BORIS KARLOFF THRILLER
BORIS KARLOFF TALES OF MYSTERY

BORIS KARLOFF

"Boris Karloff Thriller" was a hosted anthology "Gold Key" comic book series with Boris Karloff as host. The comics where firstly released as "Boris Karloff Thriller". Issue 1 released on 1 October 1962 and issue 2 released on 1 January 1963. From issue 3 (released in April 1963), the title changed to "Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery" and ran until issue 97 released in February 1980. From Publishers Weekly: "With the series, the reader would be instantly transported to a world of haunted houses, doomed desert islands and criminal enterprises, where the joke was always on the cleverest. Iconic actor Karloff slapped his name on these comics (crudely drawn versions of the dapper actor provided introductions and moral conclusions for these creepy stories), making for a classic mid-century drugstore spinner-rack pulp thriller. Drawn with effectively crude but zippy panache by an impressive roster of journeymen like Leo Dorfman and Sparky Moore, the stories inside were strictly in the sub-Twilight Zone category, all mysterious coincidences and bumps in the night. A good number of the stories collected here have a sharp moral to them, while many simply try to get under the reader's skin with cursed tombs and crashing thunderstorms." Portraits of "Boris Karloff" by Bradley Beard. For information on Boris Karloff's radio series "Creeps By Night", please click here For information on Boris Karloff's television series "Out of this World", please click here For information on Boris Karloff's television series "The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse", please click here For information on Boris Karloff's television series "The Veil", please click here For information on Boris Karloff's television series "Thriller", please click here The following is a clip that features comics from "Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery", on YouTube by Comic Man Gus: "Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery" from The Professor's Scary Clips on Vimeo.

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