Posted By Dan Greenfield on Sep 22, 2025 | 2 comments

MORRISON MONDAYS!

By BILL MORRISON

Last week, I got to cross two things off my bucket list with the announcement of the release of my variant cover edition of Harley Quinn x Elvira #1. I’ve been a fan of both characters for many years, and have always wanted to draw covers for their books, so I got to fulfill both goals on one cover! And the fact that the book is written by my pals Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti made it all the sweeter!

Here’s a little side story: I’ve never met Elvira (Cassandra Peterson), but I do have a very tenuous connection to her, other than this cover. When I started my first job in Hollywood at B.D. Fox and Friends — mentioned in my column from a couple weeks ago, and not the cable show with a similar name — I was told that Cassandra had been the receptionist there before getting her big break and going on to TV fame with her own weekly show, Elvira’s Movie Macabre!

Regular readers of this column know that I love doing parodies of favorite covers, and some savvy 13th Dimension regulars may have noticed that my Elvira/Harley image is an homage to Bob Fujitani’s cover of the very first, full-fledged horror comic, Avon’s Eerie Comics #1 from 1947! My favorite part of this cover is the mystery of what Elvira is going to do with that knife! Does she intend to kill the Clown Princess of Crime, or free her from the ropes? I’d say buy the book and find out, except that my cover has nothing to do with the story by Amanda and Jimmy. So, I guess we’ll never know Harley’s fate.

This variant cover will premiere next month at New York Comic-Con, and is limited to 1,000 copies. If you’re attending the con you can get it at Comic Pop Collectibles, booth 3834, or you can pre-order it right this minute at the Comic Pop Collectibles eBay store here.

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