Monster of the Day

I don't want to shock the heck out of everyone, but this is my favorite cover this week.

Dracula actually didn't fight supernatural menaces all that much in the book (at least until a long, later storyline where he took over a Satanist church and sired a kid who was a half-angel or something who invariably tried to kill him), just as he only occasionally crossed over into the mainstream Marvel universe.…

I hope everyone had a most enjoyable holiday weekend. Speaking of holidays, of sorts, remember that T-Fest is coming up right, less than three weeks from now at Sandy's house outside Dallas on Saturday, Sep 23rd. As usual, details can be had by emailing me at ken@jabootu.com. You know who you are, though. And…

Because, you know...comics.

Good grief, when this guy first appeared he was basically a regular-sized guy. Now look at him.

Surely the most innovative character since America Captain. Actually, if the shapechanging Clayface(s) eventually became Batman's Sandman, this is Batman's the Lizard. After the goofy '50s, and the even goofier (if that's possible) Batman comics following the Adam West show, fans were ready for a more serious take on the character. They got it…

As I said, there was a lot of Gothic influence in early Batman. One early foe was mad scientist Hugo Strange, who in his second appearance whipped up a bunch of 15 ft tall monster men to plague Gotham. Sadly, I could find so stills of this adventure from Batman issue #1, which also…

It's no surprise that a character as gothic as the early Batman had gothic adventures. Indeed, just two issues after his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman was facing a bonafide vampire. (Although I think this was later retconned.) To make the latter even MORE gothic, the vamp ran around in a red cassock…

Hey, it worked in Die Monster Die!* [Note: It didn't work in Die Monster Die!]

Boy, when she said she had to put on her face.... Currently sitting at number five on the Movies Sandy Petersen Might Like list.