From Witching Hour #54
Beware The Snare Of The
Tarantula With Art By Jess
Jodloman. Published In 1975.
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This seemed to be one of DC horror comics' favorite plot--the tale of the reversed dream. I always found it to be both intriguing and weird. How the heck does a fly dream that he's a man in order to escape the reality that he's actually being preyed upon by a spider? Not to mention, how does a fly know about such human things as jealousy, romance, and love triangles that he basically imagines a soap opera? That's it, the fly was watching too many soap operas! XD!
ReplyDeleteCarl Wessler wrote a lot of scripts for DC in the 70's he may have used this plot device a bit too much.
ReplyDeleteNot many soap operas for insects to watch these days though.
There was another plot device I know he loved to use a lot in the older comics where a guy sees a pretty girl and starts dating her only to find out that her family and herself are ghouls, werecreatures, vampires, or aliens. She then goes after him once he learns this--except that he never actually met her and met a gruesome death instead, such as getting run over by a truck--or falling out the office building window. The alien one was once the comic codes kicked in, so there were no more monsters allowed--but aliens were totally okay.
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Did he write that one too? That's more in the style of the Munsters though--not really the pattern I was going for.
ReplyDeleteNo he did not write it. I think Frank Doyle did.
ReplyDeleteHave been searching for this one for years! I remember it from childhood and it freaked me out! Thanks for posting.
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