Here's Issue #43 Of The Many
Ghosts Of Dr. Graves From 1973.
Art By Steve Ditko, Joe Staton
And M.Postell.
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This was a strong issue, that starts OK but gets stronger. I find Postell's art kinda amateurish-looking, but it does have character, and, like a shoddy horror movie, the lack of slickness can add to the creepiness factor.
ReplyDeleteDitko's story has a striking opening with that poster-like full-page image. The generational curse was something Gill returned to more than once, but it apparently clicked with Ditko because he did an excellent job with it.
Then there's another nice Weirdling page by Cuti. That four-panel gird is quite attractive and it makes it easy to skip over the jokes that don't work as well for those that work better.
Staton's story also starts with a great, poster-like full-page image. He seems to have done a lot of stories featuring less than good-looking males with Corben-esque females often with at least at faint whisk of romance... Separately, it's easy to make a comparison between this story & Lovecraft's 'Dagon', which highlights similarities in the first story to 'The Terrible Old Man'.
I had never seen the tale "The Little World of Otto Schmidt" before. Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, of that should have been 'faint whiff'... though if you don't like cliches perhaps we can imagine 'light whisk'...?
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ReplyDeleteMurray Postell was a golden age comic book artist who
drew some horror tales for Charlton in the 60's and early 70's. He later went on to illustrate celebrity portraits. His work reminds me of Tony Tallrico in some ways.