Showing posts with label Jack Cole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Cole. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2012

WEB OF EVIL "Vengeful Curse"

Curses on those who open tombs are as old as mankind itself...
...but what about those who put a fresh body into an ancient burial site?
Jack Cole, best-known for creating Plastic Man and doing great spot cartoons for Playboy, wrote and illustrated this tale from Quality Comics' Web of Evil #5 (1953).
He also did the most famous story lambasted in Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent; "Murder, Morphine, and Me", which we posted HERE.
BTW, "Vengeful Curse" has been reprinted twice, first in Quality's one-shot Intrigue in 1955, then in IDW's Haunted Horror #1 this month.
It was redrawn for Horror Tales V5N4 in 1973 using the exact same script, but the art on the re-do by Hector Castellon is vastly inferior.
And, to add insult to injury, it was uncreatively re-titled "Bloody Demon".

Join us next week as we present another tale your grandparents didn't want your parents to see!

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

WEB OF EVIL "Hangman's Horror"

If you think political campaigns these days are bad...
...let's look at how things were handled (at least in comics) back in the 1950s!
Jack Cole, best-known for creating Plastic Man and doing great spot cartoons for Playboy, wrote and illustrated this tale from Quality Comics' Web of Evil #2 (1953).
He also did the most famous story lambasted in Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent; "Murder, Morphine, and Me", which we posted HERE.
BTW, "Hangman's Horror" was redrawn for Terrors of Dracula V3N2 in 1981 using the exact same script, but the art on the re-do is vastly inferior.

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

TRUE CRIME COMICS "Murder, Morphine and Me!" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroin (sorry, couldn't resist)...
Cover for a 3-D reprint of this story from 1992. Art by Michael T Gilbert
Mary Kennedy tells the story of her sordid career as both a morphine pusher and addict, lured into depravity by the charismatic gangster Tony Petrillo, whom she loved even as he beat her and threatened to kill her...

This tawdry tale from True Crime Comics V1N2 was written and illustrated by Jack Cole, who was best-known as the creator of the humorous super-hero Plastic Man!
Besides the "injury to the eye" panel from Page 2 of Part 1 becoming one of the most famous examples of gratuitous violence in comic history thanks to Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, this story was reprinted in its entirety in the report issued by the New York State Legislative Commission on Censorship in Comics as an example of the "trash" that was corrupting innocent American youth!
Join us next week as we present another tale your grandparents didn't want your parents to see!

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

TRUE CRIME COMICS "Murder, Morphine and Me!" Part 1

Some stories just tell themselves...
...as does this amazingly-gory story from True Crime Comics #2, featuring one of the most famous panels in comics history (and on the next page, yet)!
Will Mary survive?
And if she does, what shape will she be in?
Be here for the stomach-turning conclusion as well as some kool background info about this tawdry tale!
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