In case you missed the memo, we're in the middle of a
"Brain Fest" here at
THOIA... and here's a cool 'n creepy entry from
ACG fan fave
Ogden Whitney, from the Jan. '52 issue of
Adventures into the Unknown #27 (actually this tale is totally brainless, but still fun.)
"Strange... the bathroom door's locked from the inside and your teenager doesn't answer. We'll soon know what he's up to, Patsy! Help me break down this door..."
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"You saw something when you rushed into that bathroom, Fred. What was it that little Johnny was trying to conceal?"
Man the art here was sort of done tragically wrong by the cheap printing. Usually I am immune to these kind of concerns (I tend to like the aesthetic of the document itself--ravages of time and terrible technology included--as much as I like the actual art), but this time I really wonder how much cleaner and more lovely this would have been off a modern press. All that said, that second to last panel on page five is my favorite single image I've seen on this blog in months, bleedy blacks or not.
pretty cool story and thats a really kick ass cover on this issue too,thanks karswell!!!
ReplyDeleteIf I ever time travel back to the 50s, I now know how to get any woman to marry me: spend a night with her in which we are stalked by monsters and her father is killed.
ReplyDeleteNothing gets the ladies more in the mood to say "yes" then that!
Honestly, could he have waited a bit? The smell of burning brain was still in the air!
Here's something I wonder -- when did "zombies" move from "ghosts" to "walking dead"? They certainly had walking corpses in the EC stories, but in a lot of these zombies are pretty much just ghosts.
>second to last panel on page five is my favorite single image I've seen on this blog in months, bleedy blacks or not.
ReplyDeleteThat is a goddamn good panel, and yes, an equal damn shame about the printing on this issue. Usually ACG was pretty good about this!
>kick ass cover on this issue too
I love it too!
>when did "zombies" move from "ghosts" to "walking dead"?
Someone should write a thesis paper on this and then hold a course about it at the local community college, for I am stumped too.
One more brain tale to go... stick around fools!