This silly yarn is seven-pages full of goofy situations and beautifully loose brushwork, typical of Dick Briefer when he's in his humor mode.
Dick Briefer's funny comics always look like they were drawn straight to ink, with only the slightest bit of pencil breakdowns. They have that spontaneous look I love!
Dick Briefer is best known for his TWO classic Frankenstein comic book series. The first Frankenstein series was a humor comic, and later, in the fifties when horror comics were the rage, he re-launched the Frankenstein series as a straight horror book. The weird thing is that BOTH takes are absolute classics in their respective genres.
G'wan over to Pappy's and check out the whole seven-page inkfest. It starts out silly and ends up...well--let's just say that you've gotta see what happens on the top of page seven!
More on Dick Briefer's Frankenstein:
http://eeweems.com/artandartifice/Dick_Briefer.html
Three funny Dick Briefer comic stories at the American Comic Archive
http://www.americancomicarchive.com/feature.html
More Fantastic Frankenstein comics scans at Pappy's:
http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2007/02/number-97-frankenstein-friday.html
http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2007/02/number-94-frankenstein-friday-death.html
http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2007/02/number-91-frankenstein-friday-monsters.html
http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2007/02/number-88-frankenstein-friday-world-of.html
Briefer did such amazing comics! That cockroach gag he did was used later in MAD (Flesh Garden!). Hmm... I wonder if Kurtzman saw that comic Briefer did and... nah!
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