Cinefantastique (Summer 1972): Special Planet of the Apes Issue, 1972, Fine

Clarke, Frederick S. (Editor), et al. Cinefantastique (Summer 1972): Special Planet of the Apes Issue (Elmwood Park, IL?: Frederick S. Clarke, 1972).

English, Fine, SC, 4to, 11" x 8 1/2," 47 pp., including illustrations.

ISBN: N/A

Multicolored pictorial paper wrappers with staple binding. No lettering to spine. Covers have light rubbing and age toning, else pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. Replete with illustrations in black-and-white and color. The Summer 1972 issue of Cinefantastique with a special feature on the classic sci-fi movie series, The Planet of the Apes. Highlighted are different aspects of the movies' production. In addition to the original movie, its sequels are discussed including Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Includes commentary by Pierre Boulle, Arthur P. Jacobs, Franklin J. Schaffner, Ted Post, Don Taylor, J. Lee Thompson, Rod Serling, Michael Wilson, Paul Dehn, Charlton Heston, Maurice Evans, and Kim Hunter. Also includes brief articles about A Clockwork Orange, Macbeth, and Phibes II, among other contemporary movies or TV shows. Cinefantastique was a magazine dedicated to movies in the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror genres. It was founded in 1967 as a fanzine and relaunched by editor and publisher Frederick S. Clarke in 1970 as a quarterly magazine. The magazine, in its first iteration, became defunct in 2006, but as of 2015, there were plans to relaunch Cinefantastique again.