Showing posts with label Roy Thomas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roy Thomas. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CHAMBER OF DARKNESS "Music from Beyond!" aka "Music of Erich Zann"

H P Lovecraft's "Music of Erich Zann" Served as the Basis For This Terror Tale...

...which featured the return of an EC Comics stalwart to horror comics!







Adapted by writer Roy Thomas and illustrated by Johnny Craig (with some redrawing by Marie Severin), the story from Marvel's Chamber of Darkness #5 (1970) is pretty successful...within the limitations of the Comics Code Authority's restrictions.
(Ironically, the Code "loosened up" with some major revisions after this story was created and published.
As pointed out HERE at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's site: "The 1971 code relaxed the restrictions on crime comics and lifted the ban on horror comics [while still prohibiting the use of “horror” and “terror” in titles].")
Note: You may have noticed a b/w splash page just before the end of the story.
When it was reprinted in Marvel's b/w magazine Masters of Terror #2 (1975), the spash was inserted into the story with the last two captions from the previous page's final panel.
Plus, the reprint changed the title to the Lovecraft prose tale's "Music of Erich Zann".
We hope you've enjoyed a month of Lovecraft comic adaptations, and suggest you continue to check us out every Wednesday for more Worlds of Wonder!
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Conclusion

...our intrepid explorers into the unknown approach an island...where none should exist...and see...R'lyeh...a city that shouldn't be there...
Once more, we present several pages with the truly unique, moody coloring used only in the Spanish-language publication of the tale...
Cthulhu Lives!
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...


Title Page from the first appearance of this tale, in Weird Tales V11N2 (1928)!
Inheriting the papers and personal effects of his late grand-uncle, linguistic professor George Gammell Angell, our narrator discovers a small bas-relief sculpture which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature", along with documents mentioning frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh!
Tracing the documented incidents leads to a larger statue of indeterminate, but undeniable antiquity...perhaps predating known history...
To Be Concluded Next Wednesday!
Here's a couple of pages from this section of the original Spanish language publication, showing the unique color palette used for the story!
Pity these have never been reprinted in any of the several English-language editions!
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Part 1

  If we're going to present Lovecraft...

...let's start with the seminal tale of cosmic horror by H P!









To be Continued Next Wednesday!
Adapted by Esteban Maroto, who did both script (in Spanish) and art for Editorial Bruguera in 1982.
Howver, Bruguera went bankrupt before publication.
Maroto shopped the material around and it finally appeared in Ediciones B's Capitán Trueno magazine in 1986.
Here are a couple of pages from that adaptation...

In 1990, a new American comics publisher, CrossPlains, made a deal with Maroto to publish the project in English, with the translation supplied by Roy Thomas.
But, due to budget limitations, they printed it in b/w.
That's the version we're running here.
It's been re-published since with another translation, but still in b/w.

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