Barbara Leigh Stills

In 1975, at the Famous Monsters Convention in New York, it was announced that a feature film version of Vampirella would be made by Warren and Hammer Films - the great British film company, starring Barbara Leigh as Vampirella and Peter Cushing as Pendragon.

Barbara appeared at the show in full Vampi costume and makeup.

Unfortunately, the film was never made, but the stills shot at that convention still exist.  This is one of the original contact sheets, made by the photographer (Hank) who worked that show, indicating the various images he shot of Barbara, several of which are marked for appearance in one of the Warren magazines!

Model Slides

Another one that got away from me on eBay was forty original slide photographs of Sascha Knopf as Vampirella. These were from a photo shoot and have many pictures that didn't appear in print. The slide photos measure 2 x 2 inches/5 cms x 5 cms.

The scans I have were taken from the eBay auction so aren't that large but looking at the bottom two in the left hand column this looks like the set of photos for the so-called "unknown model".

I have my doubts that these slides are of Sascha Knopf, or maybe the Unknown Model seen at the various conventions at that time (and photographed by Terry Sanders) is the same model that graced the covers of Vampirella Lives.

If the photographer who took these slides or the present owner of them reads this page please could you contact me, so I can sort out this conundrum.

Heidi Saha Stills

These photos were originally taken in 1973 at the New York Comic Art Convention. Heidi was fourteen when these photos were taken and she was widely known at the time for her Vampirella costume appearances.

James Van Hise was the photographer, and he recently had a number of 8" x 10" prints from the original negatives available on eBay in his eBay store.