Monday, October 19, 2020

Monday Madness / Halloween Horror THE SPECTRE "Footsteps of Disaster"

Return with us to the Swinging Sixties...

...when one of DC's most powerful characters was reduced to being a CryptKeeper-type host for PG-rated tales of "horror" as shown HERE...

Scripted by Mike Friedrich, penciled by Jerry Grandenetti, and inked by George Roussos, this intro to the final issue of the Ghostly Guardian's Silver Age series (#10 from 1970) is a combination of Golden Age and Silver Age talents quite common during the era.
Friedrich was one of the second wave of fans-turned pros, which also included Berni Wrightson, Jim Starlin, Rich Buckler, Mike Ploog, and Steve Englehart.
He founded Star*Reach, initially a publisher of creator-owned projects, which evolved into an agency packaging stories for various publishers.
Both Grandinetti and Roussos were Golden Agers who stayed in the comics field literally until the day they died, thanks to their unique storytelling and technical skills.

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