Artist Tom Sutton might have used
Little Shop of Horrors as the springboard for “A Budding Evil,” which he wrote and drew. That is the original version of the movie, and not the remake, which would not be made for ten years from the time of the story’s publication. That aside, the comic book story is a six page horror story from Charlton, only without real horror, unless big scary plants give you the shivers. I would appreciate looking at a ghastly corpse or two. (I am effectively housebound except for trips for groceries, or a walk with Mrs Pappy, and it has turned me into...what? A grumpy old comic book reader who needs the sight of blood to satisfy his homicidal thoughts.)
The indicia says this is from Charlton’s
Haunted #35, with additional title added to the cover,
Baron Weirwulf’s Haunted Library. It appears that Charlton changed the title of the comic book, but not officially, so it wasn’t necessary to pay the U.S. Postal Service for a new mailing permit. The comic book has no Comics Code badge on the cover, so I was hoping it would have an EC Comics-like scene. The indicia told me this was a reprint of a 1964 original printing, and I guess that printing had the old familiar Code approval.
P.S. “Homicidal thoughts” is just a joke, you know. Ha. Ha. No need to call the police.
“The bud-like things at the top of the stalks…they're opening!” It's good of Dr Fairweather to tell, since Sutton's art does not much show. But do people really offer narration of that sort as death approaches?
ReplyDeleteDaniel, if I ever face death in such a fashion, I promise to write down what I thought or said during the event. That is, if I survive such an event.
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