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TWISTED TALES #3
RICHARD CORBEN UNDERGROUND HORROR COMIC!
WRITTEN BY BRUCE JONES!
For fans of RICHARD CORBEN's unique style of extreme Fantasy and Horror. Underground Comic Book Anthology with lavish full color artwork printed on high quality paper.
Also featuring other acclaimed artists such as DOUG WILDEY, BRET BLEVINS, and BILL WRAY.
If you are old enough to remember Corben's classic work, then this book is a reminder of the unique place he holds in comics history. If you are relatively new and unfamiliar with RC, then Twisted Tales is an excellent introduction to the man.
Hitting most of the highlights that characterize Corben's oeuvre - grotesque imagery, violence, monsters, and sexy damsels - serve as platforms for both excellent storytelling and technically accomplished art.
PUBLISHED BY PACIFIC COMICS IN 1982.
All of the stories in the entire run of Twisted Tales were written by Jones, who had shown a knack for horror a decade before when he was employed as a scripter for Warren Publishing, writing for their Creepy and Eerie titles. Jones, a self-described "child of the 50’s", was heavily influenced by the horror and science fiction movies of that decade. But as noted in his editorial in Issue #1, his chief inspiration was the bloody and ironically moralistic tales of the EC horror comics such as TALES FROM THE CRYPT. His work in Twisted Tales, often utilizing twist endings, added huge dollops of graphic violence and sexy sensuality to the EC formula.
# Date Cover Artist Story Story Artist Plot
3 June 1983 Richard Corben Me an' ol' Rex Richard Corben Boy's imaginary friend dinosaur is really his cannibal father chained up in a wood shed
Off Key Doug Wildey Young couple find their lives inadvertently controlled by a friend's constantly changing screenplay draft
With Honor Bill Wray Japanese soldier convinces his friend to remain behind on an island for years following World War II so he can steal the man's wife
Sunken Chest Bret Blevins An abusive fisherman left in the ocean to die by his wife's lover is consumed by a large shark