Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Video's Valentine SCOOBY-DOO! "Tell-Tale Heartburn"

...which featured Edgar Allan Poe-themed stories!
We now present another never-reprinted story of lost love from DC's Scooby-Doo #117 (2007), a tale of Poe...I mean woe...that's filled with Easter Eggs!
Now say it with me..."I would have gotten away with it if not for those pesky kids!!!"
Find all the Easter Eggs?
Start with the cover caption..."Twice-Told Tales of Terror!", a combination of Twice-Told Tales and Tales of Terror...anthologies of stories by Nathanael Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe...both adapted by producer Roger Corman into B-movies for American International Pictures in the 1960s!
(Since Twice-Told Tales (by Hawthorne) starred the legendary Vincent Price, who starred in all the Edgar Allen Poe flicks for AIP, it's usually considered part of the "Poe Cycle"!)
Writer Scott Peterson, penciler Robert Pope, and inker Scott McRae load the story with lots of Poe references both in the script and art.
Did you know that, though considered one of the first gothic horror writers, Poe was also part of the "American Romantic" movement as explained HERE!
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Friday, December 15, 2023

Captain's Holiday Library: HOT WHEELS "Humbug Run"

In the Economical Spirit of ReGifting...
Art by Neal Adams & Dick Giordano
...here's a never-reprinted Yuletide tale from over a half-century ago that we originally-presented over a decade ago, so it's likely most of the blog's current readers have never seen it!
The cover story for DC's Hot Wheels #6 (1971) was written by Len Wein, with art by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano, following Alex Toth's character designs from the 1969-1971 animated series based on the toy line.
Toth also illustrated most of the stories in the comic series!

Art by Alex Toth from Hot Wheels #1
Merry Christmas
&
Happy New Year!

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Captain's Halloween Library & Theatre ARCH OBOLER'S LIGHTS OUT "Come to the Bank"

Halloween is here, ghoul friends and boy fiends...
...so let's tell another tawdry, terrifying tale utilizing both your eyes and ears together in a way you normally don't do!
Control-Click on this LINK to hear (and read along) this audio adventure, first broadcast on November 17, 1942!
Illustrated by Charles Bolland, this never-reprinted adaptation of a Lights Out radio episode appeared in S&S's Super-Magician Comics V3N9 (1945).
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Captain's Halloween Library & Theatre ARCH OBOLER"S LIGHTS OUT "Bio" & "Meteor Man"

...now we present another classic scary series from the Golden Age of Radio in comics form...Lights Out!
But first, a brief bio about the show's creator/writer...
Before you begin tonight's terrifying tale on the next page, control-click HERE to pull up a new tab with the audio for the episode the comic is based on, "Meteor Man" from December 22, 1942, then read along...
There's no record of the writer/adaptor or artist(s) for this never-reprinted tale from S&S's Super-Magician Comics V3N6 (1944), though it looks like the work of Will Eisner's or Bob Powell's studios.
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Lights Out EveryBody