Last Halloween, We Presented Commie-Clobbering Kaiju!
This Halloween, we're showing you MONSTERS...some serving Adolf's boys and some killing Nazis!
Written by Mort Todd and illustrated by John Severin, this never-reprinted story from Globe Communications' Monsters Attack! #1 (1989) is a fitting opener to our month-long look at "Third Reich Terrors"!
The concept of the Golem dates back over 2,000 years to references in the Judeo-Christian Old Testament.
The Golem we know today as a supernatural defender of oppressed Jews originated in the story of "The Golem of Prague" in the late 1500s.
You can read about it HERE.
That version has become widely-popularized in media including movies/TV/radio, numerous prose novellas and novels and even comic books!
(Both DC and Marvel have ongoing Golem characters!).
One of the more popular iterations in recent times has been a Nazi-fighting statue like the one in this tale.
In fact, it's so popular, we're running three different stories about it!
The one you've just read, a Bronze Age one involving (then-present day) second-generation Nazis and a Hitler clone, and a Golden Age tale rendered by a talented up-and-comer named Kubert!
Wonder whatever happened to that guy...
Plus, we'll have werewolves, vampires, and even the Frankenstein Monster putting in appearances!
The concept of the Golem dates back over 2,000 years to references in the Judeo-Christian Old Testament.
The Golem we know today as a supernatural defender of oppressed Jews originated in the story of "The Golem of Prague" in the late 1500s.
You can read about it HERE.
That version has become widely-popularized in media including movies/TV/radio, numerous prose novellas and novels and even comic books!
(Both DC and Marvel have ongoing Golem characters!).
One of the more popular iterations in recent times has been a Nazi-fighting statue like the one in this tale.
In fact, it's so popular, we're running three different stories about it!
The one you've just read, a Bronze Age one involving (then-present day) second-generation Nazis and a Hitler clone, and a Golden Age tale rendered by a talented up-and-comer named Kubert!
Wonder whatever happened to that guy...
Plus, we'll have werewolves, vampires, and even the Frankenstein Monster putting in appearances!
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