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Today is Edgar Allan Poes birthday so I wanted to do something special secret crimefighting
and post two of his classic tales by two of the greatest comic artists. blogger at night I
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So I thought THE GOLDEN AGE has vanished but it seems it just found a
new home. Which means I can at least fix the links on the other post.

Our second story is by Richard Corben, also one of the greatest artists
there is who has done everything from horror to fantasy to sci fi.

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Hes best known for his lavishly illustrated ( and quite graphic ) DEN and
FUTURE WORLD series but lately he has done a lot of Edgar Allan Poe
adaptions for Dark Horse which have just been collected. He also did a
five issue mini series called RAT GOD which I still havent bought.

The Raven by Richard Corben also appeared in CREEPY, in issue 67 (


December 1974 ) and you can also find the story on THE GOLDEN AGE
and COMICS BOOKS STORIES. I was thinking about just posting the links
but since I already promised to post two stories I cant back out now.

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I got no links for Richard Corben but Hyperdave at DATAJUNKIES offer a


brief Bernie Wrightson retrospective, SCANS DAILY has a post on his
Frankenstein portfolio and you can listen to him at the Sidebar podcast.

Before we come to the video section there are two more birthdays I have
to mention. The first one is Julia Louis Dreyfus who celebrated her 55th
birthday last Wednesday. Yes, thats right. On the same day that Traci
Bingham ( and Nicole Eggert ) have their anniversary and somehow I
completely blank on it every year. To Todays audiences shes best
known as Vice President Selina Meyer on the comedy show VEEP but I
saw her first as the funny and sexy Elaine Bennet on the cult show
SEINFELD.

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Even though it was not shown to the general public in Germany ( they
always aired it when most people were asleep ) I managed to catch a
few with Elaines best scenes. SEINFELD has been in amazons bargain
section a few times now but as always I didnt have the money to spend.

The other birthday is country mega star Dolly Parton who turned 70
Today. In her case nomen really is omen because if anyone looks like a
living blowup sexdoll its the blonde with the huge twin torpedoes (
which have been reported anything from 38CC to 48DD ) with the world
record for a woman with the biggest breasts in a non r - rated movie for
Nine To Five. One things for sure : Dollys husband definitely needs no
viagra pills.

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Because I still havent watched The Best Little Whorehouse ( I dont like
movies about societys double standards ) I have decided to do a post
about Edgar Allan Poe instead which I know is a relief to some readers.
Speaking about double standards, I find it unsettling that I never get
comments about these horror posts or the ones that talk about alternate
sexualities but whenever there is a picture of a hot woman ( not even
full frontal or any nudity ) people are up in arms commenting. Anyway,
while I didnt make a post on Dolly I still want to wish her a happy 70th
birthday.

Since its her birthday Today I want to start the video section with Dolly
Parton. As country music is mostly neglected on german tv most of the
clips of her on YouTube are new to me and since I couldnt find one in
good quality I opted for one from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

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Dolly Parton on Leno promoting The Grass Is Blue

For our other birthday candidate I picked An Evening with Edgar Allan
Poe, where Vincent Price recites various stories to a live audience.

An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe - Starring Vinc

Combining country and horror we have the Oak Rigde Boys with Elvira.

Oak Ridge Boys - Elvira

Todays cartoon video is The Simpsons version of The Raven which was
part of one of their Halloween episodes. These episodes are always great
and while I dont read as many Simpson comics as I used to I still make

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sure to get each new issue of BART`S TREEHOUSE OF HORROR which has
always great guest artists like Gene Colan. By the way, on the Simpsons
they predicted Donald Trump as president of America in the future.

The Simpsons - Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven

There dont seem to be any good videos with Richard Corben on YouTube
so here is a motion comic that uses Bernie Wrightsons Frankenstein.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Motion Comic by BFD Animation

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Its Masters of Happy birthday to Halloween special :


Marvel Monday, cult siren Erika Jim Aparos
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6 comments:
Terry Hooper-Scharf said...
Is it a regional language thing? We always said Schwarze katze or
Katz and I never came across "kater" before? I lost contact with
Edith Nebel who used to write sci fi and reviews back in the 80s
and she worked at Reader's Digest. She was into linguistics and
explained (excluding Yiddish) there were something like 21 German
local dialects. That was back when we all wrote interesting letters.
I noticed this language thing with radio -Austrian is odd to my ears,
and I notice accents more and more. A German woman in comics
was talking to me and we discussed German jokes and when she
told one in German I said "Excuse me -which part of Germany are
you from?" The Schwarzewald area apparently. I told her one joke I
never understood and she said "Lippischer!" Apparently my accent
(which I never realised I had!!) was a Lippe one.......sorry, were we
talking linguistics or comics?
3:38 PM

Terry Hooper-Scharf said...


I really do apologise but I went off on a tangent there. Seems I
can't delete the comment. Oops.
3:39 PM

SUBZERO said...
Well, Kater is german for a male cat but I dont know if it is
appropriate for the Edgar Allan Poe story. And its not a regional
thing.
7:21 PM

Terry Hooper-Scharf said...


Where I lived we called tom cats "Katzer". Go figure.
5:09 AM

SUBZERO said...
Well, did you never hear about DER GESTIEFELTE KATER ? Thats
the german version of the puss in boots. Its a fairy tale for sake.
9:26 AM

Henry R. Kujawa said...


I have discovered 27 different comics adaptations of "THE BLACK
CAT"-- so far!! (I have 8 of them up at the moment.) My favorite is
Berni Wrightson's, while my 2nd-favorite is that of Luiz Saidenberg,
from BRAZIL. For that one, as with a growing number of stories
never published in English, I've done an English translation, AND

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added brand-new color.

Imagine my delight to find out Saidenberg is STILL around, and


STILL doing comic, more then 55 years later!! I got in touch with
him, and HE was delighted with what i did with his story.

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1961-pt-3.html
6:16 PM

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