Memory of a Memory?

I don't know if it's the sudden turn in the weather or the incipient Halloween season, but today my thoughts have turned to an old black-and-white horror magazine we used to have. I don't remember its name; my impression is that we got it some time before any Famous Monsters of Filmland. And it was less 'fannish.' It seemed more devoted to cinema history and special effects, on a more 'adult' scale. I seem to recall stuff about Dracula, Frankenstein, and King Kong. The only thing I clearly remember is a frame very similar to this one from a Flip the Frog cartoon, Funny Face. The reason it stands out to me is because this was the first place I ever heard of Flip the Frog.

What particularly teases and torments me is that we have no physical relic of this magazine. Just lately I heard that people have no actual 'original memories', just memories of the last time we remembered something; that our brains desperately try to recreate circumstances and fill in likely blanks. So how much is 'real' about this magazine, and how much is brain farts? Though it sounds more likely to have belonged to John, my impression is that it was actually Mike's. That John has no memory of it seems to argue that that is right. Maybe Mike borrowed it from one of his friends, and that's why we have nothing of it but a memory. Or is this just more blank filling?