CoronaVirus Comics ALICE MATHESON "Day Z" Chapter 4: Test

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Alice Matheson RN is a nurse with a difference...she's an "Angel of Death", euthanizing terminally-ill patients...without their (or their next of kin's) permission!

When her latest "client" refuses to "rest in peace" and reanimates after receiving a lethal dose of drugs, Alice manages to finally put her down with a blow to the head!

Though the nurse fears she'll be exposed, the other staffers of London's St Mary's Hospital have bigger problems...all the recently-deceased are re-animating, and attacking the living!

Why did his head explode?

Is it linked to the fact that the only way to stop an undead, you have to destroy the brain or decapitate the reanimated corpse?

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Alice Matheson

Volume 1

Z-Day

CoronaVirus Comics PSYCHO "Masque of Red Death"

Though the cover from the 1988 Eternity Comics reprint is appropriately-colorful and kool...

...it really doesn't match the ghoulish weirdness of the Ricardo Villamonte artwork from the story that originally-appeared in Skywald's Psycho #20 (1974)...

Editor Al Hewetson adapted and condensed the Edgar Allan Poe story, leaving out some elements that he felt slowed the story.

I consider it one of the better graphic versions, solidly-utilizing the basic tale, plus specific quotes, and some wonderfully-moody art by the highly-underrated Villamonte!

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben

CoronaVirus Comics ADVENTURES INTO WEIRD WORLDS "Face of Death!"

Due to a lethal epidemic, a well-off guy named "Donald" quarantines in his home...

...but it's not 2020!

It's "present day" in this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Adventures into Weird Worlds #4 (1952)!

If the story seems a bit...familiar...it's because it's an unattributed retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's classic chiller "Masque of the Red Death"!

Can we blame artist Bill Everett whose beautifully-rendered art depicts the tale?

There's no attribution to the writer...who could be Everett himself!

He occasionally wrote his own stories.

Or was it one of the other writers who worked for Atlas, usually without credit!

We'll never know...
Note: After Atlas became Marvel, they revived horror comics at the end of the Silver Age.
Writer Roy Thomas and artist Don Heck did their own "present day" version of Poe's scary short story (with attribution) as you can see HERE!

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Raven and the Red Death

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CoronaVirus Comics CHAMBER OF DARKNESS "Day of the Red Death!"

Here's another "adaptation" of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of disease...

...which, for a change, freely admits the source material!

In fact, out of the mouth of Stan (the Man) Lee himself...

A rich, uncaring guy who has the power to destroy the entire world and wouldn't hesitate to allow a plague to do so...as long as he was safe!

Now who does that remind us of?

Writer Roy Thomas had been a teacher before turning to writing/editing comics, and he loved utilizing classic literature in his work!

Don Heck, whose Marvel work was usually inked by others, apparently relished the opportunity to do both penciling and inking, as he had done in his 1950s horror and war comics work!

In addition, John Romita Sr turned in a wonderfully-rendered cover which was somewhat obscured by the black tints used to create "mood".

Look at the original art to see the detail you might've missed on the printed version...

Kool, eh?

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Raven and the Red Death

Adapted by Richard Corben