Nice Art By Dan DeCarlo On
The Three Eyed Mad Doctor
From Tales Calculated To Drive
You Bats #7
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I wonder if the first tale was inspiration for Sid and Marty Croft's 'Dr. Shrinker'.
ReplyDeleteI never saw Dr. Shrinker...but maybe.
ReplyDeleteWell, I also was reminded of 'Dr. Shrinker', which Wikipedia suggests might have been inspired by a 1940 movie called 'Dr. Cyclops' which also featured people shrinking. The article doesn't mention the doctor being one-eyed or why the movie is named that when it apparently isn't the character's name in the movie, but a cyclops/triclops connection is easy to make.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it's easy to imagine kids at the time of this comic book not being able to know what to make of 'Three Eyed Mad Doctor'. Is it serious? Is it parody? It certainly sends mixed messages, but that weird in-between quality is what makes it interesting to me.
Attack of the Puppet People was another film in which a Mad Doctor shrank people. I can see the Dr, Cyclops movie connection too.
ReplyDeleteIt;s nice to see Dan DeCarlo doing horror tales too. I sorta see them as parodies...