We're stickin' close to the scary shoreline with a tale going waaaay way back to the March 1952 issue of Spellbound #1, --featuring supernatural slickness from joltin' Jay Scott Pike!
With both Hubbard and Elliot deceased they can haunt each other forever, maybe the cat will haunt them both.
Come to think of it, couldn't Elliot go fishing or clamming? Was the island so remote that Elliot couldn't swim to shore? Pry off a door and make a raft? I guess Elliot wasn't so smart in the first place.
I really like the character work here, Hubbard really looks like a dried up crazy dude, and Eliot really looks like a Scooby Doo schemers who, well, does the Scooby Doo thing.
The black cat -- and eat it (sadly!) -- is a nice callback.
I really like how deep the inks are here. Everything is big and bold some of it looks like ad art, like page 4, panel 5. Neat stuff!
Ha ha, yeah, I think the sequel's got real possibilities, with all the three ghosts trapped together on the this island, just a trio of misfit roommates. Then the actual new owners move in, and it goes full-on Three's Company, Odd Couple, and Beetlejuice ménage à trois.
And that's the sticky issue of the story, I guess. Those new owners. I mean, our foolish protagonist seems to feel like estate law favors whoever happens to be nearby when a title holder kicks it (never you mind how the cops might view the situation). What a world that would be. But here in the real world--that of pre-code horror comics--I know that some dashing journalist and his nubile young fiance will arrive from the big city in a gimcrack late-model convertible after learning of their kooky new inheritance--and this dupe is gonna have to pretend to be the ole groundskeeper in an attempt to scare them into selling, in turn. This could happen more than once, so add Groundhog Day to the list of titles above.
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Poor cat.
With both Hubbard and Elliot deceased they can haunt each other forever, maybe the cat will haunt them both.
Come to think of it, couldn't Elliot go fishing or clamming? Was the island so remote that Elliot couldn't swim to shore? Pry off a door and make a raft? I guess Elliot wasn't so smart in the first place.
I really like the character work here, Hubbard really looks like a dried up crazy dude, and Eliot really looks like a Scooby Doo schemers who, well, does the Scooby Doo thing.
The black cat -- and eat it (sadly!) -- is a nice callback.
I really like how deep the inks are here. Everything is big and bold some of it looks like ad art, like page 4, panel 5. Neat stuff!
Ha ha, yeah, I think the sequel's got real possibilities, with all the three ghosts trapped together on the this island, just a trio of misfit roommates. Then the actual new owners move in, and it goes full-on Three's Company, Odd Couple, and Beetlejuice ménage à trois.
And that's the sticky issue of the story, I guess. Those new owners. I mean, our foolish protagonist seems to feel like estate law favors whoever happens to be nearby when a title holder kicks it (never you mind how the cops might view the situation). What a world that would be. But here in the real world--that of pre-code horror comics--I know that some dashing journalist and his nubile young fiance will arrive from the big city in a gimcrack late-model convertible after learning of their kooky new inheritance--and this dupe is gonna have to pretend to be the ole groundskeeper in an attempt to scare them into selling, in turn. This could happen more than once, so add Groundhog Day to the list of titles above.
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