I don't doubt for a minute that Forry was happy (and likely relieved), to run reprints, especially in those early days when it seemed the bulk of the contents did indeed run through his typewriter.

It would be nice someday to read an objective history of Famous Monsters. Forry has certainly gone through the history, almost issue by issue, in some of his biographical remembrances, but it necessarily is from his point of view.

I'd like to know the nitty gritty of an average issue in the early days (say #1-50).

-- Were were any other writers besides Forry (not counting the occasional Robert Bloch special piece)?

-- Did he have many contributors; who copy edited it.

I know in later years there were plenty of outside writers who helped out, but during FM's formative years, how much of the magazine was a one-man show?

david