The looming spectre of a grinning, skeletal Death is an important storytelling device in comics, and here at the Curse of Skeleton Munroe we celebrate skeletons and their contributions to society, and so I present a small collection of looming Deaths that will surely grow large with time (issue numbers in hover text):
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
PROBLEMATIC ROUND-UP 009
It it the nature of comic books that we will always be doing Problematic Updates. Dr Finkle : Dr Finkle himself is nothing special: he's...
-
The Angel is a wandering vigilante, which in turn is a type of super-hero that generates very little new information for these update posts...
-
You won't catch me not having a whole lot of monsters to show you. the Elipticoon : True to his name, the wicked Sophus, the Mad Philos...
-
These guys use science for crime and evil, for which we excoriate them, but they also make entertaining villains, for which we celebrate the...
-
(Marvel Mystery Comics 004, 1940) Probably the least of the Superstrong Giant Henchman types we've seen so far, Butch is very briefly th...
-
He's back and newly benevolent after a five-minute speech from Betty Dean, so what does he do now? Marvel Mystery Comics v1 005 sees N...
-
(Marvel Mystery Comics 003, 1940) Though Namor started his comics journey as an outright villain , by his third appearance, the world was re...
-
Comics love to have media in them, and I love telling you about those media. Music : Though the radio debut Roger Midas and His Melodeers i...
-
(More Fun Comics 063, 1941) I won't lie to you: this initial panel really did all the work in guaranteeing the Jungle Scientist some tim...










No comments:
Post a Comment