...but we have shipped or are shipping all orders in time for Halloween!
Happy Halloween to EVERYONE!
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Britain's Fredric Wertham and the Gorbals Vampire!
and his notorious book Seduction of the Innocent
, which basically attributed 1950s juvenile delinquency to the reading of comic books, specifically horror comics!But, did you know that Great Britain had a similar cultural phenomenon, known as The Gorbals Vampire, and they also blaming American horror comics?
Bleeding Cool, a site of such importance to all comics fanboys and fangirls (yes, that includes us) that it should be one of your PRIMARY bookmarks, has posted info on a BBC documentary about this infamous (and little-known) period of British history!
Link, read, listen, and learn.
For those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it!
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Friday, October 25, 2019
Friday Fun MONSTERS UNLIMITED "Best of #4"
As of #4, Monsters to Laugh With changed it's title...
...to Monsters Unlimited!
But the Stan Lee-scripted word balloons on old (even in 1965) movie and TV horror/sci-fi pix remained as corny as ever!
Remember the caption-writing contest Stan ran last issue?
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
Reading Room VOODOO "Goodbye...World!"
...with a cover that seemed as if was from another story entirely.
Well, it was...sort of.
The story in Ajax's Midnight #4 (1957) was a reprint of a tale from Ajax's Voodoo #7 (1953), which was published during the height of the horror comics boom!
And, let's just say that Ajax's editorial packager, the Iger Studio, was not noted for its' subtle (or even tasteful) stories.
The heavy hand of the Comics Code Authority forced quite a few changes from this wild original version, as you will see from the splash panel onward...
Beyond little things like making the duo who are sent into space to spawn the new human race a married couple instead of a pair of unmarried co-workers, the harpies were redrawn as insect-like humanoids (which made a certain amount of sense), and the ending was totally-redone as a happy ending with humanity surviving the alien onslaught!
Personally, I prefer the original!
Personally, I prefer the original!
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WALKING DEAD "Corpse Under Glass" Conclusion
NOTE: This tale is decidedly NOT SAFE FOR WORK/SCHOOL!
...a crippled alien starship crashes on Earth and it's cargo, a gas (created to revive dead aliens to continue fighting their centuries-old war) leaks into the atmosphere.
Due to differences between alien and human biology, it also revives dead humans...who are sentient, but maniacal!
The President declares martial law as local government collapses, and considers using nukes to end the problem!
Meanwhile, an isolated group of survivors under siege from sentient (and well-armed) zombies manage to escape, but goes back to rescue one of their own inadvertently left behind!
We now rejoin the President as he attends the funeral of his wife...
We now rejoin the President as he attends the funeral of his wife...
The Terror Continues...
Next Wednesday!
Created by writer/artist Jim Somerville and published by Malibu/Aircel in 1989, it was vastly-different from the 2003-present graphic novel series created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore.
For collectors, there's good news and bad news...
Good news: There's only a four-issue mini series and a one-shot Special to collect!
Bad news: Because it didn't sell well (and has never been reprinted), it's HTF (hard to find) and expensive!
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