Here's a fun little nightmarish quickie by the always magnificent, Mean Gene Colan, and from the July 1951 issue of Suspense #9, (script by Hank Chapman.) And wowzers, I can't believe that April is already almost over, which equally means we're already halfway to Halloween! Must start planning the upcoming posts accordingly...
Bravura catch on that Fright Factory ad. It's hard to imagine their art department ripping Atlas Comics off for the design, but it's also hard to swallow that the visual similarity here was just innocent happenstance.
ReplyDeleteI never had a Thingmaker, or any of the expansion sets. I feel like this stuff was gone by the mid-seventies.
"Nightmares aren't real. If I'm here, it can't be a nightmare." I can't fault logic like that, but it still seems kind of backwards to me. I'm sure that the lunatic dentist would agree--those nightmares were real, and Norman was actually back in the doctor's chair. And brother, of all the mad sciences, painless dentistry has got to be the creepiest.
ReplyDeleteWell Norman ol' man, its time to head for Hollywood, you are about to become the new Rondo Hatton.
It always has to be fun for the artist when the story calls for "random monsters."
ReplyDeleteBTW, I know it's a bit of the inking and printing that does this, but the last panel with the dentist is super spooky!
Not sure why Colan drew the wife that way but the whole business is full of great characters and expressions.
Well, that was unexpected. Not something I can say here often any more!
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