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Trilogy:
"Child" "Child: Mind of the Mass" "Child: Childhood's End"

Child, Part 2(3): "Mind of the Mass!"

8 pgs. Appeared first time in Eerie #58 (1974). Reprinted in Comix International #3 (1976), in Heavy Metal Special: Richard Corben Special (1998) and in Heavy Metal Special: The Best of Richard Corben from Creepy & Eerie (1998).
Story: Greg Potter. Color(prob. colored by overlays)/Art: Richard Corben (no signature, © 1974). Lettered by hand (Warren).

In France: as "Gamin [#2]: La meute hurlante" in Creepy [FRA] "nouvelle serie" #1 (1978) and Profondeurs (1978).
In Germany: as "Frankie: Hexenjagd" in Vampir-Comic #9 (1975).
In Italy: as Bimbo #2: "Attenzione alla marmaglia" in Collana Umanoidi #6 (1982).
In The Netherlands: as Kleine Jongen, Hoofdstuk 2(3): "De stem van het volk" in Richard Corben #2 [NL]: Diepten (1981).
In Spain: as "Niño / La mente de las masas", in Rufus #20 (1975), and as "Niño / ¡Cuidado con la chusma!" in El extraordinario mundo de Richard Corben #2 (1981).


Keywords: Freak. Blindness. Witch hunt.
Synopsis: Frankensteinish creature with a mind of a child makes his first human contact and finds only hostility. Blind old lady tries to help him.
Comment: Corben's colors in this story are not so successful, specially green forest is messy. Burning witch is exceptionally efective and it reminds Corben's early work "Tales from the Plague". Greg Potter's story is dull; it is the worst chapter of a serial of the child creature, though it is "loyal" for original Frankenstein story (keeping its own inside-logic).


Copyright © 2000 Heart-Attack-Series, Ink!, SidSid Keränen
Appeared first time 24th Aug. 1997. Last modified February 7, 2007.
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