Showing posts with label Eerie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eerie. Show all posts

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula" Part 4

Dracula has made Lucy Seward a vampire!
Dr Van Helsing arrives, too late to save the poor girl, but not too late to send her tormented soul to the afterlife by staking her thru the heart.
Now, his attention turns to her master...Count Dracula!
Though there were a number of Frankenstein tales in the Golden Age, including Dick Briefer's horror series, there were only a couple of appearances by our favorite vampire (usually a cameo) before this story in 1953!
The trend continued until the late 1960s when Dracula became a supporting character in the b/w Vampirella magazine.
In 1972, when the Comics Code was revised to allow vampires and other "traditional" monsters, the Count reappeared not only in short stories, but a long-running series from Marvel highlighted by moody art by Gene Colan.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula" Part 3

Dracula traveled to England, where he made Lucy Seward, his newest victim.
Meanwhile, Lucy's best friend, Mina Murray received news that fiance Jonathan Harker had been hospitalized.
Rushing to Budapest, she discovers he is speedily recovering...and the two are married that day!
To be concluded on THURSDAY!
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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula!" Part 2

Real estate agent Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to arrange the purchase of a London townhouse by a rich, reclusive nobleman...Count Dracula.
When he is molested by the count's wives, Harker discovers that they (and Dracula) are vampires, and that he is helpless to stop them!
Meanwhile, in England, Harker's fiance, Mina, worries...
But, will they have a honeymoon...or a funeral?
Be here Tuesday to find out!
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Reading Room EERIE "Dracula!" Part 1

Did you know that Classics Illustrated did Frankenstein, but not Dracula?
However, there was an adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel, published several years after the Classic Comics version of Mary Shelley's tale in the mid-1940s

It appeared in Avon Comics' Eerie #12 (1953), and was the only book-length story to appear in the title!
To the best of our knowledge, the story has never been reprinted, probably due to it's length.

What shall Johnathan Harker do?
Join us Thursday for the frightening answer!
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Thursday, March 9, 2023

Reading Room OUT OF THIS WORLD "Man-Eating Lizards!"

It's fun to see early work by a talent who would become one of the all-time greats...
...like this rarely-seen work by a then-teenaged Joe Kubert!
Note: may be NSFW due to racial stereotypes common to the era.
Oddly, the Pacific Islanders are colored green in this tale from Avon's Out of This World (1950) one-shot.
But when this story appeared several years earlier in Avon's Eerie Comics #1 (1947), they were various shades of brown and tan...
There's no explanation for the change to the coloring, especially since all the other color elements remained the same in both versions!
While artist Joe Kubert went on to become one of the icons of graphic storytelling, writer Edward Bellin disappeared from comics after scripting just this and one other story...which also appeared in that issue of Eerie Comics.
But that's not the end of the story!
Bellin (actually "Edward J Bellin") was an early pen-name for a writer already well-established in science-fiction/fantasy...Cyril M. Kornbluth...who was looking to expand beyond the prose market into other media, including comics, radio, and television.
Kornbluth had used the name on one of his earliest short stories, "No Place to Go", and decided to reuse it years later for his comics work.
Who sez comics ain't educational?
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics EERIE "Masque of the Red Death!"

Wow!
It's scary how many adaptations there are of Edgar Allen Poe's classic story...
...including this one from Warren's Eerie Magazine #12 (1967)!
Adapted by writer/editor Archie Goodwin and illustrated by Tom Sutton, this tale is one of the looser versions we've run.
But, at the same time, it's one of the more effective ones at evoking the mood and visceral terror the story requires!
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(reprinting this tale, plus everything else in issues 11-15)

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Reading Room EERIE "Alien Plague"

With the coronavirus making its' way around the world in record time...
...we thought this never-reprinted tale from Warren's Eerie #31 (1971) was both apropos and ironic!
Obviously, the coronavirus isn't being spread by aliens disguised as paper products...OR IS IT?
Written and illustrated by Billy Graham, who's best-known to mainstream comics fans as the primary artist on the "Panther's Rage" story arc of the 1970s Black Panther strip in Marvel's Jungle Action!
That storyline provided many of the plot elements for the billion-dollar blockbuster Black Panther film!
Graham was part of the Bronze Age (second) wave of comic fanboys-turned-pros which included Jim Starlin, Steve Gerber, Mike Kaluta, Berni Wrightson, Don Newton, Rich Buckler, and George Perez!
He was also one of the large number of Black creatives who entered the industry during the 1970s!
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