Showing posts with label golden age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label golden age. Show all posts

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, September 16, 2023

Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT "versus the Space Raider!"

Our intrepid aviator-turned-astronaut faces his first interplanetary foe...
...in this never-reprinted story from Fawcett's Captain Midnight #52 (1947)!
Oh, you can bet on it, Cap!
Scripted by noted pulp and comic author Otto Binder, and illustrated by Leonard Frank, this was the first of several encounters with Jagga, who seemed able to change his skin color in each tale, likely due to colorists not being given reference of the character's previous appearances!

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Reading Room WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE "The Time Has Come"

Here's a sci-fi comic story starring a guy named Alan Moore...
...and he's not that Alan Moore, since this story from Key's Weird Tales of the Future #1 (1952) predates the award-winning writer's birth by a year!

On a similar (if somewhat silly) note, you can see TV's Green Hornet battle Frank Miller (not the writer/artist) HERE!
Ironically, the writer of this story is unknown, but the artist is John Bulthuis, whose credited work appeared in MLJ/Archie and Key Comics titles, but his style looks similar to quite a number of unidentified stories I've seen.

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Saturday, August 19, 2023

Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN KEN BRADY: ROCKET PILOT "Pirates of the Airways!"

If you look carefully, you can find a Space Hero almost anywhere...
...even someone who's a spacegoing FedEx driver, as shown in this story from the co-creator of Superman and the definitive artist of Dracula!
This back-up tale about a cargo-ship pilot and his buddy just doin' their jobs from Ziff-Davis' Lars of Mars #10* (1951) was written by Jerry (Superman) Siegel and illustrated by Gene (Tomb of Dracula) Colan.
*Though it's number "10", this was actually the first issue of Lars of Mars.
We're not sure which other Ziff-Davis title's numbering this run continues from.
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