Wicked Women Weekend continues! Yesterday we learned that
The Devil is most definitely a dame, and now today maybe we’ll learn something even more sinister about the opposite sex, but only if we live so long…
From the February 1953 issue of
Suspense #27
I remember reading a humorous essay once saying that a guy getting hit by a truck was one of the best ways to end a story,forgot the author's name but apparently he read this story.
ReplyDeleteThank heavens for that reassuring note in the bottom margin of the first page!
ReplyDeleteThat was fun. I'm very familiar with the Suspense! radio show, much less so with the comic book.
ReplyDeleteAnd here I see all this missed potential. The "we're not werewolves but VAMPIRES!" thing is fun, but I was consistently disturbed wondering what it was Burt kept needing to go home to do. "Wait, you cute and willing girl, I must go home now to do... something...." I wanted him to end up being the big evil guy. "Every time I meet a cute blonde I have to skin another wife." Or "...report to Saturn." Or "...begin starving the cellar ape." Something like that.
ReplyDeleteI mean, he's pretty cavalier about exploring the savage beast room. "Hates strangers? Why, I'd like to meet him!"
And how convenient for the surprise twist that these are the kind of vampires who don't mind the sunlight all that much. Kept me fooled till the very end, I guess. Or at least until I was finished reading the cover of the damn comic book.
I thought Burt might turn out to be some third kind of monster, although he likely wouldn't have freaked out at Daddy then.
ReplyDeleteDaddy sure didn't put up much of a fight, hmm?
Good story and great artwork !
ReplyDeletePoor Burt :-) He could´t win, could he?
ReplyDeleteGreat artwork.
JUST WHEN I THINK I HAVE THESE KINDS OF ATLAS STORIES ALL FIGURED OUT THEY PULL ONE OUT OF LEFT FIELD. CRAZY ENDING.
ReplyDeleteITS ALSO NEAT TO SEE THAT DEVIL GIRL HAIR-DO CATCHING ON WITH THE BABES!
Ha! I laughed and laughed at the surprise ending.
ReplyDeleteWhoa, a werewolf for a father, and a vampire for a mother! Now that is my kind of family!!
ReplyDeleteThe art was excellent in this one, I loved the ultra shadowy high contrast work.
I am guessing that the ending with the "merely run over by a truck" was supposed to up the ante on how horrible it would be to die at the hands of a vampire- glad they didn't have poor Burt "merely burned to death on a stake"...then I would really be afraid of vampires!!!
Whoa, a werewolf for a father, and a vampire for a mother! Now that is my kind of family!!
ReplyDeleteIt sure beats the other way around. Unless you're into Old World armpits.
I hope everyone had a great weekend, thanks again to those who came by and commented. (And to those who don't comment I'm watching you with my new stat counter.) Thanks again my Princess for help with that this week.
ReplyDeleteMummy Mondays kicks off tomorrow, plus something extra for the kiddies, and a demented poem by Brian Hirsch. See ya (and hopefully hear ya now) in the mourn!
I'm a bit late to this party, but I really thought the twist ending was pretty hilarious. Written by Stan Lee, I assume?
ReplyDeleteActually, all stories Stan wrote, he signed. well, almost all. But you are right, the ending of this story does sound his typical 'twist' on a familiar ending. It also seems to have been drawn by one of his favorite artists... Fred Kida. Maybe both credits dropped off.
ReplyDeleteWow. A lot going on at the end. I expected something to do with the Devil, of course, given how Lenore appears at the start -- where she also looks distractingly like Jim Mooney's Supergirl to me -- but it's funny that along with that feint we get a bat flying against a full moon in the splash in a winking harbinger of things to come.
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