Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Frankenstein. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng
Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Frankenstein. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng

Number 1613: Frankenstein’s terror under trance!

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Hai, 4 tháng 8, 2014

You already know this, don’t you? If not, the funny Frankenstein character published by Prize Comics ended its run with issue #17 in 1949. A couple of years later the character was resurrected n a more serious version, more like the Karloff monster of the movies. In the latter version the Frankenstein monster is mute, shambles along from town to town, country to country, getting involved in local doings, supernatural and otherwise.

This story, the lead for Frankenstein #19 (1952), has the monster under hypnotic control. It is drawn by the versatile Dick Briefer, whose career as a journeyman comic book artist would end when Frankenstein ceased publication in late 1954. The specter of another monster — the Comics Code Authority — finally did to Frankenstein what no mob of torch-waving villagers could do.











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Number 1602: Frankie goes to Hollywood

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 9 tháng 7, 2014

Dick Briefer’s funny Frankenstein goes to Hollywood, meets a scientist and travels in a time machine to the past and future.

...does he really, or is it just Hollywood magic?

From Frankenstein #3 (1946):


















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Number 1513: Frankenstein makes his hobby pay

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Sáu, 24 tháng 1, 2014

Dick Briefer, writer/artist of Frankenstein, shows a series of gags when our favorite funny monster presents his line of caskets in a coffin competition at the Mortician’s Convention (“We Undertake Anything!”). The comical comic story appeared in Frankenstein #6 (1947).








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Frankenstein #6 was a good issue. Here are a couple more stories. Just click on the thumbnails.




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Number 1415: Frankenstein the sorcerer’s apprentice

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Thứ Tư, 7 tháng 8, 2013

This is the third post of our “Comical Comics” theme week.

This witty tale from our old Frankenfavorite, Dick Briefer, is from Frankenstein #6 (1947). Frankenstein has a magic word, a la the story of the sorcerer’s apprentice, and uses it not for brooms, but for cars. New cars were still in short supply that year. Auto production had been suspended during the war years, and manufacturing converted to war materiel. It was the dream of everyone, even my father, Big Pappy, to have a new car.  He owned a 1939 Ford when he married my mother in 1946. He finally got his new car, a 1948 Plymouth, in the fall of 1947. This story would have meant something to him.












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Number 1349: A Briefer-threefer

Người đăng: vanmai yeu em on Chủ Nhật, 14 tháng 4, 2013



I learn something new all the time. I learned that artist Dick Briefer had for a time drawn the comic strip “Pinky Rankin” for The Daily Worker.  To my knowledge Briefer's politics never showed up in other features he was known for, including “The Pirate Prince,” “Rex Dexter of Mars,” or his most enduring contribution to the golden age of comics, “Frankenstein.”

Today I’ve got three Briefer stories: a Frankenstein story and a Max the Magician story, both from Prize Comics #68 (1948), and a short-short, “Skelly the Liberated Skeleton,” from Boy Comics #29 (1946).

















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