We're taking that b-b-bet and spending the n-n-night solo in a h-h-haunted house again! Yep, one more decently spooky Grimm's Ghost Story from the #8 issue (March 1973), --and whoa Nelly, if you're scared of unicorns for some reason then you also came to the right wrong place! WHOOOO...
Yeah but, you know, that ghost really does owe them two hundred bucks each. Welcher.
ReplyDeleteEvery page of this thing (except the first) has a one double-wide panel, and I think they are all just great. Better than the splash. I love all the curly trees in this, too. Oscar Novelle, huh?
You know, it's surprising that unicorns aren't usually considered more frightening. I mean, even without a horn, a horse can be pretty deadly. It's way faster and more agile than a bull, and often just as ornery. A horse can kill people and other barnyard animals off without much difficulty when it has a mind to. All we really need are horses running around with eighteen-inch impaling poles on their faces, sheesh.
But the fact remains that people don't find them scary; people find them wondrous. Which is why I'm surprised somebody invented such a realistic, low cost enraged unicorn projector way back in the seventies.
A lot of these haunted house stories (in comic form) really spin around just how spooky the house is, and man, good job for the artist Novelle: The splash exterior is awesome, as is the splash on the second page, and the broken down staircase on the third page is excellent work.
ReplyDeleteI suspect he just wanted to draw a horse which is why we get the completely hunh? unicorn out of nowhere, only to be later replaced by the more dependable ghost, demon, and pretty lion-like werewolf.
This reads a bit like a campfire tale: and then ... and then ... and then!
I read over this twice. I love the haunted house art in this. I can't say that enough.
I quite love the art on this one too. I'll dig around and see what else ol Oscar Novelle had to offer for possible future THOIA posts.
ReplyDeleteStay tombed for now though, Mean Gene Colan is up next...