These aren't the greatest scans, but it's a wild, Shakespearean entry from the January 1954 issue of Adventures into Terror #27, and the Chuck Winter artwork is freakin' amazing (you guys liked the skeletons in our previous post, --wait'll you get a load of this one!) Has Macbeth ever been so macabre?
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Well, this version would have made the time we spent on this in high school much better!
Macbeth was really in the twilight zone mold where the "gotcha" makes the prophecy correct, but in this version, it's not a c-section but a walking witch kid skeleton. It's hard to say which is better!
Chunk Winter deserves an award for this one. It's so dense. He never skimps on background detail, the close up of the drooling witches is just great, the expression of Lady Macbeth as she dives off the ramparts ... it's all awesome. He really turns in an incredible job.
Page 4, panel 1 -- look at that hand. Again, he wasn't skimping anywhere.
After that third last panel I was expecting Macduff to be a woman.
Turning Shakespeare's work into horror isn't all that hard when you consider all the deaths that occur in Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Othello.
Though I myself think the best rendition of Shakespeare as horror is 'Theatre of Blood' starring Vincent Price and Diana Rigg, along with many stars of British cinema and TV. Seeing Price play a hairdresser and saying "Hello, I'm Butch" is worth the price of admission.
Another great version is of course Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood!
Macbeth is my favorite Polanski horror movie by a mile.
This was wonderful and very, very visually rich. The use of green for the witches--as well as their offspring--was an especially transporting touch. That witchy armor Macduff's wearing on the last page looks like it walked right off a Roger Corman set. What an amazing Halloween costume that would make.
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