{"id":450,"date":"2005-08-13T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/08\/13\/black-magic-dc-1\/"},"modified":"2005-08-13T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T22:29:00","slug":"black-magic-dc-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/450","title":{"rendered":"Black Magic #1 [1973]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Simon’s packaged reprints of stories from the 1950s BLACK MAGIC series started off with a trio of great S&K stories from 1954, late in their run on the book.<\/p>\n

“Maniac” from v5#2 (#32) is about two brothers, one a bit slow and picked on by the other kids and the other who tries to defend him. A now-cliche bit of misdirection which I’m sure was fresher back then, this story also has some really good use of shadow and some real power in the layouts.<\/p>\n

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“The Head of the Family” is from v4#6 (#30) and, well, the (non-Kirby) cover kind of gives away the ending (the original Kirby version did as well), but it’s still a fascinating story about a woman brought into the strange family of the man she loves. A classic bit of horror.<\/p>\n

“The Greatest Horror of Them All” v4#5 (#29) was one of the stories that was brought up in the hearings on horror comics of the era, and probably seems a bit tame now (I don’t know if Simon did any re-drawing on it for the reprint). A good companion piece to the previous story, this time it’s the man who falls in love with a beautiful woman who works in sanctuary for deformed mutants. Of course, everything is not as it seems, and it ends in violence as always.<\/p>\n

Some great artwork in all of these stories, with strong confident layouts and heavy shadows on the inks. Definitely a strong period for the S&K team, cut short by circumstances.<\/p>\n

Published 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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