BRIEFER'S FRANKENSTEIN; THE COMIC SERIES VOLUME FIVE BLACK & WHITE EDITION: ISSUES #22-27 RETRO COMIC REPRINTS #169

FRANKENSTEIN, BY DICK BRIEFER SUCCESSFULLY STRADDLED THE FENCE
BETWEEN HORROR AND HUMOR. ALTHOUGH THE STORIES OCCASIONALLY
USED HORROR TROPES, LIKE WEREWOLVES, VAMPIRES AND MUMMIES, THE
TALES WERE OFTEN FUNNY. THE DEPICTIONS WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY ABSURB
AND GROTESQUE, WHILE REFLECTING POST WORLD WAR TWO SENSIBILITIES.
DICK BRIEFER'S VERSION OF FRANKENSTEIN ORIGINALLY APPEARED AS PART OF
THE LINE UP IN THE ANTHOLOGY SERIES PRIZE COMICS. THE CHARACTER WAS SO
POPULAR THAT IN 1945 FRANKENSTEIN WAS GIVEN...