From the June 1953 issue of Spellbound #15
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Lover Beware
From the comments received on the Joe Sinnott post from a few days ago I decided to toss one of his moody monster tales at you too, this one also containing a similar color scheme like the other (and apparently evil runs rampant in purple cloaks everywhere in the Atlas realm!) I’ll see what else I have from ‘ol Joe for the coming weeks, months etc… but this story here is one of my favorites.
From the June 1953 issue of Spellbound #15
From the June 1953 issue of Spellbound #15
KILLER! THANKS FOR ANOTHER SINNOTT STORY. AFTER YOUR POST THE OTHER DAY I STARTED GOING THROUGH MY COLLECTION TO SEE WHAT ELSE I HAD ILLUSTRATED BY HIM AND FOUND SOME REAL GOODIES, HE'S BECOMNG ONE OF MY FAVORITES TOO NOW THANKS TO THIS GREAT BLOG!!!! THANKS AGAIN!
ReplyDeletetwo great posts in one day about slimy underwater beasties!!!! sinnot does a fine job here in only 5 pages and the pacing is perfect and nice build up to the ending..... face on that thing is horrific!!!
ReplyDeletewould love to see julie adams swimming around on the big screen in 3d but alas I live no where near the midwest either.....guess i'll just have to break out the dvd boxset
Divorce.really big no-no back in the day,incest,and mention of love-making,WOOOOO! this must have torn the senate guys a new one!,you can just see echoes of what would become the slasher movie moral decades later"lose your virginity,lose your life",still the story isn't bad,though the inking suggests that what Bernie Krigstein said about Stan having artists mimic Joe Maneely,may be true,still Sinnott shows off some great design,and Noki is a monster i would love to see in marvel continuity some day(the Zombie from "Zombie!,Arthur Nagan from "the apes that walked like men" and the robot from "I,the robot" have all showed up in modern-day super-hero stories)considering that Aarkus the Vision fought a similar monster during the'40's,maybe it could even have some connection to Loki,it would be more creative than other plot devices!
ReplyDeleteWhat'd you think of Agents of Atlas? I liked it alot but thought it ended a little weak. Nobody likes to see the yellow menace turn the other cheek...
ReplyDeleteI thought it was hard to get into unless you cruise websites like MONSTER BLOG,and some parts were just thrown in to sell t-shirts or promote a movie("that'd be a kick-ass hot dog stand!")but still,it was refreshing to see a good old,Doc Savage-type of adventure story other than"im the god-damn batman!" stuff ive suffered through for 7 years,but my only real complaint was yeah,the Yellow Claw's reason for spending billions and endangering the earth and killing hundreds of innocents for decades was to promote a new Khan?,i laughed half to death at that.
ReplyDeleteThe fish - which looks like a shark - would probably have adequate grounds for vengeance just for being confined in that tiny aquarium.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I'm Indian and notionally Hindu - and, obviously, there is no Hindu legend of any fish woman demon. And no Hindu demon of any kind looks like that, either.
Also, I realise that the word "lovemaking" had different connotations in 1950, but let's just imagine what would happen if Noki the fish demon woman saw two men, or two women, kissing. Who does she kill? Both?
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