Friday, April 25, 2014
Evil Spirit!
Most of you know Al Eadeh from his eerie style on the many great horror titles from 1950's Atlas comics. But here he is over at Prize working his unique trademark evil (I particularly love his feline faced females) for this weird woman classic from the April 1953 issue of Black Magic Vol. 3 #5 (23.)
Guess Shi-Ka got the last laugh after all when she framed John Winston.
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ReplyDeleteThe title of this one is desperately nondescript. Any regular combination of 50s horror titles would do: Hair of [doom,death,horror,etc]. "Evil Spirit" describes about 40% of pre-code horror stories.
ReplyDeleteThe coloring on the top panels of page 4 is a bold choice, showing the merging of the two worlds, and the art is, as always, stellar.
I wonder if Stan and Jack (obviously, Jack, as he was doing the covers) saw this and it came back to them when they created Medusa? Same living red hair.
Well, I'm off to buy a bulk of crotch inserts, you'll never know when they will come in handy.
I thought the color was pretty neat too. There was definitely some unsung artistry going on in those choices. I find the moody use of the statuette's coloring for the figures bracketing the top row of page two particularly effective.
ReplyDeleteEadeh's art is so strange and lively, way more emotional than a lot of what we see here, if not maybe a little bit outsider. I love how subordinated the images are to the mood. Cool stuff.
More cool Black Magic coming up, I found a tale I've been looking for and hell, maybe we'll just finish out this month with a couple more from this series.
ReplyDeleteKeep the sacrificial fires burning and the comments coming, another tale on the way!
Stories about Medusa always interest me (she seems to show up in "genre" stories more than almost anyone else in mythology). Of course, this one isn't about her in the strict sense, but you can see the connection. So now I'm curious about "Medusa's Coil." Did Lovecraft write that using a pseudonym?
ReplyDeleteI also like the explanation of how the statue has remained unharmed, that the believers were AFRAID to harm it, and the disbelievers didn't see any REASON to do so. As Abel Kent says (while he's still a scoffer), someone thought of everything.
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ReplyDeleteThank you.
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