We looked at a comic book Frankenstein story exactly one week ago today, right HERE --and in the comments, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man '43 was mentioned (by the guy who always mentions Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man whenever he possibly can!) So hey, let's make it another Frankenstein Friday and take a look at Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, shall we? But let's make it extra different and dig out the Junior Films #3 (1946) adaptation from Spain, featuring tiny frames of FvsWM fun, with the entire film claustrophobically crammed into just 4 puny pages! That cover collage is pretty sweet, too! But awww, you can't read Spanish? Well, your phone can! Just use your handy dandy Google Translate app feature! Now THAT'S mad science! But now you say that you prefer your Frankenstein even weirder, as well as from Japan? Hmmmm, howz'about checking out Jin Katagiri's Udonkensteins from the Kenelephant figure collection at the very end of this post then! Yep, if you ever wondered what Frankie would look like in 4 different color variations and with his entire hulky form composed of tasty, uncut / scored udon noodles, well-- now you know! Thanks again to Mr. Cavin for these so f%$kin' incredible sofubi treasures! I definitely do believe that you are simply not going to encounter a more foreign Frankie post on the web today than right here at THOIA, --or EVER for that matter!
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Whoa, switcheroo. Now we have a completely hand drawn version of the photo-comic (hey, tracing is drawing!) but with mostly typeset words. I dig this look a lot; it would have worked perfectly in the Sunday comics section back in the day. At the size of a regular comic it maybe feels a little claustrophobic, sure. But I do love a wall of frenzied info, looking more like an comic book ad for magic tricks and novelties than a comic book story. Or a little like Ditko's stuff from Questar at the end of the seventies. It's a strategy I'd like to see more of.
I totally love the surprised looking hombre lobo in the, what, twelfth panel of the last page. Rise and shine, big guy.
(Love the way those Udon Frankensteins photograph. That rainbow guy is flashy, but I'm starting to love the noodle-colored ones the best.)
> Love the way those Udon Frankensteins photograph
I might do a more extensive photo look at them over at AEET soon, since we’re kind of gone into Frankenstein mode here at THOIA!
This might be just four pages long, but the artist captures the spirit of the movie quite effectively.
Hey Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man has earned the right to be mentioned, thank you very much!
This one if so interesting! It's very much kind of newspaper-y with the panels then the giant walls of text; it's traced in some parts but others seem to be complete creations of the artist, the wolf man can be strangely off model but the Frankenstein really looks like the Lugosi Frankenstein's Monster, and yet, as in the movie, features another scientist who just can't help himself to power up the monster.
It even hits what is the most important part of the film, which is Talbot's cursed immortality to the point where he's going to plot to charge up a murder machine!
Cute Frankenstein Monsters at the end!
BTW I don't know whom this person who like to mention FmWM. Is he the same character that always mentions Werewolf by Night at every chance?
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