Whether "stapled spine or no" means anything to any of you, it does to me--because my very first issue of FM was #35, a square-bound book. It just seemed, well, classier that way...I had NO idea that early issues of the magazine were stapled. But I did notice when the distinctive (at least for me--apparently some of you could give a fig) square binding left with #48, the issues "seemed" (I'm putting quotes around that word, because someone undoubtedly will provide us the actual page count) thinner, there were more reprints (something even I noticed, since some of the reprints came from #35 on up), and the movies covered "seemed" like crap (stuff like "The Green Slime" and "The Maltese Bippy").

When Famous Monsters RETURNED to the stapled binding, the book took a nosedive--again, in my opinion.

Rod