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

A couple of Halloweens ago, we presented the comic version of the classic radio anthology series Inner Sanctum...

...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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Captain's Library WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP Conclusion

When Last We Left the Nemo-esque Captain...

(Note: it seems some of the foreign distributors couldn't make up their mind if the movie was Poe-esque or Verne-esque since the Italian title shown above translates into "20,000 Leagues under the Earth", yet the tag line mentions Edgar Allan Poe!)

Where were we?

Oh, yes...

Trapped under the sea in a crumbling city left behind by an ancient civilization of mer-men, our heroes (and heroine) are led to The Captain, who explains he and his men were smugglers who found their way there a century ago, and the weird combination of gases in the underwater atmosphere has rendered them ageless and immortal!

The gill-men are the savage descendants of the builders of the city, who have forgotten the technology their ancestors used to create the underwater metropolis.

The scientists were brought to the city to repair the failing systems, but a nearby underwater volcano may render the attempt moot...

The adaptation was illustrated by penciler John Tartaglione and inker Dick Giordano.

The writer is unknown, but is believed to be either Don Segall (who did many of their movie books) or Dell editor DJ Arneson.

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Captain's Library WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

After the body of a recently-arrived lawyer is found on the beach, scientist Ben Harris, informs the solicitor's sole client, Jill Tregellis, about the death.

While visiting her, he discovers a strange fish/human creature ransacking a room!

The merman mysteriously escapes, but returns and kidnaps Jill, taking her though a concealed passage...

Is it...The End?

Will Lyonesse...and all within...be destroyed?

The Exciting Conclusion can be found here...

Next Monday!

The film was "inspired" by Edgar Allan Poe's poem "City In the Sea", which is quoted in both the opening of the film and the comic's splash page, and the flick was marketed as part of AIP's "Poe Cycle" series.

In fact, it was released in several foreign markets, including England, as City Under the Sea!

However, unlike Richard Matheson's adaptation of The Raven, this script by Charles Bennett, Louis M (Dr Goldfoot movies) Heyward, and David (Doctor Who) Whitaker is entirely-new, with a plot and characters not in the poem

Dell's War-Gods of the Deep (1965) one-shot is actually #900 in their Movie Classics series.

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Captain's Library WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP Part 1

Don't fret, Vincent Price aficionados!

Though this splash page is the only place you'll see him in this initial chapter of the movie adaptation, he'll be along in the second part...and then dominate the rest of the book!

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To Be Continued

Next Monday?

The film was "inspired" by Edgar Allan Poe's poem "City In the Sea", which is quoted in both the opening of the film and the comic's splash page, and the flick was marketed as part of AIP's "Poe Cycle" series.

In fact, it was released in several foreign markets, including England, as City Under the Sea!

However, unlike Richard Matheson's adaptation of The Raven, this script by Charles Bennett, Louis M (Dr Goldfoot movies) Heyward, and David (Doctor Who) Whitaker is entirely-new, with a plot and characters not in the poem

Dell's War-Gods of the Deep (1965) one-shot is actually #900 in their Movie Classics series.

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