Showing posts with label Quality Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quality Comics. 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.

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

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