Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Chiller Pocket Book #6 - 1980

sgThis was one of three super-fun digest-sized comics published by Marvel Comics Limited, presumably their UK branch, that I picked up a few weeks ago. I enjoy searching out many of these foreign compilations of DC and Marvel books; frequently their line-ups of material were way cooler than their American counterparts.

This particular series features Marvel's horror characters, and reprints two stories per issue:
"The Return to Transylvania" by Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan, and Tom Palmer (Tomb of Dracula #68)
"The Salvation Run!" by Tony Isabella, Frank Robbins(yay!), and Vince Colletta (Ghost Rider #18).

...even though these digests are in black and white, the printing sometimes is even worse than what you got with Flexographic, if you can conceive of such a thing. In some panels, lines entirely disappear!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Robbins looked pretty good when Vinnie Colletta inked him. The Ghost Rider books proved it.

Anonymous said...

I liked the art on Ghost Rider and knew that Vince Colletta did the inking but I thought the penciler was George Tuska, no?