Buried in the back pages of the July - August 1948 issue of Exposed #3, (among the typical sort of bang bang gangster crime stories) lurks this hair-raisin' Harry Kiefer illustrated tale of vicious voodoo ultra violence. Swirling with demons, death dolls, and brutal torture, this is a wild little ghastly gem of grisly horror from south of the blood-soaked border...
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I love these he-man adventures. Thrilling fist fights! Tough law-men! Pretty women! Grisly torture!
Great voodoo masks, too. My only regret is that Louis wasn't the one getting revenge, but I'll take the cops. Also, beating up a guy and calling him chubby at the same time is pretty on brand here!
This story features some big hats. Nearly everybody has a big hat ... except the villains. There's a lesson to be learned here!
I like how the character at the end is almost giving the thumb on nose/wave fingers insult to the scarecrow.
Too bad the artist didn't end with a hoot owl in the background calling out a ''HOOOOO" behind him, causing Mr. Sceptic to run screaming for the hills. Know-it-alls are smug until something unexplainable happens, then their reply is "It m-m-musta been swamp gas or something."
This was a good thriller with a supernatural angle to it.
Last detail, on a whim I looked up on Google 'Mexico, supernatural beliefs, voodoo' and saw that voodoo wasn't a dominant belief in Mexico, but it has some influence in brujerÃa and SanterÃa, so the story wasn't fictional in the practice of voodoo.
Just a follow up, I like the bright colors in this one, the color choice works well in this comic.
This one took a great deal of clean-up and color correction, so I’m glad you noticed and enjoyed it. Thanks :)
I like Kiefer's art. It's super clean and sophisticated, and it's full of long, carefully snaky brush lines: All the hair, smoke, fire, wood grain, etc.; every panel looks to have a river of details coursing through it.
What with all the carefully rendered costumes--Mexican peasant and noble caballero both in outsized mariachi sombreros, US sheriff with bow tie and depiddy with bandana, etc., this one feels as much like it originated on the silver screen as the last one did.
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