#Bill Elder

[weirdlookindog]

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

by Bill Elder, 1953

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[ultrameganicolaokay]

Shiver SuspenStories (one-shot) by Jason Aaron, Kano, Bill Elder, Ben H. Winters, Peter Krause and more. Variant covers by (1) Adam Hughes and (2) Jay Stephens. Main cover (3) by Darick Robertson. Out in December.

"THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, TERROR COMES CALLING WITH 56 PAGES OF SHOCKING CHILLS FROM AN ALL-STAR CAST OF EC'S FINEST FIENDS! Just in time for Christmas, Oni Press and EC Comics are proud to present Shiver SuspenStories #1 — the FIRST in an ALL-NEW series of extra-sized EC specials colliding tales of horror, science fiction, and powerfully potent suspense in one joyously wrapped package that may or may not be leaking something strange under the Christmas tree... Featuring brand-new tales of merry dismemberment and yuletide destruction from writers Jason Aaron (Thor), Ben H. Winters (CBS' Tracker), and more, with artists Kano (Gotham Central), Peter Krause (Irredeemable), and more — plus a newly remastered and authentically restored holiday classic from the EC vaults! Get ready to hear those SLAY BELLS RING — AIN'T IT SICKENING?!"

[rockmannormwell]

Classic 1950s Mad Magazine

[tomoleary]

Joe Yank 5-14 (1952-1954) by Art Saaf, John Severin/Bill Elder, Jerry Grandenetti, Alex Toth, ?, Alex Toth, Ross Andru (twice), Mike Sekowsky (twice)

[comicbookbrain]

Bill Elder Cover

Mad #5, June-July 1953, EC Comics

[jhsharman]

weird mysteries

The auto generated captions at YouTube produce interesting results, don't they? Also note the "e/i", a creative use for this if there ever was one. The educational content on a "monster of the week" (day) cartoon is -- lesson learned against jealousy or something. Unless there is something to be gleaned from Dilton's techno-babble on splicing through a dna matrix in his lab? (Riverdale High let's him have a personalized lab at the school, evidently.)

An interesting enough episode. An allusion that comes hit over your head if you know it -- they re-enact the first sequence in the very first Archie story. Also at the end Riverdale's pioneering founder is identified as Bob Montana. har De har. And if I squint I can swear they have future Archie a member of a time police contraption -- narrative of the show does not make sense for Jughead to be placed there -- but that may be an accident. These make for interesting call backs, as YouTube commenters appear to show one group of people who think of the Riverdale Show as a retooling of the Archie's Weird Mysteries cartoon, and have no frame of reference beyond that.

Years before the Riverdale series, there was a goofy sketch video. It is what immediately popped into my head when I first learned Riverdale was coming on the air and the very basics of its high concept, that it would be "edgy" -- "okay, they are doing that -- basically". And to be sure, this movie teaser parody has no "Twin Peaks meet Archie" in it, so I guess not quite. But still --Everything clean cut and mundane is moved into the fantastic and gritty or edgy, everything fantastic gets the slice of life parody treatment -- or, you know, Jeffrey Brown does Darth Vader and son. Eddie Murphy has Gumby say "I'm Gumby, damnedit." Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Elder have Archie with a less than ideal family life arrangement.

And here is the stuff of parody -- the latter Riverdale lands on a piece of the former Riverdale by some crooked logic.

The first item here is marked as "most viewed" segment of the old Riverdale movie trailer parody video at youtube, as I guess you would expect, and is a few seconds tacked at the end -- purely gratuitous and disconnected from the rest -- that is the joke. It received some agitated comments in the comments section marking it against the way homosexuality was joked about with concern to Jughead. The second one apparently was at the end or toward the end of the series. I do not know what the show was doing -- like, I know they kissed on the first episode to the eye-roll of Cheryl Blossom who called out their faux-lesbian display. And I know the show runner said the last season of Riverdale was going to be its "queerest" ever -- which since they aren't about to attach Archie to Jughead probably should have been seeable as landing on that. I do not believe I would be aware of the plot twist if I were not sitting on this Tumblr page -- everything starts to have the feel of fan fiction hereabouts.

[russwchallenger]

Picked up my first Tales from the Crypt book! Yeah, it's the fourth volume of a collection and not the first, but look at that cover art!

#TalesFromTheCrypt #ECcomics #Horror #comics

[imaginariumwanderer]

Discord's first mistake was in thinking they'll listen to reasons.

I finally got time to finish this silly lil comic!

Not taking credit here btw the ideas came from this post, credit to @pinkvaquita and @groovyfrog420 in particular!

[stone-cold-groove]

Something that means something, but only to me.

[thebongomediaempire]

Not one bit, Annie - Tell Mr. Elder that he can take all the time in the world 😎🍸

[francesanim]

More yonderland doodles + Gabriel from Bill the film, cuz she’s a sweetie 💞

[seapotty]

The Favorite

[tomoleary]

John Severin and Bill Elder - Two-Fisted Tales #36 (1954)

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

More Frazetta and surfing

Little Annie Fanny goes Surfing

[miss-americanbi]

no y’all don’t get it. the fact that all the money that stan made from the mystery shack likely went to rebuilding ford’s portal. no wonder he was so desperate for every single dollar.

[elderscrollsconceptart]

I had a dream where Bill Clinton kept saying:

"The Elder Scrolls Five Skyrim"