Description
A new phase for the COMICS FROM THE GONE WORLD project — an inaugural volume of what will become the complete and chronological resurrection of the 1940s’ GHOST GALLERY feature, as originally published in JUMBO COMICS. Certain conditions prevail, of course: Cremo Studios reserves the right to (1) retain authentic period dialogue, where it works, and (2) inflict Absurdist and Weisenheimer Dialogue at the slightest whim, the point being to obliterate trite and fatuous redundant original dialogue at every opportunity. Painstaking art restorations, livid color images, and all in the service of GHOST GALLERY’s Drew Murdoch, the ghost-hunter (a pop-literary ancestor of John Constantine, for that matter). THE GRIPES OF WRAITH also dovetails with Michael H. Price’s GHOSTS AND GIRLS OF FICTION HOUSE (Yoe Books/IDW Publ.) in its deployment of alternate-cut restorations of the GHOST GALLERY pages, and a wealth of outtakes from that larger project. Horror comics before E.C. Comics? Yes.
