As the Red Death sweeps across the land, cruel Prince Prospero shelters his toadying "friends' in his castle while forcing the peasants to survive as best they can in the plague-ridden countryside.
He also lusts for peasant girl Francesca and has taken her (along with her father and betrothed) to his fortress.
But the captive Francesca has strange visions where past, present, and a possible future all intermingle...
Who will live?
Who will die?
Will the party really be the social event of the year?
Who will die?
Will the party really be the social event of the year?
Illustrated by Frank Springer, Dell's Masque of the Red Death (1964) is a fairly-faithful adaptation of the Roger Corman movie based on Edgar Allan Poe's stpry of the same name.
However, due to time constraints, in order to have the comic on newsstands when the movie was in theaters, it was produced using only the script and promo photos as reference, so there are some differences between it and the film as released!
AIP Studios knew the value of comics to their target audience ('tweens and teenagers) and a number of their films, including Beach Blanket Bingo and most of Roger Corman's "Poe" flicks, were adapted into Dell Comics (who didn't follow the Comics Code)!
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