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Dark Shadows (Gold Key Comics) [message #93491] Sat, 22 January 2011 12:06 Go to next message
Will Dockery is currently offline  Will Dockery
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The Gold Key Dark Shadows was so weird and perplexing to regular
followers of the show at the time, it was almost as if the writers &
artists didn't even watch the television version! This was also true
of the paperback novels, but they were fun, and I remember looking at
them as another alternate universe of Collinwood, which the official
series often went into, anyhow...

This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975. The cover
was painted by George Wilson. The fine script is Arnold Drake, and the
art is Joe Certa:

http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-w itch-hunters.html
Re: Dark Shadows (Gold Key Comics) [message #93492 is a reply to message #93491] Sat, 22 January 2011 12:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The Gold Key Dark Shadows was so weird and perplexing to regular
> followers of the show at the time, it was almost as if the writers &

> artists didn't even watch the television version! This was also true

> of the paperback novels, but they were fun, and I remember looking at

> them as another alternate universe of Collinwood, which the official

> series often went into, anyhow...


http://www.goldkeystories.com/2010/09/dark-shadows-creatures -in-torment.html

DARK SHADOWS - "Creatures in Torment" comes from Dark Shadows No. 9,
May 1971
Re: Dark Shadows (Gold Key Comics) [message #93494 is a reply to message #93491] Sun, 23 January 2011 17:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Will Dockery wrote:
> The Gold Key Dark Shadows was so weird and perplexing to regular

> followers of the show at the time, it was almost as if the writers&

> artists didn't even watch the television version! This was also true

> of the paperback novels, but they were fun, and I remember looking at

> them as another alternate universe of Collinwood, which the official

> series often went into, anyhow...

>

> This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975. The cover

> was painted by George Wilson. The fine script is Arnold Drake, and the

> art is Joe Certa:

>

> http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-w itch-hunters.html


Thanks for posting that! I've never read a DS comic before. I can't say
I feel like I missed much, but it was interesting none-the-less.

--

Kishin
Re: Dark Shadows (Gold Key Comics) [message #93495 is a reply to message #93494] Sun, 23 January 2011 20:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Kishin <none@yobiz.ness> wrote in
news:ihianp$6jh$1@news.eternal-september.org:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> The Gold Key Dark Shadows was so weird and perplexing to regular

>> followers of the show at the time, it was almost as if the writers&

>> artists didn't even watch the television version! This was also true

>> of the paperback novels, but they were fun, and I remember looking at

>> them as another alternate universe of Collinwood, which the official

>> series often went into, anyhow...

>>

>> This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975. The cover

>> was painted by George Wilson. The fine script is Arnold Drake, and

>> the art is Joe Certa:

>>

>> http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-w itch-hunte

>> rs.html

>

> Thanks for posting that! I've never read a DS comic before. I can't

> say I feel like I missed much, but it was interesting none-the-less.

>

> --

>

> Kishin

>


I remember buying one (a full pic of Barnabas was on the cover with a red
background, with a story with Angelique) but it didn't seem to make an
impression on me since I never attempted to get another
Re: Dark Shadows (Gold Key Comics) [message #93498 is a reply to message #93495] Mon, 24 January 2011 09:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Jan 23, 8:15 pm, Wiseguy <epw...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kishin <n...@yobiz.ness> wrote innews:ihianp$6jh$1@news.eternal-september..org:

>> Will Dockery wrote:

>

>> The Gold Key Dark Shadows was so weird and perplexing to regular

>>> followers of the show at the time, it was almost as if the writers&

>>> artists didn't even watch the television version! This was also true

>>> of the paperback novels, but they were fun, and I remember looking at

>>> them as another alternate universe of Collinwood, which the official

>>> series often went into, anyhow...

>

>>> This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975. The cover

>>> was painted by George Wilson. The fine script is Arnold Drake, and

>>> the art is Joe Certa:

>

>>>


http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-w itch-hunters.html

>> Thanks for posting that! I've never read a DS comic before. I can't

>> say I feel like I missed much, but it was interesting none-the-less.

>

>> --

>

>> Kishin

>

> I remember buying one (a full pic of Barnabas was on the cover with a red

> background, with a story with Angelique) but it didn't seem to make an

> impression on me since I never attempted to get another


I was a really big fan of the DS series, even my grandmother loved
Barnabas!

So, when I spotted the comic you mention (or one of those, the first
5-6 covers featured photos of Barnabas to lure the fans in better,
later switched to paintings that barely looked anything like Frid &
friends) I had to have it, and was really weirded out by the really
off-the-wall version of the Collinwood scene it presented, in both
sotory and art. But I kept buying them, as they only put out like four
a year.

Interestingly, when DS was cancelled (1971?) the comix kept coming out
for another 6-7 years!

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Re: Dark Shadows (Gold Key Comics) [message #305247 is a reply to message #93494] Sat, 21 November 2015 08:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 5:39:52 PM UTC-5, Kishin wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>> The Gold Key Dark Shadows was so weird and perplexing to regular
>> followers of the show at the time, it was almost as if the writers&
>> artists didn't even watch the television version! This was also true
>> of the paperback novels, but they were fun, and I remember looking at
>> them as another alternate universe of Collinwood, which the official
>> series often went into, anyhow...
>>
>> This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975. The cover
>> was painted by George Wilson. The fine script is Arnold Drake, and the
>> art is Joe Certa:
>>
>> http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-w itch-hunters.html
>
> Thanks for posting that! I've never read a DS comic before. I can't say
> I feel like I missed much, but it was interesting none-the-less.
>
> --
>
> Kishin

Yes, they were some odd comic books even by the odd standards comics had back then,

Here is issue #6, which deals with a Mummy at Collinwood, of all things:

http://monstermemories.blogspot.com/2008/12/dark-shadows-iss ue-6.html

"...In the story, a downright hefty and obviously well-fed mummy ends up in Collinsport. Barnabas, turning into a detective, only needed to don a deerstalker cap and smoke a pipe, while wielding a magnifying glass to be Sherlock Holmes. There's a lot of running, and finger-pointing, and Barnabas is suspected; while he blames poor lycanthropic Quentin for the mummy's misdeeds. Ol' Barney, being the good guy that he is, prepares to poison his pal to help him out. After all, what are friends for, if not to show tough love? Quentin has a killer hangover and just wants to be left alone. As for the mummy's murderous ways, there's never any reason for the bandaged one to attack those random people, but I guess it's just what he does, being a mummy and all. Maybe his weight causes him to be insecure and the killing is just a way of compensating."

And so it went.
Re: Dark Shadows (Gold Key Comics) [message #305248 is a reply to message #93491] Sat, 21 November 2015 09:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 12:06:51 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> The Gold Key Dark Shadows was so weird and perplexing to regular
> followers of the show at the time, it was almost as if the writers &
> artists didn't even watch the television version! This was also true
> of the paperback novels, but they were fun, and I remember looking at
> them as another alternate universe of Collinwood, which the official
> series often went into, anyhow...
>
> This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975. The cover
> was painted by George Wilson. The fine script is Arnold Drake, and the
> art is Joe Certa:

Here seems to be all that is left of that Gold Key website:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100308182200/http://www.goldkey stories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-witch-hunters.html

Dark Shadows - "The Weekend Witch Hunters"

Dark Shadows was the coolest soap opera that was ever on television; and Barnabas Collins was television's first sexy cool vampire. Gold Key had a knack for bringing the strengths of the TV source material straight onto pulp paper. What's cool here, of course, is that the residents of Collinwood - including the family vampire and werewolf - are the most interesting, decent, honorable people in the story.

This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975.

I did get one page, so far:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iL6ciL0GqvY/SzoeurQ22XI/AAAAAAAAHB U/7UMMNrvJ7rM/s1600-h/Weekend013.jpg

Looking around the Wayback machine to see what can be salvaged...
Re: Dark Shadows / archives [message #305249 is a reply to message #93491] Sat, 21 November 2015 09:38 Go to previous message
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http://web.archive.org/web/20100106014016/http://www.goldkey stories.com/2009/12/dark-shadows-weekend-witch-hunters.html

Excellent, turns out the entire Dark Shadows story is archived, after all...

> This story comes from Dark Shadows No. 30, February 1975. The cover
> was painted by George Wilson. The fine script is Arnold Drake, and the
> art is Joe Certa.

And so it went.
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