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excellent writing
exceptional art
historical bonus 3
total score 8
Skull #5
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Only Printing / August 1972 / 36 pages / Last Gasp Eco-Funnies
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This is another H.P. Lovecraft issue, though Spain Rodriguez does a story of his own instead of one of Lovecraft's. Richard Corben illustrates the first story, Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls," which is about a man who returns to his ancestral home only to be driven mad by his family's curse. Charles Dallas illustrates a waking nightmare in Lovecraft's poem, "To a Dreamer," while Larry Todd takes on Lovecraft's "The Shadow from the Abyss," in which a man's mind is transposed with another mind from an ancient, mythical race, which slowly leads to a horrific discovery.
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HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:
Last Gasp produced approximately 10,000 copies of this comic book. It has not been reprinted.
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COMIC CREATORS:
Spain Rodriguez - 1, 13-21
Jack Jackson - 2
Richard Corben - 3-12
Charles Dallas - 22-23
Larry S. Todd - 24-35
Dave Sheridan - 36