Horror Busy-Ness

 All right, after being largely disappointed by the first two issue of the new Boris Karloff Gold Key Mysteries title, I figured I owed it to myself to go back and read an issue of the ORIGINAL series. Here's the (awesome) cover of my most recent acquisition, issue #19 of "Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery," published in 1967! How freaking great is that? And, as I mentioned in the previous posts, doesn't logo look better with Boris's head incorporated into it, allowing the excellent cover painting to focus solely on some of the issue's actual story content? Yes.  Yes, it does. AND, this being a classic Gold Key comic book, the back cover features that same painting, unobscured by trade dress: We are already off to a better start here, folks.  At this point, the modern day version of the series should already be taking much better notes than it has been. But okay, that's the cover. Common "wisdom" these days on the interwebs is that Gold Key books we...

 Hey! I said I'd be back, and I actually am! Don't get used to it! As the title of this post has already informed you, this time I'm letting you know my opinion on the second issue of the new Gold Key Comics "Boris Karloff Gold Key Mysteries" series. I wasn't all that impressed with the debut, so let's see if things get better in the follow-up, eh? Kicking things off, here's our cover: It's a wee bit similar to its predecessor, and I do hope that the series starts refraining from emphasizing Mr. Karloff's mug so much on future covers. The original series had his image built into the logo itself, and there's even some "shelf space" for his noggin to rest on right atop the "OFF" of his surname in the new logo. To be fair, Boris's glowing eye socket and the eerie ocular orbs of the crowd below his visage DO tie into one of the stories beneath the cover, but still. Speaking of the stories, let's get to one of them, s...