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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2020 7:59:22 GMT
Good to hear from you, Mr. Hack! Drago and the Horror of the Mummy's Curse is a three-part prose serial as opposed to a strip, but I'm guessing the industrious hand of Jack Adrian as author? Would love to read that story, though I suspect a Scooby-Doo ending. You might be onto something.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 31, 2020 10:14:59 GMT
are still amongst the best of that period in the dying Brit comics trade (unless you were 2000AD)). As a non-brit I still marvel about the wealth of these titles every time I see a new one I have never heard, be it a new Rebellion reprint in their Treasury of British Comics or another article in the Megazine. A few days ago I bought a Kindle reprint of an obscure series called The Seekers with art by John Burns. The market back then must have been overwhelming.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 2, 2020 10:02:00 GMT
Here are a few more cover. Cellar of the Mummy, 1980 Claws of the Mummy, 1974 Zora La Vampira Italy 1977
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 2, 2020 20:05:19 GMT
Zora La Vampira Italy 1977 Now I've seen everything.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 2, 2020 20:30:13 GMT
Now I've seen everything. Certainly not; there is much more where that came from. In fact, we should have a thread on Italian erotic horror comic books.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 2, 2020 21:50:11 GMT
Now I've seen everything. Certainly not; there is much more where that came from. In fact, we should have a thread on Italian erotic horror comic books. I have quite a few of those. Maybe half or a few more of Zora, half of Cimiteria and a stack of random series in mostly horrible condition. Even read a few with the help of translation programs. The Italian comics have a distinct story-telling style which begins with the small format and ends with the two panels a page rule. Never more.
Basically these comics more often than not require a strong stomach. The better stories are like Laymon on acid, but often they are quite simple or downright poor. The horror stuff is IMHO better then the crime or "humor" stuff. Same can be said for the artwork which either you like or not. The cover-art is mostly wonderful. But it is a stark contrast to the black and white interior art.
I found Zora the best of the lot. Outrageous stories which one has to read to belief, concentrating as all those fumetti on gore, ultra violence and sex. (Not to mention every perversity under the sun.) In issue 1 young and blonde Zora Papst is made a vampire by Count Dracula and later is traveling the world with her dark haired vampire companion "Frau Murder" (as she is called in the comics).
Down the road the sex scenes went hardcore. At first things were just implied (even if it isn't hard to guess what is meant), but in later years it became a porn horror comic.
I could do a few scans, but it is a question of how far things are allowed to go. Except for a time when due to pressure the covers became a bit tamer there is always a lot of nudity involved. And sometimes the motives are admittedly incredibly in your face, especially in the current climate and if you don't see the back humor involved.
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Post by fritzmaitland on Nov 2, 2020 22:50:25 GMT
Here are a few more cover. [/div] Deffo based on a still from Hammer's 1959 version of The Mummy. [/quote]
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Post by andydecker on Nov 3, 2020 8:50:09 GMT
Deffo based on a still from Hammer's 1959 version of The Mummy. [/quote] Oh, yes. Those artists did often reproduce movie stills. Don't know how often I saw the Chaney wolfman design.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 3, 2020 20:19:52 GMT
Certainly not; there is much more where that came from. In fact, we should have a thread on Italian erotic horror comic books. I have quite a few of those. Maybe half or a few more of Zora, half of Cimiteria and a stack of random series in mostly horrible condition. Even read a few with the help of translation programs. The Italian comics have a distinct story-telling style which begins with the small format and ends with the two panels a page rule. Never more. Basically these comics more often than not require a strong stomach. The better stories are like Laymon on acid, but often they are quite simple or downright poor. The horror stuff is IMHO better then the crime or "humor" stuff. Same can be said for the artwork which either you like or not. The cover-art is mostly wonderful. But it is a stark contrast to the black and white interior art.
I found Zora the best of the lot. Outrageous stories which one has to read to belief, concentrating as all those fumetti on gore, ultra violence and sex. (Not to mention every perversity under the sun.) In issue 1 young and blonde Zora Papst is made a vampire by Count Dracula and later is traveling the world with her dark haired vampire companion "Frau Murder" (as she is called in the comics).
Down the road the sex scenes went hardcore. At first things were just implied (even if it isn't hard to guess what is meant), but in later years it became a porn horror comic.
I could do a few scans, but it is a question of how far things are allowed to go. Except for a time when due to pressure the covers became a bit tamer there is always a lot of nudity involved. And sometimes the motives are admittedly incredibly in your face, especially in the current climate and if you don't see the back humor involved.
I learned a little Italian just to be able to read those things.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 12, 2020 11:46:41 GMT
Have received further communiques from our roving mummy scout, Mr. Justin Fanatic to whom we offer our grateful thanks! Anon - Vengeance with a Smile: ( Wizard, 1975). Concluding instalment. Luxor. Detective Inspector Peter Dibben of the Yard bandages himself head to foot to masquerade as Azmy the Magician and bring down a gang of snivelling, murdering tomb-looters. Also; Opening panels from Werewolf, Bullet #73, 2nd July 1977. A sarcophagus slap bang in the middle of the road !!!? What can it all mean? The Lost World, ( Victor #1262, April 27th 1985). Ben Prevo, paramedic, and Kra, the prehistoric caveman, in a race against time to find two boys abducted by Uruk's while on a school trip to the Grand Canyon. The twin sacrifice is prepared ....
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Post by dem bones on Feb 15, 2021 7:29:38 GMT
Two from John Canning's 50 Great Horror Stories, 1969. Both decent, the first rather more original than the usual mummy-walks-the-museum outing. Michael & Mollie Hardwick - The Princess of Thebes: "A matchless piece of burial art" indeed. Dresden, 1894. Satisfied of their authenticity, Herr Wieser, a director at the Albertinum museum, acquires the mummified remains of the Princess Nitokris from a shady 'Dr. Schultz' who refuses to reveal how he came by them. Before long, cleaners and nightwatchmen report an unhappy ghost walking the Egyptian room after closing time. According to one witness. "She was about twenty, he said, dark-eyed and attractive, but looked very pale and ill: she wore a cloak of grey tweed with a riding collar, which she held tightly at the neck. He could not see the colour of her hair, which was concealed by a white scarf. Objects in the room had been visible through her body." Strange attire for a woman three thousand years in her grave. What can it all mean? Frank Usher - The Great White Bat: Luxor, 191-. Egyptologist Michael Hendry rashly steals a scarab from the breast of a mummified high priest during the excavation on a tomb in the Valley of Kings. The curse of the snow-white Chiroptera is upon him! As we're on the subject, Hammer Horror's The Mummy's Shroud issue. Marcus Hearn [ed.] - Hammer Horror #3. (Marvel, May 1995) Marcus Hearn - Editorial Bill Harvey - Hammer Network: Including the first Hammer top ten and a tribute to Len Harris Satanic Writes: Readers Letters: David Rayner, Alan M. Dewar, Howard T. Pell, Mike Paines, Alan Hamilton. Ian Price, Tony Beswick, David Phillips, Louise Stanley, Elizabeth Sellars. Alan Barnes - A Feast at Midnight: "When Christopher Lee saw the film, there were tears in his eyes" Alan Barnes - Chiller: "Nothing a writer or director or actor can do will frighten you as much as your own mind" Alan Barnes - Double Life. The Eddie Powell Interview: "A lot of fun and games and getting paid for it!" Jonathan Rigby - Canope Jars, razor blades and the 'Pyramid Inch!': 'Pyramidology' for Beginners Jonathan Rigby - It went for a Little Walk .... Unwrapping the history of the Mummy movie The Mummy's Shroud Jonathan Rigby - The Man in Black-and-White - the Francis Searle interview: "A lot of the so-called horror things were so bloody shallow, i really couldn;t enthuse." Jonathan Rigby - Early Hammer: Cloudburst: Behind the scenes on the first Hammer film shot at Bray Andy Black - Tapes from the Tomb: The latest horror videos reviewed Keith Dudley - Who were Hammer?: Roy Ward Baker, John Gilling and Val Guest feature in the third part of this series Next month in Hammer Horror: To Russia with Love .....
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Post by dem bones on Apr 2, 2021 17:25:40 GMT
Alfred Pearce Charles J. Mansford - Gleams from the Dark Continent Pt. III. The Hidden Egyptian Shield: ( The Strand, Sept. 1895). according to legend, a nameless ancient Egyptian Prince was mummified alive for attempting to murder the woman he loved, who had rejected him in favour of the King. From that day, the dead-alive has stood guard over a sacred tomb in a gloomy grotto. In return for safe passage through Wadigo territory, two white men and their ferociously loyal manservant, Hassan, are tasked with looting the cursed tomb of a legendary shield.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 26, 2021 4:50:52 GMT
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Post by dem bones on May 30, 2021 12:54:40 GMT
Hannah Kate - Dust To Dust: ( Spooky Isles Book of Horror: Vol 1, 2018). Hannah 'the Black Lady of Birchin Bower' Beswick versus a Goth Scooby Gang armed with a ouija board. There can only be one winner and it won't be them.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 5, 2021 7:54:03 GMT
Van Reid, a contributor to the late Dave Reeder's indispensable pulpscans project (much of the stuff you enjoy via Luminist and Archive org is the work of a pulpscanner) has compiled this super anthology into a cbz. file, available for free download via Mega. Van Reid [ed.] - Mummy Tales, Poems, & Essays (Volume 1 - 1794 to 1899) (2021) Van Reid - Introduction: Some Words on Mummies John Frederick Blumenbach - Observations on some Egyptian Mummies Opened in London (1794) William Howe Cuyler Hosmer - The Memphian Mummy (1833) [verse] Théophile Gautier - The Mummy's Foot (1840) Edgar Allen Poe - Some Words with a Mummy (1845) Frederick Greenwood - Ode to a Female Mummy (1852) [verse] Anonymous - The Mummy's Soul (1862) Jane G Austin - After Three Thousand Years (1868) Baron Schlippenback KSL - A Night with King Pharaoh (1869) Louisa May Alcott - Lost in a Pyramid (1869) Charles Dudley Warner - The Future of the Mummy's Soul (1876) Grant Allen - My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies (1879) Amelia B Edwards - Lying in State in Cairo (1882) Justin Huntly McCarthy - Professor Petrus (1884) Eva M. Henry - The Curse of Vasartas (1889) Arthur Conan Doyle - The Ring of Thoth (1890) Arthur Conan Doyle - Lot # 249 (1892) Anonymous - The Pyramids (1892) Julian Hawthorne - The Unseen Man's Story (1893) Herbert W. Crotzer - The Block of Bronze (1898) C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne - The Mummy of Thompson Pratt (1898) Kate & Hesketh Prichard - The Story of Baelbrow (1898) Charles B Cory - An Aztec Mummy (1899) Lady Arabella Romilly - The Mummy Necklace (1899) The editor signs off; "This is the sort of project that is easily amended and extended, so if anyone has knowledge (and access) to work they think would fit in this or any subsequent collections, or if they find any errors in the above, please do contact me .... (you'll find his email address - on p,7 of the introduction)."
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