Art By Frank Robbins, Noly And Alex Nino From Issue #16 Of Weird Mystery Tales
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
Altogether a nice issue here. Fine work by Frank Robbins and Alex Nino, as well as by Noly Panaligan, who is a new name for me. Having checked up on the Grand Comics Database, I see early issues of this title were used as a clearinghouse of Jack Kirby weird tales intended for the unpublished SPIRIT WORLD #2. I use 'weird' deliberately in that the Kirby material was not intended as horror per se, whereas these stories are fully in the DC 'mystery' mode.
ReplyDeleteYeah Frank Robbins and Alex Nino are two very stylized Illustrators but both both very good. The Spirit World tales in the early issues are definitely Weird but enjoyable in that inimitable Kirby style.
ReplyDeleteNot to say you are, but I use 'weird' not in the pejorative sense (or in the sense of 'fated' for that matter) but the WEIRD TALES sense which covered proto-fantasy, proto-science fiction and proto-horror before the genres were nailed down and codified.
ReplyDeleteGranted what Kirby was really reaching for was a general 70s audience increasing into the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. He was going for weird, but what contemporaneous readers would find to some degree somewhat believable.
That's my understanding, at least.
Put through the prism of Kirby's unique perspective, of course.