Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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 tomorrow!
And, don't forget our brother blog Hero & Heroine Histories™, where we're currently running the Classics Illustrated version of Frankenstein!

Monday, October 24, 2011

Reading Room: EERIE Dracula Part 1

Did you know that Classics Illustrated did Frankenstein, but not Dracula?
Click on the art to enlarge and read
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 (which we're currently running in Hero & Heroine Histories™)!
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 tomorrow for the frightening answer!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Design of the Week--PussyCat Agent of S.C.O.R.E.

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...if Austin Powers had a sister, she'd be PussyCat: Agent of S.C.O.R.E. whose adventures we've presented HERE and HERE!
Written by Stan Lee & Larry Lieber and illustrated by a who's-who of good girl artists including Wally Wood, Jim Mooney, Bill Ward, and Bill Everett, the 1960s she-spy appeared in mens' magazines published by Marvel Comics' then-publisher Martin Goodman as well as a one-shot b/w magazine that reprinted those earlier appearances.
In fact, it's the one-shot's painted cover by Bill Everett that we use on our line of kool kollectibles available for one week only!

Tomorrow: 
a return to Halloween Horror with the first
Dracula comic story!

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Reading Room: BLACK CAT MYSTERY "Halloween Nightmare"

Here's a topical terror tale about Halloween from Black Cat Mystery #34 (1952)
Penciled by Many Stallman and inked by John Giunta.
Unlike many other horror stories (like "Supreme Penalty" and "Invasion"), when this one was reprinted in Black Cat #52 (two years later), nothing was altered!

Friday, October 21, 2011

Bond Girls on TCM Tonite!

Two of the best Bond Girls headline flix on TCM...
Ursula Andress 
(Honey Ryder in Dr No
in
and
Martine Beswick
(Zora in From Russia with Love 
Paula Caplan in Thunderball)
 in
Starting at 8pm (ET) tonight!
Uncut with NO commercials!

Hi-rez of these posters can be found at the ultra-kool website