BONUS!
Saturday, August 11, 2012
The Widow's Lover
Another sharp-edged tale from the Feb '55 issue of Amazing Ghost Stories #16, --pretty sure I'll just post the entire issue here this month, it's chock full of great art-- and no finer example than 6 pages of Joe Kubert pencils 'n inks! Followed by a one page bonus from THOIA fave, Everett Raymond Kinstler.
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Lovely and restrained art. I admit there's some panels that I wish had some more over the top, frenetic bulging eyes and sweating!:-)
ReplyDeleteCool story too, lots of great lines.
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ReplyDeleteThis was an extremely well-written and illustrated tale. I like the idea that Moulin was allowed to wipe himself out, and that his successor, once apprised of the situation, was glad to assist him. The schmucks Moulin offed deserved it, anyway, and I absolutely loved the real-world attitude of Destin in timing his arrest. Very well done and I can't wait to see the rest of this issue.
ReplyDeletethanks karstein for the new story. Ive copied and pasted every single story on this website now into a folder for reading it took weeks to do. I'ts just for personal reading nothing more.
ReplyDeletesure ozzie. sure. we understand.
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful. Lots of great angles in the art, and as always from somebody of Kubert's level, the real knowledge of when to use background and when to not (usually to make something stand out, like page 2, panel 2.)
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the pension "subplot" though, that was a little strange, "A superb performance" would have been a fine ending.
First off, I'd like to thank THE Ozzy Osbourne for commenting on this post. My pleasure, mate! Secondly, I agree with all the comments here regarding this issue so far... can we assume that Amazing Ghost Stories was intended / produced for a more sophisticated sort of 1950's horror comic reader? Oh wait, you haven't seen Tuska's "The Tentacles of Death" yet-- coming up NEXT!
ReplyDelete"Explain it if you can!"
ReplyDeleteShucks. I can't explain it.
Apparently Joe Kubert passed away today, RIP...
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Man, I thought this was very well written. I loved the banter between the skeptical cops (and that offhand real-worldliness is exactly why I do like the throwaway pension revelation at the end). I do wish they hadn't given the ending away in the splash, at least not if they wanted to present it as a big surprise. It was a great idea, and I think the story would have been stronger if they'd just said flat out "he'll be doing it himself" at the top of page two.
ReplyDeleteAs for the art, well pre-code Kubert is my very favorite Kubert (rest in peace, Joe), and this was in no way disappointing. But what I loved the most was the coloring. Those bold splashes of out-of-place red, enough to make me think of all the out-of-panel gore, without being the least bit offensive. I never knew it was possible to do lurid subtly, but here you have it.