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Showing posts with label dick briefer. Show all posts

Sunday, October 22, 2023

It is Truly HORRIFYING!!!

If You Enjoyed Our Recent Dracula Presentation, Visit...
...Where You'll find every horror-themed Dick Briefer Frankenstein story from Monster of Frankenstein #18 thru #33!
A complete re-presentation of Dick Briefer's horrifying third version of the Monster of Frankenstein! originally-presented in 2018 to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the first publication of the Mary Shelley classic!
Re-imagined to capitalize on the horror comics craze of the 1950s, the series ran from 1952 through 1954, when the comics industry was almost destroyed by Dr Fredric Wertham and the Seduction of the Innocent witch-hunt.
It's an indirect sequel to the original novel, ignoring the previous Prize Comics series (World War II menace and post-war Munsters-style comedy) that Briefer wrote and illustrated.
So as long as you're willing to accept some revisionism to the original story, it's actually a pretty damned good follow-up.
(When you think about it, what adaptation/sequel to the book, in any media, hasn't made some changes?)
Here's a preview of the covers for the series...
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(which reprints in b/w the stories we're re-presenting in color, but has a number of kool text pieces including one by Briefer's granddaughter!)
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Saturday, October 8, 2022

Space Hero Saturdays REX DEXTER OF MARS "SpaceShip of the Living Dead"

This Rex Dexter adventure truly goes where no space hero has gone before...
...battling interplanetary zombies!
This terrifying tale by creator/writer/artist Dick (Frankenstein) Briefer is from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #21 (1941)!
Rex Dexter of Mars was an ongoing feature in Fox Features' anthology Mystery Men Comics, which featured Rex, the original Blue Beetle, and The Green Mask, among others.
It's possible Rex was the first comic character to have his origin revised/altered within a year of his premiere!
HERE'S his origin (and premiere) in Mystery Men Comics #1 (1939).
And HERE and HERE is the expanded/revised/somewhat contradictory new origin tale, from the one-shot Rex Dexter of Mars comic from 1940...a year later!
(To make things even weirder, his first origin tale was reprinted in the Rex Dexter of Mars comic...starting the next page after the revised origin!)
The entire Rex Dexter series has been posted on this blog, and you can read the rest of his awesome adventures by clicking HERE!
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Friday, October 1, 2021

Friday Fun MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN "...Meets Boris Karload, Master of Horror"

For decades, he was the actor you thought of when you heard "Frankenstein"...
...so it seems obvious that this was a team-up waiting to happen!
Of course, they had to use a variation of his name, but we know who he is...
Now, on with the show...
Believe it or not, the writer/artist of this version of Frankie (call him "Mark 2") is the same guy who did the later, horrific, version ("Mark 3") you saw HERE!
This tale, from Prize's Frankenstein #11 (1948), shows not only the now-friendly Monster, but members of his supporting cast.
Makes you wonder if the creators of The Munsters didn't read this book when they were kids...
Next Week: More Horrifying Humor!
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Friday, May 15, 2020

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics MYSTERY MEN COMICS "Rex Dexter and the Radium Creatures of Capris"

Even in the " far future" of the year 2000 (as seen from 1939)...
..., plagues can affect the inhabitants of Earth!
And only a stalwart, heroic, usually lantern-jawed space hero could save us...
Ah, radiation!
Was there nothing it couldn't cure back then?
The use of Earth-based magnetism to propel and recover un-powered spacecraft is a rather unique touch that writer/artist Dick Briefer seems to have come up with on the spur of the moment.
BTW, we've re-presented the entire Rex Dexter series on this blog, and you can read every one of his startling space-bound sagas by clicking HERE!
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Friday, March 20, 2020

Friday Fun & CoronaVirus Comics "How I Conquered a Terrible Plague"

Here's a combination I never thought we'd do...
...but if you can't occasionally laugh at a problem (even one as terrifying as coronavirus), all you can do is cry!
At the end of World War II, writer/artist Dick Briefer took the horror strip Monster of Frankenstein and revamped it into a humor series that predated TV's The Munsters by two decades!
(My personal favorite from this period has Frankie meeting Boris Karloff surrogate "Boris Karload"!)
This particular tale from Prize's Frankenstein #5 (1946) was part of a book-length story about Frankie's attempt to interact with others and solve their problems.
Other chapters involved pet dinosaurs, genies, and ghosts!
BTW, a "chocolate frappe" is a whipped drink with chocolate syrup, cream/ half-and-half, sugar, and ice.
Unlike a chocolate egg-cream, it has no seltzer/soda.
They were part of the standard assortment of beverages "soda jerks" would make fresh at luncheonettes and pharmacy lunch counters from the early 1900s to the early 1970s.
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