This is a new column, for the horror comics fans, as often heard on the Baron’s Crypt podcast shows, which are changing formats for our eighth season, and we do more comic reviews on this site hence the best place to have them presented.
Deadbox #3
By: Mark Russell, Ben Tiesma, Corin Howell
Type: Cover B – Howell
Publisher: Vault Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.vaultcomics.com/
Summary: Strangers arrive in Lost Turkey for nefarious purposes. A local makes a questionable movie choice while babysitting his grandkids.
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Monster Bash Magazine #46
By: Frank Dello Stritto, Robert Kokai
Publisher: n/a
Summary: We predict this issue will be super smash with a look back at the future. It’s Criswell, associate of filmmaker Ed Wood, and the most outrageous predictor of future happens. A look at Earth Vs. The Spider, the 1958 Bert I. Gordon big bug movie. Where wise men fear to tread, you’ll read about mainstream actors that headed for horror movies. TV’s Million Dollar Movie played the monster movies we love… again and again! Frankenstein director James Whale tells all!
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Ballad of Gordon Barleycorn #1
By: Colin McHugh, Duncan Sligh
Type: Cover A – Colin McHugh
Publisher: n/a
Summary: Gordon and his manager Giuseppe are hunted down by a religious debt collector who’s come to make him pay for his past. Now Gordon needs to make some quick cash in this groovy adventure that’s all about Sex, Drugs, and Musical Puppet Theater, baby!
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Basilisk #9
By: Cullen Bunn, Jonas Scharf, Christian Ward
Type: Cover A – Scharf; Cover B – Ward; Cover E – Unlockable Variant
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com/
Summary: Vanessa and the Five reflect on their strange life as children, the cult, and the truth about the Chimera’s nature. Meanwhile Regan remembers the grim role she played in Hannah’s greatest tragedy while checking on her, but it’s not long before Barret brings her terrifying news of the Chimera
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Closet #2 (of 3)
By: James Tynion Iv, Gavin Fullerton, Chris O’Halloran
Type: Cover A – Fullerton
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: As Thom continues the cross-country move with his son Jamie, they stop at a friend’s place for the night on their journey west. Young Jamie, in bed early, quickly realizes he is not alone, and the creature from his nightmares continues to chase him.
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Die!namite Never Dies #5
By: Fred Van Lente, Vincenzo Carratu, Lucio Parrillo, Arthur Suydam
Type: Cover B – Parrillo; Cover C – Suydam
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: It all ends here-literally! Red Sonja and Tarzan and Vampirella and Project Superpowers and Dejah Thoris and Evil Ernie and Pantha unite at last to BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF ZOMBIES AND EACH OTHER! WHY AM I YELLING? BECAUSE EVERYBODY’S FIGHTING AND IT’S REALLY LOUD AND REALLY AWESOME!
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