This is the third and last of the first batch of monster comics I ever bought. When I got them back to Gram's house she had a tough time prying me away from them for dinner! I read all of them countless times and am happy to say they are all still a coveted part of my collection, albeit well-worn.
This is the first printing of the licensed Dell Comic adaptation of Universal's 1941 monster thriller, The Wolfman. This first edition is published in the indicia as "Wolfman" and the second edition, the error was corrected to "The Wolfman" and a couple of pages got replaced with ads, to boot. The strangest thing of all, though, is that the story is original and only has a few wisps of being anything like the movie. Although I had already seen the film, it was no big deal to me that it read very differently.
The really cool cover is by an unknown artist (in the style of Gold Key's George Wilson), the story "adaptation" is scripted by Robert Bernstein and the art is done nicely by Bob Jenney, who also drew the mystical stories on the inside front and back covers. Bernstein was a very busy man who wrote a pile of scripts for Lev Gleason, Quality, EC, DC and Marvel, just to name a few. I happen to like the work of Bob Jenney; while not grabbing kudos as many other (and granted, more skilled) artists, he nevertheless has the limelight of drawing the first-ever H.P. Lovecraft comics adaptation of "The Rats in the Walls" in CREEPY #21.
Well, there you have it -- my first three monster comics!
See the post on my first monster magazine HERE.
WOLFMAN (Dell Movie Classic)
No. 1 (One-shot)
June-August 1963
On-sale date: April 18, 1963
Dell Publishing Co. Inc. (Dell Comics)
Editor: D.J. Arneson
Cover: ?
Pages: 36
Cover price: 12 cents
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