I came across this comic book panel yesterday while surfing the web (
Cowabunga!), and my first thought was: "These are MY people!"
I've always been an oddball among oddballs.
But it reminded me too that as a kid I used to buy
Midnight Tales, an anthology comic published by the notoriously Cheap-with-a-capital-C Charlton Comics Group.
MT was mostly horror-oriented, but the cover always had a gag, and a wrap-around story that introduced two or three spooky or sci-fi stories. The wrap-around stories always ended with a gag, too.
The white-haired gent and raven-haired babe you see above were Prof. Coffin and his daughter Arachne. These characters, whose investigations of reports of the strange and supernatural, which were part of the wrap-around story, were the only continuing characters from one issue to the next.
This next panel from another issue of
MT I read yesterday reminded me that my interests were casually frowned on from the time I was young--
--and also reminded me of the time when I was 16 and wanted to date someone outside my race. (No, I'm not comparing the bearded woman above to any group.) Just that my choice was NOT exactly
welcomed by everyone closest to me.
Finally, I remembered an MT story that I could use to fulfill the request of one
Drunken Severed Head reader, Greg S. of Pittsburgh. He asked to see a "weretuna." Having poor Photoshop skills, I thought of a character from one ish of Midnight Tales who looked llike a "wereporpoise," and I think that's close enough:
The character is actually a mutant, but who's quibbling? Anyway, I hope Greg is satisfied.
Okay, back to reading trash.
Above is a detail from the two page piece "Merry Mutant Melodies" that appeared in Marvel's What The---?! comic in 1990. Marvel described it as an "X-Men, Excalibur, X-Factor X-Mas Extravaganza." It was written Kelly P. Corvese.
Read an interview where Giordano discusses changes in the industry during his career here at the blog 20th Century Canny Boy, where I got the image above.
The 1973 Batman cover below was inked and possibly pencilled by Giordano. It has his initials only, but comicbookdb credits the art solely to Nick Cardy; image source mycomicshop.com:
I've always been an oddball among oddballs.
The white-haired gent and raven-haired babe you see above were Prof. Coffin and his daughter Arachne. These characters, whose investigations of reports of the strange and supernatural, which were part of the wrap-around story, were the only continuing characters from one issue to the next.
--and also reminded me of the time when I was 16 and wanted to date someone outside my race. (No, I'm not comparing the bearded woman above to any group.) Just that my choice was NOT exactly welcomed by everyone closest to me.
The character is actually a mutant, but who's quibbling? Anyway, I hope Greg is satisfied.
This is the cover art for Victorian Undead #1, a new Wildstorm comic seriesout now that pits Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson against Romero-style style zombies and androids. (Or "automata" as they are referred to in the story.)
But when Halloween arrives, my friends, be careful if you go out at night. You must BEWARE of midnight, THE WITCHING HOUR!
For if you should lose your way, you might take a JOURNEY INTO FEAR! Even UNKNOWN WORLDS--of FEAR!
In these places between the natural world and the supernatural one, you could be confronted by THE UNEXPECTED and the ASTONISHING---
You could come face to face with a GHOST-- a stalking specter from THE BEYOND!
Or even THE MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN--
Worse still--you might become victim to the nameless beast known only as THE THING!
Oh, heed me! Do not tempt THE HAND OF FATE--
or you may wind up caught in a WEB OF MYSTERY--a WEB OF EVIL!
