"The End" Week: Arrgh! #5!

I didn't feel like I wrote enough "The End" posts last year, so I started much earlier this year...largely because this was in the same quarter-bin as the first book we looked at this year, but anyway. From 1975, Arrgh! #5.

We mentioned before this was a horror-spoof book from Marvel, but most of this issue was reprinted from 1954's Get Lost. Which was a Mad knockoff, made notable for being the work of Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, who would've been in the middle of their run on Amazing Spider-Man when Arrgh! #5 hit the racks. The cover feature, vampire spoof "Count Varicose" might have been new, or merely unpublished before. "The Invisible Mr. Mann" is supposed to be a bio-pic style angle on the Invisible Man: it isn't that lofty, but has a couple jokes that still hit.

Less so: "The Some-Thing," spoofing The Thing from Another World. Then "Der Spider und Der Fly" by "Z.Von Fraud" is a weird dating fable? Despite not being based on anything I can think of, it feels even more dated!