Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder WALKING DEAD ZOMBIE SPECIAL "Dead Mass"

We've reached the finale of the original Walking Dead series...

...but keep reading!
There's more to see after this surreal tale!
The final tale by Walking Dead's creator/writer/artist Jim Somerville went into realms inconceivable in the original science fiction-themed story (as shown HERE)!
Somerville went on to other projects, including series based on the Alien and Predator movies at Dark Horse, but Aircel wasn't through with zombies..specifically these zombies!
A year later, they ran a sequel series...
...which didn't specifically state it was a sequel, but did follow up on the original Walking Dead's premise by introducing the two alien races whose space battle resulted in the crashed starship whose cargo created the zombies!
It also introduced a concept so over the top, that we can't present the series here!
But, if there's a demand for it, we'll run in in our adults-only blog Not Safe for Work Comics!
What say you?

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Haunted House Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "House!"

Here's a late Halloween...or on-time Dia De Muertos treat...
...one last haunted house tale to wrap up our Haunted House Reading Room series!
And it's a never-reprinted story at that!
In 1971, the Comics Code loosened restrictions on many of the banned horror comics tropes that caused the "Seduction of the Innocent" witchhunt of the mid-1950s that almost destroyed the comics industry.
Vampires, werewolves, maniac killers, and their ilk, limited to b/w magazines for the last couple of decades, returned to four-color comics...along with adaptations of classic horror stories and new tales by enthusiastic writers and artists who were big EC Comics fans and never thought they'd have a chance to create similar color comics again!
Marvel jumped back into the horror comic business with a slew of new titles like Tomb of Dracula, Monster of FrankensteinMarvel Spotlight (which featured Werewolf by Night, Ghost Rider, and Son of Satan, all of whom got their own books),  Man-Thing in Adventures into Fear and then his own title, a revival of Strange Tales with The Golem and Brother Voodoo, and a trio of anthologies, Chamber of Chills (a title used by Harvey Comics in the 1950s), Supernatural Thrillers, and a revival of Journey into Mystery!
Quite a bit of the new material from these anthologies (all of which went reprint in a year or so) has never been reprinted, so when we searched through the archives for rare haunted house-themed stories, this long-unseen tale from Marvel's Journey into Mystery V2#1 (1972) all but jumped up at us!
Enjoy this half-century old bit of long-lost comics history!
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Monday, October 31, 2022

Monday Madness FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Vampire Cat!"

It's Halloween, boyfiends and ghoulfriends...
...and you're invited to an absolutely killer Halloween costume party in this tale from ACG's Forbidden Worlds #15 (1953)!
So, why is it so "horrible" to be trapped in a harmless kitty?
We'll never know the answer!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Sunday, October 30, 2022

The WEIRDEST Christmas Film of All...

...ain't The Nightmare Before Christmas!
It's (easily) this one!
He's THE Jolly Old Elf in a Red Suit!
They're (no so) Little Green Men...with a BIG Robot!
Want to see what happens when they meet?
Read the HTF comic book adaptation HERE!
(And if you're gonna complain about me promoting Christmas stuff before Halloween, all I can say is...
"Have you been in
any retail establishment in the past month?")

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Space Hero Saturdays MISTER MYSTERY COMICS "Brain Bats of Venus"

Not every Space Hero is a "big name" like Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, or even Rex Dexter of Mars!
Sometimes they're just average Joes, like Rod Crenshaw and Reese Bitner in this wild tale by Golden Age writer/artist legend Basil Wolverton!
From Key Publications' Mister Mystery #7 (1952), easily one of the best horror/sci-fi tales ever!
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