Thursday, June 6, 2019

Flee the Mad Furies

Attractive good girl art by Alex Blum highlights this odd little supernatural tale of witchcraft and murder, from the Fall 1952 issue of Ghost Comics #4. Actually a reworked "Ghost Gallery" story from Jumbo Comics #81, this is yet another spooker that, despite all of those lovely long legs and negligee panels, didn't quite make the Swamp Monsters book cut.











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7 comments:

  1. JBM6/06/2019

    Enjoyed this tale, especially liked the extending out of panel art. Thank you Mr. K.

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  2. Mestiere6/06/2019

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  3. Brian Barnes6/07/2019

    This is the first time I've seen a confusing info dump in the first caption!

    Boy this artist was having fun. There's more leg shots than monster drawings! At least two overly-defined butt drawings (last page, panel 5 being especially pervy and I'm not complaining!)

    The art is really interesting. It suffers from being really static in places, and stuff like page 2 panel 4 are weirdly positioned. But he could draw great pin-up art! I really like the weird lighting effect around the candles. It looks like constant explosions are going off!

    This almost felt like a Scooby-doo mystery for a while, but, nope, real ... er ... mad furies? They didn't seem mad! And how did the picture tie into all of this?

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  4. JBM6/07/2019

    I went to the DCM and read the "Jumbo Comics" version. The storyline made a lot more sense as originally written.

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  5. Mr. Karswell6/07/2019

    yeah well, I don't have that version... sorry folks

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  6. Mr. Cavin6/08/2019

    This little story picked up a lot of funky mood about halfway through page three. I dig the feverish plot mechanics of the first third, too; but then the tempo slows down into some kind of weird swamp spooky-doo and that's much better. The last panel of three and the top of four might make a nice public mural. And then page five looks like a haunted lingerie ad. Actually, this story is full funky moods!

    And what a cover! Man, I would not have been able to pass this issue up on the newsstand.

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  7. Grant6/08/2019

    Rowena has a real Veronica Lodge look. It's kind of fitting that she and the blonde girl of the story are such rivals.

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