Number 282Burke and Hare"To burke" is to kill by smothering or suffocation. The verb comes from this pair of miscreants, Burke and Hare, immoralized…heh-heh, I mean immortalized, in "Ghoul's Gold" from 1946 in Crime Does [...]
Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Sáu, 28 tháng 3, 2008
Number 281The Starving GhoulThis is a screwball story from Eerie Publications' Terror Tales #7, March 1969. The title, "Gravestone for Gratis" has nothing to do with the story. Neither does the splash. They look like they've [...]
Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Tư, 26 tháng 3, 2008
Number 280Sexy John StanleyBesides strips about little kids, Little Lulu and Nancy, in the early '60s John Stanley did some teenage books, including Around The Block with Dunc & Loo and Thirteen Going On Eighteen.This [...]
Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Hai, 24 tháng 3, 2008
Number 279The Twisted Mr. TwistoThere's no secret to Charles Biro's approach to comic book writing. Focus on the bad guys. Villains are intrinsically more interesting that goody two-shoes good guys. The last time I showed [...]
Người đăng: Unknown on Chủ Nhật, 23 tháng 3, 2008
Number 278Diyos Ko!Here's a story from Redondo Komix Magasin #159, from 1967, published in the Philippines. I don't know Tagalog, the language, but it's easy enough to follow. It's told economically in only four pages, and [...]
Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Sáu, 21 tháng 3, 2008
Number 277The Spider SorceressHere's a little tale of arachnids and sorcery from the Fiction House comic book factory. "Werewolf Hunter" was an ongoing series, and this is a reprint published in Ghost Comics #3, from 1952 [...]
Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Tư, 19 tháng 3, 2008
Number 276 At Midnight all cats are gray…Midnight, a Spirit lookalike, was drawn by artist Paul Gustavson. This particular story was published in Quality's Smash Comics #46, September 1943.As much as I admire Gustavson's [...]
Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Hai, 17 tháng 3, 2008
Number 275 Don't shake the family treeThis short-short story from Atlas Comics' Uncanny Tales #7, published in 1953, is by Larry Woromay, an artist who went from comics into fine art. He died last year. These are a couple [...]
Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Sáu, 14 tháng 3, 2008
Number 274 Walt Kelly's Cave Kid"Kandi The Cave Kid" is by Walt Kelly, and is a good example of his early comic book work. It appeared in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #5, from 1942. The racial characterizations [...]
Người đăng: Unknown on Thứ Tư, 12 tháng 3, 2008
Number 273Kirby's big red eye!Here's the third of four stories from Harvey Comics' Race For The Moon #2, from 1958. It illustrates the scene from the cover, shown in Pappy's #255.A dead man goes into the Big Red Spot of [...]
