From the May 1953 issue of Horrific #5
COMING UP NEXT: 4 Days of hacked limbs, knives, buckets of blood, more knives, brutal zombie massacre, strangulation, busted bones, (did I mention knives?) it’s the perfect example of Wertham’s SOTI furor-- it’s the jaw dropping 16th issue of Mysterious Adventures in its entirety starting tomorrow!
I love love love this story! Makes a good companion to Basil Wolverton's "Robot Woman."
ReplyDeleteCasper Skeezer of page 1 becomes Casper Skeeter by page 6. But who's watchin'? Just one of those little fun glitches, y'know?
ReplyDeleteRudy Palais. Unmistakable. Unparalleled. Dee-mented. Transmogrifies any story, no matter how pedestrian, into squirmy, crawling art. And this story ain't half bad to begin with. Matter of fact, there's a soft spot in my heart for the whole Horrific line.
Just great stuff.
"You're pretty when you're purple!". What the Hell!. Hilariously crazy stuff, Palais really seems to go insane with the art, looking like a cross between Briefer and Tex Avery. I won't be watching either film, since i have both on DVD(bootleg for HOUSE)but both are pretty good(AMITYVILLE obviously being the inferior). I also never noticed how closely Guy Rolfe based his performance in DOLLS after Thesinger in ODH, hell the whole set up is similar. Wonder if Stuart Gordon saw it.
ReplyDeleteThat was so charmingly demented and absolutely *boiling* with weird sexuality--I'd call it subtext but, nay, that was TEXT, baby! Amazing stuff.
ReplyDeleteBonus points for panel one in which the deadly robot lady has Bette Davis Eyes (or eye--presumably the other one's just hidden out of frame).
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ReplyDeleteMarvelous. Too many great one-liners to comment. From the chandleresque "funny littlte man in a funny little suit" to the "oral muscles" to the "at least they are emotionally stable".
ReplyDeleteAnd the weird art. Crazy stuff.
I loved the hairy knuckled punch to the top of the head! That guy's lucky he didn't break his hand before he got the kiss of a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteA couple of those Palais figures had me breathing heavier and imagining obscene thoughts. I think I'm in love!
PALAIS RULES, YOU USED TO POST ALOT MORE OF HIS STUFF WHEN THOIA FIRST STARTED. HOPE TO SEE MORE, THANKS MAN!!
ReplyDelete>Makes a good companion to Basil Wolverton's "Robot Woman."
ReplyDeleteDefinitely... of course adding a dash of Basil to anything and you've just made something good even better!
>there's a soft spot in my heart for the whole Horrific line.
Got one of those soft spots in my heart for this series as well. I have lots of Horrific stuff lined up for next month... you just wait!
>like a cross between Briefer and Tex Avery.
I've always thought Palais should have been doing covers for Weird Tales... does anyone know if Rudy still alive? And if not, can we dig him up and examine his brain?
>I'd call it subtext but, nay, that was TEXT, baby!
Yeah, why beat around the bush when there's a sexy robot that can just say it for you. Smothered in love, that's how I wanna go.
>the "oral muscles"
Or, smothered by oral muscles.
>had me breathing heavier and imagining obscene thoughts
Quick, somebody get SFD a doctor! But make sure his name ain't Wertham!
>YOU USED TO POST ALOT MORE OF HIS STUFF WHEN THOIA FIRST STARTED. HOPE TO SEE MORE
I promise to correctify this oversight immediately.
TOMORROW: The Ice Truck Killer-- 50's Style!
1/09/2009
love this one
ReplyDeletesaw it reprinted in black and white somewhere.
>reprinted in black and white somewhere.
ReplyDeleteTales Too Terrible to Tell #3 from New England Comics Press.
Wow. And I thought regular "getting old" was bad. Poor her. :-\
ReplyDeleteKarswell, you're too much. ;-)
Hopefully Dr. Kookenstein (aka Casper Skeezer-Skeeter) isn't the model for the male emotional stability he speaks of.
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