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Saturday, September 15, 2018

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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Monster of Frankenstein

(which reprints in b/w the complete series we're presenting in COLOR!)

Friday, September 14, 2018

Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Sonic Slayers from Saturn"

I wonder if Gene Roddenberry got the idea for the Ferengi from this tale?

(He would've been in his early 20s, and in the Army Air Corps at this point.
Our military men were among comics' biggest fans.
The four-color mags were cheap, quick reads, portable, and expendible.)

Emmos has huge ears compressed under that turban?
Wow!

Give writer/artist Dick Briefer credit for coming up with consistently-weird menaces for Rex and Cynde to battle!

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Comics About Cartoonists

Stories About the World's Oddest Profession

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Reading Room MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN COMICS "Small Fry!"

You can't tell me this isn't a "lost" Kirby Klassic from the 1950s...

...with the only question being "who was the penciler and/or inker over Jack Kirby's layouts?"

When Prize Comics' Monster of Frankenstein title was revived during the horror comic boom of the early 1950s, besides a wonderfully-gruesome version of Dick Briefer's Monster, it featured a number of two to four page "fillers".

Most of these tales appear to be, at the very least, laid-out by Jack Kirby.

This never-reprinted story from Prize's Monster of Frankenstein #33 (1954) is a prime example.
Some of the "camera angles" are easily-recognizable from later Ant-Man stories by Jack Kirby.

The Grand Comics Database lists the story's creators as "unknown", but considering the volume of work Simon & Kirby did for Prize before leaving to form their own company, Mainline, it's not unlikely this was an "inventory" story meant for insertion wherever editorial material pagecount came up short.

Sadly, the writer of the story is, as in so many cases of tale from the 1940s-60s, unknown...

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Science Fiction

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder CHRONICLES OF GENGHIS GRIMTOAD "Conclusion"

When Last We Left Our Toad...

A note before we proceed...

Written by Alan Grant & John Wagner and illustrated by Ian Gibson, the series appeared in 2-page installments in all 20 issues of Marvel UK's bi-weekly Strip Magazine (their version of Marvel USA's Epic Magazine) and ended, incomplete, when the title was cancelled.

The strip was compiled along with the unpublished material to finish the story for a graphic novel version published in 1990.
We'll point out where the previously-published material ends, and the previously-unpublished material begins...

Back to our regularly-scheduled story...

Trapped by the evil Kang's forces, the rag-tag group is forced to hope the inept sorcerer Genghis Grimtoad can save their lives, though his "magic" has been less than helpful up to this point...