From the Oct-Nov 1954 issue of Strange Fantasy #14
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Meet Me in the Tomb
You know you’re in for a good story when the very first page delivers two brutal drownings, a machine gunning, AND someone getting their head crunched into a bloody mess with a baseball bat! Hold onto your hats friends, the fun most definitely does not stop there! Some stories just need a drum roll…
From the Oct-Nov 1954 issue of Strange Fantasy #14
From the Oct-Nov 1954 issue of Strange Fantasy #14
Well, that was fun and gruesome! Also, "death by folding bed?" Crushing, suffocation..?
ReplyDeleteDid you ever see the Melanie Daniels Barbie Doll?
ReplyDeleteWow. That's just plain crazy. If it hadn't been for that one panel of him saying "real" it all wouldn't have made any sense.
ReplyDeleteWhen exactly did Marsha expect him to get her that Rolls-Royce? Patience, Prudence.
ReplyDeleteWait, did he say moll or male?
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Thanks for everything,
Julie Newmar
What Dane said. "Death by folding bed," indeed. When the Stooges did it, it only resulted in embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteFirst page is the best page. Since this story is dated Oct-Nov 54, looks like Ajax was NOT going gentle into the Comix Code night...
Loved the first panels. Always nice to see a man enjoying his work :-)
ReplyDeleteTHE FIRST PAGE IS TOPS BUT WHAT ABOUT NAILS DRAGGING MARSHA BY HER HAIR AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 6!!! WOW. HE WANTS HER TO "GET IT THE HARD WAY, THE SLOW WAY" THEN KILLS HER BY BED. DOUBLE WOW.
ReplyDeleteI'M SURPRISED NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THE ALMOST MANGA INFLUENCED PANELS ON THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 4 WITH THE CRAZY HENCHMEN ALL CRYING AT THE FUNERAL TOO. AMAZING POST TODAY.
The tragedy of this story is that we get introduced to a character so intriguingly named "Two Nose," and then we never get to hear any more about him.
ReplyDeleteThis was some of the most intense insane tone-poetry I've ever read anywhere.
My favorite example:
"You're a rat, Nails, and you've two-timed me with that other doll for the last time! Now you get yours, you cheap two bit cheater!"
Two-time, last time, two bit, cheap, cheater. Skill alone cannot craft so heady a blend of syncopated alliteration and rhyme. That, my friends, is a gift. Take THAT, Allen Ginsberg!
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ReplyDeleteexcellent story, but does Nails knows his gun moll is really Ed Wood Jr. in drag?...
ReplyDeleteFurther proof that death is just the beginning... How many times do you have to suffer before you can truly rest in peace? Great story!
ReplyDeleteGreasy Joe: What Tony Stark would look like in the real world as a rich, overindulgent alky.
ReplyDeleteKarswell ..you are a star! I still have this bizarrely gruesome tale in UK B+W reprint format ..but the last page went missing sometime when I was a kid. Thanks to you I can now enjoy it again in it's full g(l)ory!
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