As mentioned in the previous posts, we're experiencing another creepy case of Atlas over-analyzation this month, and more specifically for the next week or so with an in-death-- errr-- in-depth look at the wild work of bad ass Bernie Krigstein! And this golden era gem from the November 1950 issue of Suspense #5 may be short, but it certainly ain't sweet. That is, unless you're a fan of kissing wrinkled mummy lips, or perfect lines of narrative such as, "...the living hand jerked convulsively, like a giant spider on the grave's surface..." ::shiver! Great writing, and even greater artwork.
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Simon wins the prize for being a brainless imbecile. He was literally too stupid to live.
Well, I’m glad you got something out of the story, Bill… (sigh)
This might be just me, but page 4 ... the first 3 panels ... looks very Gene Colan-ish, and a bit of it is probably Harvey's very Tomb of Dracula colored clothes, but the poses, the exaggerated action, it reminds me of that. And it's great!
I know it's a convention of the time, but maybe thought balloons instead of broadcasting your evil with speech in the first couple panels? :)
Again, fabulous job here. The house is spooky, the chambers are dark and dismal, Harvey is very evil looking, and the framing of the splash is excellent.
Page 2 is interesting -- it's basically a talking head panel with somebody in bed and somebody standing next to them. Because of the bed being against a wall, there's not much you can do, but Krigstein basically zooms the camera in and out to give some difference between panels. That's how you do it!
This feels a bit like a Hitchcock tale with the unexpected twist at the end and the 'lovers' joined together forever.
I wonder who will pay the grave diggers with Simon out of the picture? Another case of hard work done and nothing to show for it.
I like the way the bottom left-hand corner of the first page--a left hand reaching for its bottle of poison--rhymes so well with the bottom left-hand image of the last page--a left hand grasping out of the grave dirt. Very fancy comic making, that. And the colors on that second image are just glorious.
That was a good one. I liked that the indoor scenes seemed very cramped, and the outdoor ones were suitably stormy. She was correct - she bought that card with her money and her life, and she owned him.
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