tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post5326621921982884981..comments2024-03-28T07:49:33.628-05:00Comments on THE HORRORS OF IT ALL: The Bone ManMr. Karswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15889717828895556186noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-77030463213572477272007-08-27T14:11:00.000-05:002007-08-27T14:11:00.000-05:00The rest of this issue is okay. I mean it's gory f...The rest of this issue is okay. I mean it's gory for sure and I'd say pick it up if you can find it cheap, but Bone Man is probably the best story overall... ie: the opening story splash panel has a guy getting his throat visciously ripped out by a werewolf plus a few other bloody moments, there's also a dog getting strangled and a mad professor revealing that he's actually a "revolting lump of scarred flesh" under his phoney daytime cosmetics and prosthetics... a mix of funny and throw away tales, nothing too bone-chilling, the front cover says "Read--- The Corpse Returns!" but there's nothing inside the comic called that. Ooops!Mr. Karswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15889717828895556186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-14337886220320661262007-08-27T11:20:00.000-05:002007-08-27T11:20:00.000-05:00Pretty clever in that ridiculous pre-code logic so...Pretty clever in that ridiculous pre-code logic sort of way. Is the rest of the issue that vioulent? I was never able to track down a copy of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-75153067258975449952007-08-26T11:49:00.000-05:002007-08-26T11:49:00.000-05:00So now we know the grim truth about how Casper Cri...So now we know the grim truth about how Casper Crisp's illegitimate son,Casper jr. became a ghost....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-76078831588046546282007-08-26T08:36:00.000-05:002007-08-26T08:36:00.000-05:00Yeah, as I mentioned it's definitely not one of th...Yeah, as I mentioned it's definitely not one of the worst examples I could have shown... I have a few issues of Star Publications SPOOK series, and though they have wild, terrifying L.B. Cole covers the stories inside are just total junk with awful writing and only marginally interesting art. I haven't been especially impressed by Fiction House's GHOST series much either, superb covers and sometimes gorgeous artwork inside, but the stories always seem muddled with alot of vague wank happy endings and no real thrills (like one story in particular I have that's about haunted bagpipes or something, whatever...)<BR/><BR/>Also, in Mannie Bank's defense he did do some good work for Marvel. His Bone Man story looks rushed and uninspired though. Possibly Premiere Comics paid worse than Atlas... ha haMr. Karswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15889717828895556186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-983171239671909762.post-73447648302512858332007-08-25T20:50:00.000-05:002007-08-25T20:50:00.000-05:00FLIMSY INDEED......LOOKS LIKE A HIGH SCHOOLER ILLU...FLIMSY INDEED......LOOKS LIKE A HIGH SCHOOLER ILLUSTRATED THIS ONE! THE MONTAGE ON THE LAST PAGE WITH THE MOUTH AND EYEBALL AND CAULDRON IS HILARIOUS<BR/><BR/>IT IS KIND OF A COOL STORY THOUGH YOUR RIGHT, IF ONLY IT HAD COME TOGETHER A LITLE BETTER AT THE END AND MAYBE BEEN DONE BY JOHNNY CRAIG INSTEADAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com