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"Not much of me left, cousin, after the fish and crabs got through with me! Hee-hee!" That bit really grabs me. Why is it that the trashiest horror comics are so often the ones that have these moments of absolute genius?
ReplyDeleteSuperior Comics were usually anything but, though their stories did register highly on the insane-o-meter.
ReplyDeleteThat Skull House does look like a trailer, and is blueish silver, but is described in the first panel as yellow!
I had to look up scape-grace (page 2 panel 1)and the best definition I found was from thefreedictionary.com - n. an idle mischievous person. [from scape2 + grace, alluding to a person who lacks God's grace]
Is there any older horror story with an elderly female falling and breaking her hip, allowing a ghost (or whatever he is) to attack her? ("I've fallen and the ghost is coming!")
That last panel...geez. The cops didn't find the tapes and recorders before? They were just taking their time and happened to notice they were all missing, including the old lady's body?
Do you have a scan of The Black Zombie from the same issue? It sounds interesting/insane.
Thanks Steve!
It's called The Black Flame, I'm getting it ready for the next post... and trust me, it's just as awfulsome and trashy as this story!
ReplyDeleteI love the clunkiness to this story. What was auntie doing down there confronting her living nephew alone in a creepy old cavern? What did she think she was going to do? Boy I'm gonna need a vacation after this story. A LONG one!
ReplyDeletePage 2, Panel 2, creeps me out! The art is pretty rushed and the artist has a lot of problems, but it all comes together for a pretty teriffic panel.
ReplyDeleteThe story itself seems like it was written on the fly, panel by panel, without an ending in mind.
"With courage born of terror..." What?
Get ready for a vacation to Haiti next, Gil!
ReplyDeleteI like that panel too, Gumba... creepy old ladies always bring to mind the floating dead woman in Bava's Black Sabbath, as well as the deceased granny that won't stay in her casket in Fulci's Gates of Hell.
Yeah the big closeup of Auntie had me thinking of Graham Ingels. Even if it was only for a single panel, that's not a bad accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteI think that very last close-up is particularly effective, too. It's crude in a good way, and I like how the nails of the grasping zombie resonate with the motion lines and crosshatching over the old woman's face to make it look chillingly like he's actually drawing her freaky expression right onto her head.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, this is one for the Psycho Department for sure.
Haha! Another one from the Pyscho Dept coming right up!
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