Monday, November 4, 2013
The Monster-Go-Round
The June 1973 issue of Gold Key's Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #47 is a full-on collection of four nicely illustrated, though somewhat harmless, freaky creature stories. Hairy transformations, slimy things from the deep, and this strange little tale of a merry-go-round featuring monsters instead of horses or the usual type wooden animals. It's nothing mind blowing or terrifying, just an interesting "spin" on the pre-code inspired, fitting twist ending I dig so much...
I always had a place in my heart for these more "sweet" twilight-zone-ish tales. This one works great (assuming you buy a carnival ride going that fast) and the art, while a bit amateur, is well laid out and fits the story.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see more from this issue!
Still trying to figure out the safety precautions of putting a little girl on that tree trunk, though!
I like the art here a lot, as slick as it is in the other stories from this issue, I think this looser style creates a nice sense of mood and motion. I'd be happy to post more from this issue, all of the stories are fun and have some really goofy cool monsters
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I feel the same way about the Gold Key ones. Gold Key comics in general seem to get a bad rap, not just the horror ones.
ReplyDeleteI never had that many, but two Boris Karloff issues I'm sentimental about are # 36 and # 38. They have creatures that are that much weirder than the ones in the stories here, almost "cartoonish" but still scary.