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).
FRA: as "Gamin [#2]: La meute
hurlante" in Creepy [FRA]
"nouvelle serie" #1 (1978) and Profondeurs
(1978).
GER: as "Frankie: Hexenjagd" in Vampir-Comic
#9 (1975).
ITA: as Bimbo #2: "Attenzione alla marmaglia" in Collana
Umanoidi #6 (1982).
NL: as Kleine Jongen, Hoofdstuk
2(3): "De stem van het volk" in Richard
Corben #2
[NL]: Diepten (1981).
SPA: 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).
Style: Tonal, colors with overlay technique. Genre: Horror. Time
Span: Middle Ages. Nudity: None.
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 © 1997 Heart-Attack-Series,
Ink!,
Created: August 24, 1997. Modified:
January 4, 2010.
