Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another...unless it sells really well, then it goes "Redux" for one more week, like this one!
With Halloween coming, it seems only appropriate that we go with scary themes for the next few weeks.
Kicking
off our compilation of creepy collectibles is this ghoulishly-graphic
image from one of the types of comic books that gave Dr Fredric Wertham
such fits in the 1950s!
(Wertham was the psychiatrist who claimed
that horror comics caused juvenile delinquency, resulting in the demise
of the genre and the near-death of the comic book industry. Despite his
heroic efforts, juvenile delinquency continued to flourish!)
Yeah, it's gruesome, but in a campy, cartoonish fashion!
Isn't that exactly what you're looking for in Halloween-wear?
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the First Publication of FRANKENSTEIN in October!
Start with the Classic Comics adaptation...
...written by Ruth Roche and illustrated by Robert Hayward Webb & Ann Brewster!
Continue with an authorized (but surreal) sequel to the 1930s Universal movie...
...written by Don Segall and illustrated by Bob Jenney!
...from Atlas/Marvel's MAD clone, CRAZY!
Sample a startling one-shot tale...
...written by noted horror editor Roger Elwood and illustrated by the creator of the Golden Age Human Torch, Carl Burgos!
See a faithful adaptation of the first Hammer Studios Frankenstein flick...
...scripted by Donne Avenell and rendered by Alberto Cuyas
Sample a startling one-shot tale...
...written by noted horror editor Roger Elwood and illustrated by the creator of the Golden Age Human Torch, Carl Burgos!
See a faithful adaptation of the first Hammer Studios Frankenstein flick...
...scripted by Donne Avenell and rendered by Alberto Cuyas
Then go with a swinging Sixties update...
..from Marvel's Not Brand Echh by writer Arnold Drake and artist Tom Sutton under a freaky Marie Severin cover!
Then try out a never-reprinted fummetti of...
...from DC's Movie Comics #1 (1939)!
If you think that's weird, how about Frankie as a Swinging Sixties SUPERHERO???
...courtesy of writer DJ Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico?
And, finally, beginning October 1st, running Monday through Friday until Halloween...
...Dick Briefer's legendary 1950s horror comic-inspired sequel to the original novel!
So get your fill of Frankie all October at our RetroBlogs!
Then try out a never-reprinted fummetti of...
...from DC's Movie Comics #1 (1939)!
If you think that's weird, how about Frankie as a Swinging Sixties SUPERHERO???
...courtesy of writer DJ Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico?
And, finally, beginning October 1st, running Monday through Friday until Halloween...
...Dick Briefer's legendary 1950s horror comic-inspired sequel to the original novel!
So get your fill of Frankie all October at our RetroBlogs!
Friday, September 28, 2018
Friday Fun REX DEXTER OF MARS "Puppet of the Ugly Queen"
...with a scheme involving one of the oldest concepts in sci-fi!
"As she dies, the spell is broken.."
But, the Ugly Queen's body is still alive as the souls/intellects switch bodies!So, Cynde doesn't go through the trauma of experiencing death!
But, we lose the closest Rex will ever come to an ongoing arch-enemy...
Body-switching in fiction has gone on as long as fiction itself has existed!
Whether it's via magic, technology, or super-human psychic powers,
Both Edgar Rice Burroughs and HP Lovecraft used it in novels.
TV series like Star Trek, The Avengers (Steed and Mrs Peel, not Marvel characters), X-Files, and many others have featured their primary cast members' bodies switched with antagonists!
Movies including All of Me, Freaky Friday (all of them) and the highly-underrated I Married a Monster from Outer Space based their premises on the concept.
In comics, this never-reprinted tale from Fox's Mystery Men Comics #23 (1941) is one of the first (if not the first) takes on the subject!
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Thursday, September 27, 2018
The Mystery of the Missing X-Man!
What's the secret behind this 40-year old Dave Cockrum X-Men illustration...
...featuring both the original and 1975 revival teams, currently being used as a Variant Cover for the new Uncanny X-Men #1 (2018) from Marvel Comics?
Ask yourself this...who's missing from the art...and why?
Then click HERE to find out the answer!
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder BRAK THE BARBARIAN "Sword and the Road"
Who is Brak the Barbarian?
Though we presented his first comic appearance last week, most current comics fans are totally-unaware of him!
So let's clear up the matter...
After this never-reprinted text feature from Marvel's Savage Tales V1N6 (1974), there were two more Brak short-story collections; When the Idols Walked (1978) and Fortunes of Brak (1980).
All the books were re-edited into the collection shown below.
Next week: Part One of "The Unspeakable Shrine"!
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(includes a never-before-published conclusion to the series!)
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