Found another one! This time Don Heck's bizarre giant beastie from the cover of the January 1953 issue of Weird Terror #3 gets lifted by not one, but TWO 50's spook show ads! Wonder if anyone really got haunted forever by any of this?
Both of these are great, but the second one strikes my fancy a bit more. It's more stark and less clustered and certainly both the other big elements (skeleton-woman and coffin-woman) are lifted from somewhere.
The hand was obviously sketched in to cover up where the victim was but BOTH posters have it -- one wonders if one lifted it from the other, or both posters were from the same road show/different years.
BTW, because of the thick printing, the woman being attacked by the skeleton looks less scared and more "oh, I like skeletons!"
You're good. At first I found it really hard to see this one in those hairless swipes. For the record I really love the WEIRD show lettering.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these are great, but the second one strikes my fancy a bit more. It's more stark and less clustered and certainly both the other big elements (skeleton-woman and coffin-woman) are lifted from somewhere.
ReplyDeleteThe hand was obviously sketched in to cover up where the victim was but BOTH posters have it -- one wonders if one lifted it from the other, or both posters were from the same road show/different years.
BTW, because of the thick printing, the woman being attacked by the skeleton looks less scared and more "oh, I like skeletons!"