Shocktober 10/30/31

I know I recently wrote about Dick Briefer's interpretation(s) of the Frankenstein Monster in comic books. The book pictured above is a collection of his first tales of Doctor Frankenstein's creation in our modern world. The series started out quite serious, then evolved into a more comedic take. Then? In the 1950s, Briefer took the monster back to his horrific roots. Quite a journey, really. All in the space of 15 years or so.

Shocktober 10/26/21

I know a while ago I mentioned Dick Briefer, a writer/artist in the golden age of comics who produced the first ongoing horror comics series, Frankenstein.

The series changed with the times, going from a scary monster in the early 1940s to a funny monster through the early 1950s to a horrifying, back-breaking monster in the mid-fifties.

The collection pictured above is from that last period, in which the Monster roamed the countryside, getting into various adventures/scrapes with people who refuse to understand the big lug. Some of the stories are heartbreaking. Others are horrifying. All are written and drawn by Briefer with substantial style and flair.

I had this collection ages ago, but lost it when I had to abandon La Casa Del Terror. (Have I mentioned that before? Seems like I have.)

But now? Most of the books I lost from that time are easily attainable now through either Amazon or eBay, mostly for affordable prices.

Now, if only I had somewhere to put them other than the store room at Mom's house.

Some day...

Thursday Is Bring Your Frankenstein Monster to Work Day

OK, I didn't really "bring" this sad-eyed Frankie to work today--I had him delivered.

I rather like this melancholy monster. He reminds me quite a bit of comic book writer/artist Dick Briefer's Frankenstein, who went from a serious, scary antihero before and during during World War II, to a funny, warm-hearted creature after the war, to a mute, back-breaking beast during the great horror comics boom of the 1950s.