Have we ventured into the cold, hollow depths of ominous outer space yet for a Friday Frights? If not, I guess there's no better dead-stination than the petrifyin' "Planet of the Bats", from the October 1975 issue of Mystery Comics Digest #26. Don Glut and Dan Spiegle seemed like a pretty good pair-up for these creepy Western Publishing Company Inc. tales of terror. Countdown... 3... 2... 1... bats off!
And that, boys and girls, is why we have quarantines!
ReplyDeleteI like the muted colors and the art, and the bat creatures are very cool. There's a couple questionable parts of the story (the infection rate seems to differ based on plot) but that's a minor quibble in a comic. I love the last page, it's pretty obvious (and meant to be) where this is going, but it gives you that good creepy feeling but giving you a bunch of panels to contemplate everybody's fate.
This is a fun one! Reminded me of a DC 70s one where a vampire in space got zapped because a window made a giant cross when the shipped passed by the sun.
Yeah Friday Frights!
I love space vampire stories, and this one certainly doesn't disappoint. Also it's refreshing. I get tired of stories where the vampires lose, actually. I can't tell you how many times I've seen Dracula killed off. Prince of Darkness, yeah sure--but every time he pokes his head up, whoever happens to notice puts an end to his evil reign. I mean come on. Stories like this pump a little life back into vamp street cred.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to cast the story based on that last panel. I got Chuck Connors on the right and Joe Piscopo on the left. But I cant figure out who that is in the middle between Tom Skerritt and Bald Tarantino. He's a dead ringer for somebody, I just can't quite place it.
Let’s go with Noel Fielding... he played such a great goth in IT Crowd
ReplyDeleteYeah that's great! Slap the sideburns on him and he's there.
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