Thanksgiving Turkey FRANKENSTEIN (the SuperHero) "Rebirth of Frankenstein"

The Silver Age (aka the Swinging 1960s) was an odd period of comics history...

...when anyone from spies (T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents) to soldiers (Blackhawk) to monsters could be remade into superheroes...though with decidedly-mixed results!

Read the first part of the resurrection of this funky, far-out revamp of Frankenstein, then continue with this titanic tale...

Read the cataclysmic conclusion to the Silver Age Frankenstein's origin tale on Friday!

Thanksgiving Turkey FRANKENSTEIN (the SuperHero) "Resurrection"

We're doing something really scary for Thanksgiving this year...

 ...presenting the campy "pop art" versions of the Monster of Frankenstein , Dracula, and The Wolfman, as seen in the Swinging '60s, when everyone in comics was either a spy, a superhero, or both!

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?

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.)

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?

Humor in a Jugular Vein: CRAZY "Frank N Stein"

For the Halloween season, we're gonna tickle your funny bone...

...with a bunch of rarely (if ever) reprinted horror-themed humor strips from the 1950s!

If imitation is truly "the sincerest form of flattery", then Atlas Comics was easily the most sincere company in comics with no less than four MAD / PANIC imitations; Crazy, Riot, Snafu, and Wild between 1953 and 1956!

Besides humor specialists like Dan DeCarlo, the sheer volume of Atlas humor titles gave the opportunity for artists who usually did Westerns or horror or romance or sci-fi to expand their range, like this tale illustrated (and possibly written) by veteran Bill Everett, who proved more than up to the task with this spoof from Crazy V1 N1 (1953).

Note: Marvel's reincarnated the title several times including a long-run b/w magazine in the 70s-80s.

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