compiled by
Michael Eury
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been adapted, interpreted, borrowed from, parodied, and ripped off in more comic books than a single edition of BACK ISSUE can contain. We’ve dug through the comics morgue for this sampling of covers featuring our favorite reanimated monster (and a few of his distant cousins)…
1940
1945
Briefer’s monster-hero goes solo in Frankenstein Comics.
Mary Shelley’s tale is adapted in Classic Comics #26.
Batman and Robin meet Frankie in Detective #135.
1961
1962
1964
1964
Bizarro meets Frankenstein in Superman #142.
Black-and-white mag Castle of Frankenstein begins.
1945
Dell’s Frankenstein #1 loosely adapts the 1931 movie.
1948
Model-building craze spawns this MAD cover.
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Dick Briefer’s “Frankenstein” starts in Prize Comics.