Fantastic Films

[Sir Masksalot]

There should be more issues in my mag box but this is the only one that turned up,
published for April 1978 as a bi-monthly by Blake Publishing Corp, Chicago.
This auspicious premiere issue includes in-depth articles on Star Wars, The Day
the Earth Stood Still, a Rick Baker interview with some fun mask pics, and
extensive coverage on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a personal favorite.

     

Did they maintain this same quality over issues to follow? If you have any favorites, mention them here.

[MonsterBaker666]

I followed it off and on over it's run.  I'm pretty sure the quality remained the same.  If memory serves, didn't the people behind it move on to Filmfax after Fantastic Films went bye-bye?

A good magazine.  Starlog was a tough nut to crack, and there were a lot of mags competing with it during the late 70s / early 80s during the whole Star Wars Sci-Fi boom and Fantastic Films was one of the best. 

[Mike Scott]

If memory serves, didn't the people behind it move on to Filmfax after Fantastic Films went bye-bye?

You are correct! Creator/Editor Michael Stein started Filmfax the next year (1986). I used to have the whole run of FF (46 issues). Sold the last dozen, or so, of them a few days ago.

[BigShadow]

Fantastic Films was a great magazine, so were the older Filmfax issues.