Check this out too: The Son Of Frankenstein done as a comic book story, using stills from the movie: Movie Comics 1939 Adaptations of Son of Frankenstein and The Phantom Creeps
Another great Warren magazine, Famous Films #2, had fumetti ("photo-story") adaptations of the films:
Last night I chanced across Frankenstein vs. The Wolfman Hadn't seen it since I was a kid! While it was a fun watch, has there ever been an actor more miscast than Bela Lugosi as the monster!?
Yes that scene where Udo Kier's guts come flying into your face is something I will never forget. God knows I've tried...
One of the rarer Frankenstein appearances is the cover of PRIZE Comics #20 drawn by Jack Binder, featuring all of the magazine's characters in a parade, including Dick Briefer's celebrated version of the character (securely tied up in the second car). Briefer's popular take on the character appeared from the early 1940's to the mid-50's ...including a run of Frankenstein Comics... until the CCA's axe brought all horror comics to an abrupt end.
Poor Bela...passed on the role originally and years later, when he needed the cash got stuck filling the really big boots. As for being miscast, originally the Monster had dialogue - remember they stuck Ygor's brain into him in Ghost of Frankenstein - but test audiences thought the thick Hungarian accent was hysterical, so they cut all of Lugosi's speaking lines from the film. They also cut any reference to the Monster being blind, which is why Lugosi walks around like he's playing Marco Polo... The movie is still fun, though - I have such a soft spot for the Universal Monsters and no October is complete without them. There's been every matter of Draculas, Frankensteins, and Wolfmen, ranging from the classic to the cheesy, but I'm always impressed how the Universal films defined not only our idea of the monsters, but the look and feel of horror films in general.
i saw that at the drive in while I was on acid. That scene with the flying liver...I'll never forget. That was a bad choice.
