It's nice to see so many like-minded ghouls and creatures out there! ;-)
Happy Halloween
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Thanks for Your Halloween Orders BoyFiends and GhoulFriends!
It's nice to see so many like-minded ghouls and creatures out there! ;-)
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Why DRACULA VS ZORRO?
In 1992, Topps Comics adapted the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula...
...illustrated by the movie's production illustrator and noted comic artist Mike (Hellboy) Mignola!
Both the movie and the adaptation, perhaps the most faithful version of a movie ever, were hits!
With vampires in general a hot commodity in movies, tv, novels, and comics, Topps quickly followed-up with several projects including...
...Dracula: Vlad the Impaler...
...The Frankenstein-Dracula War
(Note: Topps had also adapted the movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)...
and Dracula vs Zorro...
Topps had acquired the rights to Zorro and apparently thought a good way to re-introduce the character to the comics audience would be to tie-in with the trendy lord of vampires.
After all, the graphic novel Red Rain, featuring The Batman and Dracula had sold amazingly-well, and Batman was a similar "dark heroic" character to Zorro, so writer Don McGregor and artist Tom Yeates came up with a story that could fit into both characters' continuity with a minimum of fuss.
Both Dracula (in flashback), and his victim, Carmelita, would turn up in the Zorro series (which ran 12 issues) once more.
(We'll present that story next week.)
Carmelita would become a regular in the Zorro spin-off series Lady Rawhide.
Friday, October 27, 2017
Frightday Fun DRACULA VS ZORRO "Fang vs Blade"
...WHOA!
How did we get to this?
..oh, OK.
Now that we're all up to speed...
To Be Continued, Right NOW...at
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Thursday, October 26, 2017
Holiday Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "I Spent the Night in a Haunted House!"
...now let's look at how Stan Lee and a Silver Age superstar re-told the tale a decade later!
Stan Lee turned the previously-used plot over to writer Larry Lieber and artist Don Heck who modified it slightly for this story from Atlas' Journey into Mystery #80 (1962).
Trivia: When this story was reprinted in Marvel's Monsters on the Prowl #26 (1973), the comics the kids were reading were updated to then-current titles...
Trivia: When this story was reprinted in Marvel's Monsters on the Prowl #26 (1973), the comics the kids were reading were updated to then-current titles...
...but the last panel still showed the kid reading Journey into Mystery...because that title had just been revived!
Be here Monday for one more version of this tale...by Stan Lee and another Silver Age superstar!Tomorrow is Friday Fun...Dracula vs Zorro!
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Holiday Reading Room UNCANNY TALES "I was Locked in a...Haunted House!"
Here's a tale that was so kool...
...Stan Lee and the artists at Atlas/Marvel told it three times...with variations, of course!
Written by Stan Lee, illustrated by Joe Maneely, this story from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #7 (1953) featured comic book fanboys as the protaganists.
(Note they only read Atlas titles like Mystic, Marvel Tales, and Uncanny Tales!
None of that EC crud for these guys!)
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