The Undead Thread: Pre-Code Horror 21 21

[Jayman]

Here I can add one of my LB Cole issues with a cool devil on it to boot!

 

[Norrin_Radd]

I think we've desicrated this thread enough. Now, I'll have to buy a sacrificial precode comic to post here.

 

As promised, my first Pre-Code Horror comic....

 

 

[precodekeith]

I think we've desicrated this thread enough. Now, I'll have to buy a sacrificial precode comic to post here.

 

As promised, my first Pre-Code Horror comic....

 

HooRay! Good start!

[Scrooge]

As promised, my first Pre-Code Horror comic....

 

to you, Norinn.

[Jayman]

I think we've desicrated this thread enough. Now, I'll have to buy a sacrificial precode comic to post here.

 

As promised, my first Pre-Code Horror comic....

 

As cool as this cover is, I think it's almost comical how those guys get squished by the steam roller at the end!

The blood drinking and cannibalism story is pretty cool also!

[originalisbest]

Plus, the Davis panels where the paved-over dead arise through the blacktop is superbly horrifying.

[precodekeith]

I wish I had more of this title, but alas this is the only one of the run that I have.

 

Edited January 5, 2006 by precodekeith

[Jayman]

NICE colors on that one!

[Scrooge]

Momentary Thread Hi-jack - Jelly Death -

 

[Jayman]

Great story Scrooge, Is that from the Strange Fantasy issue Keith posted?

I think the nurse overstepped her conclusion that the good doctor was "...creating a monster to overthrow mankind!"

[precodekeith]

HINT:

That is Bob Powell, for sure!

[Scrooge]

HINT:

That is Bob Powell, for sure!

 

HINT: It's from Chamber of Chills # 6, for sure! Oh and I only just now noticed that, akin to Fawcett, Harvey did leave out its logo from that horror cover.

[CKB]

That's deja-vu. I think I recently listed the jelly-death book on eBay - I just read the story and remember noting it in my listing. It's part of a pretty whacked out book. I don't think it's from the SF pictured, cause I don't have that issue.

[CKB]

Of course, Chamber of Chills. Just completely whacked out content. Incredible stories. They mostly got picked up from my eBay store by a happy collector. I think I have one left.

[Scrooge]

Of course, Chamber of Chills. Just completely whacked out content. Incredible stories. They mostly got picked up from my eBay store by a happy collector. I think I have one left.

 

I agree. The third story to me is a quintessential pre-code horror. I'll try and scan it soon (tonight ). It's probably a couple pages too long (if that's possible for a 6 page story!) for the actual content but ... you'll see. Jelly Death I think is very well executed, particularly the Jelly monster itself who could have looked horrible (pun intended) under the pen of some lesser light / hack.

[Scrooge]

The Seven Skulls of Magondi! -

 

[Norrin_Radd]

The Seven Skulls of Magondi!

 

I wonder if this story influenced The Phantom. In the movie, there were three Skulls Of Toagunda.

[adamstrange]

Thanks for posting Scrooge.

 

Bob Powell's comics are always readable -- This is very apparent when compared the other story.

[Scrooge]

Yup, gotta love Powell. He should always be mentioned in any under-rated artists thread. Here's another guy, turning in a very Spirit-like job (at a time when his style would change from story to story from his experimenting). Notice the "cameo" by Loki and the Midgard Serpent / Snake -

 

 

I wonder whatever happened to that artist.

 

As for the solvent, it reappeared in Don Rosa's and Gyro Gearloose's imagination and became Scrooge's headache some 46 years later -

 

[precodekeith]

I wonder whatever happened to that artist.

 

Me too. I bet he would have been pretty good at horror stuff.