TOMORROW: A trip to Castle Karloff!
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The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
October 28th from Del Rey, comes a hair raising collection of Robert E. Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. Some of REH’s best-known characters roam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris, to remote jungles in Africa. This collection includes Pigeons from Hell, Black Canaan, Worms of the Earth, The Cairn on the Headland, and more!
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(Release Date Oct. 28th)
Heh. Be nice if we knew whether the lightning got him or something else entirely, but I guess that would spoil the puckishness.
ReplyDeleteJoe should be happy,at least he got a free house to haunt!(though you can tell he's one of those ghosts who never realizes they're dead.).kidding aside,in the splash;underneath the "H" in "house",is that the grim reaper,or a sillhoueted tombstone?.
ReplyDeleteNice story :-) Good art. Very dynamic.
ReplyDeleteHey, I posted a Howard Nostrand story today as well!
ReplyDeleteHis stuff was great!!
But whatever happened to the body?? ....insert spooky music here....
ReplyDeleteI DIDNT KNOW THAT HOWARD DID STORIES FOR ATLAS, AMAZING!! HE SHOULD HAVE WORKED FOR EC, BUT I GUESS THEY ALREADY HAD SOMEONE LIKE HIM WORKING THERE FULL TIME.
ReplyDeleteOh! Oh! REH's horror yarns are some of his best work. I may pick up a copy even though I've already read the stories in other editions.
ReplyDeleteI liked this one--it has the great 50s tough patois that I love so much, and some really neat details. (I kinda NEED that four-poster bed with the hooded monks carved into the bed posts.) Plus it's got my favorite "BARRROOM!" Easter Egg, or at least what I choose to believe is an Easter Egg. Order me a bourbon, I'm almost done with the inking!
ReplyDeleteAnd it's hard to go wrong with a "dare you to stay in the haunted house" story, though usually it's college kids or younger who do it; this is the first time I've seen Dick Tracy and his pals get in on the action. I guess even gangsters and G-men get bored sometimes...
I liked the twist, which I didn't expect (whatever happened to that "NOOOOOOOOO!" whisper--which incidentally didn't look much like a "whisper" to me). A fun little tale that sent me off with a smile. Good stuff!
Oh, and I meant to add--I'm probably not the first person to say so, but I'm kind of in love with the web-slinging bubble-blowing beauty thereon Planet Comics #39. In a word, ZANG.
ReplyDeletethe art looks like a combination of Jack Davis and Dan DeCarlo, of all people!
ReplyDeleteGreat story! Nostrand is one of my all-time faves. His stories for the Harvey horror books are almost always fun, concise, well-written and, of course well-drawn. He's one of the best pre-code horror artists in my opinion. I didn't know he did any work for Atlas so this is a great surprise! Anybody know if he did any other horror stories for Atlas?
ReplyDeleteOpinions differ but over at Timely Atlas Yahoo many believe Norstrand never worked for Atlas. I am not surprised that it is not listed as such on the Atlas Tales link. Where did yoiu get the credit. Certainly not from the art, because it is nothing like the tuff Nostrand was doing at that time. Can't tell you who it is, though. The last panel suggests Dan Goldberg to me.
ReplyDelete>Where did yoiu get the credit.
ReplyDeleteGot the info from GCD... there are actually a few Atlas credits to him for the Journey into Mystery series. I'm not saying they're correct either, just assuming so because alot of the art here actually does look like his style to me, as to whoever gave him the credit. If anyone knows differently please let us know.
I'm with Ger on this one. It just isn't Nostrand's style. Several artists did Davis pastiches, and Nostrand was the best, but this story just doesn't have his look at all.
ReplyDeleteI trust the GCD when I have no credible evidence to suggest otherwise, or when I'm unfamiliar with an artist they credit. Other than that, and when they try to nail down an attribution for stuff like this story I think they are just flat-out wrong. Caveat emptor when it comes to Grand Comics Database.
Is it possibly penciled by Nostrand and someone else came in and inked it, or vice versa? I'm no expert of course but to say it doesn't look anything like Nostrand is kinda silly. And to me the thing about it is that it doesn't really even look like an Atlas tale, especially the title in the splash (which looks more like a Harvey kick off.) Could this have been meant for Harvey but wound up over at Atlas somehow, where one of their artists added just enough difference to the art as to make it less Harv?
ReplyDeleteNo, the Nostrand credits at GCD are among their worst. Generally the Atlas Tales website was assembled later and has had more people go over it. If there is a difference between them it is safer to go with AT. I also have to politely disagree with your statement that it would be silly not to see Nostrand in this story. Point me to one panel that does look like his work at that time. I don't see it at all. I don't even think it looks like imitation Davis.
ReplyDeleteGer has spoken! FYI: Not neccessarily talking about just this story in general, and I'm surely not the only one who thinks Nostrand's style looked like Davis, but my point was this seems to have more of a Harvey essense than Atlas.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has their own ideas and opinions, wrong or right, it's what makes blogging so interesting / frustrating, ha.