Ugh, this isn't even an 80-page Thursdays one. Some years I'm maybe on the ball enough for a whole month of horror comics or something, like all those Twilight Zones last year; and this year, um...I actually wrote Friday's post before this one, but there's some overlap between the two: from 1998, Welcome Back to the House of Mystery #1, featuring stories by Steve Skeates, Mike Friedrich, George Kashdan, Bob Kanigher, and more; and art by Jim Aparo, Gil Kane, Wally Wood, Neal Adams, and more. Cover by Bernie Wrightson.
This was a 100-pager, under the Vertigo label, reprinting classics from House of Mystery, as well as two Bernie Wrightson numbers from Plop! ("The Gourmet" and "Molded in Evil," Wrightson also has "The Secret of the Egyptian Cat" from HoM here.) Because they may have thought the reprints weren't enough of a draw, there's also a new framing sequence with art by Sergio Aragonés; although I wish it was with his usual collaborator Mark Evanier. Sergio also does a little piece for "Cain's True Things You Didn't Know About the House of Mystery!!!!" Four exclamation points, so you know it's good!
I'm going to mention it again tomorrow, since I've already written that post; but a few from here were just reprinted in the giant facsimile edition of Limited Collector's Edition #C-23, the big House of Mystery treasury! That one also has "Nightmare," "Secret of the Egyptian Cat," and "His Name is Cain Kane." So, you could probably grab those now if you hurry!
Sadly, you’re dead on right about the congressional medal comment.
ReplyDeleteI honestly can’t think of any single comic book or comic magazine that ever really scared me but I have read a rare few that have haunted me years after reading them. The main one that stands out in my mind is the DC Elseworlds one-shot about a medieval era Superman called Superman: Kal. There’s a particular scene in it where medieval Lex Luthor beats midieval Lois to death by basically slapping her to death, all the while shouting & calling her a bitch. Then the sad scene where Kal finds her dead body and then at the end where he kills Lex while being impaled by Lex’s kryptonite sword. I don’t know why, but that one always bothered me in a way I can’t explain.
What comics haunted you or still haunt you? Who else has a comic that traumatized them and perhaps still does?
It's fresh in mind since I watched the Masters of Horror episode, but "Jenifer" is probably one. There's an old relative-in-the-attic monster head one I read at a hunting lodge once that I've been trying to find for years.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, there's a random issue of Werewolf by Night that still hits: according to legend or werewolf by-laws, if a werewolf kills another werewolf, the killer's curse will be lifted. Jack fights another werewolf that's mostly an okay guy, then the guy kills a third werewolf and is seemingly cured, but sad he can't help Jack.
Sometimes it's the odd ones that stick, though: I swear I've read issues of Plop! that unsettled me more than horror books that were trying...
If we’re talking television, two particular episodes of the original Twilight Zone series traumatized me as a kid, I’m sure I probably told you this before, but the first one was from Season 4, “He’s Alive!” with Dennis Hopper. The ending with Hitler’s shadow walking through the town always freaked me out for some reason. The 2nd one was the same season called “The New Exhibit.” It featured wax figures of famous murderers coming to life & killing people. Just freaked me out.
ReplyDeleteI actually got the giant facsimile of New Fun #1 yesterday! Don’t know where I’m going to put it (does anyone really need a comic that big?) but still a good buy. Hoping they get to some of the other Golden Age ones without a big name but still of significance (at standard or magazine size, of course).
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