michael--Angelique (and briefly, Cassandra--I think only in issue 1) was also featured in the Gold Key comics.  Or rather, some garish shrieking thing that was called Angelique because Joe Certa couldn't draw real people to save his soul...

I got the issue too yesterday but haven't read it yet.  I have been sidetracked by Gary Rhodes' brilliant analysis of the original 1931 Bela Lugosi Dracula film in the new issue of Monsters from the Vaults which I also purchased, and issue 4 of Alan Moore's fascinating Dodgem Logic project.

My local comic book store is also very busy.  And what you wrote makes me jump on my current hobby horse/bete noire--supposedly print is going the way of the dinosaur, but every bookstore and mag shop I visit is always PACKED.  I think in this age of nonstop inescapable glowing screens, people are craving print more than ever.  Granted, I live in Mass which has a very high literacy and habit-of-reading rate.  Interesting discussion here but of course way off topic for DS.

I do look forward to reading the comic.

G.

If I remember correctly, there is a secret passage in a mausoleum in The Black Cat 1941.  Talk about a DS touch!

G.

I looked up Night Monster on IMDB--it sounds like a hoot, and the sort of thing that would be interesting to see as a precursor to DS (which owed a lot to 1940s Universal horror films, especially House of Frankenstein/Dracula, Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, etc.).

I used to have a friend who would intersperse stray snippets of dialogue from Bela Lugosi and Bette Davis in phone conversations.  The guy was a real riot.  

cheers, Gothick

These sound very cool! I think the only one I have ever seen is The Black Cat, the 1940s one in which Lugosi was a butler and Gale Sondergaard a housekeeper, right?

I must look up Night Monster!  I vaguely recall seeing stills from it in Famous Monsters long ago.

Happy belated Halloween!

G.

MB--are DS and Avengers both scheduled for the same weekend?  If that is the case, then the studio may indeed wind up rescheduling DS for sometime in the autumn, as I had originally predicted.

G.

That's fascinating about all the hoo-ha over that Batman movie.  I really couldn't care less about that one.  Same goes for Spidey and the Marvel "Avengers" schlock-a-rama.

G.

Thanks, Cathy.  I am very disappointed to see 20something hipsters here in Cambridge MA so fervently embracing nicotine addiction... given that my beloved Grayson Hall died a cruel, nasty death as a result of lung cancer, my prayer for any and all smokers who wish to stop is that they can get off the damn coffin nails... sigh..

And I hate to say it, but whenever someone as cool as Johnny Depp smokes on TV, that gives the nasty habit a little bit more cachet and glamour.

Just my two drachmae.

G.

That fool doesn't realize that DS invented the whole concept of the shirtless hunk on daytime--with Don Briscoe, Selby, and let's not forget Joel Crothers.

G.