Need more silly, 70's anthology satire? Then head over to AEET by CLICKING HERE to see what the mad minds at Marvel did to Rod Serling's Night G-g-g-gallery! AIEEEEE!!!
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Tales from the Creep
I thought we'd kick off September 2020 here at THOIA (and over at AEET too) with some light hearted laughs, and all totally at horror's hilarious expense. So if you're a fan of EC comics, and more precisely, the awesome 70's Amicus film classic of the same name, then you've come to the right place, as Marv Wolfman, Roy Thomas, John Costanza, and Marie Severin split your funny bones right down the middle with 8 pages of f-f-f-funny fright. From the Nov. '72 issue of Spoof #2.
Need more silly, 70's anthology satire? Then head over to AEET by CLICKING HERE to see what the mad minds at Marvel did to Rod Serling's Night G-g-g-gallery! AIEEEEE!!!
Need more silly, 70's anthology satire? Then head over to AEET by CLICKING HERE to see what the mad minds at Marvel did to Rod Serling's Night G-g-g-gallery! AIEEEEE!!!
That's cute, though some of those puns were pretty painful!
ReplyDeleteI love a parody of a movie that's a version of a comic (even making sure to get the gag ending of the razor-wall one correct.) I like the little in-jokes, which once has to wonder if by the 70s (with comics constantly recycling to new children) there were a lot of people that knew (Bill Gaines name on a paper, SPA FON, etc.)
I like the gag art, it's nice, and not overly busy.
I had never heard of Spoof until today! Thanks for that one!
Interesting that they don't send up the segment with Peter Cushing ("Poetic Justice"). I wonder if it was due to a fixed story length or because Cushing's performance is actually rather moving...
ReplyDeleteThis is super. That splash panel is such a big production--and very well executed. The eye patch on the famously monocular poster skull cracks me up. So does the Burma-Shave joke. In one simple high-concept string of dialog, Wolfman skewers every humor mag for the shared style of jokey, run-on dialog balloons. I definitely liked the send-up of ...And all Through the House best--even the puns!--which would also be true of the movie itself if I were to, for some reason, skip over Poetic Justice (which I might, cause that story is sad as hell).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great Spoof double-bill, Karswell! September is shaping-up pretty nice.
I had this issue and the one with their spoof of Kolchack the Night Stalker..... I may still have it in one of my boxes...
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