BONUS!
Saturday, January 19, 2013
The Screaming Skulls! (X3)
Got a whole mess of screaming skulls for you today, the first bouncy batch of 'em from the Jan-Feb '72 issue of GHOSTS #3, with magnificently moody art by Jerry Grandenetti... followed by a bombastic bony bonus filler page and an encore presentation of a Bob Forgione story originally featured here at THOIA back in 2008, from the March '54 issue of Out of the Night #13. "SCREEEEEAM!!!"
BONUS!
BONUS!
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The tradition of screaming skulls seems to be almost exclusively English and yet only the single pager is set there.
Howdy,
Thanks for these. Can't have too many screamin' skull stories.
Is Zander helping you pick stories now?
Brian Riedel
Guess I should watch The Screaming Skull on DVD tonight, now. Just to round out the theme. I sure wish the movie had anything as neat as that Frank Lloyd Flintstone house in the first story.
@Mr. Cavin: That, or read The Mystery of the Talking Skull, from the Three Investigators!
Great art, the sketchy, shadowy, grotesque type art was something I never appreciated when I was young, but have come to love. In my older age I've finally come to appreciate how much a master people like Grandenetti or Gene Colan were.
Sadly, though, its another typical 70s DC post-code story.
I agree, Brian. Even though I liked all of the stories, and I like the last one the best, the style of Grandenetti, which as a yung man would have confounded me, I too now appreciate as an effective enhancement to the story.
Steven, mil gracias for another group of winners!
Cavin-- you'd be better off reading the original story (which the movie doesn't do much with):
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/scremskl.htm
Thanks for the reading tips everybody (double thanks since I've never actually read that before, brandiweed!), but the problem is, what am I going to watch?
Yeah, great comments and super links-- thanks!!
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