Loved this video! Theese Marvel runs don't get enough love, 70s horror is on the up :) Thanks for sharing the knowledge! My favourite covers from that period were Charlton... They got the Atmosphere just right :)
Marvel's refusal to break from their house style and making everything a superhero comic in drag dogged them all the way into the 90s, resulting in them releasing stuff like the Midnight Sons line and Sleepwalker while DC was conquering bookshelves with Vertigo.
Drew, your content and your commentary are great. I teach a high school Comic/Manga Drawing course and Im always looking for extra resources to use as instructional material. I will definitely be playing some of your videos for my classes. We will have some great discussions and lessons.
@@drewgeraci8434 You have a personality, so therefore I don't think you need a script. I teach in Florida and I've been thinking about creating a Sequential Art curriculum for the public schools here as I don't think we have one. I don't have a set script either, but I know the drawing skills they will have to know in order to pass the class. I teach them lettering, facial drawings, human anatomy, one point perspective, camera angles, and dynamic page layout.
Great video. Those early Chamber of Darkness and Tower of Shadows books are beautiful. Stunning art...layouts, pencils, inks, and colors all came together. It's a shame Marvel couldn't keep up the quality.
That guy is Digger, that's his first appearance later he's a member of Night Shift a villain team led by The Shroud, I like ToS #1, it's the only one I have as it's cover dated my birth month/year. Arkham House started with H. P. Lovecraft reprints I think and the town of Arkham was from his writing. It was a lot of fun to hang out with you and your lovely comics and to hear your great knowledge, thoughts and memories
Thank you so much! I'll have to take a break for a week or two (my uncle is in his last days and we drive 12 hours one way). But I'm not giving up the channel, just taking a break. BTW, I have some really really really cool subjects I'll bring up that other channels may not know about. I go for deep dives in comics.
Great bunch of books. I have only a few of those mags. Love those 70s horror books when some great talent was new. I recently did an episode on a book reprinting those Wood fantasy stories. Great work but doesn't fit the horror genre very well.
I really like the Marvel 1970s horror comics more than the DC horror, most of the Marvel titles was reprints of comics from the 1950s and early 1960s but my favorites from these are the Kirby monsters reprints. Great video 👍
I usually preferred the older stories. I didn't think of their age as a detriment. When Mad would publish teh 1950s stuff it was plain too see the stuff was better drawn.
That Tower of Shadows cover at 14:18 - "I created the Demon that stalks Hollywood"... _Finally_ - we learn who's resposible for the Monster that is -- *Harvey Weinstein!* Also... The ad. at 13:58; I always did wonder where those 'hoodlums' in 1970's street gangs (and, of course, biker gangs) got those Wermacht WWII 'Coal Scuttle' helmets... I mean, yeah, I'm sure a lot of them pinched their grandfather's Normandy souvenirs/trophies, but that couldn't have accounted for _all_ of them, could it?! Turns out all the time they were ( _Koff!_ ) 'Surfing' - _Surfing(?!!)_ 🤨🧐 helmets! (Reproductions, presumably..?)
I'll have to think it over Mostly because my topics have been about legendary creators and didn't want to equate my stuff with them. It might be too self-serving. But thanks for your kind words :)
The Comics code Authority killed off Horror as far as comics is concerned!!! The magazine format by contrast did a whole lot better!!! The reason for the formation of the code was because of the graphic content of the Horror comics of the 1940s & 50s in the first place!!! The complaints about them were just like the complaints about video games today!!! Thus driving them to be sold as adult books!!!!🤔🤔🤔
well while the 70s marvel horror comics were OK, I loved the DC ones more. The Bernie Wrightson covers on House of mystery, secrets, witching hour etc. was a big sell for me. As for Marvel horor like the later 80s Marvel efforts like Bizarre adventures, Epic Magazine and Hellraiser anthology.
@@drewgeraci8434 also in the 70s my other horror fave was Warren comics with Eerie and Creepy. with those eye catching Frazetta, Corben, Vallejo and Ken Kelly. again was really a great sell. Also very excellent stories, my particular favorite was the Eerie with a particular serial called Night of the Jackass. alternate history what if Victorian london experienced a Jekyl hyde drug epidemic. the art and writing was really ahead of the competition by leaps and bounds.
@@johnwalsh4857Since I've pretty much caught up on the Marvel Comics I want, I've been getting the Eerie and Creepy. I've learned that the best place to find them is at comic conventions.
