It's been a bit since we shambled down the moronic horror halls of brainiacal mad science, --and oooo mama, here's an epic golden age decap classic that'll definitely make your head spin! From the May 1952 issue of Worlds of Fear #4, with art possibly by Sekowsky and Alascia.
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I love that ending, and frankly, I always have a soft spot for mad scientists and hate to see them killed. Sure, are they possibly destroying a village with their monster? Probably! But what great advancements they make! I think we can give Alpha another head to play with! :)
I've seen enough "monster behind the locked door" films and comics but for some reason never thought it was Wiley's body, which is a fine twist (yes, there are questions, but in tales like this you just accept the mad science.)
There is some great movement and action in the art, even when most of it is just people talking. I love this one!
I thought that it was telegraphed from the banging sounds that it would be bodies in there, not just Wiley's but the ape's and the cat's rear end.
However, at least the professor survived to head another day.
It reminds me of that classic The Brain That Wouldn’t Die… Or Jan in The Pan….
I'm also a little surprised we didn't get the headless ape ending, sort of the Mighty Joe Young version of Re-animator. Just one more page and we could have closed the loop on Professor Alpha that way. But I would have also been thrilled with a straight noir job: Genius Wiley, buffaloed into planning a big bank heist by the welcher Weasel, crafts the perfect plan to get the whole gang nabbed during the job and snuffed in the hot seat at Sing Sing. After that the gangster's head and the ape body rule the NY underworld with hairy iron fist!
PS, I really loved the art here, especially the figures. The splash and the large panels at the top of pages two and three are all awesome. I dig how all the most horrible bits are depicted in silhouette, like shadow puppets.
see also the awesomely sleazy, THE HEAD (1959) aka Die Nackte und der Satan - Des Satans nackte Sklavin - A Head for the Devil from West Germany. Here's the whole film for you crazy b-movie fans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bKdOtpAdA8
Another wild 10 pager up next, stay tombed...
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