Vincent Price in the guise of The Abominable Dr Phibes was the cover star of issue 006 of World of Horror. For a horror / sci-fi / monster magazine, The Towering Inferno was an odd inclusion.
The picture quiz on the inside front cover had a Doctor Who element. I'm sure you all know what "A" is above, and which story the image originates from.
(Should you be wondering, B is the original Captain Marvel / Shazam; C is from Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires; D is from Vampira, in which David Niven played Dracula; and E was Donald Pleasence from a recent horror movie which had featured Tom Baker - The Mutations.
We see that The Land That Time Forgot had just opened. It featured Anthony Ainley as a German U-Boat officer, whilst its commander, played by John McEnery, had his voice overdubbed by Anton Differing (Silver Nemesis). Other cast included Keith Barron (Enlightenment), Susan Penhaligon (The Time Monster) and Declan Mulholland (The Sea Devils & Androids of Tara).
The actual Doctor Who feature this month was a monochrome one, specifically titled "Petrifying Pin Ups", as would the following issue's.
Much more of a mixed bag, era-wise this time. From the Hartnell years we get a Mechonoid from The Chase, and from the Troughton years we get Fish Workers from The Underwater Menace, and a Cyberman from The Moonbase.
Humanoid Axons and Sea Devils had featured in earlier features, as had Linx the Sontaran. (What? No Colony in Space this month?).
Finally there were a couple of images from The Monster of Peladon - including a rare one of Queen's Champion Blor. He would be included in the second range of Weetabix figures, giving this character a much higher profile than he deserved (as did Vega Nexos, who also got a Weetabix card and a large colour photograph in the second Doctor Who poster magazine).
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