THE HORRORS OF IT ALL: Drag-Ula! & Count Varicose

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Drag-Ula! & Count Varicose

And finally today, here are a couple humorous vampire tales to wet your crimson whistle and tickle your funny veins. The first tale is from the January 1954 issue of Crazy #2, illustrated by my hero Bill Everett… it’s really really funny (if you can actually read it.) I believe Pappy posted this one over at his blog a while back but here it is again for anyone who missed it.

Plus a silly 70’s Silver Age Drac spoof from Marvel called Count Varicose, from the September 1975 issue of ARRGH #5.

+++++++++++++++++++++++

Plus more fun over at Magic Carpet Burn with Gold Key's The Little Monsters, HERE! TOMORROW: Witch Overkill!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: I've read DRAGULA over at Pappy's.great art,but i didn't really laugh till the last page,which i checked out first here,i really wanna see everyone else's opinion.As for the second story,it had a good idea,but some parts were pretty random(that said,the part about the police was hilarious,explains a LOT).; 10/29/2008
silvano said...: These are GREAT !
Thanks for sharing !; 10/29/2008
Anonymous said...: EVERETT ART ALWAYS BLOWS ME, HE COULD DO ANYTHING. I HAD TROUBLE FOLLOWING THE STORY BUT IT SURE WAS NICE TO LOOK AT. COUNT VARICOSE WAS CUTE, ART REMINDS ME OF SERGIO ARAGONES A LITTLE, VERY MAD LIKE. I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THE ARRGGH SERIES, WHEN I WAS A KID I HAD THE NIGHT STALKER SPOOF ISSUE.; 10/29/2008
Mr. Karswell said...: >EVERETT ART ALWAYS BLOWS ME

??! I hope you meant AWAY.; 10/29/2008
Prof. Grewbeard said...: GOOD LORD!(choke!)

unt by ze vay, manny tinks i gif you fer der plug!; 10/29/2008
Anonymous said...: OOOPS! YES I MEANT EVERETT BLOWS ME AWAY!; 10/29/2008

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE HORRORS OF IT ALL:

"...incessantly awesome... a wealth of classic horror strips reproduced in all their crude, four-color glory..."
---Frankensteinia

"...an essential horror comics blog. Pre-code goodness through and through!"
---Mike Howlett (The Weird World of Eerie Publications)

"I love your blog, I check it every single day!"
---Craig Yoe

"...the capital of online comic book horrors... saying "Not the best story THOIA has run" is a bit like saying "one of Beethoven's lesser symphonies!"
---Quasar Dragon

"...the object of all horror chicks' wet dreams... a comixkaze of awesome!"
---Killer Kittens

"...an online repository of vintage comic fear fare where individual stories from long out-of-print issues are posted in high resolution, page by page. For a fan of EC, Atlas and other Silver Age-era comic companies, it is pure heaven (and hell)..."
---Bryan Reesman (Attention Deficit Delirium)

"...a skeletal slew of complete scans of pre-code comics..."
---Sweet Skulls

"...excellent site..."
---Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies

"Karswell has turned his blog into the fantastic cult favorite it is..."
---Pappy's Golden Age Comics

"...kickass blog (and if you aren't a reader yet, whyever not? Do you know what you're missing out on?)"
---All Eyes & Ears

"Ewwwwwww!"
---Magic Carpet Burn

" Great for whiling away the hours between the start of the working day and home-time..."
---Igloo of the Uncanny

"...the master of vintage horror comics, and I bow to his general greatness."
---The Vault of Horror

"THOIA is THE blog for pre-code horror comics."
---The Big Blog of Kid's Comics

"...the premiere home on the web for amazing pre-code HORROR comic stories... the absolute best bastion of HORROR on the web!"
---Black 'n' White and Red All Over

"...fine selection of pre-code comics and quality scans... Karwell’s is the only one I can think of with the focus on great, old school horror stories."
---Uranium Cafe

"Feverishly devoted to pre-Comics Code funny books... click any image for a full-size, readable version of the page and delve in. Horror history awaits."
---Rue Morgue Magazine