I think we're looking at it from the standpoint of a society where vigilantism is such an entrenched theme in media that we need a whole subgenre of "don't do this in real life"
1: A horror comic? Horror comics were one of the biggest genres of comic until the Comics Code Authority put the kibosh on them.
2: A Captain Marvel comic? Captain Marvel was, as much as Superman, a defining character of the Golden Age, and it'd be interesting to check out one of his adventures from this period.
3: Something else entirely? If you have a suggestion, post it in this thread. It has to be available online somewhere, though, and located in the Golden Age of Comics from the late 1930s to the early 1950s
Wow not reading this thread before was a mistake. So: I'm pretty weirded out by the, like, monarchism? Atlantis queenie just literally says my ugly serfs are revolting and "Sub" obviously decides to help her. And in boy king the real problem with nazis is taking the royal family out. Which is... Not what they did anyway. (imo nice)
Wow not reading this thread before was a mistake. So: I'm pretty weirded out by the, like, monarchism? Atlantis queenie just literally says my ugly serfs are revolting and "Sub" obviously decides to help her. And in boy king the real problem with nazis is taking the royal family out. Which is... Not what they did anyway. (imo nice)
Also 1, I wanna see that Hindu ghost porn.
Criticism of Hitler and the Nazis before WWII- They're loud, angry, irrationalist extremists
Criticism of Hitler and the Nazis during WWII- They're authoritarian imperialists who are going into other countries and supplanting their rules and cultures with their own
Criticism of Hitler and the Nazis after WWII- The Holocaust
Our Hero, Terry Gardner has been assigned to serve as a bodyguard for a "Slovic Minister". Nazis plot to murder him, but unfortunately their plans are complicated by an escaped parrot
Okay so Terry finds out about the evil plot to murder Minister Wilmer from the parrot. The parrot then gives him a card that says "At twilight you will be master...". Terry then sees a superhero suit with a "T" on it and decides to wear it.
This is like a fever dream, I swear.
Terry Gardner: A very bad bodyguard, and possibly violently insane.
Anyway Terry chases down the nazis carrying Wilmer's body with the help of his pet parrot, who he has dubbed "Snoopy". He manages to get them to ditch the body, and realizes they've dumped it into the sea, so he gets a police diver to come retrieve it. The diver bitches about taking orders from a guy in a monkey suit
It's really amazing that they saved a story this good for last.
But more importantly I am DONE with Clue Comics #1! Next time is a horror golden age comic! Bug me about it if I haven't gotten to it by Wednesday!
They really lead with their best stuff on this. Boy-King, Nightmare and Sleepy, and Micro-Face were clearly the best, and then they end on this loser who could have been in Fantastic Comics with Samson and "Sub" Saunders
Mmm, yeah that script that's clearly never been proofread, yeah, that's the stuff.
So this small town has a painting competition and an old loner named Ezra Vale enters. When the competition happens, everyone sees the painting he worked hard all Spring painting.
You know, it takes profound art and profound insight into Nature to turn out stuff like this. Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare or a Witches’ Sabbath or a portrait of the devil, but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That’s because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear—the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness. I don’t have to tell you why a Fuseli really brings a shiver while a cheap ghost-story frontispiece merely makes us laugh. There’s something those fellows catch—beyond life—that they’re able to make us catch for a second. Doré had it. Sime has it. Angarola of Chicago has it. And Pickman had it as no man ever had it before or—I hope to heaven—ever will again.
Ezra Vale does not really have it, but points for trying.
So anyway the nightwatchman survives, but nobody believes his ramblings. Then Mayor Corbin, one of the two judges who rejected the painting gets kidnapped by the monster and dragged off in front of his fainted wife.
Tommy Dugan, our hero hears the wife's testimony and makes the obvious assumption that the monster is going to go after the other judge, Sgt O'Malley next. He gets in contact with the sergeant, but he too gets dragged off by the monster while he's on the phone with Tommy.
Tommy heads off to Vale's place to hopefully resolve things.
Tommy did, indeed, leave town and lived a long and happy life. His son Bix is going to teach me how to be a juggalo.
In the 90s HBO version of this, this lady would be gratuitously topless because it's not cable baaaaabbbyyyyyyy. It's the same principle here, mind you.
Anyway Jack here isn't sold on the idea of murdering Marilyn's husband, so he goes out for a drink. By sheer happenstance Marilyn's husband walks into the bar. They take a ride home together in Jack's car, Jack tries to sell him on letting Marilyn leave, he refuses, and Jack gets angry and kills him with a wrench.
Man, his murder victim walks into the room and goes with him to a quiet place, and he just happens to be near a graveyard when he wants to hide a body. Some people have all the luck.
OR DOES HE?
Jack wants to make absolutely sure his victim is dead, so he tries to get into the crypt he hid the body in. The gravekeeper won't let him, so he goes to the family that buried their mother there. They, understandably, think he's a creep with a lot of nerve to demand bizarre things at a time like this, so he tries to get out of town.
I'm not sure this is the story of revenge so much as the story of a man with no impulse control or ability to think ahead at all.
Well at least he died of fright before the slow starvation and dehydration got him.
So the truck driver here, Pete, relates the story of the storm monster to this hitchhiker. There was once a man named John Unter who was your average quiet withdrawn fellow before he snapped over a missed delivery and started trying to kill everyone who ever even slightly wronged him. Like an evil Everett True.
Well that happens sometimes. Gotta live with it.
Anyway Storm Monster Unter continues his killing spree across town, murdering a man who fixed his shoes poorly next.
So evil wins, Grandpa Borgnine?
That's right, even your tiny soul is doomed, Billy. -MST3K, Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
So Brad Stanfield is here to introduce his new bride to his grandfather. On the very next page he meets up with his grandfather's other houseguest, an archaeologist named Dr. Redmond. Brad and Redmond chat about the doctor's experiences in Egypt and Brad suddenly notices that he doesn't know where his bride, Elyse went. Suddenly a piercing shriek echoes through the house, and they rush upstairs to find Brad's grandpa dead with "the mark of Isis" on his forehead. Redmond immediately closes the curtains in front of the mirror before he does anything else and Elyse shows up apparently unperturbed. TIME FOR SOME EXPOSITION
Well that's just bad luck that a descendant just happened to go to this exact house.
The next day they find the butler murdered, and Redmond puts together the really obvious conclusion that Elyse is the descendant of the high priest and is murdering people while being possessed by him
Also apparently Elyse told Brad that she was from Memphis and he always just thought she meant Tennessee.
Brad decides to test this by opening the mirror at night and waiting for something to happen
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Mirror of Isis was filmed in front of a live studio audience
And with that we are DONE with Eerie Comics #3 and are ready to move on
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also kinda confused by 'let's establish our heroes by showing them being jerks'
dunno, just the juxtaposition i suppose
it's got a vaguely family-unfriendly 'actual real life vigilantism is safe and a good idea' kind of feel to it
Also 1, I wanna see that Hindu ghost porn.
Anyway Terry chases down the nazis carrying Wilmer's body with the help of his pet parrot, who he has dubbed "Snoopy". He manages to get them to ditch the body, and realizes they've dumped it into the sea, so he gets a police diver to come retrieve it. The diver bitches about taking orders from a guy in a monkey suit
I'll try to remember to bump this thread then if you haven't.
some constumed monkey
but he beat up some nazis which is clearly the most important thing
also why attack the truck driver. he was cool to you, man. you ass
Also apparently Elyse told Brad that she was from Memphis and he always just thought she meant Tennessee.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Mirror of Isis was filmed in front of a live studio audience
like: there's a lot of eyes, but they have that yellowness... are they actually part of the beast? or some kind of parasite, maybe?
also prize for most boring gunshot i've ever seen probably