Holiday Reading Room TALES OF SUSPENSE "I Speak of the Haunted House!"

Our final haunted house tale features two Silver Age greats...

...taking a twice-told tale, and proving "third time's the charm!"

Since it was backing up an Invincible Iron Man story in Atlas/Marvel's Tales of Suspense #42 (1963), this tale remained unseen for almost 50 years (unless you had this issue) until finally reprinted in the book available below!

You'll note the comic book fanboys of the previous two versions (HERE and HERE) are replaced with adults, one of whom looks amazingly-like a middle-aged Peter Parker!

Not suprising, since writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko co-created Peter and his costumed alter-ego, The Amazing Spider-Man!

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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.

Frightday Fun DRACULA VS ZORRO "Fang vs Blade"

When Last We Left Our Black-Clad Protagonists...

...WHOA!

How did we get to this?

..oh, OK.

Now that we're all up to speed...

To Be Continued, Right NOW...at

WESTERN COMICS ADVENTURES!

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Holiday Reading Room JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY "I Spent the Night in a Haunted House!"

Yesterday we saw the first version of this haunted house story...

...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...

...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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