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!

Continue with an authorized (but surreal) sequel to the 1930s Universal movie...

...written by Don Segall and illustrated by Bob Jenney!

Add in a humorous take on the tale by Bill (Sub-Mariner) Everett..

...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!

The MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN Blogathon is coming to HORROR COMICS OF THE 1950s!

Our Newest RetroBlog, Horror Comics of the 1950s starts off with a SHRIEK...

...as we re-present the complete run of Dick Briefer's third (and scariest) version of The Monster of Frankenstein to celebrate both Halloween and the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel!

The terror begins October 1st!

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Reading Room CLASSIC COMICS "Frankenstein" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Monster...

Original art for the cover by Norm Saunders

Victor Frankenstein is insane!

With his wife strangled by his own creation and his father dead from shock, the scientist collapses from exhaustion and is placed in an asylum.

This adaptation was a change of pace for writer Ruth Roche, who served as an editor for the Iger Comics Studios and Ajax/Farrell Comics as well as (probably) writing almost all the Fox-Ajax/Farrell Phantom Lady stories during the Golden Age.

She also penned the Classics Comics version of Lorna Doone.

As a bonus, here's a bio about the novel's author...

Reading Room CLASSIC COMICS "Frankenstein" Part 3

When Last We Left Our Monster...

Cover by Norm Saunders

Unable to prevent his family's nanny from being wrongfully-convicted and executed for the murder of his brother, Victor Frankenstein goes on a retreat with his family to their cabin in the mountains.

He encounters his runaway creation who reveals that the death of Frankenstein's sibling was an accident caused by the Monster's inability to judge his own strength.

The Monster offers Victor a bargain; if Frankenstein will construct and animate a mate for him, the Monster will leave Europe forever.

Victor agrees...

TOMORROW, the terrifying conclusion!

Reading Room CLASSIC COMICS "Frankenstein" Part 2

When Last We Left Our Monster...

Victor Frankenstein, scion of a wealthy and well-connected family, becomes obsessed with preserving human life and creating virtual immortality.

After assembling a test subject from the parts of recently-deceased men, he manages to animate the creature, who escapes when Victor is taken ill due to exhaustion.

Weeks later, when he recovers, Victor receives news that his brother has been murdered!

Returning home, Frankenstein sees the Monster wandering thru nearby woods.

Victor believes the Monster is the killer, though circumstantial evidence points to the Frankenstein family's nanny..

...as will we, TOMORROW!

Reading Room CLASSIC COMICS "Frankenstein" Part 1

For Halloween, we're going the "classics are the best" route and presenting the Classic Comics (later Classics Illustrated) adaptation of Frankenstein from the mid-1940s!

Find out the frightening truth TOMORROW!