In January, I reviewed a John Febonio 11" x 14" print and matching T-shirt for Frankenstein in Space. The Monster, for that instance, captures Glenn Strange's semblance, though cloaked in astronaut attire and positioned on cosmic turf.
Recently, I obtained another 11" x 14" print and T-shirt for Frankenstein in Space II. With the sequel, Febonio's Monster resembles Howard Sherman's Karloffian Bub (the congenial zombie of George A. Romero's Day of the Dead), as a Green Slime-ish specimen confronts him. Like the first Frankenstein in Space T-shirt, the imagery declares "Rejected By His Own World," thus piquing one's interest as to how Mary Shelley's man-made brainchild ended up on another world and what his mission might be.
Frankenstein in Space II is reminiscent of those garish, crossover covers that Eerie Publications (a Warren Magazine competitor) produced. The Eerie covers depicted various breeds of monsters in a number of combative scenarios, which often stood independent of the comics' contents.
For the record, I did, in fact, compare Frankenstein in Space #1 to Robert Gaffney's Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, but Febonio's follow-up emblemizes the idea to a much fuller degree.
To say the least, I'm glad to have these vivid submissions among my Febonio collectibles. I must say, they're influential enough to spawn (hint, hint, Mr. Febonio) an ongoing series, with any number of famous, Frankenstein faces featured.
Visit Febonio's fantastic gallery at
https://febonio.bigcartel.com/products
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