tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434879494642797092.post6954625363115406480..comments2024-02-19T23:42:15.797-05:00Comments on Dr. K's 100-Page Super Spectacular: EC Comics and the "Improvement" Theory of Literary CriticismDr. Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08792907846193017204noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434879494642797092.post-91618801918323736342015-11-01T12:56:34.520-05:002015-11-01T12:56:34.520-05:00Others definitely walked in the footsteps of Alber...Others definitely walked in the footsteps of Albert Feldstein.<br /><br />Archie Goodwin & Reed Crandall's version of "AMONTILLADO" also ended with the killer getting drowned years later when he went to inspect his long-ago handiwork, the walls collapsed. CREEPY #6 (Warren / Dec'65)<br /><br />http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2014/12/poe-1965-pt-8.html<br /><br />Francisco De Assis & Osvaldo Talo did the exact same thing in their version. ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #4 (Editora Taika / Brazil / 1972)<br /><br />But perhaps most fascinating was the October 11, 1949 TV episode of "SUSPENSE", which starred Romney Brent as Montressor, and Bela Lugosi as Fortunato. In that, Montressor puts Fortunato through school so he can take over running his vast estate. Fortunato repays this kindness by joining the Fascists before WW2, then as a soldier, cofiscating his propetrty, forcing Montressor & his wife to live in a small part of their own castle, and as if that wasn't enough, having an affair with Montressor's wife (apparently a common detail in MANY later versions), then planning to murder him in his own wine cellars! In this one, Montressor winds up killing Fortunato in SELF-DEFENSE, and hides the body so the army won't come after him. He waits until after the war before he relates the entire incident to an American soldier, played by Ray Milland, who steals the picture!<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUPBiyHbAFc<br /><br />Other examples include Johnny Craig's variation on "THE BLACK CAT", in which the wife is a total BITCH who's virtually begging to be murdered. THE HAUNT OF FEAR #15 [1] (Warren / May-Jun'50)<br /><br />http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/11/poe-1950.html<br /><br />Then there's Tom Palmer's "THE TELL-TALE HEART" (dialogue by Denny O'Neil) in which the old man is such a complete BASTARD we're supposed to feel sympathy for his killer. CHAMBER OF DARKNESS #3 (Marvel / Feb'70)<br /><br />http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2015/01/poe-1970.html<br /><br />My favorites of course include the various Roger Corman adaptations, such as "HOUSE OF USHER" (1960) in which Richard Matheson retains the story structure while turning it completely upside down, by adding romance and making Roderick a villain who deliberately buries his sister alive, allegedly "for her own good!"Henry R. Kujawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01607373491331529952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434879494642797092.post-34787898955028253472009-08-21T22:33:03.608-04:002009-08-21T22:33:03.608-04:00Let us thank the baby Jesus for Sister Mary Kid Ky...Let us thank the baby Jesus for Sister Mary Kid Kyoto's wise impressions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434879494642797092.post-46101533960870629452009-08-21T14:58:24.031-04:002009-08-21T14:58:24.031-04:00Wait.
There's one part I don't understand...Wait.<br /><br />There's one part I don't understand.<br /><br />You're letting students express opinions of great literature? Surely they should passively receive wisdom and bask in the greatness of the works.Kid Kyotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06831945346163986586noreply@blogger.com