We're doing something really scary for Thanksgiving this year...
Will the Monster use his powers for Good instead of Evil?
Find Out Wednesday!
And how the heck did this whole thing come about, anyway?
Find Out Wednesday!
And how the heck did this whole thing come about, anyway?
In 1964, Dell Comics published a line of very loose comic adaptations of 1940s-50s Universal monster movies to tie-in with the films' successful revival on syndicated tv.
(We presented the Frankenstein movie adaptation over at our brother blog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™!)
Two years later, Dell decided to take the monsters' base concepts and rework them into then-trendy superheroes and spies!
Frankenstein and Dracula became superheroes while WereWolf was a secret agent (albeit one with a "stealth" suit to avoid detection).
Yeah, it was as dumb as it sounds, and none of them ran more than three issues.
This was part one of the Silver Age Frankenstein's three-part origin tale from Frankenstein #2, written by Dell editor DJ Arneson, and illustrated by Tony Tallarico, who did a lot of work for Dell and Charlton in the 1960s.
(Frankenstein #1 was the previously-mentioned movie adaptation.)
(Frankenstein #1 was the previously-mentioned movie adaptation.)
We'll be presenting the other two parts of Frankie's origin on Wednesday and Friday.
You'll get a better look at how Dell shamelessly ripped-off both Superman and Batman by taking elements from both of them for this series.
Scary, eh?
