29 Friday Mar 2013
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This terrifying story asks, “How can we ever know what is actually real… And what is a dream? For all we know, this life, which is so very real to us… May be nothing but a dream to someone else! Someone… Out there!” Pencils by Jack Kirby.
Collector’s Guide:
– From Fear #7; Marvel, 1972.
– Reprinted from Strange Tales #96; Marvel, 1962.
12 Tuesday Mar 2013
Posted in crime
Dude, there is no escape from this island!
“Oh yes there is.”
No, there isn’t!
“Yes there is.”
NO! There is NO Escape from Dry Tortugas Island!
Not even for a dead man…
Collector’s Guide:
– From Fear #9; Marvel. 1972. Art by Joe Maneely; Cover by Gil Kane.
– Reprinted from Adventures into Terror #11; 1952, Marvel/Atlas.
Dig this handy guide to the work of Joe Maneely at Atlas Comics and the subsequent posthumous reprints by Marvel.
28 Thursday Feb 2013
Posted in occult
Let’s have a look at some splash pages by Val Mayerik from 1972 and 1973 for some of Man-Thing’s earliest adventures. The book was published under the straight-forward title Fear. But, beginning with Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing stories in #10, the covers proclaimed “Adventure into Fear with the Man-Thing.” Man-Thing starred until #19 with old Marvel horror story back-ups. Then Morbius the Living Vampire took over until the final 31st issue, as Man-Thing shambled off to find his own title.
Collector’s Guide:
– From Fear #11-17; Marvel.
– Reprinted in Essential Man-Thing.
21 Thursday Feb 2013
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Here’s something you don’t see every day: a town tormented by a terrible tree that walks around killing people! Somebody get the herbicide! And for the love of all that’s holy, do something about all these meteorites that keep transfroming ordinary things into obejcts of fear! Pencils by Jack Kirby.
Collector’s Guide:
– From Fear #8; Marvel, 1972.
– Reprinted from Tales of Suspense #26; Marvel, 1962.
23 Wednesday Jan 2013
Posted in occult
We looked at bees the other day. How about spiders today?!
The Spider Waits appeared as the back-up story from Fear #11. Fear started off as Silver Age monster story reprints, then ran early Man-Thing stories under the title Adventure into Fear. The Man-Thing story in this issue is ho-hum; but, this throwback to the golden age rocks! We’ll see how mean parents can mess you up for life. Then, just as you conquer your problems, they come back to bite you in the ass! Oh, the horror!
Collectors’ Guide:
– From Fear #11; Marvel, 1972. Art by Fred Kida.
10 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in occult
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Adventure into Fear, Essential Man-Thing, Fear, Jim Starlin, Man-Thing, Man-Thing Omnibus, No Choice of Colors, Rich Buckler, Steve Gerber
Whatever knows fear, blogs at the touch of Man-Thing! Here he is, Marvel’s mucky monstrosity in some of our favorite swamp stories. We bet you never knew injecting yourself with chemical mutagens and fatally wrecking your car would be so much fun!
Today’s Man-Thing memoir rises from the muck of Adventure into Fear. Man-Thing’s most famous writer Steve Gerber mans the helm, with a smashing art team of Jim Starlin and Rich Buckler.
Collector’s Guide:
– From Fear #12 (a/k/a Adventure into Fear); Marvel, 1973.
– Reprinted in color in the Man-Thing Omnibus Hardcover; 2012.
– Reprinted in black and white in Essential Man-Thing TPB #1
