CLASSIC COMEDY #1 - Featuring FRANKENSTEIN!

Dick Breifer's FRANKENSTEIN is featured in this week's release-- The writer-artist Briefer introduced the "New Adventures of Frankenstein" feature in Prize Comics #7 (Dec. 1940) under the pseudonym "Frank N. Stein". The feature was an updated version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster. It was considered to be America's first ongoing comic book series that fell squarely within the horror genre. The feature was set in New York City circa 1930 and starred a rampaging creature actually dubbed "Frankenstein". Frankenstein #1 (undated, 1945) saw Briefer's better-known version of the Frankenstein monster. In this version, Frankenstein settled into small-town life as a genial neighbor who had delightful adventures with Dracula, the Wolfman, and other horrific creatures. Briefer's trademark "loose and smooth ink and brush skills" straddled the line between pure children's humor and adventure and an adult sensibility about the world. Dan Nadel, author of Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969, described Briefer as one of the few guys in the 1940s who had that loose, gestural art style that's funny. The drawing is inherently funny. Which is really unusual for humor comics of the time. His humorous Frankenstein ran through Prize Comics #68 (March 1948), and his horrific Frankenstein returned from issue #18-33 (March 1952 - Nov. 1954).

RATED G

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