| Comments |
| |
| The Gerald McCann art is classy. Looks almost like an animated feature. |
|
| Having read issue #1 and now #2 of this series I would say so far it’s not all that impressive. The stories aren’t awful, but none of them have much to recommend either. A few unique ideas scattered in these two issues, but most of the writing feels lazy, clumsily constructed and derivative of superior predecessors. I also have nothing good to say about most of the art, which to me seems the product of being sloppily rushed and hollow. There are similarities to a low end Golden Age publisher’s output, particularly those ill conceived backup fillers with their vague outlines of art rathe than a substantial commitment with contextual ideas and imagination. In this issue one panel says there is a tremendous blizzard, but nothing after bears that out. Another story has two opposing characters who are so blandly delineated they look exactly alike. Etc. On the whole a relatively early silver age horror anthology was a great idea, but it doesn’t seem like much was invested in this attempt. Maybe the rest of the series is better, but I likely won’t explore more of it with so many other unread comics vying for my attention. |
|
| | |
| Additional Information |
| |
| Publication | April-June 1963 | Price: 0.12 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
| |
| Credits | Pencils:? (painting) | Inks:? (painting) | Colors:? (painting) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| |
| Comic Story | The Omen (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Whenever the local church's bells toll, a Cosgrove will die. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
| |
| Comic Story | 37 Pounds of Devotion... (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A sick little girl's doll comes to life to fetch a doctor for her during a blizzard. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
| Notes | Writer credits this issue from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/ . Formerly attributed to Paul S. Newman. |
| |
| Comic Story | Phantom's Best Friend (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pvt. Hawkins gets help from his mysterious dog "Phantom" against the unstable Captain Chandler. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
| |
| Comic Story | The Thousand-Year-Old Bug (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Guy Bannock steals "The Thousand Year Old Bug" (a solid gold encrusted flea) from an ancient statue in a jungle temple. He comes to regret it. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| |
| Comic Story | Portrait of...? (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Famous painter Corey Scott paints the portrait of a beautiful exotic woman he sees in the streets of a middle-eastern village. It turns out it was the ghost of a missing woman who had committed suicide. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
| |
| Comic Story | Plea for Help (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The fire department gets a strange phone-call for help from an estate on fire. The elderly woman who lives there is an upstairs bed ridden quadriplegic living alone and couldn't possibly have gone to the kitchen to make the call. Turns out it was her cat. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
| |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
