Power Records and Marvel Comics- The Monster of Frankenstein
npr:
When I was at ICON9, I was introduced to the amazing archive of Golden Age Comics, the Digital Comic Museum. The site contains hundreds of free comics that are public domain! From crime to adventure, romance to games. They even have government pamphlets. Check it out and share with us any work you create using the DCM!
–LA
My new favorite rabbit hole! -Emily
Ne, Ne, by 追川うそ
This makes me weepy every time I see it.
MONSTER DUDE LOVES HER SO MUCH!!Fuck! I have been searching the world over for this again! I am saving it so I never lose it again.
beautiful from start to finish.
NO I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING
“86 Voltz: The Dead Girl”
Written by Michael Avon Oeming and Brian J.L. Glass
Art and cover by Michael Avon Oeming
2005
A very good although ignored graphic novel that would have made for a good on-going series. It tells the story of a girl reanimated by only 86 Volts of electricity. Thus her name: 86 Volts. She awakens from death with no memories and no voice. She realizes that she is endowed with the ability to generate and manipulate vast amounts of electricity. She will need them, and help from a mysterious spirit guide, to defeat an evil supernatural menace.
The character is literally a blank slate and must find her way through the world of the living. Her origin and powers make her sort of a combination of Frank from Mike Allred’s “Madman” and the Superman villain Livewire (who like her Batman counterpart Harley Quinn crossed over from the animated TV show to the comics and the regular DC comics continuity.).
I hope that Image comics and the creative team revisit this idea and this character. It would make a great companion comic to the likes of “Hellboy”, “Madman” and “The Astounding Wolf-Man” with its mix of super hero tropes and gothic horror elements.
Inside cover from Dells War Heroes Comics, published in 1943, ten years later this art may have gotten the artist black listed.
Sea Baragon (or Baraguma) appreciation post. Sea Baragon appeared in the first volume of Kodansya’s 1992 Godzilla manga series, and was a revived Baragon (after the fight with the Frankenstein monster), crossed with the DNA of narwhals and walruses.
I wish these were published in the west! These are so cool!
