Jun 28, 2025
I pretty sure this is posted on the bulletin board at work.
From Prize Comics (vol. 1) #4 (June, 1940). Art may be by Dick Sprang.
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I pretty sure this is posted on the bulletin board at work.
From Prize Comics (vol. 1) #4 (June, 1940). Art may be by Dick Sprang.
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"Our best present will be to get you into the union...by hook or crook!!"
The Ghost & Ghoul Guild (now apparently renamed the Ghost, Ghoul, and Vampire Union, or GG&VU) reappeared in another Frankenstein story in PRIZE COMICS #59 (May/June 1946). Here's the whole thing:
Given that the previous Ghost & Ghoul Guild story showed that the union recruits some members by scaring people to death and then convincing their ghosts to join, I think Franky got off pretty easy here.
By this time, Briefer's more comedic Frankenstein strip had become so popular that Feature Publications had also given Frankenstein his own title, whose third issue was published shortly after this story in 1946. It actually outlasted PRIZE COMICS by a few months, ending in early 1949, and it was briefly revived three years later, returning Frankenstein to his more horrific roots.
Frankenstein's friend Marvin the ghoul, incidentally, is obviously modeled after the makeup worn by Lon Chaney Sr. as Erik in the 1925 film adaptation of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, which is probably still the single best-known image of the silent movie era.
ISOLATED COMIC BOOK PANEL #2434 title: PRIZE COMICS #39 - P55:1 artist: FRED MORGAN year: 1944
PRIZE COMICS (vol. 1) #18 (January, 1942). Cover by Jack Binder.
I can honestly state that no such scene occurs in the Black Owl story inside. He stays decidedly dry while battling the homicidal Tiger Lady!
Art Adams' tribute to Dick Briefer's iconic Frankenstein. who starred in two features for Crestwood Publications (aka Feature Publications) comic books: Prize Comics and Frankenstein.
Briefer's Frankenstein started out as a horror feature, then became a humor strip, and then switched back to horror. and then back to humor, and ended in its final three appearances as horror. Amazingly, it enjoyed great success as both.
ISOLATED COMIC BOOK PANEL #2339 title: PRIZE COMICS #39 - P9:4 artist: MAURICE DEL BOURGO year: 1944
ISOLATED COMIC BOOK PANEL #1960 title: ALL FOR LOVE #2 - P26:7 artist: MORT MESKIN year: 1958