Fans of "Sunday Bloody Sundays" (see the previous post), will undoubtably be head over heels with "Smash 'em Bash 'em Tuesdays", which is also a thing that I totally just made up. Yes, if you were beginning to believe that THOIA wasn't deliverin' the goods when it comes to splittin' open heads with monkey wrenches, --or if you thought we've been skimpin' on the rockin' redhead showgirls in skimpy clothing, --well then you've definitely come to the right place for both unholy plot points! From the October - November 1951 issue of Eerie #3.
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The lesson here, kiddies: if your wife wants to leave you so badly, *let her*.
Another one where the instigator of the crime gets away scot free.
I am so close to calling photoshop shenanigans but if so that's a damn fine job on Marilyn! If that's real that's probably the most cheesecake I've seen in one of these stories!
BTW: She gets away scott free; yes, Jack Burton -- not the world's greatest side-kick Jack Burton -- does the deed in a rage but Marilyn was obviously pushing him towards it and even tells him at the end that she didn't think he'd have the guts. Yet Baker only haunts Jack. I guess he really didn't want to harm his wife!
There's a lot to love about this. Two -- count 'em two -- wrenches to the head. Good girl art. A great ghost -- I love the way the blood flows down his head breaking at the nose. A guy going absolutely bonkers, slowly, and painfully, and his pencil-thin mustache can't help him now!
I do feel sorry for the guy with the key!
Oh and forgot to mention: That's a great splash. It's menacing and the framing is really cool.
> I do feel sorry for the guy with the key
Yeah he’s the crypt keeper. He came back as a ghost too, but the guy he wanted to haunt was already dead. So instead he reanimated his own corpse and started hosting horror comic books. Eh, it paid the bills, for awhile anyway…
Here is my view of this comic-
Marilyn has Jack bump off her husband for a life insurance policy. If Marilyn's husband vanishes she has him declared legally dead and collects on the policy. She can wait seven years, all the while taking out a policy against Jack and have some other lovesick fool bump off Jack. The only problem with her plan is Jack losing his life so soon. Oh well, there are other fish (namely suckers) in the sea.
The caretaker's reaction to Jack is a bit odd, anyone else would have called the cops on some non-relative wanting to enter a crypt. Maybe the caretaker was thinking 'first that Renfield guy wants to enter one of the crypts, then the weirdo in a druid outfit carrying a scythe and now him. Is it fall, with all the nuts dropping from the trees?'
"I'll never figure out how a guy who got such a bang on his head as this, could have died smiling" maybe he owed a fortune in income taxes, death is the ultimate tax exemption.
With all the head bashing going on I dread to think how Creepy would have done a reboot of this story.
Thanks for the head banging story.
Whoa, triple murder down at the city boneyard! Bet that place was a teen Halloween night destination for the next two decades. "If you listen close, you can still hear the Bloody Wrench Man tap-tap-tapping at the inside of his crypt!" I definitely would have been right there, wearing Baker's gory fedora costume alongside everybody else.
After all that Iger House stuff, this art comes off a bit thin and nowhere near as slick. There's a day-for-night feel that is a little unconvincing, though we can maybe put some of that on the colorist. I do dig the little flourishes here and there--that cigarette lighting panel, and the weird sunset at the bottom of page five. The only really solid red we get in the whole thing is that guy's blood face, and that really makes the thing pop.
I still can't read the name Jack Burton without hearing Kurt Russell say it.
Brian Barnes is right. Each new panel of Marilyn manages to surprise me.
A couple planning a murder almost has to have some kind of strange relationship - maybe not completely out-there, but strange - and the line "Burton's fears diminished under Marilyn's ridicule" works in their case.
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