Happy Halloween!
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Marvel really seemed to understand the monster craze of the postwar years and in the ’70s really dove into the characters made great by Universal: Variations on Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man and the Mummy were all handled by some of the top talent of the day. Only the Creature From the Black Lagoon seemed to get short shrift. But, hey, we got Manphibian out of the deal!
Anyway, what with it being Halloween and all, I’m taking a cue from our very own Rob Kelly’s REEL RETRO CINEMA (click here) and saluting Marvel’s Bronze Age versions of the Universal Monsters — featuring the likes of Neal Adams, Gil Kane, Mike Ploog, Gene Colan and many others.
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Dig it. And, “Boo!”
Neal Adams
Adams
Mike Ploog
Ploog
Rich Buckler pencils, Frank Giacoia inks, John Romita alterations.
Gil Kane pencils, Tom Palmer inks
Kane and Romita
Ploog
Kane and Palmer
Gene Colan pencils, Palmer inks
Val Mayerik pencils. Bernie Wrightson inks
Kane and Palmer. WTF?
Kane pencils, Klaus Janson inks
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Cover images and credits from the dreaded, fearsome Grand Comics Database.
November 24, 2016
The Kane/Palmer examples were oddly lacking. Both were very good artists, but together–? meh