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And speaking of the bad ass Bernard Baily cover for Mister Mystery #10, check out these gnarly new limited edition masks from The Devil's Workshop!
For more info about these, CLICK HERE!
Monday, May 18, 2020
Capsule! / The Devil's Workshop!
Some of you may remember we used Bernard Baily's cover of Mister Mystery #10 (March - April 1953) for our own issue of Haunted Horror #26! With its hook-handed grave robber realizing much too late of his evil ways-- via swirling demon heads from Hell-- it is definitely one of the finest examples ever of spooky precode cover art. A few of the stories inside the issue ain't too shabby either, like this traumatizing tale of sinister side affects from simply swallowing a capsule...
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And speaking of the bad ass Bernard Baily cover for Mister Mystery #10, check out these gnarly new limited edition masks from The Devil's Workshop!
For more info about these, CLICK HERE!
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And speaking of the bad ass Bernard Baily cover for Mister Mystery #10, check out these gnarly new limited edition masks from The Devil's Workshop!
For more info about these, CLICK HERE!
and anyone mentioning why the clothes also shrink gets banned to the realm of Marvel / DC hero comics forever because that's already been happening there for like a century-- please try to be a little more original on this post with your comments. Thanks! --K
ReplyDeleteI think Ross rushed this one a bit. That said, the art is still great because he made up for the somewhat quick art with tons of interesting angles. From the splash, to page 4 where the angles make the shrinking process really dynamic and interesting.
ReplyDeleteIt's a fun concept, quickly paced, and effective.
Those masks are very cool, what a great idea, and completely captured the image from the cover.
Right, I won't ask about the clothes. I'll settle for asking why he didn't just punch the mouse in the snout. He's got all his original body mass, so his density must be something like that of titanium.
ReplyDeleteI've always adored the mister MYSTERY covers; I only wish the contents regularly measured up to them. But I still read every issue out of fondness for the cover. The stories tend to have a real mean streak.
ReplyDeleteI feel like some of Mister Mystery's peers--Cousin Eerie, say--would've found a way to say something about Kiley allowing himself to be used as a guinea pig. Missed opportunity, Mr. Mystery, missed opportunity. Tsk.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the mouse started shrinking immediately, too? I mean, Johnny still had all of that chemical X in his bloodstream. Basically the man himself had become the next capsule--à la the splash page--in a poisonous chain of custody that might eventually shrink down the whole food chain.
ReplyDeleteLong live the Devil's Workshop. These masks are amazing. And going by the source material, they can pretty much be considered fully articulated 1:1 action figures. Trouble passing hours of quarantine? Just put 'em on some fishing line and play a rousing game of graverobber (shovel sold separately)!
I think a rat would have been more menacing than a mouse, either way it was a feast for a rodent.
ReplyDeleteAnother twist would have been if the capsule worked too well and the convict shrank down to microscopic size and ended up being eaten by a bacteria. Mad scientists always fail to Beta test their discoveries.
Its a shame Mr. Mystery was never brought back as a horror host. A masked gentleman wearing a top hat and tuxedo has a flair that is missing from many comic horror hosts today.