Wrapping up the month of June 2024 with one final weird wedding ceremony from the May 1953 issue of Mister Mystery #11. This copy had some unfortunate water damage, hence why the scans don't look the greatest, but I think you'll enjoy this one all the same-- especially that charming "happy" ending! There are more jittery, jolting tales of terror on the way for July, so stay tombed with the vroom-vroomed!
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No joke, this one was floating around in my mind lately--just the punchline I remembered though, not which comic it was from. I'm kind of amused about Trenton New Jersey though because that's where my grandparents used to live. This one's kind of weird and jumbled but the images of Nick becoming an undead corpse were pretty awesome. Also, I honestly don't think his punishment was justified. His father was a violent drunk and he killed his twin brother. Also, that punchline about Nick not having read the fine print or rather the missing page is a bullseye. So did the professor know that Nick was dead all this time?
We've read any number of stories where somebody -- who is listed as the greatest researcher in some field -- seemingly misses an important second page and whoever wrote the book was a troll who didn't point out at the beginning to "read the whole thing first." Hell, the last piece of furniture I put together said that!
So on tales like this, I wonder what the artists that got the job felt like? I mean, it's their job to draw, but these scripts are text heavy and 90% talking heads. You can tell the fun that went into drawing the splash and the zombie heads on Nick. Was it all kind of the same for them? I'm a terrible artist but I'd rather get a script that was wall to wall skeletons. If you switch out the guy really being dead and just him getting hit in the head and thinking he was dead, this could be a romance comic plot.
BTW I adore the ending they are *so* cute!
I can't help liking Dora's "Concentrate on something living" line on Page 3.
It reminds me of the wife in THE TINGLER. Even though she's the villainess of the story, I like it when she tells Vincent Price that her fooling around at least puts her in contact with LIVE people, unlike his work.
I can't tell if Professor Dillon is the evil twin of Mister Weatherbee from Archie comics, or Count Robespierre from Dread of Night posted here back in August 4, 2017.
I do feel bad for Dora, losing her life for a false-hearted dead man. Sometimes in horror comics nobody lives (or dies) happily ever after.
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