Thursday, December 15, 2016

Nightmare Mansion

Getting back to some hilariously haunted Iger Shop thrills, specifically nightmarish ones in a murder mansion! From the oddball October 1953 issue of Haunted Thrills #3.











8 comments:

Brian Barnes said...

Well, the story has a beginning, and ending, and a middle. Stuff happens. So it counts as a story, at least!

Why the folks at the Iger shop didn't make the vampire/demon/whatever lady sexy I'll never know. Somebody wasn't doing their job properly that week!

I go back and forth with weird panel layout, something you'd see a lot in these types of jobs. Page 4 is an excellent example. Sometimes it's distracting, sometimes it breaks the flow, but it actually works well there, so kudos to the art team.


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Glowworm said...

I've heard of sweeping people off their feet--but spirits? Do spirits even have feet?

Mr. Cavin said...

So that was awesome; and also a little dazzling in its delirious abandonment of coherence, narrative sense, um, conceptual through-line, you know, and sanity.... In very few pages it totally makes a strong case for the idea that someone took pages at random from several stories and shuffled them up together. Page two is most mind-bending in my own humble o, picked from six psychotropic contenders: Just what the heck is happening in that trapezoidal flashback at the bottom if the page? "For some reason I'm talking about cats, but I'm even more inexplicably dreaming of blowing up a golf course."

Guy Callaway said...

Cats!! I always knew it. F**k 'em.
Really enjoyed this one, though nothing made a lick of sense. Brooms expel evil spirits?..sure, why not.

Rick said...

an ending. it had an ending. git it?

Mr. Karswell said...

Ok, thanks for the hilarious comments, haha... I'll have more from this issue later this week, but first I had to settle a conversation about a vampire story request that we'll see in our next post!

Hang in there, bat boys and ghouls!