Showing posts with label 200th Anniversary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 200th Anniversary. Show all posts

Saturday, September 29, 2018

Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the First Publication of FRANKENSTEIN in October!

Start with the Classic Comics adaptation...
...written by Ruth Roche and illustrated by Robert Hayward Webb & Ann Brewster!
...written by Don Segall and illustrated by Bob Jenney!
...from Atlas/Marvel's MAD clone, CRAZY!
Sample a startling one-shot tale...
...written by noted horror editor Roger Elwood and illustrated by the creator of the Golden Age Human Torch, Carl Burgos!
See a faithful adaptation of the first Hammer Studios Frankenstein flick...
...scripted by Donne Avenell and rendered by Alberto Cuyas
Then go with a swinging Sixties update...
..from Marvel's Not Brand Echh by writer Arnold Drake and artist Tom Sutton under a freaky Marie Severin cover!
Then try out a never-reprinted fummetti of...
...from DC's Movie Comics #1 (1939)!
If you think that's weird, how about Frankie as a Swinging Sixties SUPERHERO???
...courtesy of writer DJ Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico?

And, finally, beginning October 1st, running Monday through Friday until Halloween...
...Dick Briefer's legendary 1950s horror comic-inspired sequel to the original novel!
So get your fill of Frankie all October at our RetroBlogs!

Sunday, October 2, 2016

It's the 200th Anniversary of the Creation of...

...and all through October we'll be running rarely-seen and some never-reprinted tales of the Monster and his creator!
But, its not like we've never presented stories about them before!
On this blog alone, we've run...
...the Classic Comics adaptation of the novel...
What do we have in store for you this year!
You'll have to visit to find out!

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Reading Room STUART TAYLOR IN WEIRD STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL "Waterloo"

We presented another tale of time traveler Stuart Taylor a couple of years ago...
...today, on the 200th Anniversary of Waterloo, we see how Stuart and his mentor, Dr Hayward, changed the course of history!
Bet you didn't know time-travelers with ray guns helped defeat Napoleon!
That's just one of the time-lost secrets found in this Sy Reit-illustrated tale from Fiction House's Jumbo Comics #25 (1941), published almost a year before we entered an already-ongoing World War II!
At that time, almost everyone felt we'd be entering the war sooner or later.
The only questions were "when?" and "why?", which were answered on December 7th, 1941, when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor.
The rest, as we say, is history...