What classic comics have you read lately?
May 4, 2021 12:57:54 GMT -5
Roquefort Raider, earl, and 3 more like this
Post by profh0011 on May 4, 2021 12:57:54 GMT -5
CREEPY #4 (1965)
This starts out with another of Frank Frazetta's classic covers, for "Curse Of The Full Moon". Inside Al Williamson does this issue's installment of "Creepy's Loathesome Lore", focusing on people coming back from the dead.
"MONSTER RALLY" is another absolute stunner from Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres. I swear, it continues to blow my mind how a guy I most associate with MAD magazine's TV parodies keeps blowing all these other great artists out of the water. The mad scientist in here is a clear tribute to Vincent Price (from "The Haunted Palace") and there was a painted cover of this story that appeared on a Spanish Warren reprint. (Was that done new for Europe, or was it done here, but left unused in favor of Frazetta's?) The story, allegedly, involves the origin of Uncle Creepy... which is possibly the only part of it I'm not too thrilled with.
"BLOOD AND ORCHIDS" -- Goodwin & Alden McWilliams tell a story where it looks like a vampire's on the loose, but that's not exactly the case here.
"THE DAMNED THING" is the magazine's 3rd-ever "classic" adaptation, a story from Ambrose Bierce. I was just hearing on The HIstory Channel how he was a Civil War veteran who wound up mysteriously disappearing and was never seen again. Goodwin & Gray Morrow do the honors. This story was later adapted in Brazil in ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #4 (Editora Taika / 1967) by M.C. Poyares & Carlos Edgard Herrero.
"MOON CITY" is a science-fiction story by Larry Englehart (are we sure that's not a psudonyum for Larry Ivie ?? --it feels and reads like one of his) and Al McWilliams. Gorgeous to look at, if a little on the dull side. I believe McWilliams was mostly known for sci-fi work, and did a newspaper strip titled "TWIN EARTHS", as well as a run of "SPACE CONQUERORS!", and one-third of the 1979 "BUCK ROGERS" pilot movie adaptation.
"CURSE OF THE FULL MOON!" -- Goodwin & Reed Crandall tell of a man who deliberately goes hunting to kill a werewolf, but runs into unexpected twists.
"THE TRIAL OF ADAM LINK" -- Otto Binder & Joe Orlando present the 2nd chapter in this telling of the classic pulp magazine story. The original story appeared in the July 1939 issue of AMAZING STORIES by Earl & Otto Binder (how often do you get to see a writer adapting his own story into a comic-book?). And, it had previously been adapted in EC's WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY #28 (Mar-Apr'55), also by Binder, Orlando & Al Feldstein doing the dialogue (how often do you see an artist drawing the same story twice?). By my count, the 4th "classic" adaptation in CREEPY. A year earlier, the story has also been adapted as a 2nd-season episode of "THE OUTER LIMITS", which featured Leonard Nimoy as the newspaper reporter who was sympathetic to the robot's story.
It remains jaw-dropping just how good these early Warren horror comics were!
This starts out with another of Frank Frazetta's classic covers, for "Curse Of The Full Moon". Inside Al Williamson does this issue's installment of "Creepy's Loathesome Lore", focusing on people coming back from the dead.
"MONSTER RALLY" is another absolute stunner from Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres. I swear, it continues to blow my mind how a guy I most associate with MAD magazine's TV parodies keeps blowing all these other great artists out of the water. The mad scientist in here is a clear tribute to Vincent Price (from "The Haunted Palace") and there was a painted cover of this story that appeared on a Spanish Warren reprint. (Was that done new for Europe, or was it done here, but left unused in favor of Frazetta's?) The story, allegedly, involves the origin of Uncle Creepy... which is possibly the only part of it I'm not too thrilled with.
"BLOOD AND ORCHIDS" -- Goodwin & Alden McWilliams tell a story where it looks like a vampire's on the loose, but that's not exactly the case here.
"THE DAMNED THING" is the magazine's 3rd-ever "classic" adaptation, a story from Ambrose Bierce. I was just hearing on The HIstory Channel how he was a Civil War veteran who wound up mysteriously disappearing and was never seen again. Goodwin & Gray Morrow do the honors. This story was later adapted in Brazil in ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #4 (Editora Taika / 1967) by M.C. Poyares & Carlos Edgard Herrero.
"MOON CITY" is a science-fiction story by Larry Englehart (are we sure that's not a psudonyum for Larry Ivie ?? --it feels and reads like one of his) and Al McWilliams. Gorgeous to look at, if a little on the dull side. I believe McWilliams was mostly known for sci-fi work, and did a newspaper strip titled "TWIN EARTHS", as well as a run of "SPACE CONQUERORS!", and one-third of the 1979 "BUCK ROGERS" pilot movie adaptation.
"CURSE OF THE FULL MOON!" -- Goodwin & Reed Crandall tell of a man who deliberately goes hunting to kill a werewolf, but runs into unexpected twists.
"THE TRIAL OF ADAM LINK" -- Otto Binder & Joe Orlando present the 2nd chapter in this telling of the classic pulp magazine story. The original story appeared in the July 1939 issue of AMAZING STORIES by Earl & Otto Binder (how often do you get to see a writer adapting his own story into a comic-book?). And, it had previously been adapted in EC's WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY #28 (Mar-Apr'55), also by Binder, Orlando & Al Feldstein doing the dialogue (how often do you see an artist drawing the same story twice?). By my count, the 4th "classic" adaptation in CREEPY. A year earlier, the story has also been adapted as a 2nd-season episode of "THE OUTER LIMITS", which featured Leonard Nimoy as the newspaper reporter who was sympathetic to the robot's story.
It remains jaw-dropping just how good these early Warren horror comics were!