Monster of the Day #3267

Updated on September 21, 2021 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

I know we’ve done Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein comics before. But hey, we’ve been doing Frankenstein and his creations lately, and Halloween is closer than you think. They are pretty great. Go to your library and order in some volumes of his work.

When the comic originally came out (pre-code, obviously) it was truly horrific. The Monster was prone to orgies of destruction, murdering literally thousands of people. Tomorrow we’ll took about where the book went after that.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Looks like Dr F got the mouth, nose and chin of someone with a face five times bigger than the rest of the head. Maybe he forgot his ruler when he visited the graveyard that time.

  • Gamera977

    ‘He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker.’

  • Gamera977

    Coated in molten bronze!?!

    Walter Paisley would coat him in clay and call it ‘Dead Frankenstein’s Monster’

  • Ken_Begg

    Boy, would he have been in for a big surprise later in the movie.

  • SEE? SEE? WE CAN BE SENSIBLE! WE CAN BE SENSIBLE! EVERYBODY WINS WHEN WE ARE SENSIBLE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! IT’S THE MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN, NOT FRANKENSTEIN! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

    Honestly, though, I don’t care. I’ve seen the case for both ways and they make sense to me. I might lean more Monster of Frankenstein than the other way, but…

  • Eric Hinkle

    I read about this one in some book published back in the 70’s (back before comic books were seen as anything other than vapid cultural drift), and even it was boggled at how bizarre the series got from book to book.

  • Ken_Begg

    Probably Don Thompson’s Comic Book Book or Dick Lupoff’s All in Color for a Dime, two very funny books of essays on old comic books that were very educational for us kids in the early ’70s, pre-Internet where sources on stuff like this was very rare. I wonder if copies of those are still floating around.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I think Ron Goulart also wrote a book or two on comics.

  • Ken_Begg

    You’re right! Man, those books were such major finds back in the day. Like Don Glut’s books on Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster in all media.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Yeah, it was the Dick Lupoff book. I’ll have to look for Don Thompson.

    It feels so bizarre to look at books like that and remember when comic books were a habit to be vaguely ashamed of. As well as when back issues of most comics could be had for something less than the GNP of a developing nation.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I remember my high school library having a odd little book on the Universal monsters and other done by, I think, Curt Siodmak. He was exhaustive. Even covered the appearances of Dracula and Frankenstein in places like Superman comics.