Appropriately, we're beginning regular posts on October 1st with a Halloween blogathon...
...featuring a complete re-presentation of Dick Briefer's horrifying third version of the Monster of Frankenstein! to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the first publication of the Mary Shelley classic!
Re-imagined to capitalize on the horror comics craze of the 1950s, the series ran from 1952 through 1954, when the comics industry was almost destroyed by Dr Fredric Wertham and the Seduction of the Innocent witch-hunt.
It's an indirect sequel to the original novel, ignoring the previous two versions (World War II menace and Munsters-style comedy) that Briefer did, so as long as you're willing to accept some revisionism to the original story, it's actualy a pretty damned good follow-up.
(When you think about it, what adaptation/sequel to the book, in any media, hasn't made some changes, eh?)
It's an indirect sequel to the original novel, ignoring the previous two versions (World War II menace and Munsters-style comedy) that Briefer did, so as long as you're willing to accept some revisionism to the original story, it's actualy a pretty damned good follow-up.
(When you think about it, what adaptation/sequel to the book, in any media, hasn't made some changes, eh?)
Here's a preview of the covers for the series...
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Be Here October 1st, 2018!
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(which reprints in b/w the stories we're re-presenting in color, but has a number of kool text pieces including one by Briefer's granddaughter!)
