zyx
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by zyx on Jul 10, 2024 8:43:16 GMT
Trying to remember the source of a story I read in a British horror comic many years ago - early 1980s, probably. Father and son go fishing (I think they were trespassing) and get beamed up into a UFO by aliens who are "fishing" for food of their own. The aliens (who look like the Creature from the Black Lagoon) decide the son is "too small" so they crush him to death. Final panel is the aliens leering at the terrified father. I found it quite creepy as a youngster. This was a "photo-comic" with a blend of photos and hand-drawn images (the aliens). "Scream" or "The Eagle", perhaps?
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 11, 2024 0:07:32 GMT
Trying to remember the source of a story I read in a British horror comic many years ago - early 1980s, probably. Father and son go fishing (I think they were trespassing) and get beamed up into a UFO by aliens who are "fishing" for food of their own. The aliens (who look like the Creature from the Black Lagoon) decide the son is "too small" so they crush him to death. Final panel is the aliens leering at the terrified father. I found it quite creepy as a youngster. This was a "photo-comic" with a blend of photos and hand-drawn images (the aliens). "Scream" or "The Eagle", perhaps? |
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Post by helrunar on Jul 11, 2024 2:10:46 GMT
Thank you, my dear. I enjoyed the sexy photo of kicky Bryan Robson. Mmmmm... Man United. Yassss.
I wish I could track down this really scary comic I read at my cousin's house one evening in the early 70s. A family gathering was going on and I'd often retreat to a quiet room to read because I was so introverted. My cousin Mike had these awesome digest sized compilations of what might have been EC Horror comics... definitely black and white horror/sci fi comics of the 1950s, perhaps early 60s (at the latest).
There was this one story that so creeped me out, I still remember some images from it possibly over half a century later. It involved aliens gradually taking over Earth through their incredible powers of hypnotism and glamoury (throwing illusory veils over the human mind). Towards the end of the story, these two men were having dinner and one was telling him what he had learned about the aliens while the other was scoffing and pooh-poohing. In the middle of the first guy trying to convince his friend, an alien enters the room and EATS HIM ALIVE. He's kicking, screaming, being consumed in front of his friend and the guy is blandly going on about what nonsense the whole idea is. I think that was pretty much the ending.
It was just a little black and white comic (with really good art) but I was a very imaginative teen and that yarn freaked me out to an unusually intense degree.
No idea how I'd ever track that one down again. I think somebody had given him those little digest paperbacks. They were extremely cool.
Hel.
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zyx
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by zyx on Jul 11, 2024 6:26:32 GMT
Trying to remember the source of a story I read in a British horror comic many years ago - early 1980s, probably. Father and son go fishing (I think they were trespassing) and get beamed up into a UFO by aliens who are "fishing" for food of their own. The aliens (who look like the Creature from the Black Lagoon) decide the son is "too small" so they crush him to death. Final panel is the aliens leering at the terrified father. I found it quite creepy as a youngster. This was a "photo-comic" with a blend of photos and hand-drawn images (the aliens). "Scream" or "The Eagle", perhaps? Bingo, that's the very one. The Eagle! Thank you! |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jul 12, 2024 7:18:52 GMT
Thank you, my dear. I enjoyed the sexy photo of kicky Bryan Robson. Mmmmm... Man United. Yassss. I wish I could track down this really scary comic I read at my cousin's house one evening in the early 70s. A family gathering was going on and I'd often retreat to a quiet room to read because I was so introverted. My cousin Mike had these awesome digest sized compilations of what might have been EC Horror comics... definitely black and white horror/sci fi comics of the 1950s, perhaps early 60s (at the latest). There was this one story that so creeped me out, I still remember some images from it possibly over half a century later. It involved aliens gradually taking over Earth through their incredible powers of hypnotism and glamoury (throwing illusory veils over the human mind). Towards the end of the story, these two men were having dinner and one was telling him what he had learned about the aliens while the other was scoffing and pooh-poohing. In the middle of the first guy trying to convince his friend, an alien enters the room and EATS HIM ALIVE. He's kicking, screaming, being consumed in front of his friend and the guy is blandly going on about what nonsense the whole idea is. I think that was pretty much the ending. It was just a little black and white comic (with really good art) but I was a very imaginative teen and that yarn freaked me out to an unusually intense degree. No idea how I'd ever track that one down again. I think somebody had given him those little digest paperbacks. They were extremely cool. Hel. I'm looking, but it's tricky, maybe it will turn up. The art on a lot of these is, as you said with that story, really good. They are a fun browse in general. |
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Post by helrunar on Jul 12, 2024 16:29:37 GMT
I seem to recall (but memory cheats) that the end of that story was similar to the one reported by zyx; the alien took the form of the human who had been the other man in that dinner conversation. And that was how they began their takeover. Obviously a popular concept with various iterations in film and television. And now the idea has been all over q-tip and 4chan and whatever for years now.
Thanks for looking but I think my lack of any memory of the title is just too great a hindrance.
Hel.
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