Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Midnight in the Wax Museum!

Todays story falls a few years out of the "pre-code" horror era range, originally appearing in the May 1957 issue of Astonishing #61, but Richard Doxsee's art style does a decent job of maintaining that "Golden Age" chill of shadowy mood and atmosphere. The story itself probably draws a bit of inspiration from A. M. Burrage's terrifying short story classic "The Waxwork", and here becomes a creepy little crime yarn with a perfectly predictable, yet still shiver inducing finale.





(Cover art by Bill Everett)
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous10/27/2010

    SOME OF THESE POST CODE ATLAS STORYS ARE ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD AND I SURE DO LOVE ANYTHING SET IN A WAX MUSEUM.
    LOVE THAT EVERETT COVER TOO!

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  2. Neil10/27/2010

    I'm always a sucker for this type of art. Reminds me of some early Batman possibly the same artist.

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  3. Prof. Grewbeard10/27/2010

    great cover!

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  4. Mr. Karswell10/28/2010

    @ ANON and Prof: ever see a bad Everett cover?

    >I'm always a sucker for this type of art. Reminds me of some early Batman possibly the same artist.

    I don't know much about Richard Doxsee, in fact I don't know if I was even familiar with his name until this post. Anyone interested in finding out more about his work should check his entry over at GCD here:

    http://www.comics.org/credit/name/Richard%20Doxsee/sort/alpha/

    Thanks for the comments!

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  5. Voodoo Ink11/11/2010

    Love the Bill Everett cover!!!!

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