Wednesday, February 7, 2018
HAUNTED HORROR #32 IN STORES NOW!
The theme for HAUNTED HORROR #32 (in stores today!) was creeps from the deep, and they certainly don't get much creepier or deepier than this Lin Street(i)er classic, originally presented in the June 1953 issue of Forbidden Worlds #18. Pick up the new HH issue NOW for even more watery precode terror tales from the likes of: George Evans, Gene Colan, Sheldon Moldoff, and King Ward! It's seriously and dreariously our soggiest issue yet! I love making up words!!!
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That sea vampire story is ridiculously awesome. It's just so over the top that it's a lot of fun to read. Also, that design for the sea vampire is great too.
A sea vampire, there's a new one, or maybe not since Sirens lured sailors to their doom much as a sea vampire would.
Dirk: "Sea vampires?...that's silly...wait a minute, It's true!!...what's that? ...yeah, that explains it...oh God, sea vampires!!...what a crock...yet...Lord, sea vampires!!"
Dirk, do you realize the money you could make flipping real estate? Just come to one of my lectures...
I am such a sucker for these stripy Lin Streeter splash panels (this one is so energetic! Like Battle Cat getting electrocuted on a zebra skin rug!). Combine that with honest-to-god Ben Day screens (you can tell by the fact that the 50% screens are angled lines instead of dots), and this one was a total winner with me long before I even got to the fleshy naked blond vampire fish things.
Mestiere "Vampires are vampires, whatever their form! And silver is the one thing that will kill them!" Isn't that werewolves?
Actually, silver will kill a lot of supernatural creatures--it's actually quite common in a lot of these vampire comics from this era for the vampire to meet his or her demise through silver--although it needn't be bullets as the method used in this comic to dispose of the sea vampire is a rather creative one.
This is another tale where we have a hero that's both slow to catch on (from vampires don't exist to who is the vampire) and fast to catch on (the silver trick.)
I love the more comical drawing of a vampire, at times it's less horror and more goofy rubber monster. There's a pretty large number of heads shots, and the final one on the last page looks like it might have been cut out from somewhere else in the story, or something removed.
BTW -- I love how terrible 50s dames are written -- You're floating around in a boat full of corpses, after just killing a goofy vampire. I think marriage can wait a bit!
Mestiere, in issue #10 of Adventures into the Unknown, the male protagonist of "Vampire's Castle" gets rid of the vampire he accidentally revived (or rather accidentally created from the body of a man who tried and failed to become one--it's a bit of a crazy story) by tossing a small vial of silver chloride from his photographic equipment. A crazy way to kill a vampire--but fairly effective as the vampire freaks out and goes crashing out the window to his death.
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