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Post by bobby on May 14, 2015 23:42:35 GMT
Here's the comic that their "unauthorized" adaptation of "The Jar" was published in: link |
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Post by dem on May 15, 2015 12:59:49 GMT
Hi Bobby. Were there comic adaptations of The October Game and/ or The Next In Line?
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Post by Dr Strange on May 15, 2015 16:08:31 GMT
Vault of Horror #22 was reprinted as a 32 page color comic book by Gemstone Publishing in 1995, as Vault of Horror #11. I don't know how readily available these reprints were outside the US, though one of the regular contributors of fanmail in the reprints was from Scotland. And that seems a bit too late for me, in terms of comic reading. In answer to Dem's question - this looks like it may be a complete list of Bradbury adaptations in EC comics, and it includes The October Game, but not (as far as I can see) The Next In Line - www.comicvine.com/ray-bradbury/4040-58091/Even better, I found a scan of The October Game here marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/category/occult/page/5/ (about a third of the way down the page). Scroll down further for even more scans of Bradbury adaptations from EC. |
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Post by dem on May 15, 2015 17:25:23 GMT
Thank you! That is a truly fearsome adaptation of The October Game and I loved the super ghoulish take on The Handler. |
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Post by jamesdoig on May 15, 2015 21:15:20 GMT
And they were reprinted in the 1990s in those nice fascimile editions that came out. The October Game and The Small Assassin were in these two. The sf stuff like "Days of Thunder" was published in Weird Science. Ballantine did those awful b&w reprints of Bradbury comics in the early 60s.   |
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Post by bobby on May 17, 2015 22:34:02 GMT
Thank you! That is a truly fearsome adaptation of The October Game and I loved the super ghoulish take on The Handler. EC also did an "unauthorized" adaptation of "The Handler", "A Strange Undertaking!" in Haunt of Fear #6. They kept the basic plot, but changed the specific things that the undertaker did to the cadavers. |
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Post by bobby on May 17, 2015 22:43:42 GMT
Vault of Horror #22 was reprinted as a 32 page color comic book by Gemstone Publishing in 1995, as Vault of Horror #11. I don't know how readily available these reprints were outside the US, though one of the regular contributors of fanmail in the reprints was from Scotland. And that seems a bit too late for me, in terms of comic reading. In answer to Dem's question - this looks like it may be a complete list of Bradbury adaptations in EC comics, and it includes The October Game, but not (as far as I can see) The Next In Line - www.comicvine.com/ray-bradbury/4040-58091/Even better, I found a scan of The October Game here marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/category/occult/page/5/ (about a third of the way down the page). Scroll down further for even more scans of Bradbury adaptations from EC. The second website you linked to did make one goof, probably because there are two different issues of Haunt of Fear that are numbered 16, one from 1950 (which was actually the second issue), one from 1952 (the actual sixteenth issue). Instead of "The Killer in the Coffin!" from the 1950 issue #16, they should have posted "The Coffin!" from the 1952 issue #16. |
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Post by Dr Strange on May 18, 2015 9:54:38 GMT
They kept the basic plot, but changed the specific things that the undertaker did to the cadavers. That opens up all sorts of possibilities. Disappointed I couldn't find a scan of "What The Dog Dragged In" - so I'm still no further on in finding out if I ever did actually see it in print somewhere, though I am more sure than ever that I probably did. |
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Post by bobby on May 30, 2015 21:35:07 GMT
In the EC version the "sick person" was an adult woman instead of a young boy, if that's any help.
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