Cover price $2.95.

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Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #26 includes: Raiders of the Lost Ark article, Dragonslayer article, The Heavy Metal Movie article, The Taarna Sequence: From Start to Finish, The Monster That Challenged the World article, Reptilicus article, Christopher Reeve interview, Superman at the Special Olympics, and Escape from New York Article. Cover price $2.50.

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Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #27 includes: Swamp Thing: From the Comics to the Silver Screen, Galaxy of Terror Meets Saturday the 14th, The New World SPFX Team, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Outland Art: An Illustrated Interview with Jim Steranko, and Shock Treatment article. Cover price $2.50.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #28 includes: Time Bandits: An Interview with Director Terry Gilliam, Director Robert Wise Remembers The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Making of the Deadly Spawn, Quest for Fire article, Swamp Thing: The Movie review, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy complete look, and The New Doctor Who. Cover price $2.50.

Rob Cobb interview regarding Conan the Barbarian. The Secret SPFX of NIMH (interview with Dors Lanpher). Beyond Disney with Don Bluth (interview). Director Jean-Jacques Annaud on Quest for Fire. Designer and futurist Syd Mead on Bladerunner. Blakes 7: An Episode Guide. Features on Angry Red Planet and I Married a Monster from Outer Space. Who Killed Galactica? 76 pgs. June, 1982. Cover price: $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #30 includes: First photos from Star Wars: Revenge of the Jedi; behind-the-scenes on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; SPFX Pictorial - Ships of Trek II; an interview with Blade Runner director Ridley Scott. Plus: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, Mad Max II: The Road Warrior, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Megaforce, The Thing, Firefox. Cover price $2.95.

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Special 5th Anniversary Issue. Cover painting by Barbara Fister-Liltz. Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #31 includes: Steven Spielberg talks about E.T.; an exclusive interview with Star Trek's William Shatner; Is Spock Really Dead?; pictorial previews of Dark Crystal and Creepshow. Plus: special effects interviews with Douglas Trumbull on Blade Runner, Richard Edlund and John Bruno of ILM on Poltergeist, John Dykstra on Firefox, Rob Bottin on The Thing, Syd Mead on TRON. Cover price $3.50.

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Special Holiday Edition. Cover painting by Barbara Fister-Liltz. Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #32 includes: Star Wars: Revenge of the Jedi - new facts and photos; Stephen King interview; Henson and Kurtz on Dark Crystal; King and Romero on Creepshow; the newest in electronic and video games. Plus: E.T., Twice Upon a Time, Android. Cover price $2.95.

Cover painting by Barbara Fister-Liltz. Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #33 includes: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi; Dark Crystal - the complete special effects story; David Cronenberg on Videodrome; The Empire Strikes Back premiers on NPR; Airplane II SPFX. Plus: High Road to China, The Last Unicorn, Space Hunter in 3-D. Cover price $2.95.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #34 includes: Something Wicked This Way Comes article (with Ray Bradbury interview), Krull article, Return of the Jedi article, Space Hunter producer interview, Blue Thunder article, The Hunger article, and Superman III/Never Say Never Pictorial. Cover price $2.95.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #35 includes: Special 16-page section on the making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi; secrets of Superman III; an exclusive report on The Twilight Zone movie. Plus: Interviews with War Games director John Badham, Superman III's "Man From U.N.C.L.E." Robert Vaughn, Space Hunter SPFX designer Jack DeGovia, Buster Crabbe. Cover price $2.95.

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Feature on Brainstorm. Movie and videogame reviews. The Ewoks of Endor. Return of the Jedi Special Effects (Part One). Jack Schwartzman interview regarding Never Say Never Again. The Twilight Zone: Richard Matheson (interview). Interview with director Teague regarding Cujo: the Movie. Feature on Krull. 76 pgs. June, 1982. Cover price: $2.95. 52 pgs. Nov, 1983. Cover price: $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

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Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #37 includes: Brainstorm cinematographer Richard Yuricich interview; Gen. Chuck Yeager and astronaut Gordon Cooper on The Right Stuff; Dead Zone; Christine; SPFX creator Chuck Comiski; The Forever War; '50s director Ed Bernds on Queen of Outer Space; Star Wars: Return of the Jedi effects - part II. Cover price $2.95.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #38 includes: From Testament to the Day After (article on Armageddon films), The Keep article, Douglas Adams interview, Dune: The Film, Brainstorm Effects: Concepts to Reality, Fire and Ice article, and Ed Bernds interview. Cover price $2.95.

Star Trek III, Dune, Indiana Jones Cover price $2.95.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #40 includes: Star Trek III - director Leonard Nimoy interviewed; Joe Dante's Gremlins; behind-the-scenes interviews from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; Mel Gibson mutinies on The Bounty; Helen Slater stars in Supergirl: The Movie; Robert Preston recruits The Last Starfighter; Colin Baker takes over as the newest Dr. Who. Cover price $2.95.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #41 includes: Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones; Star Trek III - interview & photos; Conan II; Sigourney Weaver pin-up. Plus: Interviews with Star Trek's James Doohan, Gremlins director Joe Dante, The Last Starfighter's special computer effects designer Ron Cobb, Ghostbusters designer John Bruno. Cover price $2.95.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #42 includes: The Last Starfighter - the future of special effects in computer generated animation; Gremlins - director Joe Dante bites back at the critics; Star Trek III special effects; Indiana Jones snapshot album; Conan meets the Sorceress; E.T.'s Henry Thomas returns in Cloak & Dagger; Sheena; Buckaroo Banzai blasts off; The Neverending Story - a fantasy in fairyland. Cover price $2.95.

Subtitled The Magazine of Imaginative Media, Fantastic Films #43 includes: The Ewok Adventure, Chris Walas on Creating Gremlins, 2010 article, Dune article, Craig Reardon (makeup artist) interview, Supergirl article, the making of Astounding She-Monster, and Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom special effects article. Cover price $2.95.

Fantastic Films #44 includes: Mel Gibson returns in Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome; Cat's Eye - Stephen King's newest film; Baby - Disney's littlest dinosaur; E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensman; Harrison Ford in Witness; Ladyhawke's Rutger Hauer; on location with George Romero's Day of the Dead; Mike Jittlov's feature film The Wizard of Speed and Time; Reginald LeBorg interviewed - "50 Years of Horror Filmmaking"; "My Life as a Movie Zombie." Cover price $2.95.

Mel Gibson & Tina Turner, Lifeforce, Red Sonja, The Goonies, Expl;orers Cover price $2.95.

Fantastic Films #46 includes: Back to the Future - Christopher Lloyd stars in director Robert Zemeckis' time travel fantasy; the making of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome; Dick Miller on Explorers. Plus: My Science Project, Stephen King's Silver Bullet, Remo: The First Adventure, The Return of Godzilla, The Black Cauldron, Lifeforce, Day of the Dead. Cover price $2.95.