Showing posts with label Gene Fawcette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gene Fawcette. Show all posts

Thursday, October 3, 2024

FLYING SAUCERS Cover Gallery

Here's the cover art by Gene Fawcette...
...to the story we've been running the past few Wednesdays.
Oddly, when the issue was reprinted a couple of years later, the art was altered...
...and I've never heard an explanation as to why!
For the record, I like the original cover better!

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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Saturday, July 15, 2023

Space Heroine Saturdays TARA "Satellite of the Moon Spiders!"

Tara's home, Wonder Comics, had been cancelled...
...but there was still one graphic tale of fighting interplanetary injustice to be told!
Our Space Heroine's final comic story appeared in Standard's Thrilling Comics #71 (1949), illustrated by her co-creator Gene Fawcette.
But, this isn't her last appearance in Space Heroine Saturdays!
What does that mean?
You'll find out next month!

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Saturday, April 29, 2023

Space Heroine Saturdays TARA "Death that Grew!"

You think COVID-19 was bad?
How about a disease created as a biological weapon, as in this never-reprinted tale illustrated by Gene Fawcette?
The writer for this never-reprinted tale from Nedor's Wonder Comics #20 (1948) is (as usual) unknown.
This was the final issue of Wonder Comics...but not then end of the adventures of the Queen of the Space Pirates!
Tara will return with a final tale from another Nedor comic as well as several illustrated text features we haven't run yet, and a cover art gallery!