Now that we've reached stills #40, #41 & #42, I want to revisit the article that Famous Monsters of Filmland did for the film because, with exception of the color cover, it's also put together strictly from stills provided in the Editor's Portfolio (stills #2, #15, #16, #25, #33, #35, #40, #41 & #42). Here'a link to a post The Doctor and K9 made when he generously shared a PDF of the article:
... Famous Monsters of Filmland ...
For some reason they chose to print mirror images of stills #40 & #42 along with the cover - but I suppose that was their prerogative.
And two other things I want to share are the Table of Contents page from the issue-
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- which captions the cover and also features a cropped version of still #25. Oddly the page number under that indicates the article as page 13, which is actually the page the article ends on. But hey, maybe it was their prerogative to do that too...
Plus, a different issue FMoF also published cropped version of still #9 -
- it appeared in the magazine's You Axed For It section, but I don't recall if it appeared before they did their full article or after...
Stills #1 & #21 as well as #22 were definitely magazine favorites in the early publicity for the film, but as more and more material for the film began to be published stills #9 and #16 certainly gave them a run for their money in latter publicity. Interestingly enough, though, while still #16 & #22 are included in the NODS Pressbook, stills #1, #9 & #21 are not.....