We visited a casket company in our previous post HERE, so how about today we stroll down to the 'ol mortuary, and head straight back into the embalming chamber where an even fussier issue has potential to end the family business-- or does it? From the May - June 1977 issue of The Unexpected #179.
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Lemuel's casket side manner is absolutely hilarious. Reminds me of those funeral dancers from Ghana.
One fun thing about 70s post-code DC horror output is how ... 70s everything else. Yes, that's the time it was written, but even the 60s Marvel superhero comics have a sort of timeless feel. These are ripped right from the 70s.
I really appreciate the artists going all in on what they saw on TV or in a magazine, it gives the entire thing a real time capsule look. I love the 70s star-studded bell bottoms!
The story starts with "could be a zombie" but ends with a very melodramatic note. DC's horror output of the 70s was really all over the place! It's never not interesting, for sure.
Again, as expected: Beautiful artwork.
The first panel of the corpse sitting up reminded me of the Ray Stevens song "Sitting Up With the Dead"
A joke for Six Feet Under fans-
The undertaker fired my stupid brother, the idiot was so bad at his job he managed to bring three people back to life.
This is my kind of horror host. A rigid, pearl-bedecked dowager, the daughter-in-law, widow, and mother of a race of undertakers. It's very high concept. I'd love to hear her proper, cultured Mid-Atlantic accent when she cackles over ghoulish puns and makes droll observations. I hope she got her own TV show.
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