One of us! One of us! Yes, it's time to get freaky cuz the circus just pulled into town-- and there's trouble brewin' with the sideshow! This is another one that'll bring to mind a certain EC vibe, though continually saying so is a bit unfair as this superbly sickening Story Comics series definitely had a vicious vibe all its own! Okay now, someone at GCD has taken a wild guess at the art here and believes it's by Jay Disbrow! I cannot even begin to tell you how much I disagree with that absolutely terrible guess. So who does it looks like to you? From the August 1953 issue of Mysterious Adventures #15,
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So these stories work on the build up; it's pretty obvious what is coming from the first couple panels, and there's a good deal of build up here that works really well.
That said, how they kind of brush over that the freaks just assumed the bros did it but the captions basically say that they know and don't need proof; I might have re-arranged it a little and added in the daughters finding out just to tie up that plot, but that's getting into the weeds and the real reason for all the previous pages is to setup the ending.
These stories have such a strong prototype that even on the splash, where an argument could be made that the freaks were just crazy and attacking some innocent folks, it's obvious that they've been tortured by our two goons. This isn't even anything you'd get from watching Freaks; it's a standard story of the powerful vs the downtrodden, and that always makes a good basis for a horror story.
The daughters just dropped out of the rest of the story. I was half-hoping they'd join in, or at least set up those two jerks for the others, especially after their dad was threatened.
This story shows just how powerful Tod Browning’s Freaks impacted the imagination, even though it was out of circulation during this time…
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