Frankenstein Reading Room: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN Spirit of Frankenstein "Dagget's Phantoms"

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...disgruntled elderly Professor Lambert Pardway, working as an assistant to Doctor Daniel Warren, tricks Warren into implanting the dying Pardway's brain into an experimental android.

Before Pardway's brain can use the android body to destroy Warren and his girlfriend, it is "short circuited" by Warren...

Writer/editor Richard Hughes and artist Charles Sultan merrily combine science and the supernatural in this wild tale from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #6 (1949), setting a tone that would countinue for the remainder of the series...

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Frankenstein Reading Room: NOT BRAND ECHH "Frankenstein Sicksty-Nine!"

As we said earlier...

...the Frankenstein Monster made a number of...untraditional...appearances in 1960s comics, including this saga from Marvel's Not Brand Echh #12 (1969)!

Let's see what lurks under this kool Marie Severin cover...

Almost always, the Monster's 1960s comic appearances were humorous rather than frightening due to the fact the Comics Code Authority limited how such creatures could be used!

(B/w magazines like this weren't affected by the Code!) 

We'll be presenting a couple more of the wilder ones before the month is over!

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Frankenstein Reading Room: WEIRD "Frankenstein: the Monster's Story"

Here's a one-off tale taking elements of several of the Monster's many incarnations...

...and combining them into a fascinating tale!

Written by the magazine's associate editor Roger Elwood and illustrated by it's editor/art director Carl Burgos (who created comics' first android hero, Timely's Golden Age Human Torch), this story from Eerie Publications' Weird V1N10 (1965) is one of the few stories (after Mary Shelly's original) that doesn't leave the door open for a sequel!

Trivia: despite the numbering, this is the first issue of the magazine!

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Frankenstein Reading Room: ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN Spirit of Frankenstein "A Monster is Born"

There have been several ongoing series that combined horror and sci-fi...

...such as the series which premiered with this tale from ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #5 (1949)!

The "monster" here is not Frankenstein's Monster, nor are any of the scientists members of the Frankenstein clan.

Writer Richard Hughes and artist Charles Sultan invoked the "spirit" of the Frankenstein Monster concept with a creation run amok and ran amuck with it for several issues from #5 to #16!

Note: We originally ran this back in 2013, but since we'll be running some more chapters of the series as part of our Frankenstein-themed October posts, we thought it best to re-run this one to bring new readers up to speed!

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Frankenstein Reading Room GHOST RIDER "vs Frankenstein!"

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And, it was the cover-featured story for Ghost Rider #10 (December 1952), though not illustrated by Frank Frazetta as were some of the earlier covers!

This particular one was by interior artist Dick Ayers, who illustrated almost all of stories in Ghost Rider.

BTW, as a matter of fact, this book was the Halloween issue!

(Comics were cover-dated 2-3 months ahead of their actual on-sale date, so this issue was on-sale in October, 1952!)

And now, on with the tale...

Aw, shucks, it wasn't really the Monster of Frankenstein!

This was, more often than not, the modus operandi used by baddies (and the hero) in Original Ghost Rider tales.

What seems to be supernatural, is just sleight-of-hand.

However, there were a couple of tales where things were, in fact, what they appeared to be, such as League of the Living Dead!

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