It is, of course, a remake of the 1941 original starring Lon Chaney Junior. Here’s the plot from imdb…
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother… and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
The continuing quest to produce a tribute issue of Scream! the creepy kids horror comic from the Eighties has a new residence. The Creepy Community is now open for all to join on our new Ning social network.
We are currently looking for artists and writers to help contribute to this very worthy cause. If you enjoy comics or horror and would like to be part of this fun venture then please come along and join in. Everyone is welcome, whether a budding artist or an experienced scribe, just remember…
Earlier this year, Max himself posted a couple of blog entries on his myspace profile about this disturbing story, along with the first three episodes. Survival’s run in the 1980s Eagle comic began the week after the Thirteenth Floor finally came to an end. The story is about a killer virus which wipes out most of humanity, leaving only a few surviving children.
Click here for the first blog entry and here for the second one.
Okay, without further ado, here’s the second half of “Curtis Bronson, (Ghost Hunter), Meets The Snake Mummy“.
If you missed the first part, you can read it here.
As mentioned when I posted the first part of this strip, it’s actually an altered Cursitor Doom story. Cursitor Doom originally appeared in Smash! comic in 1969 and was usually written by Scott Goodall and illustrated by Eric Bradbury.
The Buster Book of Spooky Stories wouldn’t be the only place he’d appear under a pseudonym. His stories have also been reprinted, (in colour), in Quality Comics‘ Spellbinders, alongside the likes of Nemesis The Warlock and Slaine, where he was known as Amadeus Wolf.
In 1992, the 2000ad Action Special was published. It attempted to update classic British comic characters for a modern audience. The results were mostly dire, Mark Millar’s version of The Spider being the worst offender. However, the Cursitor Doom story, The Man Who Died Every Day, (written by John Tomlinson and drawn by Jim Baikie),was a notable exception, probably because the character wasn’t really altered at all. The story itself would not have looked out of place in an issue of Scream!
Although one of the stories in the special, Kelly’s Eye, would spin off into a series in 2000ad, further modern tales of Cursitor Doom from the 2000ad stable were not to be, which is probably just as well for 2000ad, as it turned out they didn’t own the rights to the characters featured in the special in the first place.
Cursitor Doom resurfaced in 2005 in what would be a pivotal role in the Leah Moore and John Reppion scripted mini-series, Albion. Plotted by Alan Moore, the story reveals that, unbeknown to the public at large, the characters from the British comics of the past actually existed.
Another early Cursitor Doom tale, Cursitor Doom and the Dark Legion of Mardarax appears in Albion Origins, a collection of classic comic strips which also reprints early adventures of Kelly’s Eye, House of Dolmannand Janus Stark.
Here’s something which might interest fans of old British horror comics. 32 pages of Solomon Knight from the 1970s DC Thomson comic, Bullet. The quality’s not brilliant and the copyright watermark is a bit distracting and makes some of the text difficult to make out, but they’re just about readable.
To my knowledge there were two Buster Books Of Spooky Stories published, one cover-dated 1975 and one 1976. The following story is from the latter. According to an article by Edward Berridge in Hibernia’s Thirteenth Floor collection, the Buster Book Of Spooky Stories was conceived as a way of using strips from an unpublished horror comic which would have been named Chiller, but didn’t surface due to the publishers getting cold feet. This may be where the other Curtis Bronson story published in the book is from but not the one reproduced below. This one is actually an altered reprint from elsewhere.
So where did this story originate? From the pages of a comic called Smash!, circa 1969. The Buster Book version has been changed so that it features the character of Curtis Bronson. The character Bronson replaces originally had blonde hair, no moustache and went by the name of Angus McCraggan.
And the mysterious Septimus Drood? He was originally beardless and went by the name of Cursitor Doom. I’ll be telling you more about him when I post the second half of this tale.
Its been about 2 months now since the Theatre of Terror was created. I’m after some feedback from anyone who reads this post, contributors, readers, and any type of user:
How do you think the blog is going so far?
Is are posts on the blog of any interest to you?
Are you happy with the blog or would you rather have a forum?
What sort of stuff would you like to see on the blog?
What can we do to improve it?
Do you like the design/layout. Easy to navigate/ understand?
I suppose im wondering if the blog is a success. Would be interested in any opinions.
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