The great authors of the fantastic come from the hand of the comic planet in two new deliveries of the most mythical horror series in history: Creepy
Horror comic lovers are lucky: Comic planet continue to save the mythical magazine Creeping With the publication of two new volumes of compilation, volume 4 and volume 18. This news is fantastic for the followers of classical horror, since it means more pages full of macabre stories, spectacular illustrations and the unmistakable style of the great masters of the genre. With this publication Planet Comic strengthens its commitment to conservation of this essential material, offering readers a unique opportunity to enjoy terror mixed with fantasy and science fiction to its maximum expression.
Creepy 4
At the beginning of the volume we find A curse of clawsA story that transports us into a village harassed by a curse that transforms men into wild beasts. And as authors we have two names of weight, so that fat comes first: Neal Adams, Recognized for his realistic and dynamic style, he contributed with a new dimension to the art of the gruesome, instilling in the stories a sensation of truly innovative immediacy and emotion and emotion Archie GoodwinIn large part responsible for the magazine he continued to exist at that moment.
Goodwin will continue to be the main protagonist of the initial stories, including witches, enchanted castles, frozen Vikings who return to life, primitive men who face giant insects, a woman obsessed with the BO George Romero) and a story of the Victorian atmosphere in which the tribute is paid to two main horror icons of the nineteenth century.
The stories in which Goodwin’s name does not appear as an author are really the weakest, even if perhaps the free adaptation of Carmilla. It was originally one of the first and influential stories of vampires, written by the Irish author J. Sheridan Fanu and published for the first time in 1872 in anthology In a glass Cupallybefore the famous Dracker From Bram Stoker. At the time he marked a turning point in horror literature by introducing a female vampire and exploring the problem of sexuality and desire in a Gothic and disturbing context, and this is something that has been very well transferred to the cartoons.
Creepy 18
Roger McKenzie, Carmine Infantino y Walter Simonson They are responsible for the first story that we find in this volume, which has the following truly surprising theme taking into account what we are used to in this series: sport, in this case the baseball. But that nobody worries because he will take place some death before reaching the end of this unlikely story …
It is McKenzie himself (the most current author in this volume) who joins the Lord Richard Corben later to continue with the soccer In a story that will protagonist an Egyptian mummy. Yes, soccer And the mummies in the same story, just when one might think that Creepy had already covered the entire spectrum of terror and the fantastic. Ice hockey, tennis, equestrian and again baseball (On this occasion with the robots) will be the sports chosen for the following stories that close this sporting saga that only for the refreshing and the original that is already worth it.
From here we will return to the ground better known. Vampires, the abominable man of snow and that kind of things will populate the pages of the volume, but it will be a story signed by Bruce Jones y At Williamson in which we will have as protagonists Santa ClausFor a child with a ray gun and an excessively protective robot one of those that can cause the greatest impression in this volume. It is also worth remembering that this is part of a saga of Christmas stories, some colorful with a reddish biton, all really appreciable.
Another truly remarkable is enclosed in a group of classic Martian stories, and it is A distorted storysigned by To Sirois y Gray tomorrow. The artistic section, full of hyper -realistic figures and wonderful scenarios, is truly exceptional in this case.
In this volume, the great variety of styles and themes, an effort to continually surprise the reader who can be seen in the final result and which at this point in the series is almost an obligation.
These two volumes with which the recovery of this series continues (4 y 18) Published by Comic planet They are presented on a rigid cover without overcoming. Contain 240 and 288 pages in black and white respectively, with a size of the page 20 x 27.6 cmand presents the responsible translation of Churches of Albert Agut y Ignacio Bentz From the American edition of the number 16 to #20 and #84 to #88 of the original series. The recommended sale price for each volume is 40 € And they were put on sale February 2025.
Creepy 4
A terrifying compilation.
The 60s were a moment of great inspiration and innovation in the way of narrating comics and few titles showed that extraordinary evolution as a disturbing magazine.
Creepy and the magazine of his incorrigible cousin, Eerie, reinvented the stories of illuminated horror and made some sensitivities of the world of the underground edition arrived in the established editorial industry, leaving the unforgettable leges of Alex Toth, Frank Frazetta, Neal Adams, Gray Morrow and many other impressive artists.
Creepy 18
Make the sea with the sick and shocking sailor, dear readers!
Uncle Creepy, the hole of your commander, is the rudder of horror, which guides you through stormy waters on an eternal journey through terror!
The original and strange shocks abound in the eighteenth volume of the acclaimed series of compilations of dark horses, which brings together the numbers from 84 to 88 of the infamous horror anthology of the Warren publishing house. “In this disturbing phase we find some magazines focused on diabolical sports themes, classic monsters, Christmas atrocities and in the fascinating fascinating planet Mars.
Our beautiful volume with a rigid cover also presents incredible classic stories by Al Williamson, Carmine Infantino, Luis Bermejo, Bernie Wrightson, Richard Corben, John Severin, José Ortiz and Bruce Jones, among others, as well as all the original pages of the fans, the mail columns and a new proto of the climbing editor and the script.