I swear I've posted this superb Atlas classic here before... but searching the archive under keywords (I even searched under Zorna), as well as the Marvel Tales and John Forte tags, still nothing comes up. Oh well, if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me. And if I am making an oversight, it's still a goddamn great story from the December 1953 issue of Marvel Tales #119, and very worthy of a repeat posting. John Forte continually proves he can draw a really gorgeous gal, --even if she's the most horrendously horrible female on Earth!
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FYI: Russ Heath cover art too!
I also could have sworn you've posted this one already. Regardless, this one's a hoot. You'd think that maybe the police would get suspicious of all the missing men who were last seen proposing to Zorna. I mean, they're all buried downstairs in her basement for crying out loud! I love the guy who collects pretty hands though!
This was hilarious. Especially Zorna's "I must find him soon because there's hardly any space left down here!"
It turns out you did post this gem, only it was over on AEET when Blogger wasn't playing nice for a year or so.
https://andeverythingelsetoo.blogspot.com/2021/07/collectors-item.html
Sometimes being an insomniac and having a mule headed/pig headed stubborn streak to search on no matter what has its advantages.
Here's to you Karswell for keeping horror comics and interesting stuff alive and well on THOIA and AEET!
lol! Of course I did! Thanks JMR!
Yup, I remember this one well. Let's see what I wrote:
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That's a cute one.
Last page has some great expressions on it, panel 2 Zorna's expression is "jackpot" and then two panels later it's "so that's what the other side is like!"
I love the tight panels with the dog/truck/cat etc that are repeated twice in the story (that's a nice callback) and I love page 3, that's a great sequence and the page ends with one of the silliest panels -- she's leaving actually recognizable graves in her basement (!!!) but I guess that's OK when your house is full of demon sculptures.
Forte can't help but give us the butt shot on page 2!
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And I got called out for the butt mention!
Let me repeat the other call out to all the demon sculptures and stuff. Honestly, to me that would be "she's a prize!" but I think to most of the guys in this story, that should have been a giant, blimp sized red flag.
I say this about many characters, but being MORE superficial could've saved Zorna as much as being LESS superficial.
With the second thing, she wouldn't have gone around stealing diamonds (with or without murder), and with the first thing, she'd have kept away from Frederick.
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