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"A Gothic Tale [Part 2]"
15[-1] pgs. Appeared first time
in
Skull Comics #6 (1972).
Reprint
in Richard Corben
Complete Works #3 (1987)
.
Story: Tom Veitch. Art: Richard Corben
(signed as Gore, 1972). Lettered by hand (unknown).
FRA: as "Une vieille historie" in Horrilor
(1977) and L'Echo des savanes
spécial U.S.A. [I] #18 (1981).
ITA: as "Una storia gotica" in Image
[II] #3
(1984).
SPA:
as "Una historia gótica" in Creepy
[SPA] #34 (1982)
and Richard
Corben obras completas #6 (1986)
.
SWE: as "En spökhistoria" in Pox
4/89.
Style: B&W with zipatone. Genre: Horror. Time
Span: Ancient past. Nudity: Full frontal girl which has been deleted from
.
Keywords: Family secret. Curse. Experiments. Occultism.
Cellar. Doctor. Reanimation. Gurggy Tate.
Synopsis: A guy starts to investicate his ancestors, only
to find horrors of past (cf. "The
Rats in the Walls"). There is a church on the place
of his ancient home and in cellars of it there is ancient Frankenstein-laboratorium.
Guy's ancetor possess' his body and wants to reanimate his deceased
wife.
Comment: B&W artwork is almost brilliant; Corben invents
many interesting faces. Story by Tom Veitch is in the beginning
overcharged by explanations, but later it reforms into an interestingly
bizarre Frankenstein rip-off. The end has not much in common
with the beginning. The story teller is Gurggy Tate, but we can
meet also Zeg.
Alternatives,
: Pg
8 totally erased. That page shows a ghoul ceremonially
raping a nude woman. From the title saying, "Part II"
erased.
Special: Skull
Comics #6 has two separate stories, "A Gothic Tale", Part
1 and Part 2. Both are written by Tom Veitch; first is drawn by Greg Irons
and second by Corben.
Copyright © 1997 Heart-Attack-Series,
Ink!,
Created: September 13, 1997. Modified:
January 25, 2010.
