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Chitter Chatter => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rex fury on May 04, 2022, 02:10:38 PM

Title: Women In White: Ghosts and Gothic
Post by: Rex fury on May 04, 2022, 02:10:38 PM
After looking over the comic covers Hep posted on the Neil Adams thread I got to thinking about cool covers depicting the "Woman in White" motif in comics and magazines. Some of my favorites are Eerie 25, Creepy 23 (Dark Horse), and a host of Haunted Love, Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion, and other DC mystery comics. Anybody have any favorites that come to mind? If memory serves me, aren't some of the best ghost stories about this too? Resurrection Mary is one of my favorites and I think her ghost is always in white, correct?
While I'm at it, anybody have a sense  of where or why this type of gothic look got started?
Just whistling past the graveyard here....
RF
Title: Re: Women In White: Ghosts and Gothic
Post by: Hepcat on May 04, 2022, 09:58:52 PM
Quote from: Rex fury on May 04, 2022, 02:10:38 PMSome of my favorites are Eerie 25, Creepy 23 (Dark Horse), and a host of Haunted Love, Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion, and other DC mystery comics.

Here's a scan of my Eerie 25 cover by Jim Steranko:

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/(edited)_Eerie_25.webp)

And a scan of my favourite The Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love cover by Neal Adams:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/DarkMansionofForbiddenLove2.jpg)

And a favourite still of mine from Hammer's Dracula Has Risen from the Grave movie with Veronica Carlson as the woman in white:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AChristopher2.jpg)

:)
Title: Re: Women In White: Ghosts and Gothic
Post by: Hepcat on May 06, 2022, 12:02:36 PM
Here's another one I really like by Neal Adams:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/HouseofSecrets91.jpg)

And this Skywald magazine cover ripping off a still from Hammer's 1967 release The Mummy's Shroud:

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/08-07-201170114PM.jpg)

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Title: Re: Women In White: Ghosts and Gothic
Post by: skully on May 06, 2022, 11:02:13 PM
That last picture from Psycho #8 cover art has the woman being menaced from the Hammer flick "The Mummy's shroud".
Title: Re: Women In White: Ghosts and Gothic
Post by: Mike Scott on May 07, 2022, 12:03:50 AM
Quote from: skully on May 06, 2022, 11:02:13 PM
That last picture from Psycho #8 cover art has the woman being menaced from the Hammer flick "The Mummy's shroud".

That's what it says right above the picture.  ;D
Title: Re: Women In White: Ghosts and Gothic
Post by: skully on May 07, 2022, 09:03:09 AM
Hi Mike, you're right, didn't see that!
Title: Re: Women In White: Ghosts and Gothic
Post by: Hepcat on May 07, 2022, 11:06:15 AM
That particular still from The Mummy's Shroud was used for the DVD cover:

(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mummy_s_Shroud_1.jpg)

cl:)