In the 1960s, James Warren and Forrest J. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland was such a runaway success, covering old and new Horror movies, the demand for another magazine was immediate. Drugstore racks were heavy with monsters for kids, but Warren wanted an adult readership, and they were watching Westerns. John Wayne was marching into another decade in the top 10 at the box office, thanks to The Horse Soldiers and North to Alaska, while Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, Kirk Douglas, R
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