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ALBO
ORIGINALE DEL 1976

contiene  FRATELLO VOO-DOO e SIMON GARTH LO ZOMBIE

COVER : GIL KANE + FRANK GIACOIA  (da Strange Tales  # 172 )

Finalmente il rimedio definitivo per le vostre notti insonni , e non sto parlando di gigi marzullo o di enrico ghezzi !

Ritroverete i vostri incubi perduti e l’ angoscia più opprimente ed insopportabile che ha caratterizzato i vostri giorni peggiori, arrischiandovi nella temeraria lettura di questa memorabile e atipica serie corno, che pubblicava coraggiosamente alcune gemme fumettistiche tanto prelibate quanto azzardate, perlomeno per quanto riguardava la recettività di un mercato tradizionalista, bigotto e poco duttile e permeabile come quello italiano e soprattutto in quegli anni.

Il materiale è attinto da testate usa conclamatamente cult come dracula lives , monsters unleashed , the haunt of horror , tales of the zombie , vampire tales, strange tales , i serials che appaiono sono cinicamente mutuati dalla frangia più estrema, insulsa, infame , eccitante e raccapricciante della letteratura junk e del cinema di serie B (  Dracula, Morbius,  Satan la figlia del diavolo , Simon Garth lo zombie , Fratello Voo Doo , Lilith figlia di Dracula, The Man – Thing , Frankenstein ) , gli autori sono tantissimi e tutti leggendari e magnifici : Neal Adams , Gene Colan, Syd Shores , Tom Palmer , Joe Sinnott , Gil Kane , Tony De Zuniga ,  Enric Badia Romero , Val Mayerick , Vicente Alcazar , John Buscema ,Alfredo Alcala, Pablo Marcos, George Tuska, Billy Graham , Jim Starlin , Jordi Bernet , Esteban Maroto , Dick Ayers , Ernie Chua , Jesus Blasco , John Romita senior , Alfonso Font , Ralph Reese e tanti altri

come ciliegina sulla torta non potevano mancare gli ottimi, approfonditi e congeniali articoli di Cesare Medail , Giovanni Mongini , Sargatanas & friends ( or foes ? )

E alla fine, stremati ed allucinati dopo aver letto anche il ventiduesimo ed ultimo numero, potreste anche avere ottenuto la sospirata risposta alla fatidica e suprema questione :

la vita è un incubo, o gli incubi aiutano a morire meglio ?

CONDIZIONI  : OTTIME , L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA

IN QUESTO NUMERO :

Featured Characters:

• Brother Voodoo (Jericho Drumm)

Supporting Characters:

• Brother Voodoo (Daniel Drumm)
• Loralee Tate (First appearance)

Villains:

• Cult of the Dark Lord (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Samuel Tate (First appearance)
• Peter Hawkins (First appearance)
• Bambu

Locations:

• Louisiana

• New Orleans
• Headtaker’s Hill
• Castle of the Forsaken

Items:

• Medallion of the Loa

Synopsis

Outside his home in New Orleans, Brother Voodoo spots a young girl being swept away in the Mississippi River. Diving into the water, Voodoo manages to save the girl and bring her back to his home. There he learns that she is Loralee Tate, daughter of Samuel Tate the local chief of police. She tells Brother Voodoo that she has been stalked by a group called the Cult of the Darklord. At first they mailed her a package with a black rooster inside and a note telling her that they intend for her to be their next victim in a series of missing women in the area.

That night as she was driving home, she was confronted by the cult, however as she tried to get away a strange mist appeared and formed into the face of a demon. Trying to avoid driving into it’s maw, she swerved and her car ended up going off the road and into the Mississippi where she managed to get free from her car but got swept away.

While waiting for her father to arrive, the Cult of the Darklord arrives at Voodoo’s house and attacks. They manage to knock Voodoo out and capture the girl and flee into the night. When Samuel Tate arrives, Brother Voodoo has to explain the predicament to him. Brother Voodoo then tries to convince Tate and his colleague detective Pete Hawkins to let him deal with the cult alone. When they refuse, and later try to arrest him, Voodoo flees into the night to and rescue the girl.

Meanwhile, at the secret home of the Cult of the Darklord, Loralee is being dragged off to the ceremonial room where she is to be sacrificed.

Featured Characters:

• Zombie

Supporting Characters:

• Mambo Layla

Synopsis

As Layla and the Zombie travel through the swamps, Layla trips and bangs her head knocking herself out, leaving the Zombie to wander out in the swamps alone. In it’s wanders the Zombie is attacked by a crocodile but manages to fight it off. The Zombie’s wanderings brings it to the estate of Brian Collier who, during a family get together has been smothered to death with a pillow by an unseen attacker. The police are called in to investigate the murder, but find no clues.

When the will reader, a man named Ralston is called to read the will, it states that the entire estate would be divided among Collier’s surviving family members. However, one-by-one the surviving family members and staff of the Collier estate are murdered, until James Collier learns that Ralston is the man responsible, having made a copy of the will, eliminating portions that state if Ralston is the only surviving person named in the will the entire estate would be turned over to him. When being confronted, Ralston, and his secret benefactor, Jason Collier attack James.

The Zombie, watching the entire event unfold, decides to get involved, killing both Ralston and and Jason before vanishing into the night. After a police investigation of all the murders, they find fingerprints belonging to Simon Garth, which puzzles them because their records show that Garth has been dead for two years. The Zombie returns to the swamp where Layla revives and the two continue their journey through to the city.